Psychedelic Logging + Love at the Launch Pad

Check out both events Saturday, February 11th. The Psychedelic Logging Show at Reed College starts early, and we're not sure, but we'd guess that the LOVE group show/'zine party runs late. We'll be trying to hit 'em both. See you there.

LOVE -- group show + zine
Saturday, February 11th -- Party
Launch Pad @ The Egg
534 SE Oak, Portland
Contact: launchpadgallery@yahoo.com 

Ben Pink has gathered various works from loads o' local artists in the Egg collective space, where he's started the Launch Pad gallery, and created a 'zine on the love theme as well. 2GQ'ers Tif and Nora both participated. Come on by & see what's the haps.

Psychedelic Logging Symposium
Saturday, February 11, 2006
Reed College, Portland, Oregon
6 pm, Hauser Memorial Library + Cooley Gallery; 7 pm Reed Student Union

[press release]

A modern symposium, replete with food, drink, and music, exploring the spatial logic of
late capitalism as expressed in art, logging, and dancing . . .

Inspired by the spatial cacophanies, utopian visions, and intensive labors found in the
Cooley Gallery's NEW TRAJECTORIES 1: relocations exhibition, Psychedelic Logging begins
at 6 pm, in the Reed library with the viewing of Case Works 9: The Valentine Exchange,
and New Trajectories I, then moves to the Reed student union at 7 pm for live
performances by The Watery Graves and We Two and the Universe; love poem recitation by
Heather Watkins, curator of The Valentine Exchange; and a lecture on the history of
logging by Doug Sackman '90, historian at the University of Puget Sound. The event
includes mind bending archival films of high-lead logging, and interstitial ephemera by
Matthew Stadler accompanied by a slide exhibition curated by Stephanie Snyder. Logger's
stew prepared by Mickey Murch '06; Craft-in by Reed art collective Vitamin A.

Psychedelic Logging is organized by Stephanie Snyder and Matthew Stadler. The event is
free and open to the public.
For more information, visit Reed's public events website, http://events.reed.edu/, or call
the events line, 503/777-7755.
Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., Portland.

more information ...
New Trajectories 1: relocations/ recent work from the Ovitz Family Collection
web.reed.edu/gallery
http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=36998&category=22127

The Valentine Exchange was born in the winter of 1999 in the chilly environs of the
Typeshop at RISD, where Heather Watkins was teaching a course called 'Hot Printing' (basic
letterpress printing). As the end of the term coincided with the Valentine's Day holiday,
she assigned a final group print exchange, recalling the elementary school practice of
exchanging valentines with the entire class. To expand the project, Watkins invited artists
and writers from other disciplines and outside the school to participate in the exchange.

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The Watery Graves of Portland are the sounds and atmosphere created by Curtis Knapp on
piano and Adrian Orange on brushed drums and Davis Lee Hooker on upright bass. The
music is Satie-like in it's mercurial deliberation, a sort of "old school" instrumental
improvisation but not lawless, and sometimes verges on the bar room ragtime:
inspirational elevator music, filmic rhythmic furniture music. Their live shows include free
stamped envelopes and office supplies, encouraging audiences to write loved ones and/or
the band itself amid the music. www.marriagerecs.com

We Two And The Universe
A his and hers journey into the fabric of space-time through a cold fusion of post-
psychedelic video, Shaker chants, actals, gems, and formal lecture. Jona Bechtolt and Clair
L. Evans will design an atmosphere or vibe zone which will pointedly suggest a new stance
for readings, one akin to the independent music subculture.

Jona Bechtolt is a technological multi talent. His sound and video production can be found
generously scattered throughout the Internet, and in numerous popular live incarnations.
With his project, YACHT, he makes textural dance-based compositions and performances,
described by some as a "positive energy rainbow dome music from a next-generation west
coast healer." He documents its movement via video, text, and images on his deeply
archival and well-maintained blog, www.teamyacht.com. Currently, he is one half of The
Blow, a constantly recording and touring pop mammoth music duo. In 2003, he was
commissioned to create a full length audio/visual electronic pop opera by The Portland
Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), which he performed with his bandmate M. Ritchey.
In 2005, he co-created, filmed, directed and edited an internet based reality show, The
Ultimate Blogger, on which bloggers from around the world competed to win the
illustrious title. He has toured the United States and Canada extensively with his own
projects, as well as a number of other bands. He played drums on Devendra Banhart's
European festival tour, to audiences numbering in the tens of thousands.

Claire L. Evans is a polymath. She joins a literary education and a tendency towards
psychedelia in her most recent project, the ongoing essays which comprise Universe, a
multimedia column about the conjunction of modern science and literature. Universe,
inter-textual by nature, can be found both on the web at  www.urbanhonking.com/
universe and in the form of a bi-monthly print column in the LA Alternative, a newspaper
for which Claire is a contributing writer. As a solitary academic, she has studied at the
Sorbonne University in Paris, and has received research grants to fulfill and present her
various projects, the most recent of which include a complete translation of Jean Cocteau's
1949 novel, Les Enfants Terribles, and a collection of poetry about the inherent beauty of
scientific language. She has toured and released multiple records as keyboard player and
bassist for Weirdo/Begeirdo, the ethno-futurist flagship noise band of LA-based Not Not
Fun records.

Heather Watkins is an artist and designer whose work runs from professional book and
print design, to more personal, experimental and exploratory applications of the book
form, printed matter, sculpture, and fibers. Her artist's books, drawings, and sculptural
installations draw upon many disciplines, including textiles and printmaking. For the past
four years she taught design and typography as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
Department at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.

Doug Sackman: Trajectories of Trees
Logging Landscapes and the Spatial Transformation of the Pacific Northwest
Relying on visual representations of the logging landscapes of the Pacific Northwest, this
talk explores the changing relationships among peoples, technologies and forests in the
region. It touches on Native uses of the forests and the trees, maps the constitutive role of
the lumber industry in creating a Pacific World in the 19th century, and examines the
changing place of people in the forests as they were logged in new ways in the 20th
century. Trajectories of Trees is concerned with the arc of trees as they were felled and
ferried out of the forests, commodified, and transported to the far-flung places where
they were used and reanimated. It seeks to manifest some of the new spatial realities that
logging created for both people and places in the Pacific Northwest.

Doug Sackman graduated from Reed in 1990 with a B.A. in Political Science. He took his
interest in environment and media with him to graduate school at the University of
California at Irvine, where he wrote a dissertation on the citrus industry. He turned that
into a book, Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden (University of California,
2005). After stints teaching at UC Irvine, Claremont Graduate School, and Oberlin,
Sackman returned to the Pacific Northwest six years ago to take a position at the
University of Puget Sound. He is currently working on three book projects--one on the
relationship of anthropologist Alfred Kroeber and the Yahi Indian named Ishi, one an
edited collection of North American environmental history, and one on trafficking nature
across the Pacific in the 19th century.

Matthew Stadler is the author of four novels for which he has won many prizes. He was the
literary editor of nest magazine throughout its six-year history, and is co-founder and
editor of clear cut press, an independent publisher of new research and popular literature (
www.clearcutpress.com). Currently he is the writer in residence at ripe, a restaurant in
Portland, Oregon, where he runs a series of public symposia/bacchanals wedding great
food and drink to lively shared conversation, commissions and publishes new writing,
authors a series of essays about food and public dining, and maintains a small lending
library for diners ( www.ripepdx.com).

Stephanie Snyder is the John and Anne Hauberg Curator and Director, Douglas F. Cooley
Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College.