Being Present: Revisiting, Somewhat Unfaithfully, Portland’s Most Experimental Art Experiment, PCVA

Episode 6: Indira Allegra with Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen

For our sixth episode of Notes from MoAD, multidisciplinary artist Indira Allegra and curator Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen discuss an expanding of world and experience, the interplay of consent and complicity, exhaustion of identity-based inquiry, and the temperature of colonialism.

Episode 7: Rodney Ewing with Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen

Rodney Ewing and Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen talk about institutions and the things we learn about our work when we listen openly.

11.2 / In/With/For the Public

Advice and resources to inspire and empower current and future generations of artists in developing creative, ethical, and sustainable ways of engaging with the public. 

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Requiem of Instructions for the Artist/Creative to Reflect on

Dedicated to the queer, migrant, gender nonconforming, femme, Indigenous creative expanding and reflecting on their public art.

Relationships as Material for an Arts Practice

The success of Future IDs depended upon our ability to nurture and negotiate complex relationships across disparate constituencies, geographic regions, and through fraught politics and policies.

An Invitation

Before working with the public, let’s recognize that we are the public. 

A Reason to Leave the House

It's important to trust that the audience will follow you there.

Digging in the World

Transforming spaces of public life to attune + reconnect.

The Bowtie

All projects are temporary; vandalism is almost a given.

How Do You Expand the Expectations for Public Practice?

This idea about expanding the boundaries and expectations for public practice is also about a reset of traditional structures and hierarchies and power dynamics.

The Fruits of Our Labor

The more fun you can have, the more fun it is.

Insights on Applying for Things and Getting Rejected.

Do your homework: compatibility matters. 

Being Grounded in Oakland Feeds My Artist Power

For me, staying grounded means healing from injustice.

WHAT IS PUBLIC

ENCRYPTED EMAIL, SECURING YR EMAIL, ENCRYPTED MESSAGING, SECURE PRIVATE WEB BROWSING...

11.1 / All the World’s End

As the climate crisis escalates and the sixth mass extinction approaches, we are thinking through all the things that are coming to an end, but also business-as-usual behaviors being called to end. 

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Past / Present / Future / Tense: ACT UP and Extinction Rebellion

In climate organizing, it is necessary to decenter the future of an imagined, ideal nuclear family, and address the realities of climate violence and its most vulnerable subjects.

Memorandum for a Former Embassy

Drawing from cinematic engagements with the histories of the 1970s and '80s, the writer turns to embassies, in particular the abandoned Iranian embassy in Washington, D.C., to imagine a world without states and borders.

No Resolution: Toward the End of the End of AIDS

One way we can read the continued activism of ACT UP, the expansive and multidisciplinary work of curator-activists like ted kerr, and the re-presentation of historic events in popular culture like Pose, is in an effort to reposition and recontextualize “AIDS of the past” as firmly within, and integral to understanding, “ongoing AIDS.” The work is not yet done. AIDS, it turns out, is far from over.

A Vacuum Is Also a Plenum and Both Make Music Make Life

Sunn O))) refuses the normative tenets of music, they refuse rhythm, lyrics, words, language. Acutely, dangerously, fugitively, they refuse time itself.