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ELVIA WILK Reading and discussion with Tabitha Nikolai

Yale Union 800 SE 10th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Join home school and Yale Union on 15 June 2019, 6-8pm to celebrate the launch of Elvia WIlk’s Oval (Soft Skull Press). Elvia will read from the book and show images, and Portland-based artist Tabitha Nikolai will join her in conversation. —- Bizarre weather. Unprecedented economic disparity. Artists employed by corporations as consultants. And the ultimate work of art: Oval, a pill that increases generosity. Elvia Wilk’s debut novel, Oval, asks questions of empathy and power on every scale—from bodies to bureaucracies—to create an unsettling portrait of the future of cities. Elvia Wilk is a writer and editor living in New York and Berlin. She writes about art, architecture, and technology for publications including frieze, Artforum, Bookforum, e-flux, Metropolis, Mousse, Flash Art, and Art in…

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home school reading #5

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

June 12, 2020, 4pm PDT on TWITCH Yale Union hosts home school’s fifth poetry reading, featuring Legacy Russell, S*an D. Henry-Smith, and manuel arturo abreu. These artists and thinkers work at the nexus of embodied abstraction, networked selfhood, and ephemeral tactics. Previous home school readings can be viewed at home school’s tumblr. Legacy Russell is a curator, writer, and artist. Born and raised in New York City, she is the Associate Curator of Exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Recent exhibitions include Projects 110 : Michael Armitage, organized with Thelma Golden and The Studio Museum in Harlem at MoMA (2019); Dozie Kanu : Function (2019); Radical Reading Room (2019) at The Studio Museum in Harlem; and MOOD : Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2018-19…

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ANTIDOTE

C3:Initiative 412 NW 8th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Nat Turner Project, hosted by c3:initiative, proudly presents ANTIDOTE, an exhibition of four artists in two parts over the course of six months, activating the windows of c3:initiative for an exterior facing display, for those who choose to see. Intisar Abioto x jayy dodd     08/28 - 10/10 ariella tai x home school      10/24 - 01/09 Intisar Abioto (b. Memphis, TN. 1986) is a movement artist working across photography, dance, and writing. Moving from the visionary and embodied root of Blackgirl Southern cross-temporal cross-modal storytelling ways, her works refer to the living breath/breadth of people of African descent against the expanse of their storied, geographic, and imaginative landscapes. Working in long-form projects that encompass the visual, folkloric, documentary, and performing arts, she…

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