Out of Sight

August 4

Amy Johnson and crew
6 pm, 8 pm, 10 pm

AU Collective
8:30 pm, 9:30 pm, 10:30 pm 

Alice Gosti
6 pm–10 pm

Calie Swedberg
how to hold and care for precious things 
6 pm–12 am

August 5

Amy Johnson and Crew
5 pm–6:30 pm

August 6

Letterpress workshop with Demian Dine’Yazhi and Tracy Schlapp
12 pm–3 pm
$30 suggested donation 

A letterpress workshop with Portland-based artists Demian Dine’Yazhi and Tracy Schlapp to create original prints with the local community. These events are largely focused on identity, colonization, place, geography, and locating an individual concept of home through reclaiming and printing over old USGS maps. The first workshop was first conducted at the Portland Art Museum, in which the artists worked directly with LGBTQ2 high school youth groups, and the second event was in conjunction with Portland Art Museum’s Indigenous Art & Comedy Night. 

PHYSICAL EDUCATION: keyon gaskin
2 pm–5 pm

Each member of Physical Education (PE) will gift one another a package of selected materials including objects, reading materials, and video dance files. This package is as much a means for collaboration as it is a suggestion for the spontaneous performance at hand. During their solo performance, PE will unpack, respond to, and integrate the gifted elements within a durational time structure of their individual choosing (most will happen within a 2–5 hour time frame). 

The format of this exchange was created in response to the vastness of physical proximity we have had with one another. Most of us have been dispersed over the course of the summer leading up to the invitation to do Out of Sight. How do we make being in the same room into a reality? Perhaps this is a question of what it means to be present, or what it means to give one? The performances will be cumulative over the course of the August weekends—building on the others’ preceding manifestations of this exchange. 

VR for Artists:
Live Q&A with Portland Immersive Media Group
4 pm–5 pm

A session discussing grant writing for VR, "externalizing" virtual reality for galleries and exhibition space, pipeline, group dynamics, and process,  as well as Unity 3D as an keystone app of digital content creation.

Physical Education: Allie Hankins
2 pm–5 pm

August 28