F U L L M O O N

Badlands Backdrop, Naturally Dyed by Hand with Onion, Logwood, Hibiscus, Coffee, Turmeric, Cochineal, Strawberry and Cabbage.

Dead Dresses, Cotton Gauze Naturally Dyed by Hand with Cochineal. Bone Jewelry w/ Naturally Dyed by Hand Fibers. Rug Void, Carpet + Ink.

Driftwood Calendars.

Calendar Rug. Hand-Woven.


Soul Pelts, Hand-Felted.

Badlands Fabrics + Scarves, Naturally-Dyed by Hand. Cosmic Fabrics, Hand Dyed. Hair Pieces. Dyed-Eggs Filled with Red Sand from the Badlands. Painted Bones.

Soil Shirts, Cotton/Hemp Naturally Dyed with Onion.

Calendar Weaving. Wool and Hand-Dyed Fibers.

Baculum Bone Driftwood Calendar, Dyed with Hibiscus and Painted.

Objects, Set Pieces, Costumes and Sculptures (and more) available by Jess Hirsch and Emma Lipp through Nationale.

all photos by giovanna parolari except the last, by may juliette barruel.

SAD FACE

Sad I had to work and missed what looked like an amazing event. Eliza Fernand, Song and Dance. Photos by May.

AWESOME

ELIZA FERNAND
6 PM TONIGHT
NATIONALE

love

COME SEE RYAN SULLIVAN w/ my MATT MARBLE + DAVID EVANS.
TOMORROW. SUNDAY 8/29
NATIONALE.
6:00
donation or free with membership

BlueEyesCryinInTheRain (by Willie Nelson) by MattMarble

YOUR OWN ARRAY

I enjoyed Elizabeth and Jenna's performance at Nationale last week partially for what it wasn't. They had wanted to perform outside and had set up a projection screen in front of the shop, but the Burnside construction noises had prohibited this from being feasible; instead, like sardines we packed in around Oregon Painting Society's sculptural objects to enjoy a performance in two parts: First, a video of the pair moving in psuedo-synchronicity in front of a rotating landscape ranging from New Mexican white desert to an Indian reservation to the lawn of the White House. There was no sound, the room was hot, the effect was spare and specific. After the video, Elizabeth read a series of movement directions - that in the end were revealed to be text messages sent from a friend to the girls during their road trip across the country and also the choreography from the video - and we were instructed to follow along. At first I groaned inside, my contrarian nature rebelling against active group participation. "Step four lengths to the left." "Put your face in a neutral position." But then something magical happened, and my resistance melted into total acceptance. "Look bored." "Put your arms at 90 degrees." Delight, in fact. "Whistle 'Walking After Midnight' By Patsy Cline." What could have been reduced to a spectacle for Burnside traffic was instead an intimate and hilarious experience that all attendants gave themselves to, hopping and grinning around the tiny gallery like demented chickens. It felt personal and unique, as any iteration of VERY LARGE ARRAY could in fact be.

Including your own! DVDs and MOVEMENTSCORE booklets are now available at Nationale for $8. Help support commodification opportunities for live artists, a gallery/shop that supports them, as well as buying yourself a great party trick and instant home performance art.
Review of show by Lisa Radon on Ultra.
Photos above by May Juliette Barruel.

VERY LARGE ARRAY

A performance by and with:
Sarah Elliott
Elizabeth Jaeger
Jenna Kaës
Thomas Oliver
...
Wednesday August 4th, 6pm
$6 / free with membership!
N A T I O N A L E

I asked Elizabeth Jaeger if she would be interested in putting together a performance, and she has concocted a wild ride for us with her friends out of their month of cross-country road travel through these United States. Elizabeth is a friend whose art practice I admire greatly - she is inventive, prolific and totally fearless. When she performed in Pinata she even amazed herself with the reserves of her own adrenaline. Please come!

F8

8 facts about this dance:

1. the title is F8, sounds like fate
2. F8 is an abbreviation for figure-8
3. the F8 is a pathway used in this dance
4. choreographed by Jin Camou
5. in collaboration with Lucy Yim
6. some of the material used in the piece was created by Linda Austin for her vlog "A Head of Time"
7. sound from self hypnosis tape #8
8. track 8 is by Morgan Hobart

i am curating some events at nationale, including this performance last week by lucy and jin that made excellent use of sidewalk construction and late afternoon light glittering off metallic costume.

MARIE + LOUIS

see the whole set here. so, so great!

VIVE LA FRANCE

FRIENDS OF NATIONALE,
COME CELEBRATE BASTILLE DAY
POTLUCK 8:00 PM + SCREENING OF TELL NO ONE 10:00 PM
email or call for location
PLUS FRENCH PHOTOBOOTH BY KRISTEN FLEMINGTON + VIOLET AVELINE.

100 ACRE COLLABORATORS

One of the main reasons I enjoyed being a part of theater groups growing up and now why I pursue performance projects is the chance to collaborate with others. While I find myself interesting enough most of the time, I am not really the reason why I choose to engage in artistic endeavors, and I find the micro-community that is created through a project incredibly fulfilling both creatively and socially. I find myself continually amazed, shocked and inspired by the things other people can do - and the things you didn't even estimate - and the pressurized environment of a performance can be a great opportunity to make those things come out of the woodwork.

100 ACRE was a project inherently about collaboration, first and foremost being about the relationship between me and four of my close friends, JESS HIRSCH, JACQUELINE MENTION, ERIN PERRY and CRYSTAL WILLER. We created the piece by all reading the Winnie-the-Pooh books and sharing images, words and ideas from them that we liked (and didn't like) and things we related to in them. We spent time remembering our own stories and memories from over the years and connecting with each other about them in ways both comfortable and uncomfortable for us. It was a different and risky endeavor for all of us and I think very meaningful.
Us with Matt (who contributed his musical + photography skillz to this project as well) two years ago before he left for Princeton.

Before I even had any idea of what the piece was to become, when I thought it would be an experiential tea party, I knew I wanted to involve scents from OLO, ceramic wares from GRETCHEN VAUDT and music by LINDSAY KAPLAN. As the piece evolved, so did those collaborations, and I couldn't have been more pleased with the results.

I asked LINDSAY KAPLAN if she would play and/or create music, and the process of creating an original score in many ways defined my process and ultimately set such a wonderful tone for the piece. Lindsay was very patient with my having absolutely no idea what the end result of the project would look like and plodding along through abstract ideas and sonic inspirations. Her "light touch," wonderful personality and musical talent got us singing together, speaking in gibberish and in funny voices. I hope to get the musical tracks online soon. She records her own music under the name KAYA ONEIDA, snippets of which are here or on her own website .

(Kaya Oneida performing at The Third Side last December at PWNW, which we were also a part of!)


I am very interested in involving sensory manipulations and experiences in performance, as I think scent is oft-neglected and underutilized. I am a little obsessed with exploring this partially because I struggle with my own sense of smell - it seems to register in different tones than how most people experience it. Heather Sielaff, the mastermind behind OLO FRAGRANCE (website here) created two fragrances: THE FOREST, a pine spray that infiltrated the entire gallery and set the audience's initial experience of the piece, and THE ENCHANTED PLACE, a cake scent infused in the string that was in our hair and around the audience's sandwiches, and in the fabric we pulled out to make our tent in the final vignette - the Enchanted Place. She is planning on selling The Forest spray at Nationale in the near future!


I didn't know GRETCHEN VAUDT personally before this project, but I knew I loved her ceramic pieces that are for sale at Nationale and Una. She is also a photographer, a wonderful person with an awesome house and I'm sure is filled with a myriad of talents I will hopefully learn in the future. (She is working on a website.) I commissioned her to make honey pots for the show and she produced simple, evocative vessels both childlike and sophisticated that looked beautiful on their own and filled with golden honey.



Lastly, miss May Juliette Barruel of the new new Nationale - Portland has a gem in this gallery/jewelbox of a shop and I was blessed with the opportunity to make a show for her space. I am happy to have a developing friendship, as well!

(Self-portrait by May.)

100 ACRE

pictures by matt marble. if anyone took any, will you email them to me? i still am mystified by photo formatting on blogspot, so these are a little cropped on the right hand side. clicking on them will bring you to the full flickr album that matt made.