PWNW is happy to host two events—a vocal workshop and a performance—by ex-Portlander artist Colin Self, now based in Berlin. Both events take place at Performance Works NW, 4625 SE 67th Ave, Portland, OR 97206
June 25: XOIR
XOIR is a non-utilitarian vocal workshop led by Colin Self focused on alternative modalities of group singing. Rooted in somatic research, experimentation and play, the goal of XOIR is to foster a generative environment for individuals to connect with voice and vocality on an individual and collective level. For the session at PWNW, we will move through a series of vocal exercises and prompts for collectively-authored improvisations, meditations, and games.
An important distinguishing factor about XOIR sessions are that they require no prior singing experience to participate. Any previous experiences with listening or engaging experimentally in a musical or studio practice is welcomed, but the only prerequisite is curiosity and willingness.. There is no audience or recording during XOIR sessions and no gendered or quantified roles of soprano/tenor/alto/bass. XOIR is open to anyone interested in exploring their voice as a tool for learning or re-posturing a new relationship to listening and singing. XOIR works with a logic of being “autonomous together” pointing toward ancient and futuristic logics of ungovernable modalities of community organizing.
Tuesday June 25 | 7pm-9:15(ish)
PWNW || 4625 SE 67th Ave.
Sliding Scale $0-$25.
All proceeds from the XOIR session will go directly to families in Gaza!
Singing for our liberation and for the people of Palestine
PERFORMANCE: June 27
Surgery Season (solo) w/ Boy Elmer
One-half of experimental noise pop duo Surgery Season performs in collaboration with extreme kink artist Boy Elmer. They will be showing new work in progress, exploring body horror and power exchange grounded in a near future world of transgender transhumanism and ecological collapse.
riddlecraft rhapsody
An intermezzo and puppet performance by Colin Self; riddlecraft rhapsody is a prologue to Colin’s forthcoming record, respite ∞ levity for the nameless ghost in crisis. An anonymous spirit gallops across space-time at the advent of an interdimensional journey of lost and found– the rhapsody moves through ten sections: Place, Action, Yearnings, Rescue, Triumph, Homage, Anxieties, Repose, Abduction, and Cupid.
Thursday June 27 | 8pm
PWNW || 4625 SE 67th Ave.
$5-$25
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Colin Self (b. 1987 Oregon, USA) composes music, performance, and environments that expand consciousness and trouble binaries as well as boundaries of perception and communication. They work with communities across disciplines and use immaterial and material means – including voices, bodies, and computers – to interface with and reimagine worlds. Self currently lives between Berlin and New York.
photo by Milena Braune
Performance Works NW || Linda Austin Dance 