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Faye Driscoll, Come On In


  • Portland Institute for Contemporary Art 15 Northeast Hancock Street Portland, OR, 97212 United States (map)

Come On In includes audio using provided headphones, while laying down on a bed - laying down is not essential and visitors can still access headphones. Printed transcripts of the text in the audio will be available on-site upon request. PICA’s main warehouse space is on the ground floor and is accessible to those with mobility aids. ADA-accessible, gender-neutral restrooms and a water cooler are located inside of PICA. If you have questions about accessibility you can contact us at boxoffice@pica.org or call 503-224-PICA.

Open Hours

November 19—December 11: Thursday & Friday, 4-8 PM | Saturday, 12-6 PM 

December 28—30: Tuesday—Thursday, 12-6 PM

January 6—15, 2022: Thursday & Friday, 4-8 PM | Saturday, 12-6 PM 

*Holiday Closures November 25 & December 12—27

Timed-Entry Tickets

Sliding Scale $0-$20 | These are timed tickets spaced out in one-hour increments with a capacity of 12 people in the installation at once. Because of this, reservations are recommended. Walk-ins are also welcome, but if we are at capacity, you’ll have to wait until the next available hour opens up.

Please click the "PURCHASE HERE" hyperlink below for your preferred weekend. This link will bring you to another window where you can select your date and time for entry.

November 19—20 | PURCHASE HERE

November 26—27 | PURCHASE HERE

December 2—4 | PURCHASE HERE

December 9—11 PURCHASE HERE

December 28—30 | PURCHASE HERE

January 6—8, 2022 | PURCHASE HERE

January 13—15, 2022 PURCHASE HERE

 

Description

New York-based choreographer Faye Driscoll (US, b. 1975) creates performances that activate the dynamic space between artist, performers, and audience. Often balancing poignancy and tenderness with irreverent wit and humor, her work as she describes summons “the unnamed forces that surge between the viewer and the viewed.” 

Come On In, the artist’s first solo exhibition to date, creates a space of gathering that invites us to encounter, and carry forth, this intangible connection. Here, Driscoll simultaneously captures the sensation of being in the audience at one of her performance works, the intensity of being a performer in her work, and her own subjective voice as a director. By removing the performers and removing the theater, Driscoll gives the work to the body of the gallery-goer, leading us into an internal dance of our senses: of self and other, body and world, desire and abjection, communion and loss.

Upon entering the carpeted area, you’re invited to choose a listening station, each featuring a soundtrack spoken by the artist herself. Each listening station has a unique audio work playfully referencing prompts she might give to a performer. These are guided meditations, erotic power play, prayer, lamentations, aspirations, and longing that come together to ask: How are we alive to the non-linear symphony of our senses? In this time saturated in technology, where is the body? How far does it extend?

 

Artist Bio

Faye Driscoll (b. 1975, California, lives and works in New York) is an award winning art and performance maker who uses an alchemy of bodies and voices, objects and live sound to conjure worlds that are, like ourselves, alive and forever changeable. She creates immersive worlds of sensorial complexity and perceptual disorientation aimed to rile up the passive, numb, screened-out body. These interventions come in the shape of intimacies: a performer holding your hand, death metal song made through recording your stomping feet, a place to rest and a private guided choreography in your ear.

In Thank You For Coming, her recently completed trilogy of performance works—Attendance (2014), Play (2016), and Space (2019)—each took a distinct genre blurring while summoning the unnamed forces that surge between the viewer and the viewed. For her first solo exhibition, at Walker Art Center, Driscoll brought the immersive experience of theater into the exhibition space, inviting viewers to become active participants through a series of prompts and subtle directives from her series of audio works, Guided Choreographies for the Living and the Dead.

She is currently the Randjelovic/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts, and is the recipient of a Doris Duke Award, Guggenheim fellowship, a Bessie award and the Jacob’s Pillow Artist Award, among many others. Select presentations include Kunstenfestivaldesarts, La Biennale di Venezia, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Walker Art Center, Melbourne Festival, Wexner Center for the Arts, Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, Centro de Arte Experimental in Buenos Aires.

Accessibility

Come On In includes audio using provided headphones, while laying down on a bed - laying down is not essential and visitors can still access headphones. Printed transcripts of the text in the audio will be provided on-site. This exhibition is on the ground level of PICA’s main warehouse space and is accessible to those with mobility aids. ADA-accessible, gender-neutral restrooms and a water fountain are located inside of PICA. If you have questions about accessibility you can contact us at boxoffice@pica.org or by calling 503-242-1419.

COVID-19

All guests over the age of two are required to wear a mask and keep six feet apart. Anyone who is experiencing or exhibiting any symptoms of Covid-19 or who has been in contact with others who are, are asked to stay home to avoid the risk of exposing others.