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Curiouser: Havoc in Suburbia
While PICA’s in regroup mode, Reed College Cooley Gallery curator Stephanie Snyder is doing the kind of exhibitions and programming that make contemporary visual and live art burn in Portland. She’s provided support, venue, collaboration to key arts groups (Red76) and makers like Clear Cut Press’ Matthew Stadler.
Tonight’s event is billed as “an evening of gelastic puppetry and psychic geography.” Now if you’re like us, you gleefully run to the dictionary when you see words like “gelastic.” It means “pertaining to laughter,” but may have the further implication of an epileptic seizure that represents as involuntary laughter.
Anyway, Portland authors Matthew Stadler and Jon Raymond will read their collaborative work: “23 Propositions on the West Hills” and Dim Sum Puppet Opera Company will perform, Monkey Wreaks Havoc in Suburbia or The Journey to the West Hills, “a theatrical explosion of the photographs of Gregory Crewdson inspired by the 16th Century Chinese novel The Journey to the West.” Right and the night wraps with “posi-dance-core hump rockers” Show Me the Pink. Free admission and free beer.
Havoc in Suburbia goes down tonight (May 11) at 6:30 PM at the Reed College Student Union (3203 SE Woodstock Blvd).
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