Jim Drain Lecture Announcement

Subject: Jim Drain Lecture, thursday August 1st 7pm at the Lab 

Hello People of Portland,

ANNOUNCING THE SECOND IN A SERIES OF LECTURES BY ARTISTS THAT I KNOW
WHO ARE PASSING THROUGH PORTLAND!

This Thursday Aug. 1st at 7pm Jim Drain (from the collaboration
Forcefield) will present a lecture at The Lab.  Drinks will be
available for a small donation, otherwise this event is totally
free. For more directions call 503.295.7729

Forcefield was included in the Whitney Bienniel this year and Jim is
an amazing maker of many different things, and is a very nice person
too. I'm sure he will have a great deal of interesting information to
share with us.  Here's Jim in his own words: I'm going to set the
context of where I am coming from (Providence, RI but also addressing
what I did after leaving school: going to LA, etc) all culminating
with what is going on now for us/me of Forcefield. I am 26 years
old. I live in Providence and went to University here (do people call
it University?) and grew up in Cleveland.  For six years I was
involved with Fort Thunder (check out the Summer 2001 issue of Nest
magazine to learn more about Fort Thunder) until it was torn down in
May, 2002.  Fort Thunder hosted music shows, plays, wrestling, waifs
and wayfaring raggamuffins, collaged interiors, screen printing,
comic-book making, bikes, etc.  It was a community center for many
people.  I grafted onto Forcefield.  It started as a drawing jam then
became a music one that became more performative simultaneously and
videos were made.  I learned to knit and we showed in Brooklyn at Dean
Daderko's Parlour Projects before showing six months later in the
Whitney Bienniel, 2002. For the lecture I will show slides and videos
along with things people can touch--zines, outfits etc..

For more info on Fort Thunder, Forcefield, etc. go to: http://www.fortthunder.org

Hope to see you there,

harrell