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04/27: Internationally renowned string duo from Paris

7pm
$donation

Internationally renowned string duo from Paris, France:

David Chiesa (double bass) & Mathieu Werchowski (violin/viola)
http://mwerchowski.free.fr
http://david.chiesa.free.fr
sound samples:
http://mwerchowski.free.fr/#music

performing with Portland's own:
Seth Nehil (electronics) - http://sethnehil.artdocuments.org/
Matthew Marble (electronics) - http://virb.com/mattmarble
Jonathan Sielaff (clarinet / bass clarinet / saw) -
http://www.myspace.com/jonathansielaffmusic
Asa Gervich (percussion)

Chiesa and Werchowski have collaborated and recorded with many important European improvisers and are part of the group "Nodal" with Michel Doneda, Lee Quan Ninh, Frederic Blondy, J.S Mariage, Bertrand Denzler, Fabrice Charles, and Isabelle Duthoit.

Festival Opening and Reception of Surreal Systems

gallery Homeland is proud to be the 2008 PDX Film Festival host for the film and video installations of Surreal Systems, the excellent performance work of Travis Wilkerson and the first ever Experimental Filmmaker Karaoke Throwdown.



Festival Opening and Opening Reception of Surreal Systems @ galleryHomeland
9:30 pm April 31st
Surreal Systems is a satellite exhibition to the PDX Fest featuring video work that exists outside of the cinematic experience. Curated by local artists Stephen Slappe and Mack McFarland, this exhibit features video installation, sculpture and single channel works from across the country.

Proving Ground @ galleryHomeland
9 pm May 1st
A special May Day multi-media performance event with featured artist Travis Wilkerson.
Co-presented with The Northwest Film Center
60 min/multi-media performance
Live music by Los Duggans
Proving Ground is an unabashedly didactic history of US aerial bombing. The end result combines theater, history lecture, live music, political rally, experimental film screening. It represents an attempt not merely to create a work of political art, but rather, politics as art. Above all else, the performance pays tribute to a lost American art form—agitation. Proving Ground first appeared at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007, the first performance art ever to be presented in that festival. Recently, it has reappeared in dive bars in Los Angeles, most notably Little Joy Junior.

Preceded by:
National Archive V. 1
15 min / Video / 2001
National Archive is Wilkerson’s ongoing series based on materials residing within the "public domain." V. 1 seeks to discover the nexus between pure form and pure politics, and is aimed directly at the viscera.

The First Ever Experimental Filmmaker Karaoke Throwdown @ galleryHomeland
10 pm May 2nd
Join us for a brand new PDX Fest event! We have invited a handful of our favorite filmmakers to create homemade karaoke videos to their favorite karaoke songs. Audience members will get to perform songs from this custom made catalog and experience an all-new way of doing Karaoke!

For complete festival events and showtimes click here.

Swarm Intelligence : Opens 04/04/2008

Grand Opening: Friday, April 4th, 6-9pm
Exhibition Hours: April 4th - 27th | Monday - Friday | 12pm - 6pm



gallery Homeland welcomes our first international participant in the Aubrey Baer Residency Program, emerging artist Christoph Hueppi of Zurich, Switzerland.

Christoph's latest body of work is the visualization of contemporary life in paint rebelling against the use of painterly ges- ture that emphasizes the importance of the individual and geometric abstraction that illuminates its absence.

The exhibit features a group of works first conceived during a stay in India. Christoph found that although he was on the 15th floor of a brand new high rise if he dropped anything even remotely edible ants would soon be swarming along phero- mone laced paths to gather up the remains. He would sit and watch them hour after hour, their movements tracing and retracing patterns as they traveled across the apartment in a behavior known as swarm intelligence.

Swarm intelligence also happens to be the mechanism through which telecommunications networks handle data. The way we try to find information on the internet exactly mirrors the method ants use to locate the fastest and most efficient path to a food source. In this internet age we live in it is increasingly likely that the accountant who does your taxes or the call center operator you just talked to is actually someone living in Bombay.

galleryHomeland at the historic Ford Building

galleryHomeland is pleased to announce that the opening of A NW Thang marks the beginning of a long and productive collaboration with the Ford Building to curate exhibitions in the expansive main common and other spaces within the building. Amanda and Michael Tevis (owners of Intrinsic Ventures, Inc, the company that purchased the historic Ford Building in march 2004) were drawn to Portland from the bay area for the unique artistic culture and interesting architecturally historic conversion opportunities. With this firmly in mind the Tevis' have developed the 100,000+sqft building in to spaces ranging from 250sqft-8000sqft that will support all types of uses from painters, photographers, software developers, etc. Furthermore, they seek to highlight how private investment can enrich the lives of a given community by specifically designing the common space as an art exhibition space.

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