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some of the artists and performers who collaborate with/perform with VARIOUS ARTISTS
David Abel. poet/performance artist.
David Abel works as an editor and bookdealer in Portland, after tenures in New York and Albuquerque. Recent performances include "Permanent Red" at the Modern Zoo (with Tim DuRoche), "Dr. Selavy's Dream" in the Richard Foreman mini-festival at Performance Works NW; and appearances with the sound poetry ensemble JJ MAD. For the Pacific Switchboard Seminar's Fluxus evening in May 2003, he performed a four-hour version of "Chutes and Ladders: A Word Event for mARK oWENs and Jackson Mac Low." A preliminary version of "St. Joseph's Book of Acts," a theater piece produced in collaboration with Creative Material Group, was presented at the Lord Leebrick Theatre in Eugene, Oregon, in May 2002. Recently published work includes the poem "Threnos," designed and sewn on a thirty-seven-foot ribbon by the artist Katherine Kuehn, and the long collage text "Conduction," which appeared in "Conduit," an exhibition catalogue devoted to the work of Anna Hepler.
Linda Austin. choreographer/performance artist.
Linda Austin is an Oregon-born choreographer, improviser, performer and teacher. Based in New York City for 22 years after graduating from the Lewis & Clark College Theatre Program, she returned to Portland in 1998. Her work has been presented in New York by the Danspace Project, Performance Space 122, the Kitchen and Movement Research. In the Northwest, she has performed in Seattle at On the Boards ' Northwest New Works, and in Portland at the Echo Theatre, at Conduit, and at her home base at Performance Works NorthWest. She was a New York Foundation for the Arts Choreography Fellow in 1992 and a Movement Research Artist-in-Residenc in 1995/96. Her work has also been supported by the US/Mexico Culture Fund for a 1998 residency in Mexico City and the Regional Arts and Culture Council in Portland. Her writing and interviews have appeared in The Movement Research Performance Journal and the Mexican cultural publication Tierra Adentro. Austin is Director of Performance Works NorthWest, which she and lighting designer Jeff Forbes co-founded in 1999. Linda recently completed the run of her solo show The Big Real. The Oregonian’s Catherine Thomas calls Austin, "A strong theater artist who constructs movement scenarios with subtle wit and an eye for the unusual." "Ms. Austin's powers of invention never failed her. . ." Jack Anderson, The New York Times.
Jonathan Blakeslee. contrabass.
Jonathan is a native of New Hampshire and was intitiated into musical through family hootenannies—playing a litany of instruments both big and small. After a smattering of singer-songwriter experiences, Blakeslee began studying bass with Portland jazz great, Andre St. James. Blakeslee has appeared locally with Michael Vlatkovich, Tim DuRoche, David Hirvonen, The Subterranean Beat Revival, Roby Edwards, Lev Lieberman, and Geoff Pfeifer among others.
Andrew Blubaugh. film + video artist.
Andrew Blubaugh is a self-taught film and video artist from Cleveland, Ohio. His work is often personal and examines the relationship between identity, documentation, and geography. In the last twho years, his films have been shown at the Northwest Film/Video Festival, the Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Fest, Vancouver Underground Film Fest, Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema, and at the esteemed Ann Arbor Film Festival. Blubaugh is the Associate Director of the Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festval and by day masquerades as the Regional Services and Exhibition Coordinator at the Northwest Film Center.
Tracy Broyles. choreographer.
Tracy Broyles is a choreographer who has been creating in the
Portland area for 8 years. She is a co-founder of The Water St.
Project, teaches dance and Pilates and performs with Monster Squad
and Aviator, among others. Her newest work will be presented in
November 2004.
Terrence Chiusano. poet.
Terrence Chiusano is a graduate of the University at Buffalo's Poetics Program and holds an undergraduate writing degree from the University of Pittsburgh. His poems have appeared in Basinski: A Zine of the Arts; Can We Have Our Ball Back?; Kenning: A Newsletter of Contemporary Poetry, Poetics, and Nonfiction Writing; Mirage #4/Period(ical); Queen Street Quarterly: Forum for the Contemporary Canadian Arts; Serving_Suggestion; and in the Buffalo Vortex broadside series and $ellsheets e-broadside series. On Generation and Corruption (Handwritten Press, 2003) is his first book. He currently lives in Pittsburgh, PA.
Kathleen Keogh choreographer/dancer.
Kathleen Keogh is a movement and dance artist primarily concerned with improvisation. She studied dance and performance at Arizona's Prescott College. After moving to Portland in 1999 she became involved in the dance and performance community through groups like Super Unity and outlets such as Performance Works Northwest and the 411 space. She recently performed at the Seattle Improvised Music Festival with five Portland-based musicians. Her work is characterized by subtle, detailed, and authentic movements, often completely devoid of what is called "dance." She is continually searching for and refining her movement and collaborative techniques in solo and group work, contact improvisation, and sound. Currently she is working
on a multi-disciplinary improvisational group piece titled Pigeon, which can be experienced in various indoor and outdoor performances throughout the summer and fall.
Matt Marble. composer/sound artist/editor.
“i am 24. i currently reside in portland, OR (originally from Mississippi). i am a sound artist/composer, student of speech and hearing sciences, and co-editor of a monthly journal, FO_A_RM, concerning auditory culture/arts and expirimental poetics. I am interested in sound and listening as a mode of being. i believe the sounds without and within us are of utmost importance in regards to our quality of life and i aspire to proliferate this awareness and our consequent 'responsibilities' amongst those who are hard of hearing, and to probe ever more deeply amongst those already tuned in. I have plans to create a sound museum in the near-distant future and am interested in making Portland a center for acoustic ecology activity. . ..”
Chris Piuma. poet/musician/editor/very funny man.
Chris Piuma has edited the online quasiliterary zine flim
Jonathan Sielaff. composer/performer.
Born in Miami, FL, he grew up in a musical family (his father and
grandfather were both professional reed players). He began his studies
with the piano, then picked up guitar in his teens and is now focusing
on
the clarinets. In composing and performing, he draws heavily from his
experiences traveling and living in the South Pacific and Asia as well
as
participating in a wide array of musical settings and genres.
He has lived in Portland since 2000 where he regularly collaborates
with a
variety of musicians, poets and dancers.
Vladimir Solman. artist.
Vladimir Solman is an artist who uses the medium of the Viewmaster, shooting scenes on 16mm film, handcutting both the film and the cardboard disks. Her pieces have engaged work ranging from Italo Calvino to Franz Kafka. She premiered her mass Vladmaster performance, “Lucifagia Thigmotarxis,” with 380 Viewmasters for each audience member at the 2004 Portland Documentary and Underground Film (PdX) Festival