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Lenny Beach 2025
(2025-04-12) Beach, Lenny
CRT and the Search for God (MK2) explores the intersection of spiritual experience, analog technology, and material presence. Originating from two profound moments of divine encounter - a vision during a performance by Reverend Kristen Michael Hayter and an unexpected blessing from a Capuchin friar—this project reflects a shift from artistic overcomplication toward radical simplicity and spiritual honesty. Through the use of CRT televisions, water, light, and video footage of prayer gestures, the installation creates a meditative space where technology and spirituality are not opposing forces, but intertwined mediums of encounter. CRT TVs, with their static electricity, scent of heated coils, and visible inner workings - act as relics of memory and ritual, embodying the tactile and imperfect nature of both human, technology and divine connection. Water serves as a site of reflection, transformation, and mystery, bending light and imagery to mirror the often indirect, elusive presence of the sacred in daily life. The process of building the installation - marked by unexpected technical challenges and material failures - became central to the piece, revealing that surrender, trust, and resilience are crucial to both spiritual and creative practice. Ultimately, CRT and the Search for God (MK2) invites viewers to witness and partake in a personal spiritual journey, grounded in vulnerability, community, and the unbreakable search for meaning. This work affirms that faith and creation are not destinations but ongoing processes: embodied, imperfect, and profoundly alive.
Oscar Dierker 2024
(2024) Dierker, Oscar
www.cityecology.forsale a series of meditations a blog of prose performance as research photographic documentation extraction of resources commerce in the name of understanding can I sell you some city ecology? can anybody? all in an effort to engage with the built environment
Megita Denton 2024.
(2024) Denton, Megita
The Gathering Project Megita Denton, Thesis Abstract At its core, The Gathering Project is an inclusive reimagining of the public art process through holistic, conceptual, and philosophical designs that are rooted in Indigenous philosophies, in pursuit of transformative change. Such philosophies honor that all beings “have a seat at the table,” which denies human exceptionalism, and provides sacred ways of recognizing the land as the connector of all beings. How we steward land, interact with her, and live alongside her directly sculpts the physical, spiritual, and metaphysical realities of our existence. This way of being with the land is the antithesis of capitalism. I am trying to “gather” all of these factors, elements and beings together to reconceptualize how we engage, finance, view, design, and allow public art in common spaces. The Gathering Project is shedding light on public land art processes for the artist, viewer, and gatekeepers of public art. My arrow is pointing to the resculpting of this process in pursuit of an evolution of public art accessibility for all stakeholders. All elements of my thesis, The Gathering Project, were created at Camp Colton and at my home studio, Able Farms PDX, due to unfortunate inadequacies of PNCA resources and facilities. This project presents a temporary installation as an artistic concept which suggests alternative ways of engaging with the public art process and design. The four tangible elements are: The Four 🗝Elements Wind/Air - Schematic Diagram Earth - Bio-Anchors (ecologically informed sculptures) Water - Living Thesis Document Fire - Manifesto, ⇺Outside of Art⍈ The Gathering Project explores how an independent artist navigates the public art process and encourages viewers to rethink the design and production of public art in this city’s current system.

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