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Vanessa Renwick Shorts: Raw, Raucous and Sublime with Vanessa Renwick


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Wednesday, November 13
6:30 pm
Vanessa Renwick Shorts
Raw, Raucous and Sublime: shorts by Renwick 1981-2013 / Vanessa Renwick / USA / 60 min digital video
Q&A w/ Vanessa Renwick
There are few living artists as in tune with the rugged spirit of the Pacific Northwest as Renwick and her Oregon Department of Kick Ass. Through experimental film, documentary, and installations, this Chicago trans- plant has delivered unsparingly rough but sumptuous visions ranging from travels with her pet half-wolf dog to an operatic rendition of the Trojan power plant’s demolition to Kodak-hour panoramas of the industrial tidal flats of Puget Sound. In the process, her films serve as both history lessons and sear- ing contemporary portraits of our region’s peculiar wedding of the urban and the natural landscapes. They also serve as Cascadia mix-tapes, given Renwick’s collaborations with some of the region’s best musicians. Sam Coomes of Quasi, Lori Goldston, Tara Jane O’Neil, Donovan Skirvin, Chris Sands and more!

In her first full retrospective in 15 years, Renwick will screen a series of films, including the premiere of a video about the Port- land Meadows horse racetrack. Titled Raw, Raucous, and Sublime, the retrospective celebrates the release of her new DVD, NSEW—All Over the Map, and promises a most kick-ass introduction to both the artist and the region.

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Born 1961 in Chicago, Illinois, Vanessa Renwick is the founder of the Oregon Department of Kick Ass, and a film / video / installation artist. She lives in Portland, Oregon. Her work reflects an interest in place, landscape use and transformation, and relationships between bodies and landscapes. Her work has been shown internationally at The Centre Pompidou, Museum of Modern Art, The Kitchen, Kill Your Timid Notion, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Images Festival, The Viennale, and The Andy Warhol Museum. She has re- ceived awards from the Ford Family Foundation, the McKenzie River Gathering Foundation/Lilla Jewel, the Sarah Jacobson/Free History Project, Wolf Recovery Foundation, Seattle Art Museum, the Oregon Arts Commission, and the Weisman Foundation, and more. Her film Britton, South Da- kota received the Gus Van Sant Award for Best Experimental Film at the Ann Arbor Festival and the Gecko Prize at Cinematexas. She is represented by PDX Contemporary Art in Portland.KAOS89.3fm


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