[Libs-Or] Fwd: [cascade] BorderXer - last week and two events

Fri Oct 25 06:22:11 PDT 2019

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From: Paragon Cascade Gallery Director <cascade.gallery at pcc.edu>
Date: Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 5:05 PM
Subject: [cascade] BorderXer - last week and two events
To: <cascade-group at pcc.edu>
Cc: Paragon Gallery <cascade.gallery at pcc.edu>

Hello Cascade Colleagues,
The current exhibition "BorderXer" by Patricia Patricia Vázquez Gómez is
open for one more week, including a printmaking party and an artist panel.
If you haven't seen it yet, the exhibition provides thought-provoking
prompts for discussions across many disciplines. *We will work with you to
open the gallery to meet the needs of your classes or groups.* Send us your
request. Also, note the two upcoming Saturday afternoon events that are
open to the Campus community and to the public.
Best regards,
Dominic and Elizabeth

[image: BorderXerGraphic.jpg]

*PUBLIC PROGRAMMING:*

*Printmaking Party: Saturday, October 26th, 2019 @ 12-3 p.m.*

*Closing & Panel Discussion: Saturday, November 2, 2019 @ 12 - 2 p.m.*

Paragon Arts Gallery <https://www.pcc.edu/galleries/cascade/> at PCC
Cascade presents BorderXer by Patricia Vázquez Gómez, including work from
garima thakur, Fabian Romero, Daniel Coka and Emilio Rojas. Please join us
for an opening reception on Friday, September 27 from 5 - 8 p.m., with a
presentation by the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition at 6 p.m. Public
programming continues with a printmaking workshop making pro-immigrant
posters and propaganda by Patricia Vázquez Gómez and Thea Ghar on Saturday,
October 26th from 12 - 3 p.m. The exhibition closes with a conversation
featuring garima thakur, Daniel Coka and Patricia Vázquez Gómez on crossing
physical, social, psychological, emotional and artistic borders to be held
on Saturday, November 2, 2019 from 12 - 2 p.m. All events are free and open
to the public.

*There are many forms of crossing, of stepping over boundaries, of
exploding the limits that restrict our movements, affections, talents,
knowledge and dreams. BorderXers are the animals that move freely through
the territory that sustains them. BorderXers are those who thrive over
tyrannic gender rules. BorderXers are those who love despite
heteronormative prescriptions.  BorderXers are migrants and refugees
looking for dignity. BorderXers are those choosing life over death.
BorderXer is any body who has refused to be subdued, reduced, broken, or
fragmented.*

*Every time you step into forbidden territory you cross a border. Every
time you challenge oppression you cross a border. Every time you defy an
inhumane law you cross a border. In a system that threatens to take away
our individual and collective lives and spirits, becoming a BorderXer is
not only necessary, but inescapable.*

*What borders do you still have to cross? *

*What would it take for you to cross them?*
[image: VideoStillPatriciaVG.jpg]

*BorderXer*
<https://www.pcc.edu/galleries/2019/09/13/borderxer-by-patricia-vazquez-gomez/>
<https://www.pcc.edu/galleries/2019/09/13/borderxer-by-patricia-vazquez-gomez/>

by Patricia Vázquez Gómez
<https://www.pcc.edu/galleries/2019/09/13/borderxer-by-patricia-vazquez-gomez/>

including work from garima thakur, Fabian Romero, Daniel Coka and Emilio
Rojas

*September 27 - November 2, 2019*

*Gallery Hours: Wed. - Fri. 12 - 7 p.m., Sat. 12 - 5 p.m.*

*Location: 715 N. Killingsworth, Portland, OR*

PUBLIC PROGRAMMING:

Printmaking Party: Saturday, October 26th, 2019 @ 12-3 p.m.

Closing & Panel Discussion: Saturday, November 2, 2019 @ 12 - 2 p.m.

BorderXer on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/events/678962659239728/>

Follow Paragon Arts Gallery on Instagram
<https://www.instagram.com/pccparagonarts/> @pccparagonarts

*About the Artist:*

*Patricia Vázquez Gómez* works and lives between the ancient Tenochtitlán
and the unceded, occupied, stolen and colonized lands of the Chinook,
Clackamas, Multnomah, and other Indigenous peoples. She is deeply
interested in the social functions of art, the intersections between art,
politics and ethics and the expansion of community based art practices; and
uses a variety of media to carry out her research: painting, printmaking,
video, music and socially engaged art projects. The purpose and
methodologies of her work are deeply informed by her experiences working in
the immigrant rights and other social justice movements in the US and
Mexico. Patricia’s work can be explored at
http://cargocollective.com/patriciavg

*About the Featured Artists:*

*garima thakur* is an interdisciplinary artist born in New Delhi, India
where she spent most of her formative years. She moved to United States ten
years ago. Her registered alien number is A ****** which allows and gives
her the permission to exist in United States currently. Thakur works with
interactive media, code, video, drawing, sculpture and text. Her work
centers upon narratives and multitudinous realities of assimilation,
alienation and collectivism. She is currently stationed in Portland,OR,
where she moved five years ago and works as an assistant professor of
interaction media and graphic design at Western Oregon University. Insta
handle https://www.instagram.com/garimath/

*Emilio Rojas* is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily with the
body in performance, using video, photography, installation, public
interventions and sculpture. He holds an MFA in Performance from The School
of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA in Film from Emily Carr
University in Vancouver, Canada. As a queer latinx immigrant with
indigenous heritage, it is essential to his practice to engage in the
postcolonial ethical imperative to uncover, investigate, and make visible
and audible undervalued or disparaged sites of knowledge, narratives, and
individuals. He utilizes his body in a political and critical way, as an
instrument to unearth removed traumas, embodied forms of decolonization,
migration and poetics of space. His research based practice is heavily
influenced  by queer and feminist archives, border politics, botanical
colonialism, and defaced monuments. Besides his artistic practice, he  is
also a translator, community activist, yoga teacher, and anti-oppression
facilitator with queer, migrant and refugee youth.  His work has  been
exhibited in exhibitions and festivals in the US, Mexico, Canada, Japan,
Austria, England, Greece, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Holland, Colombia,
and Australia, as well as institutions like The Art Institute and the
Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Ex-Teresa Arte Actual Museum and
Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, The Vancouver Art Gallery, The Surrey Art
Gallery, The DePaul Art Museum, and The Botin Foundation. He is represented
by Jose de la Fuente in Spain, and Gallleriapiu in Italy. Rojas is
currently a Visiting Artist/Scholar in Residency in the Theater and
Performance Department at Bard College in New York,  for the 2019-2020
academic year where he is developing a new commission for  Live Arts Bard
at the Fisher Center, which will premier in November, focusing on these
year's theme on Borders.

*fabian romero *(Purepécha) is a PhD student in Gender, Women & Sexuality
Studies. fabian’s academic interests integrate colonialism in Mexico and
the United States, gender, sexuality, and immigration with performance.
Their performances and artistic collaboration are integral to their
research that centers the performance of gender, sexuality and authenticity
for Indigenous and two-spirit people. Their work is interdisciplinary and
combines fiction writing, poetry and performance to theorize the function
of joy and pleasure as failures of racism and settler colonialism.

*Daniel Coka* was born in New Jersey, USA in 1990. He grew up in a Latino
migrant community from Ecuadorian parents. Coka has lived in between the US
and Ecuador since he was born in 1990. He received a diploma in Visual Arts
and Digital Cinema from the University of Cuenca, Ecuador. He works
primarily with actions registered in video and audio, but he has also
produced in drawing, writing and painting. His work is a constant
exploration of identity, in which the label cuir (Spanish for queer) has
prompted an intense questioning process, while also addressing race,
nationality, latinidad and masculinity. He currently lives and works in
Portland OR.

[image: ParagonLogo.png]

Gallery Co-directors
Dominic Amorin & Elizabeth Bilyeu
Paragon Art Gallery
PCC Cascade
815 N Killingsworth Portland, OR 97217
971-722-5326
cascade.gallery at pcc.edu
pcc.edu/paragongallery

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