Portland, Oregon

Jean-Pierre Parent teaches yoga, leads retreats to India, and brews kombucha in the certified domestic kitchen in his home deep in the hills of SW Portland, Oregon. His is a familiar face in yoga studios and natural food markets around town. He describes the growth of his business as an organic flowering of years of research on his own body and arising out of a need and desire from the people around him. He thinks of it as "germinating" himself-- he provides the nutrients and his life and the business simply sprout vegetate and blossom about him. Not a far cry from my own "pollenate thy Self". I like that. Music: Anitek Float + Square One off the album ExtraLocal http://soundcloud.com/anitek http://freemusicarchive.com/anitek used with permission from the artist

• published: 14 May 2013
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June 3, 2010, 6:30 - 8pm at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace **Please note: the duration of this panel was 2 hours, but video cuts out at 1 hour and 45 minutes. Apologies!** Presented in tandem with Sustainability Lab & Cornfield, this panel will look back and look ahead at the ever-evolving Do-It-Yourself ethic and inherent aesthetics as it relates to cultural production. Timed with the 30th anniversary of Washington DC's Dischord Records - an internationally recognized independent record label supporting punk rock music that has been artist run since its inception - this panel will examine the DIY organizing model that grew out of punk rock subculture and is tied to punk ideology and anti-consumerism. How is DIY being redefined as aspects of that culture shift from being an underground mantra to a cable TV station slogan and Urban Outfitters commodity? What can cultural producers learn from sustainable food producers? How can a volunteer-run operation be sustainable? Panelists: Nancy Bannon, artist, DC & NYC; Bryce Dwyer, InCUBATE, Chicago; Ian MacKaye, co-founder of Dischord Records, DC; Eve Mosher, Seeding the City, NYC; Abigail Satinsky, InCUBATE, Chicago Moderator: Jeff Hnilicka, cultural worker, Member of Hit Factorie and organizer of FEAST, Brooklyn About the panelists: Nancy Bannon performed for many years as a dancer with Doug Varone, Tere O'Connor and Lar Lubavitch and as an actor focusing mostly on the development of new work. She now creates her own interdisciplinary theater. Along with Cornfield, she is also known for The Pod Project, an installation of private, one-on-one performances originally at 20 Greene Gallery (NYC). Nancy is the recipient of three Princess Grace Awards and a 2001 New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) Award. She has served on the faculties of SUNY Purchase and Rutgers University and has taught independently throughout the U.S. Nancy is a graduate of The Juilliard School. This March, Nancy was invited to participate in a Philip Johnson Glass House Conversation along with filmmaker Darron Aronofsky, poet Erin Belieu, graphic designer Paula Scher, and others. This spring, the 92nd St. Y (NYC) will present her newest work, Drinking Ink. Bryce Dwyer is a graduate of the Modern Art History, Theory and Criticism and Arts Administration and Policy graduate program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He spent the summer of 2009 in Providence, Rhode Island, researching unconventional residencies at the Alliance of Artists Communities and assembling an archive of AS220’s artists-in-residence program. He is one of the co-directors of the Institute for Community Understanding Between Art and the Everyday (InCUBATE), a research group dedicated to exploring and documenting experimental approaches to arts administration and arts funding. InCUBATE produces and participates in exhibitions, runs a residency program, co-manages a storefront, and puts on public programs. He recently published an essay, “Belgianness and Tactical Nationhood,” in the inaugural issue of Motherwell and, with InCUBATE, collaborated with Randall Szott for a public programming series called “In Search of the Mundane” at Chicago’s threewalls in October and November of 2009. Jeff Hnilicka is an independent aesthetic practitioner currently exploring the national landscape of sustainable cultural production. He is co-founder of FEAST - Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics. He has worked at Walker Art Center, MASS MoCA, J Mandle Performance, Minnesota Public Radio, and is a founding member of Revolting Queers and Hit Factorie. He recently completed residencies at MASS MoCA and West Bank Social Center and will be in residency at Elsewhere in October-November 2010. Hnilicka served as panelist for community artist funding at Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and is featured in Temporary Services Art Work. In 2009, Jeff was awarded a Future Leadership Fellowship by National Arts Strategies. Jeff will be leading participatory projects this year in DC, Philadelphia, New York City, and Portland. Ian Mackaye founded Dischord Records as a teenager in 1980 with partner Jeff Nelson. Their original intent was simply to release a single to document their recently defunct band, Teen Idles. However, the label has gone on to release music from more than 60 bands, with more than 160 albums over the last 25 years and counting. As musicians, Ian and Jeff with Brian Baker and Lyle Preslar went on to form Minor Threat, who along with Bad Brains are credited in the early 80s with introducing the DC hardcore ethic to an audience well beyond Washington, DC. In 1986, Ian formed Fugazi with Joe Lally, Brendan Canty and Guy Picciotto. Over 20+ years the band has released seven albums and toured the world extensively covering all fifty United States, Europe, Australia, South America, Japan and many points in between. Fugazi is self managed and maintains a policy of afforda

• published: 18 Jun 2010
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