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Portland State University PDXScholar Assembly Archive Organized by Project Title 6-2021 Assembly TV 2021 PSU Art + Social Practice Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/assembly Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Art + Social Practice, PSU, "Assembly TV 2021" (2021). Assembly. 8. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/assembly/8 This Book is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Assembly by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible: [email protected]. Drawing contest! Contents Mystery prize awarded once! Vol. 8, No. 1 JUN E 7–11 This year, our annual conference is presented as a television station dedi- WEEKLY PROGRAM GUIDE cated to art and social practice. “Tune in” online and join us for discussions, Introduction 4 workshops, interactive experiences, and participatory events. Event Listings Every year, the Portland State Monday, June 7 9 University Art and Social Practice (A+SP) MFA Program cohort endeavors Tuesday, June 8 10 to create a "conference" that presents socially engaged art and offers a forum Wednesday, June 9 11 for discussion around the field of Social Thursday, June 10 12 Practice.* Through the lens of the conference, Friday, June 11 13 students are asked to learn, meet, see, Presenters 36 do, connect, create, discuss, and ulti- mately produce publicly digestible Horoscopes 50 experiences that either are or are the result of a socially engaged practice. About the MFA program 55 Assembly subverts conventional academic structures and expectations TV Guide Design: Diana Marcela Cuartas, around making and learning: it is out- Mo Geiger, Laura Glazer side of the classroom, and in dialogue Cover Portraits: Shelbie Loomis with audiences and collaborators who Project Manager: Laura Glazer are not necessarily artists or typical art Planning Ambassador: Becca Kauffman viewers. The experience reinvigorates Planning and Concept Committee: art’s relationship to life and life’s rela- Caryn Aasness, Rebecca Copper, tionship to art. In this way, the frame- Diana Marcela Cuartas, Mo Geiger, work encourages students in the pro- Laura Glazer, Becca Kauffman, gram to form new relationships, to Shelbie Loomis, Justin Maxon, engage with new issues and to gen- Emma Duehr Mitchell erate diverse strategies for collabora- Contributing Artists: Caryn Aasness, tive artmaking. Soheila Azadi, Rebecca Copper, *Social Practice can be variously Diana Marcela Cuartas, Mo Geiger, What does social practice look like? described as an approach or field in which Laura Glazer, Nolan Hanson, Becca artists seek to make work that exists within Kauffman, Shelbie Loomis, Justin Maxon, You’re participating in it, you’re EMAIL YOUR DRAWING AND THIS COUPON TO: and for specific communities, and often Emma Duehr Mitchell, Lucia Monge, trying to define it, now try your [email protected] lives outside of the status quo spaces Salty Xi Jie Ng, Brianna Ortega, Carlos PLEASE PRINT! for art (studios, galleries, museums). The hand at drawing it! Reynoso, Jordan Rosenblum, Roshani Use pencil. Or marker, or collage, approach emphasizes collaboration, Thakore, Kiara Walls, Illia Yakovenko or anything! Every qualified entrant co-authorship, site specificity, and audi- receives a free professional First name ence specificity, asking over and over Web Coordinators and Social Media: estimate of their drawing. again: who is making the work, where Becca Kauffman, Emma Duehr Mitchell, Salty Xi Jie Ng Winners will receive their Last name is the work being made, and who is the mystery prize and a printed copy of this work for? Zoom Tech: Amanda Leigh Evans Accessibility Coordinator: Rebecca Copper publication. Address Our objective is to find prospective Copy Editor: Rita Glazer participants and collaborators who appear Special Thanks: Soheila Azadi, Harrell Fletcher, to be properly motivated and have an City Rita Glazer, Ariana Jacob, Lisa Jarrett, appreciation and liking for art. Lucia Monge How to do it: Print this page, make State Zip TUNE IN VIA ZOOM OR YOUTUBE! your drawing, take a picture, email it to LINKS POSTED ONLINE: Organized by the Portland State University [email protected]. Phone number PSUSOCIALPRACTICE.ORG/ASSEMBLY Art and Social Practice MFA Program Your entry will be judged upon receipt. Harrell Fletcher, Program Director No drawings can be returned. Contest winners PO Box 751, Portland, OR 97207 will be notified. Send your entry today! Email psusocialpractice.org @psuartandsocialpractice a rehearsal in this conference room in The work I do for Assembly exists outside the prison. That’s probably the biggest of Assembly as well. They are projects Introduction reason I like doing socially engaged proj- that will continue to exist in multiple different ects, because it allows me to get to know contexts of my practice. Also, starting Third year students Emma Duehr Mitchell, Nolan Hanson, Carlos people that I wouldn’t necessarily have a the program pretty new to the term chance to otherwise through means that “social practice,” Assembly is an event Reynoso, Jordan Rosenblum, and Brianna Ortega gathered for are interesting and unconventional. to craft our experience doing socially a conversation about their personal and collective experiences engaged work. JORDAN: Since Assembly is towards the with Assembly. They reflect on the ways in which Assembly has end of the year, it’s casual, often. So it’s JORDAN: Yeah, Harrell refers to Assembly transformed into Assembly TV from the view of the only cohort like the way people come together, and as like a “thesis” show. It’s like the equiva- move between and within the activities, lent to an MFA exhibition or something for that experienced Assembly prior to the COVID-19 initial shut there’s this lovely aspect of casualness, studio artists. It’s nice though, because down, during the shut down, and adjusting to life after. and just “hanging out.” since we do it every year I’m able to reflect and track how my work has changed from EMMA: I think the casual environment year to year, which has been really valu- really supports relationship building. Its able for me. not a series of events where one person is talking. All of the events include the CARLOS: Well said. It’s really validating audience in some capacity. People get to be able to reflect on the year, and what to connect in those spaces. I was able we’ve accomplished. to invite my friends and family from Iowa BRIANNA ORTEGA: SO, LET’S GET NOLAN HANSON: Yeah, that’s a good and people in Portland. This was the first EMMA: THIS YEAR, OUR GRADUATE RIGHT INTO IT. WHAT DOES ASSEMBLY point. It’s pretty special, because it’s time those people were all able to be in LECTURES ARE PART OF ASSEMBLY. MEAN TO YOU? like—for those of us in the program—we’ve the same space. That is a big perk of THAT’S NEW! HOW DOES THAT FEEL been hearing about different aspects of Assembly being virtual, and something FOR YOU ALL? JORDAN ROSENBLUM: It’s changed, for these projects for over a year, oftentimes that I think will remain in many capacities me. I mean it’s a program-wide collabo- without experiencing the work directly. So CARLOS: It’s so great to be able to use moving forward. ration, and an opportunity for each of us Assembly gives us a chance to have that that platform, and tap into the community to come together each year, bringing our direct experience with the project and the BRIANNA: I think the biggest factor that that the program has cultivated to be able ideas and projects, in a way that shows other people involved in it too. led to me wanting to do this program was to share my work. I’m grateful to have that our collective work. Assembly. I went to it before I applied to audience. It’s a diverse and multidisci- EMMA: Yeah, it’s also an opportunity to the program, and I thought it was great plinary community, so it’s so valuable. EMMA DUEHR MITCHELL: It’s also like collaborate with other people in the pro- how people were doing projects and col- an end of the year exhibition of events. gram. We know it’s coming up every year, NOLAN: I agree. Through plugging our laborating with people in existing commu- The platform of Assembly is a huge col- so throughout the year we can be thinking projects into this existing platform, we get nities. I went to the Creek College event laboration, but within that, there are indi- about that, knowing we have a plat- to benefit from the things that come along that they had on the Columbia River, vidual projects which are really diverse form that’s available for us to collaborate with that. In addition to a built-in audi- where they collaborated with them and and separate from one another. whether in person or virtually. ence, we receive promotion, exposure, had different workshops. So I guess I do support, and experience with putting on BRIANNA: I think Assembly offers people miss that in-person aspect. WHAT WAS IN-PERSON a collaborative co-authored event. the opportunity to see what people in ASSEMBLY LIKE? JORDAN: HOW HAS ASSEMBLY the field of social practice are doing, EMMA: AFFECTED YOUR WORK? Yeah. I think it’s great that we are and it invites people who might not be CARLOS: I remember the first year, giving our graduate lectures at the final familiar with social practice to come into Shoshana [Kedem], who was a third year, EMMA: Last year the shutdown happened event of the year, which doubles for us the space and participate or learn about did a project and Shoshana’s whole family in mid-March, and Assembly was held in as our final event in the program.