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2024

Venice is Drowning, Curated by Hector Canonge for
P E R F O R M A T I C A: Foreign Bodies All Over, during the Venice Biennale. Dressed by Alexander McQueen. Venice, IT.

Berlin is Brutal, Berlin DE.

My Roman Empire is Bambi Kunst, Rome, IT.

Bambi Kunst in Influencer to the Smallest Theater in the World, Teatro della Concordia. Monte Castello di Vibio, IT.

Bambi Kunst in UK Hardcore with Rubber. London, UK. Featuring sound by Vic from bands Rubber, Merging, and Negative Space.

“Absent Art Star at Local Opening: Featuring Bambi Kunst’s Chorus of Critics” conceptual performance with a web-app exquisite corpse game at Stasia’s Gallery. Chicago, IL.

Cloud9: 96-69 Group painting exhibition Our Delicate Armor, curated by Veronica Clemens for Stasia’s Gallery. Chicago, IL.

CV

2024

Florasonic, a multi-channel sound installation curated by Raven Chacon and Whitney Johnson at the Lincoln Park Conservatory hosted by Experimental Sound Studio. Chicago, IL.

Child of Grunge, [Re]Happening 12, Black Mountain College. Lake Eden, NC.

“Performing the Critic for a Chorus of Critics II”, a happening facilitated by Michelle Grabner, alongside the premiere of Out of the Picture, dir. May Louise Schumacher. Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI.

“I Strapped Myself to the Speaker Stack at a Gabber Rave for Four Hours,” with Gartex. Gabber Rave VALHEK at Archer Ballroom. Chicago, IL.

New Body: Get Ready with Me, Inga Books and Collapse Contemporary, Chicago: IL.

Piano, Alone, livestream doomscroll auto-theory for exhibition Piano, Alone in a Room, curated by Sam Anthem for Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, IL. A series of mechanical player piano coded in Max MSP and performed via live-stream on the Charles Morcom Yamaha Disklavier.

Rite of Spring [Re]Rite after Pina Bauch. For Same But Different: a Spring Equinox performance, hosted by DFBRL8R Gallery. Chicago, IL.

“Performing the Critic for a Chorus of Critics I: What Really Happened at Artf*rum,” an industry gossip session, off the record, with newly-promoted-senior-editor Alex Jovanovich, Carriage Trade, NYC.

2023

Sensorium Blur, FAA 6° Edición. Festival Arte/Acción at Faro Cosmos, Mexico City, Mexico. Choreography for dancers Nube Boccanegra and Marcelo Cero (CDMX) with sound design by Lutkie (NYC).

Allerleiraugh: Experimental Film Screening at Ivallans Books, Berlin, Germany.

Alchemical Transformations, group show at Well Well Gallery featuring sculpture by Brian Bartz, Blue McCall, and Kelley O’Leary, Portland, OR.

Webcam Ballgag Capture, a part of//sense collective’s Screening for Experimental Film, Video, Animation, EMU Modular System x Sandin Image Processor Performance at the Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago IL.

<&& transmission loss through mcluhanian feeback loops accross the foucauldian heterotopic border of notation> //sense collective at NoNation, Chicago IL.

Brick Want Thru Window, A Valentines Day Performance at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL.

2022

Touch System
A part of the Alembic Artist Series alongside works by Adriana Adouma, dee buestos, and Pepper Peppe. Performance Works NW, Portland OR.

Touch System + meroitic, Creative Music Guild’s Improv Summit, Turn! Turn! Turn!, Portland OR.

Alembic Residency Works in Process Showing, Performance Works NW, Portland, OR.

Slip Wip: May Day Radio Double Feature, No Bounds Radio, Manchester/London.

Slip Wip: FANTASY INDUSTRIAL, Curated by Birch Cooper of MSHR alongside work by Midori Hirose, Eli Moore, and Reid Urban at XHURCH, Portland OR.

Discordance IV: The Noise Ensemble, Curated by Rose Moore for the Creative Music Guild, Portland, OR.

2021

Worm In Heaven, Movement Score with Jan Julius, CMG’s Improv Summit, No Fun, Portland OR.

Ablation Cake Sit, Presented on twitch by Noumenal Loum, Providence RI.

Slip Wip: FACTORY EROTICA, May Day Special Broadcast, No Bounds Radio, Manchester/London.

Slip Wip: FACTORY EROTICA, Repeater Radio, Repeater Books, London UK.

2020

“Poetry as Autonomous Reporting Against the State”, Curated by Madison Hames, DigiGarden, Zoom.

RENT STRIKE: Banner Drop, Decentralized.

2019

Vessels in Ultra-Gushy Historical Color, Portland Textile Month, The Hoxton Hotel, Portland, OR.

2018

Flag, Curated by Jade Novarino for Conduit at at Utopian Visions Art Fair, Curated by Srijon Chowdhury. a part of PICA’s Time Based Arts Festival, Portland, OR.

ESSAYS,

2023

“Map of Factory” featured in Second Factory, Issue No. 4, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, NY.

BOOKS &

2020

Artist Talk with VoVo for Portland Textile Month, hosted by TextileX, Portland, OR.

& TALKS

There’s a Strike On, Zine, distributed online by Mutual Aid Lube and in person in bags of food prepared by Jodie Cavalier and Alley Frey, Portland, OR.

2018

Material Collaborations, Undergraduate Thesis, Reed College, Portland, OR.

2017

Curl Up, Artist Book Edition of 40, Housed in Reed College Special Collections, Portland, OR.

2017

Full Bleed, Artist Book Edition of 14, Housed in Reed College Special Collections, Portland, OR.

2014

To Be Held, Artist Book Edition of 1, Housed in Kristy Edmunds Private Collection, MASSMOCA, North Adams, MA.

AWARDS &
RESIDENCIES

2023

Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Fellowship,
$150,000 towards an MFA at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago

2022

Performance Works NW Alembic Artist in Residence, Portland, OR.
Alongside Adriana Adouma, dee buestos, and Pepper Pepper.

2021

Regional Arts and Culture Council, Make-Learn-Build Grant to support creative development for Touch System

2018

Reed College Initiative Grant in Undergraduate Research to develop an experimental method for laser-engraving protein fabrics

2017

Open Look International Dance Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia.

2016

Norton Simon Fellowship for the Arts,
$50,000 for undergraduate study in the arts.

2015

Jack Kent Cooke Foundation College Scholarship
last dollar college scholarship for low-income students.

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Alchemical Transformations
Well Well Gallery
Portland, OR.

2

Webcam Ballgag Capture Screening for Experimental Film, Video, Animation, EMU Modular System x Sandin Image Processor Performance
At theGene Siskel Film Center
Chicago, IL.

Christian
Gutierrez

3

<&& transmission loss through mcluhanian feeback loops accross the foucauldian heterotopic border of notation>
//sense collective
At NoNation
Chicago, IL.

YiYi Liu

4

Brick Want Thru Window
A Valentines Day Performance
At the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL.

5

Touch System at Performance Works NW
Portland, Or.

Proof of Body

6

Movement Score for Improvisation Summit
At Turn! Turn! Turn!
Portland, OR.

Car Lo

7

Open Studio: touch system + meroitic
At Performance Works NW
Porland, OR.

Blue
McCall

8

Slip Wip: May Day Radio Double Feature
On No Bounds Radio
London/Manchester/online

Rosa
Methol

9

Slip Wip: FANTASY INDUSTRIAL
At XHURCH
Portland, OR.

Birch
Cooper
+ Eli
Moore

10

Altered vision movement score, round robin with 11 noise musicans
Discordance IV: The Noise Ensemble
Conducted by Rose Moore at the Noise Church,
Portland, OR.

Rose Moore

11

Worm in Heaven
Movement Score with Jan Julius for the Creative Music Guild’s Improvisation Summit
At No Fun
Portland, OR.

MSHR

12

Artist Talk with Vo Vo
Portland Textile Month
Portland, OR.

TextileX

13

Ablation Cake Sit
Presented by Noumenal Loum, Providence, RI
On Twitch.

Blue
McCall

14

Meat Shot Idyllic Alubm Launch
Presented by Noumenal Loum, Providence, RI
On Twitch.

Jan Julius

15

Slip Wip: FACTORY EROTICA,
May Day Broadcast
No Bounds Radio,
London, UK.

Blue
McCall

16

Poetry as Autonomous Reporting Against the State
At DigiGarden, online.

Madison
Hames

17

RENT STRIKE
Decentralized

Blue
McCall

18

In-Situ: Site Specific Textile Installations
At The Hoxton Hotel
Portland, OR

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Flag,
Conduit
At Utopian Visions Art Fair,
Portland Institute of Contemporary Art’s TBA

Jade
Novarino

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