THE BODY ELECTRONIC: AN EVENING WITH JESSE MALMED

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THE BODY ELECTRONIC: AN EVENING WITH JESSE MALMED

VISITING ARTIST—Portland artist and curator Jesse Malmed has performed his diverse performance/film/installation works everywhere from galleries, microcinemas, and DIY art spaces to bars and barns. Tonight he presents a fascinating Whitsell show, “a manifold mix of conceptually rich video L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetics, process-intensive bi-fidelity abstractedelia, and participatory installations such as CONVERSATIONAL KARAOKE! in which audience members perform dizzying, strange, and incisive texts of the artist’s design. Other works include the depth-defying and propulsive ‘memo-dromatic’ IN3DIA (more than 1,200 images collected on a trip to India morphing, melding, and merging in stereographic Cyan and Red), LOVE IS LIKE (an experiment in ‘Direct Address Cinema’ disguised as a music video), and MAZEL, an existential love story enacted and narrated live before the audience’s eyes.”—JM. (70 mins.)