Imposter/switch seeks a new co-curator!
Join Imposter/Switch founder and co-curator Marissa Rae Niederhauser to help bring lively and supportive low stakes art making, community building togetherness and interdisciplinary wildness back to post pandemic Portland.
Original co-curator Kennedy is off to other things. He’ll be missed but we are excited about his next chapter and about the new communities a fresh curator could bring to the Imposter/switch network.
Seeking someone with a passionate love of art and art making, a strong belief in DIY/guerilla art making and collaboration and a loving irreverence to cultural expectations of identity presuppositions and labels.
Ideal co-curator will be very well networked in Portland art communities, have a vested interest in local post pandemic community [re]building, hyping each other up, passionate about interdisciplinary risk taking, have a playful lack of propriety and be a fringe art champion.
Please be reliable, invested, organized, have kind and timely communication skills, be local and willing to leverage your clout, social media network and newsletter for the cause.
Useful skills include (but are not all mandatory as we can renegotiate roles/responsibilities somewhat):
Basic video editing skills, digital media organization (receive and organize video, audio and photo for the event), willingness to learn/run light and sound board (minimal cues), confident about approaching people for projects, comfortable with public speaking.
Mandatory responsibilities include:
- Securing a commitment from 3 artists of diverse discipline and demographic per show
- Meeting with other curator (Marissa) in person or in zoom 2.5 weeks prior to show to draw names out of a hat make a short video trailer of it
- Sharing the trailer, and other promotional materials on your networks
- Attending the show, work (either tech board or camera) the show and cheer on your colleagues.
Marissa’s responsibilities include:
Sending press release, listing on local events calendars, press liaison, managing Facebook event, branding, writing newsletter, writing artist intro/info email, artist liaison, acting as point person with the venue, artist greeting and organization pre show/day of, supplying video camera, organizing concessions, MCing the show.
3 shows annually. Please commit to 1-year cycle. 1st show in mid January (others potentially May and September).
$100 honorarium for curators and artists per show.
Preference to BIPOC artists over 35 working in visual media (painting, sculpture, photo, textile, etc), literary art or music (i.e. something connecting to community that is different from that of what Marissa works in – dance, film, performance art, noise)
“Interested parties should please email marissa.rae.n@gmail.com
Wtf is an Imposter/switch?
Celebrating the imposter syndrome living in each of us by poking a little fun at the idea that mastery is necessary for creative viability, and inviting artists to courageously switch disciplines with another artist.
6 artists working in various disciplines are selected. The artists’ names go in one hat and their disciplines in another. In a publicly shared video drawing artists are randomly assigned a medium outside of their usual practice to share for public exhibition. Artists are than given two weeks to gather supplies and prepare to show the result of their experimentations in a format of their choosing.
Expect the unexpected. Long live experimental art!
We are a co-production of Performance Works Northwest
“Interested parties should please email marissa.rae.n@gmail.com
Performance Works NW || Linda Austin Dance 