Building on their fans’ demands for more of last year's brief, but critically acclaimed In Plainsong tour, The Smashing Pumpkins return to the road this spring to bring the Acoustic-Electro Evening across the country for a full run of classic North American theaters.
Last year's shows sold out in a matter of minutes, and the iconic venues the band picked for the performances proved the perfect intimate settings for an evening of acoustic based music and electronic soundscapes that allowed the Pumpkins to explore their whole song catalog in a unique way. The reaction to the run was overwhelmingly positive, with reviews calling the performances "electric" and "emotionally charged".
"What started as an interest in playing a truly different kind of show and looking for a different way to explore their storied musical past morphed into something new and exciting for the fans in every city", said the group's manager Peter Katsis, "this touches the opposing side to The Pumpkins usual roar!"
The Grammy Award-winning rock group, which includes Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlin and Jeff Schroeder, will kick off the 19-city tour on March 22nd in Portland, OR and wrap on April 20th in Houston, TX.
The Pumpkins, always the rock and roll iconoclasts, will invert the traditional formula again by touring first before heading straight to the studio after the dates to record a brand new album inspired by the sounds explored in the new acoustic setting.
Singer-songwriter Liz Phair is set to open the show for the Smashing Pumpkins on her first full tour of the U.S. in 6 years. Her debut studio album Exile in Guyville was released to critical acclaim and has been ranked by Rolling Stone as one of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time.” More than two decades after the release of her debut, Phair's influence over female voices in alternative music can still be felt today.
2015 proved to be great for the Pumpkins, who saw their End Times summer tour in support of last year's Monuments to an Elegy album produce their best ticket sales in over 12 years. The Chicago Sun-Times called their performance “epic,” while Rolling Stone exclaimed that the current line-up “played with the tightness of a time-tested unit.”
With 20 million albums sold in the United States alone, the Smashing Pumpkins are one of rock’s most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands. Since their inception, the Smashing Pumpkins disavowed the punk rock roots of many of their alt-rock contemporaries by creating a diverse, densely layered, and guitar-heavy sound, containing elements of gothic rock, heavy metal, dream pop, psychedelic rock, progressive rock, and even electronica.
They broke into the musical mainstream as their second album, 1993's Siamese Dream, sold over 6 million copies. From there, the group has continued to build its audience through extensive touring, selling out arenas around the world for over two decades. Their 1995 follow-up recording, double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, entered the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart at number one.
Spend an evening with PICA's Spring 2016 Creative Exchange Lab artists! Each artist in residence will share briefly about their work, including visual artist and publisher Marco Braunschweiler (Los Angeles); choreographer/dancer Ali Chahrour (Beirut, Lebanon); musician Shannon Funchess (Portland); visual artist Mark Mitchell (Seattle); writer and performance artist sidony o'neal (Portland); dramaturg Junaid Sarieddeen (Beirut, Lebanon); and choreographer/dancer Morgan Thorson (Minneapolis). Following the talks, stay for drinks, food, and conversation!
This third edition of PICA's Creative Exchange Lab continues the program's commitment to promoting artistic exchange; cultivating creative research and process; and fostering the development of new work among international, national artists across disciplines.
PICA's Creative Exchange Lab is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and sponsored by Caldera..
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We're two! Join XRAY.FM as we ring in our first two years in style with Mic Capes, Summer Cannibals, and the Ghost Ease. Featuring XRAY DJs in between bands and all night at Bar Bar. Hosted by comedian Bri Pruett and featuring our biggest RAFFLE yet.
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$10 General Admission <---Tickets Available There!
$5 with XRAY member keychain at the door, or $5 advance with member code. (Check the upcoming XRAY Newsletter for the code!) All proceeds go to XRAY FM.
Mic Capes Music
Summer Cannibals
The Ghost Ease
Thank you DJs, board-ops, staff members, listeners, underwriters, and of course XRAY Members.
RADIO IS YOURS!
One of the most celebrated living composers, Arvo Pärt's music provides a contemplative oasis in the midst of today's busy world. Solo strings and singers in varied combinations will take you on a journey featuring the elegiac Stabat Mater, the instrumental Fratres, the other-worldly Wallfahrtsleid and the reverential Missa Syllabica.
Catherine van der Salm, soprano
Laura Beckel Thoreson, alto
Nicholas Ertsgaard, tenor
Tim O'Brien, baritone
Heather Mastel-Lipson & Joel Thoreson, violin
Hillary Oseas, viola
Katherine Schultz, cello
Patrick McDonough, conductor
Spend The Night Presents:
VIN SOL
Clone Records, Club Lonely - San Francisco
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Second annual 2 DAY at S1, with performances from experimental artists working in Stockholm, San Francisco, and Portland.
More Artists & Info TBA
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Bob Desaulniers
Brandon Nickell (SF)
Cameron Shafii (SF)
Cat Mummies at the Louvre
CoH (STO)
Eileen Isagon Skyers
EMS
Jeff Witscher
Mx Fractal
Cassette Jockeys: Joel Shanahan & Felisha Ledesma
This year we will be opening up the space for an artist share brunch on March 19th. You can come hang with 2 Day artists, check out their process/set up, and have some breakfast goodies.
March 18th
Performances 8:30pm
March 19th
Artist Share Brunch 12pm
Performances 8:30pm
18+, $10 one day/$15 both
A Screening
This evening of films concludes The Dirty Puppens of Woodlawn, a show Jos De Gruyter and Harald Thys installed with Yale Union this winter in a Lexus ES 300.
Jos De Gruyter and Harald Thys imagine their films as bearing witness to a present moment that’s descended into a state of mechanized stupefaction. The characters in their works often look a bit shocked. The artists call them immobilized: “You can see this occur in animals who are confronted with some bizarre opponent, another (bigger) animal, a human, or a combination of both.” The films are dingy and depressed. They are populated by a cast of mannequins and the artists’ family and friends. These characters find themselves restricted, condemned as they are to eventless gloomy interiors. Sparse and constructed, these spaces are clearly stages. Here, the actors seem to be post-something: -trauma, -language, -empathy. Their actions could be mistaken for a list of symptoms. They have little motivation or power.
Inside these films is a bleak current, first and foremost bleak, something like a bleak churning current full of whirls, stoppages, flood waters carrying refuse, and there are two artists gazing at it, swept up by it, trying to channel it into some kind of whole. Whatever the bleakness is—trauma, some kind of malaise, feelings of helplessness or more likely, their mixture—that caused them to make these films, I am immensely grateful for it. History has provided ever-accelerating causes for malaise. Our history is one of continuous, rolling traumas: an aggregated abstraction. It’s within this that Thys and De Gruyter go to work. Their work does not look into any concrete moment; instead, their world and their characters, like ours, are awash in a culmination of dread (at least) a few hundred years in the making.
Watching these films means confronting a vision of intensity, withering in its austerity, imperious in its dismissal of convention and cant, solicitous only of something true about our highly mechanized world, no matter how unpleasant or embarrassing. It’s a cliché to say artists are artists of our time. Still, if we are to define “our time” as a historical moment in which we are dropping bombs on humans we’ve dehumanized; or a time in which many humans remain immobilized, stateless, and without rights; or a time in which some of us are desperate simply for a job; or even just a time when a portion of the population feels scared for reasons that are hard to name; if we define “our time” in these ways, then Jos and Harald are artists of our time.
Jos de Gruyter (b. 1965) and Harald Thys (b. 1966) live and work in Brussels. They met in 1987 as video students at the Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design. Depressed and alienated by the situation, Jos and Harald stayed indoors and made films.
The Dirty Puppens of Woodlawn is organized by Matt Browning and Robert Snowden. Matt Browning (b. 1984) is an artist who lives in Seattle, WA and Vancouver, BC. Infrequently, he organizes exhibitions as Tarl, a group made up of Browning, Jessica Powers, and Jason Hirata.
Thanks to Isabella Bortolozzi, Bayard Snowden, Rob Teeters, and ODOT.
Sister Spit it hitting the road again and we'll be traveling up and down the west coast with 6 incredible emerging and established artists who offer a critical, intersectional and often humorous lens to issues of feminism, race, size, class, identity, technology, gender and sexuality.
FEATURING
Jezebel Delilah X
JDX is a queer, lush-bodied, Black, femme performance artist, writer, actress, director, educator, and Faerie Princess Mermaid Gangsta for The Revolution.
Nikki Darling
Nikki is the author of Pink Trumpet and the Purple Prose (Econo Textual Objects, 2014) and the upcoming novel Fade Into You. Her works and letters are archived at UCLA. She is a third generation Angelino on her father’s side and Neomexicano on her mother’s side.
Juliana Delgado Lopera
Lopera is an award-winning Colombian fiction writer/educator/oral-historian based in San Francisco. She is the recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary award and the author of ¡Cuéntamelo! an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latin@ immigrants.
Cassie J. Sneider
Sneider is a competitive air guitarist and the author of the book Fine Fine Music, which is a charming collection of humorous short stories about growing up a weirdo and getting into rock and roll in a small, crappy town. She is a contributing writer to xoJane and MTV News, and she is probably best known for that article on manspreading that your girlfriends shared on Facebook and your MRA cousin in Tampa hated.
Virgie Tovar
Virgie Tovar is a fat, Latina femme + author, activist and one of the nation's leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is a plus size style writer for BuzzFeed and the creator of#LoseHateNotWeight. Tovar edited the ground-breaking anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion (Seal Press, November 2012).
Denise Benavides
denise benavides is an oakland based queer xicana poet and performer. you can find her latest publication through Third Woman Press: a zine titled writing through bipolar in sixteen steps. she holds an MFA in creative writing and is currently working on her upcoming collection of poetry, riot girl.
AND GUEST ARTIST Cooper Lee Bombardier!
ABOUT SISTER SPIT
Sister Spit began in San Francisco in the 1990s as a weekly, girls-only open mic that was an alternative to the misogyny-soaked poetry open mics popular around the city (and the nation) at that time. Inspired by two-bit punk bands who managed to go on the road without hardly knowing how to play their instruments, Sister Spit became the first all-girl poetry roadshow at the end of the 90s, and toured regularly with such folks as Eileen Myles, Marci Blackman, Beth Lisick and Nomy Lamm.
The tour was revived as Sister Spit: The Next Generation in 2007, and has toured the United States annually since, with authors and performers such as Chinaka Hodge, Dorothy Allison, Lenelle Moise and Justin Vivian Bond. In this next incarnation, out of respect to the changing gender landscape of our queer and literary communities, Sister Spit welcomes artists of all genders, so long as they mesh with the tour's historic vibe of feminism, queerness, humor and provocation.
$15-20 sliding scale @ the door
Lina Persson is an artist and teacher based in Stockholm, Sweden. Persson has a special interest in how science and mythology meet in the science fiction genre. She investigates the struggle over the interpretation of the future, she traces geological transformations through human storytelling and connects technological ideology with the shaping of the planet. She is currently senior lecturer at the animation program at the Stockholm University of the Arts. Persson's work has been shown internationaly, including exhibitions at CAG (Connecticut), 0047 (Oslo), VM Gallery (Karachi), IASPIS (Stockholm), La Capella (Barcelona), Reykjavik Art Festival and United Nation Plaza (Berlin).
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Please join us to celebrate Esprit, a group exhibition with with Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Matthew Kirk, Memory Jugs by anonymous makers and the Philadelphia Wireman
The works in Esprit evoke a quality of being that is powerful and charged, but enigmatic. Common objects, marks and materials are transformed from their everyday reality into something more essential or spiritual as they project emotion and longing. The works on view adhere to a personal system of mark-making or logic, one where each additional intervention acts in combination with that which is extant, shifting meaning, power or personality.
Their latest album, White Men Are Black Men Too, is the follow up to their Mercury Prize-winning debut, DEAD and is described as 'sounding as if you are in the room during recording, possibly experiencing a little existential trauma'.
In a 5 star live review of a recent London show, the Guardian said 'they generate a synchronised anarchy that is frequently jaw-dropping'.
$13 in advance and $15 at the door.
Join XRAY.FM for Candace's "New Future" Record Release party at Star Theater!
Candace is celebrating & kicking off their West Coast tour with dræmhouse!
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✦ Candace ✦
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✦ Cat Hoch - band ✦
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Sad Night Live is curated by PMOMA featuring sad songs from performers Michael Hurley, Shelley Short, and Dragging an Ox Through Water. Authors Patrick DeWitt and Jon Raymond will read their saddest stories. Please join us in embracing sadness as part of happiness.
A little about being sad:
Sadness is perhaps the least popular emotion, but there is at times something comforting in its presence, also. The sadness of others, when presented in the form of song, story, or painting, can be moving and empowering, as the viewer is forced to recognize sorrow as a shared or communal experience.
Tuesday March 15th, at the Portland Museum of Art, five local artists will delve into their most melancholic material, in celebration of all things Sad.
Sad Night Live: Because a life without sadness is no life at all.
This is a free event.
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As part of "March Sadness" month at PMOMA, presenting a very unique screening of The Saddest Music in the World by Guy Maddin at the Hollywood Theatre on March 25th, 7:30 pm, with the director in attendance.
Apocalips Slam Poetry, Student Activities, the Finance Committee, the Queer Student Union, the Feminist Student Union, the Asian Student Union, and APANO bring to you a night of poetry, ft Darkmatter!
DARKMATTER is a trans south asian performance art duo comprised of Alok Vaid-Menon and Janani Balasubramanian. Based in New York City, DarkMatter regularly performs to sold-out houses at venues like La MaMa Experimental Theater, The Brooklyn Museum, and the Asian American Writer’s Workshop. DarkMatter was recently part of the Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival, the Lincoln Center’s La Casita Festival, as well as the Queer International Arts Festival. Known for their quirky aesthetic and political panache, DarkMatter has been invited to perform at stages across the world.
#ItGetsBitter is an interruption: a hybrid mixture of art and activism, poetry and polemic, giggles and gasps. #ItGetsBitter is a remix of spoken word, stand up comedy, fashion, and nursery rhymes. DarkMatter shares stories of navigating the world in all of its ordinariness and peculiarity as trans South Asians, taking the audience on an emotional roller coaster all of the way from the personal to the political. Join us for an evening of poetry and healing as we not only critique – but imagine new ways of being and resisting together.
Additionally, there will be a special opening act from Star~
This show is FREE for all LC students, and you must show your I.D. at the door! Greater-Portland folks, please follow the link to be posted above shortly to purchase a limited-seat.
We will be collecting donations for the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP)which "works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination, or violence" so show up with cash and credit cards!
The space is wheelchair accessible, not scent-free, and one bathroom with be made gender neutral. There will not be anyone signing for the deaf; that is our mistake, and we apologize.
For more on Darkmatter, visit:
www.darkmatterpoetry.com
instagram - @darkmatterpoetry
twitter - @darkmatterpoets
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bit.ly/darkmatterpoetryyoutube
A.M. O’Malley lives in Portland, OR where she is the Executive Director of the Independent Publishing Resource Center. Her writing has appeared in Nailed Magazine, Poor Claudia and The Burnside Review, among other publications. Expecting Something Else, her first full-length book of poems is out in early 2016
claire barrera is an artist, educator and mother based in Portland, Oregon. Upcoming projects include (Un)Made YOU with Performance Works Northwest and When Language Runs Dry, a zine anthology to be published by Mend My Dress Press in 2016.
Kelly Rauer is an artist who experiments with video, movement, sound, installation and performance. She was included in the PORTLAND2014 Biennial of Contemporary Art presented by Disjecta and has traveled and presented work in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Berlin, Germany. She is currently enjoying various performative collaborations across genres, club dancing, techno music and is learning how to build analog synthesizers.
Claire Barrera (movement) / Kelly Rauer (video) / A.M. O'Malley (text)
Performance at 7pm sharp
Free, open to the public, 21+ only
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Massimiliano Pagliara (Live at Robert Johnson, Germary) makes his Pacific Northwest Debut on the beautiful covered patio of Produce Row Cafe. His four hour set from 8pm - midnight on Sunday will be preceded by local standouts Natural Magic (Boomarm Nation).
Massi was born in Tricase (Lecce) in the deep south of Italy. Already as a child, he listened to diverse types of music: rap, classical, reggae, dub and 60s rock'n'roll. Coming from this small village, he and his friends created a small musical world for themselves, spending a lot of time every day playing records in his basement and at private parties.
Upon moving to Milan in 1997, Massi embarked on an academic career and eventually earned his diploma in theatre, dance and choreography at the Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi in 2001. While discovering the fashionable and alternative club scene of the city, his imagination was captured by experimental electronic music such as Aphex Twin, Boards Of Canada, Autechre and Mira Calix. Naturally these avant-garde sounds eventually found their way into Massi’s original body of work.
After finishing school he ventured to Europe’s underground capital Berlin, where he continued his studies in contemporary dance, but also dived into the city’s explosive techno nightlife, particularly the renowned Ostgut. Massi’s interest in electronic music found its peak in 2003 when he finally began to pursue DJing with a passion. Ever since he’s been spinning at some of the most popular underground venues in Germany (among them Tape Club, Berghain/Panorama Bar, SchwuZ, Tresor, ://about blank (Berlin) and Robert Johnson (Frankfurt/Offenbach)) as well as playing across the world.
Massi describes his style as an eclectic mix of house, disco, electro and techno – one may call it current-yet-classic. DJing has since led to production, these days Massi lets his obsession with analog synths run wild, usually he’s holed up in his apartment studio, working on his latest productions. But he’s not always alone. Massi has been collaborating with luminaries around town such as Gui.Tar, Snax, Lemercier & The Lala by, Molly Nilsson and Discodromo. The two members of Gui.Tar and Massi later formed [sic!], since 2010 he's been collaborating with Rotciv – as The Rimshooters. Massi also released an EP on Apersonal Music under the alias Egyptian Nipples together with Jules Etienne.
2011 saw the release of his debut album Focus For Infinity (on Live At Robert Johnson), followed by his second long player With One Another (also LARJ) in 2014. Last but not least he’s also one half of the DJ-team Drei Fragezeichen (the other half being nd_baumecker).
There’s an ongoing lust for dialogue when it comes to Massimiliano Pagliara – be it through his collaborations and solo productions, during his DJ sets or on a personal level. The world of dance, movement and communication is deeply rooted in Massi’s life – when you know how to move yourself, you easily know how to move others.
Tickets are $10 at the door or $8 presale on RA:
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An Art reception with New work by Sean Christensen
with Live Performances by:
E*rock
New Romancer
Polly Dactyly
New House & Nets is a show of paintings and sculptures that show the nature of home.
Home that is our Body and home that is our surrounding/
The nets we cast to gather our comforts to make us feel a part of an environment we have control over/
Home is a sense of control.
Carl & Sloan Contemporary is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new sculptures by Emily Counts. The show opens March 12, 2016, 6–10pm and will run through April 17.
The work of Emily Counts is an incredibly complex system of mystical symbolism, ropes joining disparate elements, and body-like vessels being penetrated (both lovingly and violently). These sculptures concurrently create a sense of mystery and intrigue alongside fear and unease.
However, there is one thing which truly stands out in her carefully crafted ceramics. It is hidden away in these disjointed bodies and objects attempting to connect with fine, delicate wires. It is the feeling as if Counts is capturing all the joys and dangers, but especially the magic of love and lust in the age of the Internet.
Magic.
Something nearly indescribable which becomes even more abstracted in our times of disjointed communication and technological isolation. But you know magic when you see it and it hits you square in the chest. Then lulls you under its spell.
Emily Counts opens Saturday, March 12, 2016, 6–10pm and will run until April 17. For more information, please contact the gallery at 360.608.9746 or info [at] carlsloan.com
Emily Counts appears courtesy of Nationale (Portland, Oregon)
EMILY COUNTS
Emily Counts was born in Seattle, WA, and currently lives and works in Portland, OR. She studied at the Hochschule der Kunste in Berlin and the California College of the Arts, where she received her BFA. Counts was an artist in residence creating work for associated solo exhibitions at Raid Projects in Los Angeles in 2004 and Plane Space in New York in 2008. She has exhibited at the Torrance Art Museum (Torrance, CA), Garboushian Gallery (Beverly Hills, CA), Nationale (Portland), Disjecta (Portland, OR), Nisus Gallery (Portland, OR), Mark Moore Gallery (Santa Monica, CA), and in Tokyo at Eitoeiko Gallery and Gallery Lara. In 2012, she received grants from both the Oregon Arts Commission and The Ford Family Foundation. Most recently, Counts received a 2016 Project Grant from the Regional Arts & Culture Council. She is represented by Nationale in Portland, Oregon.
This event was funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council.
The launch of Jon Raymond's "The Community: Writings About Art in and Around Portland," a collection of 20 years of Raymond's writing about the Portland Arts Scene
The book will be available in two versions:
b/w: $25
color: $30
The event is free and open to the public
For info: publicationstudio.biz
to pick up what we set down
It is a constant battle.
Covering things up.
Having layers.
Removing the thing beneath.
Always wanting to see what is resting behind. Always making larger attachments to small moments. Always wanting to find another vantage point. Hoping there is change in movement. Hoping we gravitate toward color. Hoping we gravitate towards light.
Finding myself writing ‘always’ quite a lot these days. Might be the desire for some sort of stability. Wanting to disprove that my relationship with fabric is more closely bound to my person than my relationship to wood. I always end up saving the old wood. I always end up coming back to the belief in fabric’s inherent strength found in interwoven threads made with the body in mind.
Maggie Heath is a Portland artist whose work rests in considering the space a body inhabits. Heath received her BFA from Portland State University in 2015. She has been awarded an honorable mention in ISC's Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award Program, the Kamelia Massih Outstanding Student Prize in the Arts, and received a 2015 Precipice Fund from Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. Her work has been seen at various galleries throughout Portland including: Surplus Space, MK Gallery, AB Lobby Gallery, galleryHomeland, Timeshare Gallery, Autzen Gallery, 511 Commons, B10, Blackfish Gallery, Short Space, and was part of a group exhibition at Virginia Commonwealth University. Heath collaborates with Emily Wobb on running Bronco Gallery, an exhibition tailgate that is based out of a 1991 Ford Bronco. http://www.maggie-heath.com/
DieAna Dae is a Portland based drag queen, performer, dancer, and artist. She has performed at Seattle Center, as well as Critical Mascara at PICA's TBA festival and is the regular host of Blow Pony, one of Portland's queer dance nights. DieAna works to find the bounds of herself within in the performance under the gaze of her audience.https://www.facebook.com/dieana.dae