Physical Education
Basement Garage
presented by
Takahiro Yamamoto
FRI 4/28 — 7pm — Lu Yim & Kabir Carter
SAT 4/29 — 5pm — Lu Yim & Kabir Carter
SAT 5/6 — 2pm — Roland Dahwen, Sam Hamilton, Jess Perlitz & Takahiro Yamamoto
FRI 5/12 — 7pm — Allie Hankins, Supergroup and Jaleesa Johnston
*Performances are free to attend, we kindly ask that you donate to support the performers.
220 SE Market, 97214
PEBG (Physical Education Basement Garage) is a series of events featuring dance, sound art, reading, video/film presentation from Lu Yim & Kabir Carter, Roland Dahwen, Sam Hamilton, Jess Perlitz & Takahiro Yamamoto, Allie Hankins, Supergroup, and Jaleesa Johnston. Organized and coordinated by Taka, this event series invites the public to casually get together to enjoy artworks that have been stored in the actual, mental, and digital basement/garage.
Performances are free to attend and we ask that you kindly donate to support the performers.
Taka's new book NOTHINGBEING will be available for purchase on those days. ($20)
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Takahiro Yamamoto is a multidisciplinary artist and choreographer based in Portland, Oregon (Cowlitz, Clackamas and Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde). His current conceptual investigations revolve around the phenomenological effects of time, embodied approach to the presence of nothingness, and the social/emotional implications of visibility. He has received support from New England Foundation for the Arts, Bogliasco Foundation, Oregon Community Foundation, MacDowell, NCCAkron, National Performance Network, Japan Foundation, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Africa Contemporary Arts Consortium and others. His performance and visual art works have been presented at Portland Art Museum, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Diverseworks, Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, The Henry Art Gallery, GoDown Arts Centre Nairobi among other venues. Yamamoto holds an MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art. He co-directs the performance company madhause with Ben Evans, and is part of the Portland-based support group Physical Education with Allie Hankins, keyon gaskin, and Lu Yim.