The painter has a studio with a little bedroom off the back. The painter is not an armchair type. He goes to work on several large canvases with over-sized brushes, tubes of paint, and a decidedly male abstract-expressionism. Dressed in a blue smock, the painter wears a blonde wig and a number of prosthetics, including a bulbous nose, flapping ears and large rubber hands. Sometimes he behaves violently. At other moments he is childlike. The painter struggles to express himself. He sits at a table and hits his rubber hand with a meat cleaver. This and much more he accepts. He meets with his dealer; he paints, and finally, he allows a collector to sniff his ass with great cathartic inhalation. (RS)
Paul McCarthy plays the painter. McCarthy (b. 1945, Salt Lake City) has lived in Los Angeles since the 1970s.
A Screening as Part of MOMMY…
Painter, 1995 Video, color, sound, 50:04 min.
Free
Months at Bunk Bar with glorious Blesst Chest and equally glorious WL.
Jangly, ghostly, entrancingly off-kilter rock from these buzzed-about locals.
Beat Connection
Phantoms
Coco Columbia
In 2012, Coco Columbia dropped out of music school, setting aside her passion for jazz drumming, to begin singing and writing music. After several months spent teaching herself to record, make beats, and play piano she put together a group of Portland’s finest jazz musicians to finish recording her debut album, “The Weight”, funded by her successful kickstarter campaign, (you can find "The Weight" on www.cococolumbia.com).
Unsilent Night is an original composition by Phil Kline (NY), written specifically to be heard outdoors in the month of December. It takes the form of a street promenade in which the audience becomes the performer. Each participant gets one of four tracks of music in the form of a cassette, CD, or Mp3. Together all four tracks comprise Unsilent Night. The fact that the participants play different "parts" simultaneously helps create the special sound of the piece. Participants carry boomboxes, or anything that amplifies music, and simultaneously start playing the music. They then walk a carefully chosen route through their city’s streets, creating a unique mobile sound sculpture which is different from every listener's perspective.
The piece was so popular that it became an annual tradition, and then an international phenomenon, spreading across the USA and to other countries worldwide. Since 1992, it has been presented in over 50 cities and four continents, drawing crowds of up to 1,500 participants in cities like New York and San Francisco."
Bring a boombox or portable speaker that plays CDs or hooks up to an mp3 player.
Download one of the four tracks that make up the piece, or download the free app that randomly selects a track each time you play it. Go to the website:
http://www.unsilentnight.com/participate.html
Gather at the spot, press play and walk.
“Kline’s luminous, shimmering wash of bell tones is one of the loveliest communal new-music experiences you'll ever encounter, and it's never the same twice.”
Time Out New York
“A marvelously fluid, traveling spatial sound sculpture that disintegrates and reforms at nearly every stop light.”
The Village Voice
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The details of this event are subject to change as they are in the beginning stages of planning.
Church of Film is a weekly ceremony for the worship of cinema, located at the North Star Ballroom (635 N Killingsworth Court.)
About the film:
Mother Winter saves a young boy from her cousin, Death, and raises him as her immortal child. However, consumed by curiosity and desiring love, the young boy renounces his immortality to become human again.
Banned from filmmaking for a decade, Juraj Jakubisko's reputationz grew as film fanatics whispered about a legendary "Slovakian Fellini." Jakubisko proudly endorsed the mantle with a glorious return to form and film, The Feather Fairy—even casting Fellini's wife, Giullieta Massina (La Strada, Juliet of the Spirits) in the title role. A wondrous, delirious adaptation of the Brother's Grimm tale Mother Hulda, Jakubisko's camera drifts from earth to heaven and spins its way into beautiful carnivalesque folk montages in a joyous celebration of what it means to be human.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB-O5UMFTZk
$5 suggested donation
The Outset Series provides an opportunity for local improvising musicians to get in front of an audience in a non-commercial venue with a completely attentive audience that is dedicated to creative, improvised music. This is the only regular series in Portland that features experimental, improvised music in front a live audience. The Outset Series is now hosted by Turn Turn Turn in Northeast Portland after 3 years of performances at Revival Drum Shop.
The Dead White
Following a debut CDr on Pete Swanson’s famed experimental label Collective Jyrk in 2006, The Dead White has been a fixture in underground ambient and noise circles in San Diego, Olympia, WA and Portland.
Felisha Ledesma
Felisha Ledesma is an artist constructing cathartic and minimal pieces with a patchwork of field recordings, synthesizers, tapes, and voice.
Join Holocene for the Holiday Party of XRAY.FM! This party is open to the public, with discounted tickets for Members and DJs.
Hurry Up
The Woolen Men
Blesst Chest
Rasheed Jamal
and XRAY DJs
Members of XRAY pay just $5 with keychain (No keychain? Grab yours at the door.)
$8 general admission, and all proceeds benefit the station.
Admission is free for XRAY DJs, board ops, and producers.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM XRAY.fm!
The all-new, live stage show “MythBusters© Jamie & Adam Unleashed,” starring Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, co-hosts of the Emmy-nominated Discovery series MythBusters©, promises to be an unexpected evening of on-stage experiments, audience participation, rocking video and behind-the-scenes stories. Fans will join Jamie and Adam on stage and assist in their mind-twisting and not always orthodox approach to science.
"MythBusters© Jamie & Adam Unleashed" brings you face to face with the curious world of Jamie and Adam as the duo matches wits on stage with each other and members of the audience.
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR FAQ
Q: Is this family friendly? Can I bring my kids?
A: Absolutely. This is a show for all ages!
Q: Can I take photos and video during the show?
A: Unfortunately, we do not allow you to take photos or video during the show. However, there is one point in the show where Jamie and Adam encourage you to take a photo.
Q: I want to volunteer for experiments on stage! How can I do that?
A: Volunteers will be selected at random from the audience.
Q: What does a VIP ticket include?
A: The Jamie & Adam UNLEASHED VIP ticket will include an exclusive Meet & Greet with Mr. Savage and Mr. Hyneman and other VIP guests immediately following the show. Each ticket holder will be given a VIP Meet and Greet pass and a pre-signed 8X10 photo. VIP ticket holders will have the opportunity to take a photo with Jamie and Adam. Additional merchandise will be available for purchase in the lobby prior to the Meet & Greet. This description only applies to VIP tickets for evening performances and is not available at matinees. If you have additional questions, please contact the venue.
TICKET PRICES:
Service charges apply
$150.00 VIP Ticket* –Row A (50 SEATS)
(MEET AND GREET AVAILABLE ONLINE ONLY)
*The Jamie & Adam UNLEASHED VIP ticket will include an exclusive Meet & Greet with Mr. Savage and Mr. Hyneman and other VIP guests immediately following the show. Each ticket holder will be given a VIP Meet and Greet pass and a pre-signed 8X10 photo. VIP ticket holders will have the opportunity to take a photo with Jamie and Adam.
$69.50 Orch Row B-R; Dress Circle
$55.00 Orch B & C Rows S-FF; A & D Rows S – W; Mezzanine; Lower Balcony
$42.50 2nd Balcony; Orch Sec A & D Rows Y-JJ, Sec B & C Rows GG-JJ
Teatro Milagro launches its 2016 national tour in Portland with Broken Promises by Olga Sanchez. This original work, created in collaboration with Planned Parenthood, is based on the true life stories of teen girls who are lured into prostitution. The play will provide an opportunity to discuss sexual health in underserved communities and will be paired with “Healthy Relationships” workshops that are currently being taught in such schools as Native American Youth & Family Center (NAYA) and Donald E. Long Youth Detention Center. Direction is by Francisco Garcia, who toured with Milagro is the mid 90’s, prior to his successful venture in Los Angles as a playwright, director, and equity actor. Returning to Portland for this production is choreographer Gabriela Portuguez, whose work at Milagro in the past included direction and choreography of the popular production, FRIDA, un retablo. Olga Sanchez is the Artistic Director Emerita, currently working on her PhD at the University of Oregon. The cast includes Monica Domena, hailing from Washington, Shenekah Telles from New Mexico, Giovanni Alva from California, and long-time Milagro touring artist Ajai Terrazas Tripathi from Corvallis, Oregon.
Since 1989, Milagro’s bilingual, arts education touring ensemble, Teatro Milagro, has provided culturally appropriate arts education & enrichment programs that build cultural appreciation and further Latino participation in the arts. In 1995, Milagro produced En Este Valle de Lágrimas, a Spanish language AIDS education play for Washington County Health Department. Since that time Milagro has produced over a dozen public health plays related to breast cancer, smoking and LGBTQQIA health and wellness, in partnership with various health and social service agencies. In 2009, Teatro Milagro formed OYE, opciónes y educación, a Latino sexual health coalition with Cascade AIDS Project and Multnomah County Health Department. Teatro Milagro teaching artists have worked collaboratively with Multnomah County Health Department since that time to receive training in popular education methodology and health promotion.
Amidst the backdrop of urban Latin hip hop music, rhyme, and choreography, Broken Promises reveals the shocking truth of how quickly and easily teens are ensnared in the world of sex trafficking. Desperate for money, four teens living on the edge gamble their lives on internet porn and prostitution. Before she knows it, Adriana is trapped in a life from which she cannot escape, or can she?
Admission: $5-$30. Tickets available at www.milagro.org or 503-236-7253.
Discounts for students, seniors, veterans, groups 15+, and with Oregon Trail card through the Arts for All program.
BLUETECH
Over a decade of releases has brought Bluetech's music to fans of downtempo, future bass, and progressive electronic music, rife with emotional intent, and polyrhythmic percussion. From his homebase in the far-flung islands of Hawai'i, Bartholomew transcends the constructs normally associated with a calculated "electronic artist," pursuing music with meaning and purpose. Choosing to spend his off-stage time meticulously tweaking precision productions, building the solar-powered studio of his dreams, running his music and arts webzine Nomadculture.net, or putting in time on his Critical Beats imprint—dedicated to preserving and protecting Earth's remaining rainforests—Evan shirks preconceptions of fellow superstar producers.
LUSINE
McIlwain has performed throughout the US and abroad, including the SXSW, Mutek, DEMF, and Sonar festivals, and sets at London's esteemed Fabric nightclub, Tokyo's Unit, and Berlin's Berghain and Watergate nightclubs. He has been involved in the scoring of various film and commercial projects: co-scoring (with David Wingo) the 2008 film "Snow Angels" (with Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell), and "The Sitter" (Jonah Hill) and scoring the 2009 film "Linewatch" (with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Omari Hardwick). McIlwain teamed up with David Wingo again in 2013 to score the film "Joe" (Nicolas Cage) . He is just beginning work on a future album and is prepping new material for upcoming shows in 2015.
VEKTROID
Now a widely recognized figure within the electronic music underground, her work has been licensed for use by Tony Hawk's 900 Films production company, featured on VICE.com's THUMP, Anthony Fantano's The Needle Drop, Dummy Mag, The Chicago Reader, Ad Hoc, and many times on TinyMixTapes. Her mixtapes Macintosh Plus - Floral Shoppe and 情報デスクVIRTUAL - 札幌コンテンポラリー were in fact ranked by TinyMixTapes, respectively, as their 6th and 29th favorite albums of 2012.
Her combined projects have accumulated over 500,000 plays on Last.fm from over 15,000 unique listeners since 2010.
In support of the new record Silver Season, Israel and the band will hit the road this fall on a North American headline tour.
Cosmos-wrangling Americana upstart Israel Nash returns from Texas Hill Country with his Silver Season, a nine-song set that plays less like an album, and more like a cross section of time and space. The man's fourth LP ventures farther down the acid-soaked trail blazed by 2013's Rain Plans, arriving in lush and expansive territory. Here, this Missouri son sounds more assured than ever, supportedby his highly capable band and production inspired by psychedelic greats. Like the record before it, this one was made on Nash's 15-acre swath of land in Dripping Springs, Texas, with one key difference.
Silver Season feels like a living thing. That's a product of the wild five-man sessions that took place in the sweltering Quonset (with beer breaks, and slingshot target practice using the empties). It'salso due to the care put into taming all of that good noise, with engineer Ted Young (Kurt Vile, Sonic Youth) returning to the mix. The analog hum grounds the guitar wizardry, while the depth of sound ties the band to the pasture that surrounds. It makes sense that Nash would come into his own out there. He was raised in the Ozarks amidst hills and farmland. Other things add up too. His pastor father and artist mother were very much children of the '60s. Dad bought him Sgt. Pepper's when he was 10, Mom handed him an electric guitar at 11, and Nash was writing songs by 12. And while he's grown away from the religion he was raised under, Nash's music is nothing if not spiritual. The spirit just comes from a different place—nature, family, song, and the occasional trip into times and spaces we can't normally access.
MSG is pleased to present new work, "The Body As Transducer" by Gabi Villasenor
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We keep our emotions locked up in our tissue like a pebble in the throat on the cusp of a sob
Diane Ackerman relays that “the body is a transducer”, it converts energy from one form to another
I mechanically touch her hair and in that moment, my body converts my sense of touch into electrical impulses, my brain reads the information.
Soft, light, long
We are mechanical before we are analytical
Conversion as our greatest strength
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The Body As Transducer is an installation by Gabi Villasenor which is brought to light by an active sculpture and a 25 minute sound piece enhanced with live vocals from the backseat. Inspired by the writings of Diane Ackerman, The Body as Transducer is a collection of experiential poems manifested in both sound and sculpture, written during the summer of 2015.
MSG is a miniature mobile gallery located in small shelf within 2006 Midnight Blue Scion xB, *usually in Portland, OR.
Airick Redwolf and Blow Pony Present A Winters evening
▲▲Genesis BREYER P-ORRIDGE w/PSYCHIC TV!▲▲
Opening Acts:
▼WALDTEUFEL▼
▼VICE DEVICE!▼
Ticket link: https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/942233
Still Flyin' (SF)
iji (Seattle)
Feel Young
W̶e̶i̶r̶d̶ ̶C̶a̶c̶t̶u̶s̶
December To Forget (DTF™) features:
WAMPIRE
MOON BY YOU
EVERYONE IS DIRTY (SF)
Party Damage Records DTF DJs in the bar
-The second edition of "the hot party boy" cocktail
-Costumes
-Door prizes
-Canned food drive: $1 off your ticket with a canned food donation for the Oregon Food Bank (foods high in proteins and nutrients are most needed: tuna, vegetables, soups, etc).
Rasheed Jamal's 2015 full-length album, Sankofa, starts out with the sleepy trip-hop beat and breathy vocals of "Zuzu's and WhamWhams," lulling you into a slow nightmarish sense of disconnection, followed by the raw intensity of "Urban Decay" and its vocal hook, "Can we please have a moment of silence (violence)." This syncopated, sprint-jog pacing sets the tone for what is one of the best Northwest hip-hop releases of the past few years.
Joining Jamal tonight is fellow Resistance emcee Mic Capes, who released a collection of singles this summer from his upcoming album, Concrete Dreams, all of which are emotional, powerful, honest, narrative-driven raps over eerily simple backbeats.
Kill Rock Stars Presents:
KINSKI (Seattle, WA)
WIMPS (Seattle, WA)
DEEP FRIEND BOOGIE BAND (Portland, OR. Members of Quasi, Boston Spaceships, Dragging An Ox Through Water, etc.)
Cayetano Ferrer, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon, Nate Hess, Jonathan Mandabach, Ashland Mines
Curated by Chiara Giovando
Contact Expo by DLS Solution (Downtown Light and Sound Solution), is a multi-channel sound and light environment that will continually shift over the course of the six-week exhibition. Focusing on the potential of surface as the site of sculpture, this collaborative installation will utilize 3D mapping with extensive speaker and projection arrays to question the reliability of an object’s obligations to the quality or character of its environment.
Part of the Curator-in-Residence program, Sound is Matter, from Chiara Giovando.
DLS Solution is an exhibition think tank focused on light and sound environments. The growing list of contributors include Daniela Anastassiou, O.A. Biddle, Cayetano Ferrer, Nate Gonzales Hess, Jacqueline Gordon, Jonathan Mandabach, Miles Martinez, Ashland Mines and Daniel Pineda. Blurring the boundaries between light industry and deep content production, DLS Solution is a platform for collaboration through corporate identity dissolution. DLS Solution is informed by rapid changes in aesthetics technology and seeks to modify existing frameworks to create new input/output circuitry for form and content. Past events and exhibitions by DLS Solution have taken place at Satellite Space in Santa Monica, and MOCA, Human Resources, and the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.
Exhibtion runs December 12, 6pm - January 17th, 2016
Opening reception Saturday, December 12th || Free
Abra Ancliffe
When Looking Down is Looking Up
The Secret Astronomy of Tristram Shandy
Book Launch + Opening Reception
Saturday, December 12, 5-7pm
at c3:initiative | free and open to the public
When Looking Down is Looking Up is an ongoing investigation of the shift from outer space to page as a re-envisioning of matter and printed matter. It centers on how when contemplating what is known and unknown, one usually finds themselves either staring down at the page or up into the sky.
The Secret Astronomy of Tristram Shandy is a book that reproduces over one hundred, self-reflexive black pages from multiple, paperback editions & copies of Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. When taken out of context and accumulated, these once playful, visual metaphors reveal the printing inconsistencies of ink on paper (varying density, hickeys, oxidation spots, and moiré patterns). The hidden nature of the page, that which was unread, can now be read. In this case, astronomical imagery is revealed; that of stars speckled across an inky blackness or the soft haze and ripple of a galaxy. Since the 1760s, readers, printers and publishers have been forced to grapple with the black pages of Sterne’s novel; this struggle with discovery, meaning, and craft is at the heart of The Secret Astronomy of Tristram Shandy.
The Secret Astronomy of Tristram Shandy is funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council.
About the Artist
Abra Ancliffe makes printed matter, books, and libraries about the pursuit of knowledge and the inevitable mistakes and misunderstandings inherent in this pursuit.
abraancliffe.com
personallibrarieslibrary.com