TBA: Osten Cetto : Four Snakes

When
Sept. 19–21, 2024
Daily, 6 p.m.
Cost: $20 - $50
Where
15 NE Hancock St
Portland, OR 97212

The following description was submitted by the event organizer.

Within Osten Cetto: Four Snakes, Olivia and Celeste Camfield explore the relationships between the body and shapes through tattoos, movement, and Mvskoke symbols. The film’s live noise score and dance utilize the repetition and layered imagery of the choreography and the film to create an immersive viewing experience. By offering movement to ancestors, past and future, the sisters navigate how shape is translated between forms, such as sound, body, and film. Throughout the performance, the film acts as a landscape: the place and history that contextualizes this work, creates the stories, and holds the memories. At the center of the piece is the connection between two sisters, which propels them forward to examine relations beyond colonial perception. The Alien then appears as a form of relation to the stars. 

This performance will be accompanied by a film screening programmed in partnership with COUSIN Collective, featuring films from Fox Maxy, Kite, and Woodrow Hunt and Olivia Camfield with their collaborator Celeste Camfield.

Access notes: This event has high sound levels. Earplugs will be available.