TBA: Outside Inside World

Pearl District

When

Aug. 26–Oct. 5, 2024

Days Vary, Times vary

Free

Where

Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) + 511 Gallery

511 NW Broadway
Portland, OR 97209

The following description was submitted by the event organizer.

Videotones is a neurodiverse digital media collective that employs homegrown, collaborative editing practices, exploits the hidden potential for accessibility in cheap consumer technologies, and adheres to a vision of filmmaking that privileges improvisational experimentation and nonlinear play over predetermined outcomes to make their idiosyncratic brand of music and video art. Since its inception in 2018, the project has yielded three full-length albums of experimental music and countless short video works. In the Videotones universe, authorship is dispersed — each project is born out of a process of equal participation and nonhierarchical decision-making, resulting in work that is discordant, polyvocal, awkward, hilarious, mysterious, fragmented, joyful, and deeply affecting.  

Equal parts survey exhibition and emergent experiment, Outside Inside World activates PNCA’s 511 Gallery as a showcase for works from the Videotones archive and a site for making and sharing new work. True to the Videotones ethos, the space will take on multiple roles — film set, recording studio, improv theater, rec room, and exhibition space — which will change unpredictably daily. This living exhibition will be augmented by a series of public events, including an open-access jam session, workshops, and the premiere of Videotones TV, a DIY variety show made for public access television.  

TBA:24 Opening Night Open Access Jam: September 5 at 5:00 p.m. The outdoor jam session accompanying the exhibition opening will feature loud and likely dissonant music. PNCA is an ADA accessible building.