Sensing/Gorge Artist Talk:
Marketing Eco-tourism and Post Colonial Aesthetics
Tuesday November 5
12:30 - 1:00pm
Portland State University
Art & Design Building
2000 SW 5th Ave
AD Room 320 (3rd Floor)
Join me for a chat about creating The Sensing/Gorge zine & Co-Mapping Project.
Please join me for a short presentation and discussion about creating multifaceted work in a landscape with multiple land managers and interested parties.
Snacks will be provided!
Feel free to bring any cameras, notepads, or journals that would enhance your experience.
The event is free, and accessible by public transit! If you wish to donate, please consider giving to one of the many tribes that have stewarded this land for far longer than we have.
Pn Tuesday, November 5, at Portland State University Art & Design Building Room 320, Mergens discusses their RACC Arts3C funded project, Sensing/Gorge. Sensing/Gorge is a social practice art project that includes a Zine printed at Outlet PDX, and community mapping project to re-envision the columbia River Gorge from a sensory and human experience perspective. Mergens’ presentation, Marketing Tourism on Public Lands and Post-Colonial Aesthetics, discusses the history and current conditions of public land tourism, while offering new environmental aesthetics and opportunities for eco-tourism and post-colonial aesthetics through sensory integration into the environment.
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Graciously Funded by RACC Art3C Grant
Please help to honor the sovereignty and role of the four Columbia River Treaty Nations in taking care of these lands and waters today—the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, the Confederated Bands and Tribes of the Yakama Nation, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, and the Nez Perce Tribe. These bands and tribes include the Wasco, Warm Springs, Paiute, Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla, Kahmilt-pah, Klickitat, Klinquit, Kow-was-say-ee, Li-ay-was, Oche-chotes, Palouse, Pisquose, Se-ap-cat, Shyiks, Skinpah, Wah-lal-la, Wenatshapam, Wishxam, Yakama, and Nimiipuu peoples.
Consider making a donation to the nations who have stewarded this land since time immemorial.
