PSU Art & Social Practice

@blackboxconversations is a project by incoming fi

@blackboxconversations is a project by incoming first year student Kiara Walls (kiarawalls.com) and supported by a Research Assistantship from the PSU Art & Social Practice MFA program. It broadcasts weekly - check out their past episodes and the next on forgiveness happening Friday 9/25.

Program faculty @la_pati_vg wrote Compass, a short

Program faculty @la_pati_vg wrote Compass, a short piece on the ethics of being a socially engaged artist for @presencecneserp magazine! The article includes questions generated by graduating students @tiakramer @roshanithakore @michaelstevensonjr @zephxfish @ericjohnolson. You can support this independent publication by buying a printed copy or a pdf at https://grouper.bandcamp.com/merch/presence-issue-1-in-the-mist - link in bio.
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#ethicsandart #sociallyengagedart

Tonight @michaelstevensonjr will be talking about

Tonight @michaelstevensonjr will be talking about their practice with friend and art partner @brushfireheart.art on ART.V. Which you can see on IG LIVE @adxportland tonight starting at 6PM PST Tonight!
Don’t miss it!

Former student @michaelstevensonjr has been postin

Former student @michaelstevensonjr has been posting all about their practice oriented around food on the @fiveoaksmuseum Instagram. Go check it out!

#Repost @zephxfish with @make_repost ・・・ Ami

#Repost @zephxfish with @make_repost
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Amidst uprisings and crises, take time to imagine the futures of gender. You have one more week to participate in our Portland photo collaboration for @fiveoaksmuseum’s Gender Euphoria exhibit! Pick up a disposable camera at one of our no-contact porch pickup locations and take a moment to play. Go to bit.ly/5oaks_photo for more info.

Not in Portland? You can still dream up more fantastical descriptors for future genders at bit.ly/gender_prompts!
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#socialpractice #scavengerhunt #genderfuck #genderfluid #transgender #genderqueer #lgbtq #queerartist

Portland-area folks: @zephxfish and @fiveoaksmuseu

Portland-area folks: @zephxfish and @fiveoaksmuseum invite your participation in a collaborative photo scavenger hunt capturing the multifarious futures of gender! We have created five no-contact porch-pickup locations around Portland, each with a disposable camera and a card with crowd-sourced photo prompts suggesting possible genders. Check out a camera, then snap a photo that reflects one of the prompts on the list, or invent your own.

For more information: https://fiveoaksmuseum.org/gender-euphoria-sum-of-its-parts. This project is part of the @gender_euphoria_art exhibit. Stations will be in action until Aug 9th.
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#socialpractice #scavengerhunt #genderfuck #genderfluid #transgender #genderqueer #lgbtq #queerartist

Call for participation: Imagine a future gender, h

Call for participation: Imagine a future gender, human or inhuman. What could it look, taste or feel like? What is its spirit? Share 3-10 words about this gender at the link in @zephxfish’s bio.

This ask is part of Sum of its Parts, a collaborative photo project that is part of Five Oaks Museum's Gender Euphoria exhibit. @zephxfish will remix your prompts to inspire project participants to create photographs offering glimpses of future genders. More info to come. .
#futuregender #queerartist #transart #genderreveal #genderqueer #genderfluid #genderfuck #socialpracticeart

Hi there👋🏽@roshanithakore here. I’ll be gi

Hi there👋🏽@roshanithakore here. I’ll be giving my graduate talk tomorrow online at 5 pm PST. I’m looking forward to sharing what I’ve been working on with different communities in Portland in relation to power, relationships, and community. Registration required - email rthakore@pdx.edu 💜🦚💥🌈

🐳Thank you all who joined us yesterday at 5PM f

🐳Thank you all who joined us yesterday at 5PM for Be a Local Of My Life with artist and surfer @briandthesea with special guest surf researcher Dr. Rebecca Olive from Byron Bay, Australia. @briandthesea presented her project and we had @rebeccajaneolive join us in a group discussion on surf localism & white colonialism in surfing. 🌊🌊🌊About the project: “For my project Be a Local of My Life, I sent out an email to community members inviting them to participate in a local tour to explore five specific landmarks that have specific significance to me. Our community is situated in a small town on the Pacific Northwest Coast. In the email, the community members were invited to go to each of my personal landmarks and take a photo there as documentation of going to the place from my memory. After working through the personal landmark tour, the community members emailed photos back to me, along with a written response to each memory. Once I received these responses, each community member received a certification for being a “Local of Brianna’s Life.” Inspired by both surf localism and locality, Be a Local of My Life explores what it means to be a local person in a community. In this project, community is defined as the people you come in contact with and have relational, verbal, social, or object exchanges with on a recurring basis. How do intimate relationships with a place shape a community? How can our identification as a local be shaped by memory-based knowledge instead of only site-specific factual information about a place? How does power, memory, and time influence a community member's journey to becoming a local?” — @briandthesea •••Be sure to tune into the programming of amazing events today and tomorrow on zoom with the rest of the MFA Art & Social Practice Program! ASK US if you have any questions!

TOMORROW, June 6th, 1-2pmPST/4-5pm EST join the @t

TOMORROW, June 6th, 1-2pmPST/4-5pm EST join the @transboxing crew for their weekly boxing class as part of Assembly. This class will be open to the broader public (youth welcome!) and 100% of the proceeds will be donated to @changethenypd !!!! DM for zoom link + password!!! IT IS NECESSARY— AND YET NOT ENOUGH —TO SAY THAT BLACK LIVES MATTER. WE MUST EMBODY THIS BELIEF ON A DAILY BASIS.
LET’S GET THIS MONEY RIGHT !!!! 💯❗️ #donttalkaboutitbeaboutit
Let’s gooooo!!!

ASSEMBLY 2020 —— join @roshanithakore with Gar

ASSEMBLY 2020 —— join @roshanithakore with Garima Thakur, Jenny Chu, and Felecia Graham for a virtual reading of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower on Saturday June 6 at 4pm PST! Part of Roshani’s collaborative project: East Portland Art + Justice Lab at APANO @apanonews pictured is @theafrocentricdoula ! Registration link in bio

ASSEMBLY 2020: June 5th - 7th via zoom! Join us fo

ASSEMBLY 2020: June 5th - 7th via zoom! Join us for three days of dynamic and thought-provoking experiences and socially engaged projects. Stay tuned for an upcoming companion publication and attend one or all of the free discussions, presentations, and participatory events. Come explore, think, and play with us! RSVP by following the link in our bio.

Join @zephxfish tomorrow night for an Emergency Da

Join @zephxfish tomorrow night for an Emergency Dance Party with (socially-distant) in-person and virtual components. More from Zeph:
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I’ve been thinking about how late 80s queers responded to the raging AIDS epidemic by bringing safe sex education to bars and clubs, so we could continue to celebrate and hold our communities while learning new habits to keep each other safe. Tomorrow night I’m holding another Emergency Dance Party with a small in-person component practicing social distancing. I’d love to dance with you. https://www.facebook.com/events/175254437135719 or bit.ly/emergency dance.

I’ve been thinking a lot too about public space and who gets to enjoy it without fear of harassment or racist attack. Reposting the latest enraging incident on social media feels so inadequate. RIP Arbery Ahmad and George Floyd. Cheers to Christian Cooper for fighting back.

Silver linings of Covid-19 and technological dysto

Silver linings of Covid-19 and technological dystopia: @zephxfish attending class from the woods.

This Thursday at 6pm PDT, join @zephxfish for an e

This Thursday at 6pm PDT, join @zephxfish for an exploration of our collective public spaces. “I want to take a walk* with you, and you, and you and you. I want us to feel into where we are, right now, in this time where everything's suddenly different—and not. I will guide us through a socially distant wander around the internal and external landscapes of our own neighborhoods. Can we come to some collective impression of the space and time we're in?

By participating, you're collaborating in an ongoing experiment into the ways that virtual technologies connect and disconnect us in this moment. To join, please RSVP at bit.ly/emergencywalk and I'll send you details. I would love to hear your thoughts after the fact, as well. *If you can’t leave your home, I invite you to explore your home space with us as if it was your neighborhood, or just tag along with the crowd.” #socialpractice #participatoryart #publicspace

During this week’s workshop class, @emmaduehr di

During this week’s workshop class, @emmaduehr discussed the emerging details about @theportlandconservatory; an Art Museum that presents collections of plants, horticulture education, and plant exchanges. The museum is located at Emma’s house in East Portland, where workshops, plant exchanges, and The Collection are open to the public by appointment only. Visit the website for more information about current Open and Private Calls and ways to get involved. .
And a special thanks to @x_tina000 for leading a yoga session for our exercise time. We practiced breath, focus, and daily integration.

@hallielieberman wrote an awesome article about th

@hallielieberman wrote an awesome article about the comedy work that has been happening at @crci.art , including the Comedy School and The Inside Show! Check it out for your weekend read.

Yesterday we had guest visiting artist @saltythund

Yesterday we had guest visiting artist @saltythunder13 share her incredible work the past year being an artist in residence at @umassdcvpa , where she “explored the social space shared by faculty, utilized performance as a way to process research, advocated for body awareness and wellness, examine insider and outside positions to the art world, and delve into the region’s whaling history and question what the whale means to local communities.”* One of her projects also involved creating poems out of emotional statements from faculty meetings, and another project was the the newer @corona.virus.pandemic.art since we’ve been in global remote life! @saltythunder13 graduated from our program in 2019 and we loved to see her doing well in Singapore and creating inspiring work as always. The cool thing about our program is that we have always had remote education as an option of our program, so we’ve always been bringing in artists and friends from around the world thanks to @harrell_fletcher for configuring this for an engaging educational experience. *=quote taken from @saltythunder13 ‘s website 👍🏽😊

For our workshop class today, second year student

For our workshop class today, second year student @_nolahanson brought in their collaborators @livadler and @dj_ruby_digs to lead an exercise and to talk about their project @transboxing! Trans Boxing is an experimental boxing club and collaborative art project which centers trans and gender variant people, and was founded in New York City in 2017. In addition to a great boxing workout, we had a dope discussion! We talked about inclusion, community engagement, embodiment, specificity, audiences, and the normalization of t/gnc participation in sports 💯💯💯

The Green New Real @greennewreal is a collaborativ

The Green New Real @greennewreal is a collaborative web project created by PSU Art and Social Practice MFA director @harrell_fletcher with @carrie_rachel , current MFA student @ericjohnolson and former MFA student @saltythunder13 along with help from current student @zeroprocess .
The project aggregates news stories about positive impacts on the environment and climate change as a result of the Covid-19 shut down (with respectful acknowledgement of the horrible cost to human lives), prompts the public to participate in reporting personal evidence of carbon emission mitigation, and will eventually host a climate data tracker. The project can be found at:
http://thegreennewreal.com/

This seems sooo long ago, too long ago. Extending

This seems sooo long ago, too long ago. Extending this physical gesture to all of you meta virtually. (Screenshot 2/2/2020 by @tiakramer.) #psuartandsocialpractice #virtualhug #remote #notremote

This Thursday Apr. 16 6p-6:45pm PST (((THIS IS A T

This Thursday Apr. 16
6p-6:45pm PST (((THIS IS A TEST OF THE EMERGENCY DANCE PARTY NETWORK))) We are training to be first responders in a global pandemic of paralysis, disorientation, dangerous leadership, and a sudden distrust of our physical and human surroundings. The first step to being a responder is to be grounded and connected to ourselves and others. Together we’re going to shake out the news and the anxiety, explore our bodies and senses, and wrap ourselves in a virtual gauze of collective celebration.

Please RSVP at bit.ly/rsvpemergencydance so we can send you a secure link to the Zoom meetup and playlist.
More info at https://www.facebook.com/events/2593265364275712/

From @zephxfish, with lots of inspiration from @publicwonderer, @ericjohnolson and @tiakramer

Third year student Zeph is starting an Emergency D

Third year student Zeph is starting an Emergency Dance Party Network, training participants to be “first responders in a global pandemic of paralysis, disorientation, dangerous leadership, and a sudden distrust of our physical and human surroundings. The first step to being a responder is to be grounded and connected to ourselves and others. We’re going to shake out the news and the anxiety, explore our bodies and senses, and wrap ourselves in a virtual gauze of collective celebration.” Tonight was the second iteration of the EDPN; follow @zephxfish to get details on next events! In collaboration with @publicwonderer and @ericjohnolson

For today’s extra-virtual Conversation Series, w

For today’s extra-virtual Conversation Series, we hosted Cassie Thornton to discuss her collective health project, Hologram, which turned out to be extremely timely. The Hologram is a peer-to-peer mapping of participants’ physical, psychological, and social health inspired by autonomous free clinics operating in Greece. We even got a Max Haivem cameo. .
@the_feminist_economics_dept #socialpractice #collective #healthcare #peertopeer

The program is back in session and online as we al

The program is back in session and online as we all grapple with socially engaged art in the time of social distancing. This week Renee Sills (@embodiedastrology) led the class in our weekly exercise. Roshani Thakore (@roshanithakore) discussed plans for building more connective tissue between residents at O82 through the Art + Justice Lab, discussing resident interviews and at-home art kits. On Thursday, conversation guests included activists and organizers @joulesea and @michaudsavage who shared details about recent organizing efforts with SIASE (http://artistsustainability.org/), a new horizontal coalition formed by and for artists to enhance self-determination and secure both short and long term sustainability for Seattle artists and cultural workers. Eric Olson @ericjohnolson used his student time to discuss a recent work creating an Emotional Obstacle Course with artist Samuel Wildman.

Today! PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE OPENING OF Masked Pe

Today!
PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE OPENING OF
Masked Perception
Thursday March 12th, 2020 from 5:00-8:00pm
at Erickson Gallery 9 NW Second Avenue, Portland, OR

Over the course of the past four weeks, artists at Columbia River Creative Initiatives have been looking at ways in which masks can be shields, markers of identity, points of perception, and other tools. Each artist has created a unique mask for this exhibition which will be on view throughout March.

This opening is the culmination of an 8 month series of exhibitions created by artists at Columbia River—incarcerated artists at a minimum security prison—and shown in galleries across Portland. Please join us in celebrating this project!
For more information: www.crci.art

This project was generously funded by a grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council. *Pictured mask was created by artist Turbo.

The @artandsocialpracticearchive is a project by t

The @artandsocialpracticearchive is a project by the PSU Art and Social Practice MFA Program. The new IG account will include excerpts from the archive, updates about its development, and related projects and programs 🗃 Here is our collection so far, with Marti Clemmons, our lead Archive Technician and Eniko Banyasz, our new Art and Social Practice Archive intern!! We are interested in not only creating an archive that tells stories of socially engaged artwork, but also thinking about how to create living, generative artworks and programming connected to the archive, while supporting public, artistic and academic research.

From the Finding Aid created by Marti Clemmons, “The Art + Social Practice Archive was founded and organized by Shoshana Gugenheim Kedem (@shoshanagugenheim), Roshani Thakore (@roshanithakore), Lauren Moran (@_lo_and_behold_) and Harrell Fletcher (@harrell_fletcher) in honor of the @psuartandsocialpractice program’s 10 year anniversary.
The archive is built around project materials connected to program collaborations, students and alumni to celebrate all the work that has been built from the program, and hopes to gather materials from socially engaged art projects from all over the world. As far as we know, it is the only official archive for social practice ephemera. ’We hope the archive will continue to develop into a collection that reflects the ever-growing, amorphous and far ranging field of socially engaged art, with representation from artists and projects all over. We hope to capture moments from the past, present and future of socially engaged art and create a rich history that reflects the complexity of the field.’ @_lo_and_behold_”.
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Image credits: Emily Fitzgerald and Eniko Banyasz

Alumni @saltythunder13 made this amazing video abo

Alumni @saltythunder13 made this amazing video about the program
REMINDER Applications for the Art and Social Practice Program are due on January 12th! Link in bio to apply.

Come by the publication fair at the cleaners to do

Come by the publication fair at the cleaners to donate a book the library at Columbia River!

Over the years there has always been a Canadian (s

Today’s test run of Everyday Disaster Research w

Today’s test run of Everyday Disaster Research with @zephxfish, applying methods gleaned from a Design Thinking class this term.
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#socialpractice #everydaydisastertraining #sociallyengagedart @psuartandsocialpractice