RUMBLINGS::May 22 6-9PM
May 22 – June 13, 2012
Opening Reception: May 22, 2012, 6:00 – 9:00pm
Featuring Performances by Weird Fiction and Future Death Toll
This spring, the inaugural Experimental Film Festival Portland (EFFPortland) will partner with galleryHOMELAND to present a survey of stellar video installations. RUMBLINGS represents artists from both the local community and around the United States who use video across a range of modes and presentation strategies.
From the video/sculpture hybrids of Cathy Fairbanks, Ajna Lichau, Shawn Patrick Higgins, and Jason Gutz, to the domestically-set narratives of Christina Santa Cruz and Lydia Greer, to the multi-channel movement explorations of Kelly Rauer and the site-specific experimentation of Julie Perini, to the hallucinatory, super-lo-fi psychedelia of Neil Ira Needleman, RUMBLINGS showcases nine exemplary works of video art. Gallery visitors will see comic books come to life, objects take on new lives and meaning, bodies fragment and distort, and a living room transform into a time capsule. Monitors in the windows of the adjacent Ford Food and Drink will screen loops of additional works, activating the space between the gallery and the outside street.
The opening reception for RUMBLINGS kicks off EFFPortland2012 by providing a hub for the local and visiting artists to gather, view work, and celebrate. Performances by Weird Fiction and Future Death Toll will set the tone for a week of experimental media that challenges, provokes, ignites, and entertains. Weird Fiction’s THE CINEMALGORITHMIC UNCONSCIOUS: AN ARCHIVO-FUTURIST MANIFESTO UNFURLED IN THE AUDIOVISUAL ARENA will interpolate the audience in a participatory improvisation randomly generated from an archive of “genre”, “action”, and “setting”. Future Death Toll’s “throbbing mess of noise that mutates sound and video in a sculptural fashion” will not disappoint with jelleyhaxx.
May 22 – June 13, 2012
Opening Reception: May 22, 2012, 6:00 – 9:00pm
Featuring Performances by Weird Fiction and Future Death Toll
This exhibition is sponsored in part by The Historic Ford Building, Ninkasi Brewing Company, Ford Food and Drink, and RACC’s Project Grant
For more information please contact Paul@galleryHOMELAND.org or 503.819.965
galleryHOMELAND 2505 SE 11th St. Portland, OR 97202 503.819.9656 www.galleryhomeland.org
JUNE 1ST::THEM & BATTLE HYMNS & GARDENS
8-10:30pm @ galleryHOMELAND
Them (Tzadik) – Chris Cochrane/Dennis Cooper/Ishmael Houston-Jones
Battle Hymns & Gardens – Reed Wallsmith (alto saxophone, composition) andJoe Cunningham (tenor saxophone, penny whisle, composition) of Blue Cranes, bassistJon Shaw (Ez Weiss Quartet, Andrew Oliver-Dan Duval Hard Music Ensemble), and drummer Tim DuRoche (Dominic Duval, Frank Gratkowski, Matana Roberts and others).
Chris Cochrane is doing several shows in the Northwest to promote his Tzadik release, THEM music from a performance piece collaboration with Ishmael Houston-Jones and Dennis Cooper. Mr. Cochrane will be playing music from that CD as well as new compositions ranging from songs to walls of sound, to barely audible drones.
The full cast version of THEM, which includes Mr. Cochrane playing live, Ishmael and Dennis plus 9 dancers has performed at American Realness, NYC January 2011, Springdanse, the Netherlands April 2011 and at the Teenage Hallucination Festival at Centre Pompidou, Paris February 2012. It will also be performed in Tanz Festival, Berlin August 2012 and Poitiers, France April 2013
Chris Cochrane is a guitarist who has been composing and playing music in NYC for 29 years. Chris has played with Zeena Parkins, John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Eszter Balint, Thurston Moore, Mike Patton, Henry Kaiser, Andrea Centazzo, Annie Gosfield, Tim Hodgkinson, Miguel Frasconi, Richard Buckner, Davey Williams, Ladonna Smith, Jim Pugliese and many others. He has composed music for Dennis Cooper, John Jasperse, Neil Greenberg, Nayland Blake, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Jennifer Monson, Circus Amok and others. He was in the bands No Safety and Curlew.
Battle Hymns and Gardens features Reed Wallsmith (alto saxophone, composition) andJoe Cunningham (tenor saxophone, penny whisle, composition) of Blue Cranes, bassistJon Shaw (Ez Weiss Quartet, Andrew Oliver-Dan Duval Hard Music Ensemble), and drummer Tim DuRoche (Dominic Duval, Frank Gratkowski, Matana Roberts and others).
Originally formed in 2007 as a free improvisation ensemble, BHaG have evolved into one of the most compelling units on the Portland scene, balancing original compositions reminiscent of Don Cherry and Ornette Coleman and Loft Jazz era giants like Sam Rivers with spacious, lyrical landscapes, a la Paul Motian and Roscoe Mitchell—as well as a healthy dose of deeply conversational interplay and humor. The players bring a bevy and bandolero of experience to the stand (from work with Blue Cranes, Decemberists, an array of US and European avant-garde jazz innovators – such as Perry Robinson, Paul Plimley-Lisle Ellis, Wally Shoup, Gust Burns, Jack Wright, Marco Eneidi, Didier Petit, as well as with blues bands, Beijing Opera musicians, auctioneers, and Russian circus clowns) and deliver music that is cinematic, deeply human and ever engaging.
Battle Hymns & Gardens have appeared in Portland as part of the 2012 Portland Jazz Festival, they can be heard this summer at PDX Pop Now, and individually as part of the Creative Music Guild’s Improvisation Summit of Portland. They are also working on an evening-length score for choreographer Tere Mathern Dance that will premiere in October/November 2012. Their first audio release will be available in summer 2012.