home school

[homeschoolpdx]

.

[homeschoolpdx]

Imaginarios contrasexuales: analquismo, amor vegetal y disidencia racial.

home school y Yale Union te invitan a un encuentro de cinema y diálogo con el artista trans-marica dominicano Johan Mijail, 9 de Agosto 2019, 5-7pm. El artista y activista produce un trabajo que va de la producción escritural a la performance (y al revés) con el fin de proponer una opinión crítica sobre el régimen heterocisblanco y su supremacía colonialista. Mira en el espacio de lo anal una posibilidad para en un deseo de vinculación con las plantas y el animalismo por venir proyectar imaginarios desde el cuerpo como centro de una política y poética trans. Johan cuestiona la racionalidad de la mente hetero desde un feminismo antirracista y escandaloso. Propone formatos políticos desde la incertidumbre, el aparecer, la escritura, el vídeo y la performance. Johan Mijail (Santo Domingo, República Dominicana, 1990) Escritor y performer. Estudió Periodismo. En 2011 publica el libro de poesía ilustrada “Metaficción” y participa en la película Sister del Colectivo Lewis Forever en la ciudad de Berlín, Alemania. En 2014 publica “Pordioseros del Caribe” y en 2016 junto Jorge Díaz del Colectivo Universitario de Disidencia Sexual (CUDS) “Inflamadas de retórica. Escrituras promiscuas para una tecno-decolonialidad”, ambos por Editorial Desbordes. Ha participado en festivales de performance en Estados Unidos, Chile, Costa Rica, República Dominicana y Alemania, con un trabajo escritural y visual que invita a un imaginario transfeminista y decolonial. Beneficiario de la Beca Migrante (2015) del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Chile y en 2016 participa en el 10° Encuentro del Instituto Hemisférico de Performance y Política “ex−céntrico: disidencias, soberanías, performance (Universidad de Chile−Universidad de Nueva York). En 2018 publica "Escrituras del otro cuerpo" por Ediciones Cielo Naranja y "Manifiesto Antirracista. Escrituras para una biografía inmigrante" por Los Libros de la Mujer Rota en el mismo año. ENGLISH: Contrasexual imaginaries: anal-anarchy, vegetal love, and racial dissidence. home school and Yale Union invite you to join us on 9 August 2019, 5-7p, for a screening, reading, and discussion with Dominican trans-fag artist Johan Mijail. Free and open to the public, broadcast live for distance education. The artist and activist produces work that goes from written production to performance (and vice versa) in order to critique the white het cis regime and its colonialist supremacy. Mijail sees in the space of the anal a possibility, birthed out of a desire to bond with plants and animalism, to project imaginaries from the body as the center of a trans politics and poetics. Johan questions the rationality of the hetero mind from an anti-racist and scandalous feminism. Proposes political formats from uncertainty, appearing, writing, video and performance. Johan Mijail (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1990) Writer and performer. Studied journalism. In 2011, published the book of illustrated poetry "Metafiction" and participated in the film Sister of the Collective Lewis Forever in Berlin, Germany. In 2014, published "Pordioseros del Caribe" and in 2016 Jorge Díaz of the University Collective of Sexual Dissidence (CUDS) "Inflamadas de rhetoric. Promiscuous writings for a techno-decoloniality ", both by Editorial Desbordes. Mijail has participated in performance festivals in the United States, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and Germany, with literary and visual work that invites a trans-feminist and decolonial imaginary. Beneficiary of the Migrant Scholarship (2015) of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Chile and in 2016 participated in the 10th Encounter of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics "ex-centric: dissidences, sovereignties, performance (University of Chile-University of New York). In 2018 published  "Scriptures of the Other Body" by Ediciones Cielo Naranja and "Anti-Racist Manifesto: Writings for an Immigrant Biography" by Los Libros de la Mujer Rota in the same year.

[homeschoolpdx]

Join home school at Yale Union on 26 Jul 2019, 5-7pm for a talk with d.a. carter. In his words, we will "Read...drink...discuss three Black Studies essays and what they might mean for how we engage blackness." We will work with the following readings: * "On the Issue of Roles" by Toni Cade Bambara * "A Black Poetics: Against Mastery by Dawn Lundy Martin * "The Anarchy of Colored Girls Assembled in a Riotous Manner" by Saidiya Hartman Streamed and archived online for distance learning. Please send home school a message and we can provide these readings for you. --- d.a. carter is a writer, teacher, and cognac sipper. He is co-editor of The Iconic Obama, 2007-2009: Essays on Media Representations of the Candidate and New President (2012). He is currently completing Obscene Material, a book examining black girlhood and scandal in 1919 Washington, D.C. and is also a member of the Queering Slavery Working Group, an interdisciplinary scholarly collective that uses Tumblr to place black queer studies in conversation with the history of enslavement: http://qswg.tumblr.com and http://qswgremix.tumblr.com.

[homeschoolpdx]

Join home school and Yale Union (800 SE 10th Ave) on 13 Jul 2019, 7-9p for a talk by artist Shellyne Rodriguez, THESE ARE THE BREAKS: Race, Class, Gentrification, and the Emergence of Hip hop in film. Streamed and archived online for distance learning. Free and open to the public as always. Refreshments available. In 1984 and 1985 respectively… Two films were released that explored the emerging phenomenon of hip hop culture through the lens of two legendary black actors and entertainers… Harry Belafonte who produced the film Beat Street and Sidney Poitier's directorial debut which gave us the film Fast Forward. Shellyne will present a comparative study on these two films to discuss race, class, and the role of the arts in gentrification during the neoliberal turn in the 80s versus the hyper-speculative moment swallowing up the enclaves that birthed hip hop culture now. -- Shellyne Rodriguez is a visual artist who works in multiple mediums to depict spaces and subjects engaged in strategies of survival against subjugation. This emotive inquiry puts the Baroque in contact with a Decoloniality rooted in hip hop culture. Her work utilizes text, drawing, painting, found materials, and sculpture to emphasize her ideas. Shellyne graduated with a BFA in Visual & Critical Studies From the School of Visual Arts and an MFA in Fine Art from CUNY Hunter College. She has had her work and projects exhibited at El Museo del Barrio, Queens Museum, New Museum and her work has recently been commissioned by the city of New York for a permanent public sculpture, which will serve as a monument to the people of the Bronx. Shellyne is also a community organizer and an active member of radical grassroots collective Take Back the Bronx.

[homeschoolpdx]

Join home school and Yale Union on 15 June 2019, 6-8pm to celebrate the launch of Elvia WIlk's Oval (Soft Skull Press). Elvia will read from the book and show images, and Portland-based artist Tabitha Nikolai will join her in conversation. ---- Bizarre weather. Unprecedented economic disparity. Artists employed by corporations as consultants. And the ultimate work of art: Oval, a pill that increases generosity. Elvia Wilk's debut novel, Oval, asks questions of empathy and power on every scale—from bodies to bureaucracies—to create an unsettling portrait of the future of cities. Elvia Wilk is a writer and editor living in New York and Berlin. She writes about art, architecture, and technology for publications including frieze, Artforum, Bookforum, e-flux, Metropolis, Mousse, Flash Art, and Art in America. Tabitha Nikolai is a trashgender gutter elf and low-level cybermage raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, and based in Portland, Oregon. She creates the things that would have better sustained her younger self--simulations of a more livable future, and the obstacles that intervene. These look like: fictive text, videogames, cosplay, and earnest rites of suburban occult. Currently she teaches and manages galleries for the Portland State University School of Art + Design. Her work has been shown at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, Ganka Gallery in Tokyo, and has been covered by i-D Magazine, the New York York Times, and Art in America. She hopes you're doing okay.

[homeschoolpdx]

[homeschoolpdx]

home school and Yale Union are excited to host Bogosi Sekhukhuni, a South African conceptual artist who explores the intersection of technology and spirituality, capitalism's exploitation of ancestrally-embedded biological and cognitive structures, and what it means to take utopian proposals seriously.

Join us on

Saturday 4 May 2019, 5-7pm at Yale Union (800 SE 10th Ave)

for a screening of Sekhukhuni's work, followed by a discussion between the artist and manuel arturo abreu, co-facilitator of home school. As always, this engagement is free and open to the public, and livestreamed and archived online for distance learning at homeschoolpdx.tumblr.com. Light snacks and refreshments will be available.

Exploring African diasporic perspectives on technology and design, national consciousness, and digital capacities for utopia, Sekhukhuni calls on aspects of pop and the occult, which act as tools for self-healing and the mining of collective trauma. Sekhukhuni as such presents a selection of video works that examine the potential of digital spells, the generative power of dreams, and takes a critical posture toward the presuppositions of afrofuturism.

This programming owes its existence to a model curated and organized by Hanna Girma in Dec 2018 for MoMA Modern Mondays, featuring a screening of Sekhukhuni's work followed by a discussion between the artist, abreu, and Girma.

----

Bogosi Sekhukhuni (b. 1991, Johannesburg) describes himself as a 'lightworker’. He studied at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Sekhukhuni is a founding member of the 'tech-health artist group' NTU and has worked with the CUSS Group collective. His most recent project is a 'visual culture bank and research gang' called Open Time Coven, which investigates 'emergent technologies and repressed African spiritual philosophies'.

Recent group exhibitions include The Art Happens Here: Net Art’s Archival Poetics at the New Museum, New York (2019), I Was Raised on the Internet at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2018); Afrotopia, Rencontres de Bamako: African Biennale of Photography in Mali (2017); Americans 2017 at Luma Westbau (2017); Art/ Afrique, le nouvel atelier at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2017); Full Disclosure at Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2016); the 2nd Kampala Biennale in Uganda (2016); the 9th Berlin Biennale, Germany (2016); the Dakar Biennale in Senegal (2016). In 2015 Sekhukhuni showed work as part of the 89+ Prospectif Cinéma programme at the Centre Pompidou, Paris; The Film Will Always Be You: South African Artists on Screen at Tate Modern, London; Co-Workers – Network as Artist at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; and Filter Bubble at the LUMA Foundation's Westbau in Zürich, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Simon Castets. Before that he participated in a number of group shows in South Africa, including In the night I remember (2013) and A Sculptural Premise (2014), both at Stevenson. His first solo show was Unfrozen: Rainbowcore at Whatiftheworld in Cape Town in 2014. His debut solo exhibition in the USA took place at Foxy production (2018). With CUSS Group, Sekhukhuni was included in Private Spaces: Art After the Internet at the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, in 2014.

[homeschoolpdx]

Join us on 24 Mar 2019, 6-9p at Yale Union (800 SE 10th) for the home school 2019 curriculum launch! In the YU kitchen, we will briefly present the year's curricular activities, screen work by Aria Dean, Mandy Harris Williams, & Redeem Pettaway, and eat Venezuelan food catered by La Arepa cart. Eric Fury will close the night out with a DJ set. Refreshments will be available. Entry is free and open to the public. Kitchen is on the main gallery level - accessibility via ground floor elevator.

[homeschoolpdx]

home school is excited to announce that we are artists in residence at Yale Union in 2019. Our fourth year of curriculum will continue to offer artist talks, classes, and exhibitions, all free and open to the public as well as archived online. With YU’s help we will also deepen our engagement with print and online publication, screenings, and more frequent poetry readings. We also have access to an office space in which we will host public office hours, micro-exhibitions, and small events.

[homeschoolpdx]

[homeschoolpdx]

Three wonderful years :) Thanks all for sharing this journey with us!

[homeschoolpdx]

Documentation for #BrownUpYourFeed is now available

[homeschoolpdx]

Ashley Alexandra Johnson: A Year of Returning 18 Nov 2018, 7-9p Ori Gallery (4038 N Mississippi Ave)

home school and Ori Gallery are excited to present a talk by Ashley Alexandra Johnson, Founding Fellow and Program Director of Birthright AFRICA, 18 Nov 2018, 7-9p. This is the final engagement of the 2018 curriculum! Snacks and refreshments will be available, and as always the session will be livestreamed and archived online for distance learning. Joining us remotely from Accra, Ashley will discuss her work with Birthright AFRICA, how it led her to moving back to the African continent, "The Year of Return" (the Ghanaian commemoration of 400 years since the slave trade began), and the roles and opportunities she sees for the BADASS (Black American Descendants of American slavery & sharecropping) displaced diaspora on the continent. Birthright AFRICA is a foundation which gives youths and young adults of African descent the opportunity to explore their cultural roots and legacy of innovation through educational travel on the local, national, and international level. ------ As Founding Fellow and Program Director for Birthright AFRICA where she ensures effective operations of experiential travel and project-based learning opportunities for Fellows and Scholars on the African continent. Ashley holds a BFA from Columbia College Chicago after transitioning from The University of Chicago where she briefly studied Anthropology. As a native of Chicago, Ashley was prepared in her youth to serve her role as a “woman for others” through her Jesuit education. She supplemented her schooling by volunteering in a local soup kitchen and a local battered women’s home in her largely underserved African-American neighborhood. The daily juxtaposition of these two environments and the realities of her service background had a profound impact and impassioned Ashley to engage her skills in public service. Upon graduating in 2007, Ashley taught an African Garments and Textiles course at the Anthony Overton Academy, at the time Chicago’s most underfunded grammar school in the city's poorest neighborhood. After a year, she moved to Mexico City where she re-engaged in textile arts working in an atelier and showroom designing garments. In 2012, Ashley continued her Fashion career moving to NYC and where she worked as an independent designer and consultant for various brands and celebrity clients. Ashley left the fashion industry and NYC in 2014 for New Orleans where she began her work with Walla Elsheikh founding Birthright AFRICA at the start of 2015. Ashley has since relocated to Accra, Ghana where she is serving the Birthright AFRICA program, in addition to being a startup entrepreneur.

[homeschoolpdx]

We are very excited for the next home school show :) In the former Pfizer factory in Greenpoint, we are showcasing eight artists plus home school co-facilitator manuel arturo abreu. Each will present a quasi-solo show as part of this, the twenty-fourth instance of the itinerant iterative group show Re: Art Show. As such, we’ve made individual posters alongside the group show poster! More info soon.

[homeschoolpdx]

The i/C/U/ publication is available for purchase here!

[homeschoolpdx]

i/C/U/ closing reception & publication launch 15 Sept 2018, 6-8pm S1 (7320 NE Sandy)

Join home school and S1 for the closing reception of i/C/U/: Connection & Control, an exhibition on creativity, intimacy and surveillance curated by Hiba Ali.

The closing reception will also feature the accompanying i/C/U/ publication for sale, produced by Letra Chueca.

i/C/U/ is the culmination of a home school class of the same name taught by Hiba Ali. In two reading group sessions and one production-focused workshop on Unity, Blender, and other digital worldmaking tools, i/c/U/ students explored compliance and control in the panoptic state of surveillance, strategies of obfuscation, and the effects of ideas of data ownership on policy.

Curated by Hiba Ali, the exhibition features work from the following participants of the class: Matthew Ward, Zachary Nicol, Tim Combs, Parsa Sanjana Sajid, Tabitha Nikolai, Jamondria Harris, and garima thakur in collaboration with Autumn Knight.

If you can’t make it, check out the show documentation here.

[homeschoolpdx]