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One image, one paragraph, headed for a book. Join in at ourportlandstory.com.
Melissa Delzio is heading up this project, which she hopes to publish as a coffee table style book. No news yet on production/distribution details, or whether it will be an old-school PDX-stylee self publishing number or if she'll go with a publisher. But the project sounds *fun* regardless!
damali ayo spoke to "the realities of what it means to be an activist artist, a feminist anti-racism performance artist" on October 30th, opening the Bitch Magazine Feminism and Pop Culture Series at the Smith Memorial Ballroom in Portland.
ayo's oeuvre includes panels of paint matched from the flesh tones of various parts of her own body and audio tapes of the paintmixers' conversations with her, presented at the Seattle Center of Contemporary Art in 2003; name tags that read "Hi, My Race Is..." and were to be filled out as white, black or other at gallery openings (I believe she said the Mark Woolley gallery) through 2001-02; and perhaps most famously, her Rent-a-Negro website where you could allegedly hire a person of color for services such as tolerating your racist relative, now a book as well. Throughout her career, she has aimed to "create a cognitive dissonance in our collective unconsciousness." —Nora Robertson
Your friendly local 2GQ likes to give you things. But sometimes we like to ask you for things, too: Buy our stuff. Volunteer for our projects. Come to our shows. And last, but not least, donate good old fashioned financial support. Here's how:
BUY OUR STUFF:
Our books and journals are available on Etsy.com
and at Powell's, Reading Frenzy, and Plazm Books. Back issues of 2GQ's
2 Gyrlz Quarterly are nearly sold out, but you can still buy a
collection for $35 from Plazm Books. Hoodies and T-shirts are custom made for us by catch23.com—you can also ask youngpunks.com to send you sweatshop-free 2GQ kids' and babies' onesies and T-shirts!
GIVE US MONEY:
As do most arts organizations, we like money. Unlike most arts organizations, we spend over 90% of our donations directly on arts programming—putting up shows, making books, publishing web stuff, & generally doing our part to make your world a less predictable place. All our directors and staff volunteer their time to 2GQ.
Show your support by donating to Network for Good; be sure to specify "2GQ" in the "Designation" box.
GIVE US TIME:
We're also looking for volunteer help with
MORE ABOUT OUR FABULOUS ORGANIZATION:
2GQ is an experiment in literary, performative, and interdisciplinary arts that takes place under the auspices of 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts, a non-profit organization in Portland, Oregon. More info is conveniently located on the Interwebs for your reading pleasure.
