PIDZN CLUB The PIDZN CLUB online publication is a series of posts in which we commissioned artists to highlight new and/or existing work. PIDZN CLUB is a project that seeks to enliven artists creating...
there is a butterfly at the back of your throat i have been working on constructing garments that resonate sound, the sound of bells and jingles can help with reducing anxiety while orienting us to space through echoes and reverberations. these gloves are...
Roshani Thakore is Waiting for 2042 I have always considered myself involved in some kind of politics and being able to integrate my political philosophy into my art practice has helped me do the work. With the help of...
Irene June I’ve been holding a lot of shame recently. It comes from all different directions, more than I can list. Needless to say, I’ve not been compassionate to myself and it feels...
no religion but dutiful freedom leena joshi is a writer, artist, and educator. Their current projects consider labor, illness, and desire within the digital as protective/productive sites for minoritarian people. leena’s text and poetry can be...
Shaheen Qureshi | Excerpt from "In my loneliness your memories are my companion, what am I to do, something is happening" Spills Mourning begins in utero. I begin with the alienation I live with that was formed originally by my parents, and for them by their parents through migrations of bodies. Partition and separation....
Jake Vermaas Jake Vermaas is a 1.5 or 0.5-generation immigrant or a natural-born citizen, depending on who you ask. A poet and engineer in Portland, OR, he co-founded (with friends) the Whitenoise Project,...
Ralph Pugay Growing up in the Philippines, I consumed a lot of comics, television, video games, and Catholic dogma. These experiences influence the nature of my narrative paintings as I evoke the fantastical, absurd, and...
Grief, together, alone. My grandmother passed away.The whole ceremony, wrapped in the length of three days, felt like quicksand. We released ourselves into a whirlwind of rituals, frantically haring through the must-dos as the scorching...
Anke Gladnick Bond is a 96 page visual essay that explores mixed racial-ness and queerness within the category “Asian American”. A variety of analog mediums were combined with digital image-making processes to create the illustrations,...
Teresa Nguyen Teresa is a non-binary second gen Viet-Am community organizer and multi-media visual artist from Portland, OR. Much of their work centers in coalition building with queer youth and their QTBIPOC community, and learning...
Jojo Kim Jojo Kim is a multimedia and handpoke tattoo artist. Originally from Chicago, Illinois, Jojo currently resides and works in New York City. Her practice has been shaped by her love of pop culture,...
Ryuta Iwashita Ryuta Iwashita (they/them) lives and improvises in New Orleans as a facilitator/educator, visual artist and performance artist after living in Japan for over 25 years. Contact Improvisation also lives in their...
Peggy Sisouvong Digital Dysphoria 2019 - Digital RenderDigital Dysphoria #2 2019 - Digital RenderPeggy Sisouvong is a Laotian visual-artist and DJ currently living in Portland, Oregon. Her work mainly focuses on the spirit and dream...
Yun Yu Chiu [Detroit, 1992] is invested in many different types of making. While working as an artist, object designer, ceramicist, cook, sculptor, gardener, instructor, performer, musician, curator and graphic designer... skills have started to converge...
Takahiro Yamamoto Originally from Shizuoka Japan, Takahiro Yamamoto is an artist and choreographer based in Portland. He has received support from National Performance Network, Japan Foundation, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Africa Contemporary Arts Consortium,...
Lu Yim Lu Yim is a performance maker interested in embodied knowledge and its relationship to language. They create work in retrograde, moving with a dramaturgical process and undertaking research that does not always appear...
Mickey Sanchez ...Ann approached the young superstar and asked if she could "feel his biceps." "Sure," Lee responded -- it was a request he'd received on numerous occasions -- tensing his arm and inviting her to check it out for herself. "My God!" she exclaimed......