"HOUSE BOUND" TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE TO LIMITED AUDIENCES

howdy y'all ~ here's info about "House Bound," a show I'm in, happening in a couple weeks for one day only.

"Kinesthetic salon" delivers unusual, immersive experience of art, food, performance, and installation at Performance Works Northwest on April 13

NEW NEWS: our poster will be on display this week in Zagreb, Croatia, at ZGRAF, an international exhibition for graphic design and visual communication established in 1975. designed by award-winning Plazm art director Josha Berger, it features Emily Stone in a video still from Tiffany Lee Brown's "Home Movie".

Ticket price includes hors d'oeuvres, wine, and tea. Tickets cost $15 in advance or $20 at the door, via Brown Paper Tickets online or by phone at 503 475 2306. Performance Works NW is located at 4625 SE 67th Avenue; various show times occur April 13 at 11 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 2:00, 3:30, and 5:00. "House Bound" is co-presented by 2GQ, a project of the non-profit organization 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts.

For details, keep reading...

PORTLAND -- You are fêted, fed, and lulled to relaxation. You move through installations and films, connect with performers in intimate spaces. Then the walls start closing in.

Welcome to the house that Works Corps built. "House Bound" is an intimate kinesthetic salon of installation and performance with roving audience participation, in which five women artists investigate the tension between solo and connectivity, individual and relationship, freedom and claustrophobia. Co-presented by 2GQ, the show takes place at Performance Works NW, which selected Works Corps as a grant recipient for its new Alembic series. Audiences are limited to 15 people, and advance ticket purchase is strongly recommended.

Work Corps artists are Clare Carpenter, Emily Stone, Lilian Gael, Nora Robertson and Tiffany Lee Brown. The group first came together to perform in 2GQ's works-in-progress series, Public Works, at the Someday Lounge in 2007.

Writer Nora Robertson, a recent finalist for the Pushcart Prize in poetry, will perform a monologue delving into "the underbelly of interdependence." Her character, Charlie, is described as "a charmer, a cocktail waitress with an alarming habit of chucking her boyfriend’s records out the window."

"A slideshow about secretly wanting to throw the baby out with the bathwater," is how Emily Stone describes her performance. Known for her dance and theatre work for presenters including PICA's TBA festival and On the Boards in Seattle, Stone will deliver a performative lecture about caretaking, the body as a domestic space, and "the wild territory of freedom and claustrophobia that exists in our own backyards."

Performer and choreographer Lilian Gael is the show's producer. She invites audiences into the dreamlike "attic" of the show's "house," which is defined by a kinetic installation of walls. The walls are the work of visual artist and letterpress printer Clare Carpenter, who covered them with wallpaper she printed. She says the walls are "imbued with the residue of stories from within a North Portland housing project of the World War Two era."

Interdisciplinary artist Tiffany Lee Brown, co-editor of PLAZM magazine and director of the non-profit art and literary project 2GQ, will explore fertility and creativity with a site-responsive installation, video, food, and drink. "My current work, including House Bound and The Easter Island Project, explores the places where community and creativity meet---and also where they tend to part ways. I'm particularly interested in how the larger community supports childbirth and family structures, compared to how it treats other creative aspects of life, including the arts."

Ticket price includes hors d'oeuvres, wine, and tea. Tickets cost $15 in advance or $20 at the door, via Brown Paper Tickets online or by phone at 503 475 2306. Performance Works NW is located at 4625 SE 67th Avenue; various show times occur April 13 at 11 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 2:00, 3:30, and 5:00. "House Bound" is co-presented by 2GQ, a project of the non-profit organization 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts.

Portland-area businesses and organizations making "House Bound" possible include the restaurant 3 Doors Down, The Cooley Gallery at Reed College, P!x Patisserie, Plazm magazine, New Seasons Market, Oregon College of Arts & Crafts' Georgiana Nehl, Oh Baby lingerie, Applied Plastics Machining, chiropractor Bruce Chaser at Hawthorne Wellness Center, Julianna Rowe at Windermere Cronin and Caplan Realty Group, filmmaker Vanessa Renwick and the Oregon Dept of Kick Ass, Alan Ransenberg at Alchemy of Design, Bitch magazine, the back room, Steve Fritz Photography, Sadie Byington at Eclipse the Salon, Zeb Andrews Photography, and Emily Robertson, associate attorney at Parsons, Farnell & Grein. Works Corps would also like to thank donors Karim Aladdine and Leonie North, Reva Basch, Robert Bumstead, Paul Carpenter, Jude Haug, the estate of Dorothy and Joseph Kurfirst, the Ozer-Gortikov family, James Pierce, and Howard Robertson.

More information about the show—and ongoing updates from the performers—may be found online at 2GQ.org.

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