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Master of Fine Arts in
Contemporary Art Practices at
Portland State University

Assembly TV

The 2021 Edition of Your Favorite Co-Authored Art & Social Practice Conference!

Organized by the Portland State University Art & Social Practice MFA Program for 8 years and counting.

This year our annual conference is presented as a television station dedicated to art and social practice. “Tune in” online and join us for discussions, workshops, interactive experiences, and participatory events.  Programs include a houseplant show-and-tell with People’s Plant Museum, personal landmark making with Sign Club, an exploration of the speaking arts, sheep sounds, a showcase of $100 Projects, and a brain dive from our in-house stuntman.

Come one, come all from around the globe! Opportunities abound in this online multiverse as we embrace experimental gatherings of all kinds. It might be magical! It might be strange! Attend one or all of the events! We invite you to dive into this week of events: participate, ask questions, observe, and reflect. 

Captioning will be available for the entire conference. The introductory event and graduate lectures will have live ASL interpretation. If you will utilize ASL interpretation for these events, please join us in Zoom. Additionally, Carlos Reynoso’s graduate lecture will have Spanish captions.

Join us on Zoom or livestream via Youtube.

Zoom: https://pdx.zoom.us/j/89883472941
Password: assembly

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8tK6tLOx4gP0qsOItRwl-w

REGISTER HERE.

VIEW THE FULL PROGRAM IN OUR TV GUIDE!

Or scroll below for schedule in list format.


Conversations On Everything: SoFA Journal Spring Issue, featuring $100 Project Series

The Spring issue of the program’s Social Forms of Art Journal will launch on June 4 in tandem with Assembly. As part of the $100 Project commission series, the issue contains interviews done between graduate students and those they commissioned. Coming soon!


ASSEMBLY TV SCHEDULE

MONDAY JUNE 7TH

TIME PROGRAM PEOPLE TYPE
12-1PM PST Some Thoughts On Art & Social Practice Harrell Fletcher and Lisa Jarrett Presentation
1-2PM PST

World of Colonial Hills: Past, Present, and Future

Rebecca Copper and Minus Plato (AKA Richard Fletcher)

Presentation, Discussion
2-3PM PST SNACKBREAK All

Enjoy videos from the A+SP program vault! See artists exploring their neighborhoods, talking to strangers, exhibiting talents and more.

3-4PM PST

Familia y Payasos

Carlos Reynoso Graduate lecture
4-5PM PST

Bunny Reunion & Tour

Brianna Ortega Participatory project
5-6PM PST

Aasembly: A Once in a Lifetime Mental Stunt Show

Caryn Aasness Stunt show performance

 

TUESDAY JUNE 8TH

TIME PROGRAM PEOPLE TYPE
12-1PM PST Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School Museum of Contemporary Art (KSMoCA) International Acquisition Committee

Illia Yakovenko

Presentation, Artwork handover

1-2PM PST

Weaving Motherhood

Soheila Azadi

Presentation
2-3PM PST SNACKBREAK All

Enjoy videos from the A+SP program vault! See artists exploring their neighborhoods, talking to strangers, exhibiting talents and more.

3-4PM PST

Getting to Know the Place

Jordan Rosenblum Graduate lecture
4-5PM PST

The Sound of Sheep: A Communal Gaze/Graze

Mo Geiger Participatory online sound installation
5-6PM PST

Plant Show & Tell hosted by People’s Plant Museum

Emma Duehr Mitchell and YOU! Group presentation

 

WEDNESDAY JUNE 9TH

TIME PROGRAM PEOPLE TYPE
12-1PM PST Our Current Twilight Zone: Auditing Whiteness in Popular Culture

Caryn Aasness, Diana Marcela Cuartas, Laura Glazer, Becca Kauffman, Roshani Thakore, Kiara Walls

Participatory project
1-2PM PST

Our Current Twilight Zone (Cont’d)

 
 
2-3PM PST SNACKBREAK All

Enjoy videos from the A+SP program vault! See artists exploring their neighborhoods, talking to strangers, exhibiting talents and more.

3-4PM PST

Trans Boxing

Nolan Hanson Graduate lecture
4-5PM PST

Trans Boxing

Nolan Hanson Workshop
5-6PM PST

Pandememes

Diana Marcela Cuartas

Presentation, workshop

 

THURSDAY JUNE 10TH

TIME PROGRAM PEOPLE TYPE
12-1PM PST The Grieving Walk: A Public Ritual & Performance Shelbie Loomis Presentation
1-2PM PST

Underground networks del bosque

FIBRA Colectivo: Lucia Monge, Gianine Tabja, Gabriela Flores del Pozo

Fungi broadcast
2-3PM PST SNACKBREAK All

Enjoy videos from the A+SP program vault! See artists exploring their neighborhoods, talking to strangers, exhibiting talents and more.

3-4PM PST

Emma Duehr Mitchell’s Graduate Lecture

Emma Duehr Mitchell

Graduate lecture
4-5PM PST

A Field Guide to a Crisis

Justin Maxon, Michelle M. Miller,
Aaron Ochoa, Rachel Hill, and Kristy Lee

Participatory project
5-6PM PST

Voice Shopping: Impersonation as Liberation

Becca Kauffman Participatory workshop

 

FRIDAY JUNE 11TH

TIME PROGRAM PEOPLE TYPE
12-1PM PST Place Biographies

Sign Club, a collaboration between Laura Glazer and Jordan Rosenblum

Workshop
1-2PM PST

Place Biographies (Cont’d)

 
 
2-3PM PST SNACKBREAK All

Enjoy videos from the A+SP program vault! See artists exploring their neighborhoods, talking to strangers, exhibiting talents and more.

3-4PM PST

Brianna’s Graduate Lecture

Brianna Ortega Graduate lecture
4-5PM PST

$100 Project: A Bear In The Forest

Kiara Walls Presentation, Creative wellness exercise
5-6PM PST

$100 Project Party

Salty Xi Jie Ng, Harrell Fletcher, and MFA students

Presentation, discussion

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