<div dir="ltr">[FYI]<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Paragon Cascade Gallery Director</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:cascade.gallery@pcc.edu">cascade.gallery@pcc.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 5:05 PM<br>Subject: [cascade] BorderXer - last week and two events<br>To: <<a href="mailto:cascade-group@pcc.edu">cascade-group@pcc.edu</a>><br>Cc: Paragon Gallery <<a href="mailto:cascade.gallery@pcc.edu">cascade.gallery@pcc.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Cascade Colleagues, <br></div><div>The current exhibition "BorderXer" by Patricia Patricia Vázquez Gómez is open for one more week, including a printmaking party and an artist panel. If you haven't seen it yet, the exhibition provides thought-provoking prompts for discussions across many disciplines. <b>We will work with you to open the gallery to meet the needs of your classes or groups.</b> Send us your request. Also, note the two upcoming Saturday afternoon events that are open to the Campus community and to the public. <br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Dominic and Elizabeth<br></div><div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_k25ddw4r1" alt="BorderXerGraphic.jpg" width="488" height="325"><br></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><b>PUBLIC PROGRAMMING:<span></span></b></p><b>
</b><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><b>Printmaking Party: Saturday, October 26th, 2019 @ 12-3 p.m.<span></span></b></p><b>
</b><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><b>Closing & Panel Discussion: Saturday, November 2, 2019 @
12 - 2 p.m.</b></p></div><div style="text-align:left"><b></b><span></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.pcc.edu/galleries/cascade/" target="_blank">Paragon Arts Gallery</a> at PCC Cascade presents BorderXer by
Patricia Vázquez Gómez, including work from garima thakur, Fabian Romero, Daniel
Coka and Emilio Rojas. Please join us for an opening reception on Friday,
September 27 from 5 - 8 p.m., with a presentation by the Portland Immigrant
Rights Coalition at 6 p.m. Public programming continues with a printmaking
workshop making pro-immigrant posters and propaganda by Patricia Vázquez Gómez
and Thea Ghar on Saturday, October 26th from 12 - 3 p.m. The exhibition closes
with a conversation featuring garima thakur, Daniel Coka and Patricia Vázquez
Gómez on crossing physical, social, psychological, emotional and artistic
borders to be held on Saturday, November 2, 2019 from 12 - 2 p.m. All events
are free and open to the public.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><i>There are many forms of crossing, of stepping over
boundaries, of exploding the limits that restrict our movements, affections,
talents, knowledge and dreams. BorderXers are the animals that move freely
through the territory that sustains them. BorderXers are those who thrive over
tyrannic gender rules. BorderXers are those who love despite heteronormative
prescriptions.<span> </span>BorderXers are migrants
and refugees looking for dignity. BorderXers are those choosing life over
death. BorderXer is any body who has refused to be subdued, reduced, broken, or
fragmented.<span></span></i></p><i>
</i><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><i><span> </span></i></p><i>
</i><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><i>Every time you step into forbidden territory you cross a
border. Every time you challenge oppression you cross a border. Every time you
defy an inhumane law you cross a border. In a system that threatens to take
away our individual and collective lives and spirits, becoming a BorderXer is
not only necessary, but inescapable.<span></span></i></p><i>
</i><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><i><span> </span></i></p><i>
</i><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><i>What borders do you still have to cross? <span></span></i></p><i>
</i><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><i>What would it take for you to cross them?</i></p><div><div><img src="cid:ii_k25denno2" alt="VideoStillPatriciaVG.jpg" width="488" height="275"><br></div></div><div><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.pcc.edu/galleries/2019/09/13/borderxer-by-patricia-vazquez-gomez/" target="_blank"><i>BorderXer</i><span></span></a></p><a href="https://www.pcc.edu/galleries/2019/09/13/borderxer-by-patricia-vazquez-gomez/" target="_blank">
</a><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.pcc.edu/galleries/2019/09/13/borderxer-by-patricia-vazquez-gomez/" target="_blank">by Patricia Vázquez Gómez</a><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">including work from garima thakur, Fabian Romero, Daniel
Coka and Emilio Rojas<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><b>September 27 - November 2, 2019<span></span></b></p><b>
</b><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><b>Gallery Hours: Wed. - Fri. 12 - 7 p.m., Sat. 12 - 5 p.m.</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><b>Location: 715 N. Killingsworth, Portland, OR</b><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">PUBLIC PROGRAMMING:<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Printmaking Party: Saturday, October 26th, 2019 @ 12-3 p.m.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Closing & Panel Discussion: Saturday, November 2, 2019 @
12 - 2 p.m.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/678962659239728/" target="_blank">BorderXer on Facebook</a><span><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Follow Paragon Arts Gallery on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/pccparagonarts/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> @pccparagonarts</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><b>About the Artist:</b><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><b>Patricia Vázquez Gómez</b> works and lives between the ancient
Tenochtitlán and the unceded, occupied, stolen and colonized lands of the
Chinook, Clackamas, Multnomah, and other Indigenous peoples. She is deeply
interested in the social functions of art, the intersections between art,
politics and ethics and the expansion of community based art practices; and
uses a variety of media to carry out her research: painting, printmaking,
video, music and socially engaged art projects. The purpose and methodologies
of her work are deeply informed by her experiences working in the immigrant
rights and other social justice movements in the US and Mexico. Patricia’s work
can be explored at <a href="http://cargocollective.com/patriciavg" target="_blank">http://cargocollective.com/patriciavg</a><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><b>About the Featured Artists:</b><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><b>garima thakur</b> is an interdisciplinary artist born in New
Delhi, India where she spent most of her formative years. She moved to United States ten years ago. Her registered alien number is A ****** which allows and
gives her the permission to exist in United States currently. Thakur works with
interactive media, code, video, drawing, sculpture and text. Her work centers
upon narratives and multitudinous realities of assimilation, alienation and
collectivism. She is currently stationed in Portland,OR, where she moved five
years ago and works as an assistant professor of interaction media and graphic
design at Western Oregon University. Insta handle <a href="https://www.instagram.com/garimath/" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/garimath/</a><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><b>Emilio Rojas</b> is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily
with the body in performance, using video, photography, installation, public
interventions and sculpture. He holds an MFA in Performance from The School of
the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA in Film from Emily Carr University in
Vancouver, Canada. As a queer latinx immigrant with indigenous heritage, it is
essential to his practice to engage in the postcolonial ethical imperative to
uncover, investigate, and make visible and audible undervalued or disparaged
sites of knowledge, narratives, and individuals. He utilizes his body in a
political and critical way, as an instrument to unearth removed traumas,
embodied forms of decolonization, migration and poetics of space. His research
based practice is heavily influenced<span> </span>by
queer and feminist archives, border politics, botanical colonialism, and
defaced monuments. Besides his artistic practice, he<span> </span>is also a translator, community activist,
yoga teacher, and anti-oppression facilitator with queer, migrant and refugee
youth.<span> </span>His work has<span> </span>been exhibited in exhibitions and festivals
in the US, Mexico, Canada, Japan, Austria, England, Greece, France, Germany, Italy,
Spain, Holland, Colombia, and Australia, as well as institutions like The Art
Institute and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Ex-Teresa Arte Actual
Museum and Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, The Vancouver Art Gallery, The Surrey
Art Gallery, The DePaul Art Museum, and The Botin Foundation. He is represented
by Jose de la Fuente in Spain, and Gallleriapiu in Italy. Rojas is currently a
Visiting Artist/Scholar in Residency in the Theater and Performance Department
at Bard College in New York,<span> </span>for the
2019-2020 academic year where he is developing a new commission for<span> </span>Live Arts Bard at the Fisher Center, which
will premier in November, focusing on these year's theme on Borders. <span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><b>fabian romero </b>(Purepécha) is a PhD student in Gender, Women
& Sexuality Studies. fabian’s academic interests integrate colonialism in
Mexico and the United States, gender, sexuality, and immigration with
performance. Their performances and artistic collaboration are integral to
their research that centers the performance of gender, sexuality and
authenticity for Indigenous and two-spirit people. Their work is
interdisciplinary and combines fiction writing, poetry and performance to
theorize the function of joy and pleasure as failures of racism and settler
colonialism. <span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><b>Daniel Coka</b> was born in New Jersey, USA in 1990. He grew up
in a Latino migrant community from Ecuadorian parents. Coka has lived in
between the US and Ecuador since he was born in 1990. He received a diploma in
Visual Arts and Digital Cinema from the University of Cuenca, Ecuador. He works
primarily with actions registered in video and audio, but he has also produced
in drawing, writing and painting. His work is a constant exploration of identity,
in which the label cuir (Spanish for queer) has prompted an intense questioning
process, while also addressing race, nationality, latinidad and masculinity. He
currently lives and works in Portland OR.<span></span></p>
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