Critical Writing Index

TBA:07: Event Details: The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art

by The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art

PICA.org, Aug. 2007, p. none

Simple Actions and Aberrant Behaviours is a video art show curated by Pablo de Ocampo at the Portland Art Museum.

The show focuses on performance based video work, featuring the artist as both the director and performer in each piece.

The work involves the artist as a performer in traditional ways as, an actor, singer and dancer) and non-traditional ways, through self flagellation and being hugged by a mattress.

ITEM 2007.101 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

UntitledPatty Chang

Beyond the Usual LimitsDeirdre Logue

WhatReza Afisina

A Time to DieJoe Gibbons

SquiggleOliver Husain

LollypopKalup Linzy

Live to TellBenny Nemerovsky Ramsay