First Thursday, November 6, 2014.
Photographs By Jennifer Hughes
PNCA presents a variety of exhibitions on campus:
Eva and Franco Mattes: Breaking Banality: The Dysfunction of Remediation
Nov 6, 2014 – Jan 10, 2015
Portland, OR, October 23, 2014 — The Philip Feldman Gallery + Project Space at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) presents Breaking Banality: The Dysfunction of Remediation, an exhibition by Eva and Franco Mattes, opening with a reception on First Thursday, November 6, 2014 and running through January 10, 2015. For the exhibition, whose title was created by an online random exhibition title generator, the Brooklyn-based Italian duo will present ten reiterations of one performance from their series “BEFNOED – By Everyone, For No One, Every Day,” for which they commission anonymous workers to realize webcam performances. The Mattes’ hire performers through online crowdsourcing services and post the resulting videos to many of the more obscure social networks around the world. The artists regularly post links to new videos at befnoed.tumblr.com. These works are in the lineage of Fluxus event scores and more recently Hans Ulrich Obrist’s instruction-based project, “Do It.” For this exhibition, to view the videos, visitors will be forced in awkward positions, becoming themselves, if just for a few seconds, performers, and underlying how the act of viewing is in itself performative.
Last Call: 2014 PNCA Staff Exhibition: Swigert Commons
Nov 6, 2014 – Nov 22, 2014
The artists and designers who make up the staff at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) are among the Portland’s most dedicated practitioners. While as a group they are diverse in their creative endeavors, they are united in their drive for a continual exploration of creative practice. The Staff Exhibition celebrates and showcases the rigor, invention, and excellence of those explorations in an exhibition that highlights the diversity and collective nature of the PNCA staff.
PNCA's Veterans Exhibition: Higgins Gallery
Nov 6, 2014 – Nov 23, 2014
PNCA’s first ever exhibition of its current students, staff, and faculty who served in the United States Military. A diverse group in their chosen mediums and topics, this exhibition showcases a variety works made from PNCA’s Veterans. Held in connection with the November 11th Veterans Day holiday.
Roger Peet: Traps, Flows, Echoes: Gallery 214
Nov 6, 2014 – Nov 28, 2014
Portland artist Roger Peet will open a show of new installation, video and print work in Gallery 214 at PNCA on the 6th November. The show, entitled “Traps, Flows, Echoes” focuses on the idea of the trap, in both the physical and cultural realms. Much of the show will focus on Peet’s relationship to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he has worked for several seasons to promote community conservation through art. Some of the work addresses Peet’s complex relationship with his father, who faked his death to go AWOL from the British Air Force and to fly helicopters for the CIA’s interventions in Congo in the 1960’s, an event which Peet recreates in a video collaboration with Portland director Jodi Darby. In his travels and work in Congo, Peet experienced first hand the disastrous consequences of the history his father had helped to shape, and this show will contain vivid and evocative print, installation, and sound pieces that evoke the trauma and brutality of that trap of history, as well as the ways that he and the friends that he made in Congo are trying to get out of it. The work also features sound collages and poetry by Portland MC Mic Crenshaw.
Roger Peet is an artist, writer and printmaker in Portland, Oregon. His art focuses on civilized bad ideas, evolution and extinction, predator-prey relationships, and the contemporary crisis of biodiversity and what can and can’t be done about it. He is a member of the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative (justseeds.org), a group of socially and environmentally engaged North American artists, and collaborates with activists, artists and scientists across the globe in the service of a more generous and a wilder world. His website is TooSphexy.com.
This project was produced with the generous assistance of the Regional Arts and Culture Council.
