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fjjj] 4 0 NOVEMBER 11.201) ----- nightlife------ • WWW.JUSTOUT.COM On The Surface Portland folk prince Holcombe Waller debuts new multimedia performance by ryan j . prado j Sure, a multimedia hybrid of music, story telling and imagery isn’t the usual fodder for Nightlife. But Holcombe Waller isn’t an art ist you can exactly pigeonhole, either. For his next feat, the man behind February's full- length album Into the Dark Unknown turns his attention toward Surfacing, a multidis ciplinary exhibition premiering Friday, De cember 2 at BodyVox. A notorious workaholic, Waller gathers to gether most of the branches of his ouevre— music, theater and video—and melds it to cre ate an immersive performance piece treading both realism and fantasy. As described by Waller, the all-sung performance takes the au dience “on a journey through time and place, sory and complex way that we form loving connection as a kind of wall or bound invoking subjects as far-reaching as ary—or literally a surface—that Catholic beautification, anarchist can as much define ourselves as communist revolution, health care activism and the history- it can create an isolating di- in-the-remaking of contem \ vide between us and the true o oneness of all things,” says porary performance art.” Waller. “Within this broad As is the case with his area, I’m focusing on songs, most recent collection of performances and imagery folk-lite ruminations, Waller that reveal little ways that we paints in wonderfully broad can fall apart as we brush up strokes, and Surfacing ought to against this surface.” showcase the full extent of his palette. 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