The following description comes from the event organizer.

1989, Part II


At MinEastry of Postcollapse Art and Culture

2505 SE 11th Ave Suite 233

Portland, OR 97202

 

On view: January 28, 2022 - February 13, 2022

Regular Gallery Hours: Fri, Sat, Sun 1pm-5pm

 

Curated by: Ilknur Demirkoparan and Vuslat D. Katsanis

 

Artists: Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu, Nikola Dabić, Frank Lahera O’Callaghan, Music X Habitat X Art (Amelie Jiang, Yaoyue Huang, Scott Lowell Sherman), Hamed Shafie, Maciek Stępniewski, Marta Stražičić, Tea Stražičić & Peter Christenson, Igor Vaganov, Kate Walker, Klara Woźniak, Keoni K. Wright.

 
 

(Portland, January 28) MinEastry of Postcollapse Art and Culture is pleased to present part two of 1989, a video screening of shorts by a group of international contemporary artists and collaboratives.

To speak of 1989 is to speak of revolutions. It is to speak of the many ends and many beginnings that carve out multiple centers and peripheries. It is to speak of the absurd and the absolute, the fantastic and the fragmented contours of our contemporary moment. To speak of 1989 is to speak of collapse. 

This second installment of 1989 brings the work of established and emerging artists from Romania, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia, Poland, Cuba, Suriname, USA, China, Iran, and New Zealand. Their works offer poetic and philosophical reflections on the exhibition theme through a range of experimental video and documentary film, photography, digital animation, music composition, poetry, and performance. Taken together, this screening of shorts highlights postcollapse as a critical framework for contextualizing the contemporary practices of artists from these dynamic regions since 1989.

MinEastry of Postcollapse Art and Culture is an artist-run space and think tank dedicated to exploring our global contemporary from the vantage of postcollapse art and theory. Our frames of reference begin with the human experiences from East Europe and West and Central Asia since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and permeate to every corner of our diasporic world-presence.

1989 opens on January 28 and runs until February 13, 2022. MinEastry of Postcollapse Art and Culture is located at 2505 SE 11th Ave Suite 233, Portland OR 97202. The total runtime is approximately one hour. For screening hours or additional information, visit https://mpac.postcollapse.art or contact hello[at]postcollapse.art.