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On The Surface
Portland folk prince Holcombe Waller debuts new multimedia performance
by ryan j
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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.
Surfacing follows up on Waller’s 2007 folk-
“Thematically, Surfacing dwells on the illu operetta Patty Heart Townes, as well as his
2009 show Into the Dark Unknown: The Hope
Chest, commissioned and presented by the
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art at
the Imago Theatre. Funding for Surfacing was
made possible by a grant from the Regional
Arts and Culture Council (RACC) in De
cember 2010, as well as a co-commission by
Helena Presents (Helena, Mont.) and Out
North Theater (Anchorage, Alaska) with
funding from the National Performance Net
work. J#]
Dec. 2, 9p. m. and Dec. 3, 7 and 9:30p. m.; Body Vox,
1201 N W 17th Ave.; S12-S26; 800-838-3006 or
hrownpaper tickets, com/event/207493.
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