Crossroads Series curated by Pioneers Go East Collective.
When: Saturday April 17, 8pm (EST) / 5pm (PT)
A virtual Crossroads video art series curated by Pioneers Go East Collective
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Free events & all are welcome!
Featuring Physical Education - Allie Hankins, Lu Yim & Takahiro Yamamoto. Curated by Beth Graczyk
CROSSROADS (CROSSWINDS, CROSSCURRENTS, CROSSFIRES) Performance + art + poetry + music + dance + food + community. A curated series presented by Pioneers Go East Collective. Crossroads Series features artists who explore new genres and known performance and art-making modes to share their creative practices with other artists and their audiences. Each evening we witness different generations of artists dealing with actual, day-to-day, contemporary challenges to further discussion between artists and to activate a network of exchange and inclusion with social and artistic intervention.
ICED OUT - Takahiro Yamamoto (performance), Roland Dahwen (video & sound)
This video performance was a dedication for dancer/choreographer Linda Austin who has been our long-time mentor and community invigorator in Portland Oregon.
Takahiro Yamamoto is an artist and choreographer based in Portland, Oregon. Centered around the initial concept of each project, he chooses his artistic medium from live performance and photography to sculpture and writings. He was recently a Full-Time Visiting Artist at the Performance Department at the School of Art Institute of Chicago in year 2020. His newest project Opacity of Performance will premiere at Portland Art Museum in the near future.
Roland Dahwen is a filmmaker whose work explores migration, race, and memory. His video installations and films have exhibited in festivals, galleries, and museums in the US, Brazil, Italy, Cuba, and the Netherlands. He is a recipient of the Oregon Media Arts Fellowship, an artist-in-residence at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's Creative Exchange Lab, and a finalist for Seattle Art Museum's Betty Bowen Award. Borrufa is his first feature film.
Passing Flowers by lu yim + collaborators
Passing Flowers currently lives as a draft: a storyboard formatted as video, a series of images and texts from a variety of anime (cited at the end of the film) made legible as a book filmed for the screen. It is a homoerotic sci-fi fantasy about two ambiguously gendered Japanese expats, Amaryllis (AM) and King Protea (KP), living near the site of the DMZ in a post-war Korea. AM works away from home at the site of the DMZ as a forensic anthropologist while KP parties unable to work due to an imperceptible disability (PTSD). The story eventually reveals a truth about their bodies being controlled through technology by the state as it stays true to the yaoi genre of manga it both loves and critiques.
lu yim is an interdisciplinary performance maker thinking through dance to understand embodiment. lu is part of artist-run groups Physical Education and Pidzn Club who create collaborative spaces and gatherings for artists. lu is a 2021 artist-in-residence at the Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn, NY. they are a personal trainer and dog dad.
Gray Areas by Allie Hankins
Drawing on recent shifts of focus, interruptions, and experimentations, Allie will present some kind of collage of her musings on the words ‘trace’, ‘transparency’, and ‘control’, the writings of Beatriz Colomina, the houses of Eileen Gray, and faces: a house’s face, Allie’s own face, your face, your face as her face, and facing it.
Allie Hankins is an artist based in Portland who most recently performed in a dream wherein she announced "Today I am Truit" before jumping into a pool. The next day in waking life she learned that 'truit' is a word used by the lucid dreaming community to mean 'trout'