Lyndsay Sung is a master of deception.

This baked potato is really a birthday cake.

See more at cococake.

The definition of fan fiction from Merriam Webster is: a fictional account written by a fan of a show, movie, book, or video game to explore themes and ideas that will not or cannot be explored via the originating medium; also called fanfic.

What happens if we apply this model to the visual arts? The Da Vinci Code for conceptual art, perhaps?

I am looking for writers to participate in this experiment -

I am looking for:

Fiction between 2000 and 5000 words

Fiction based on one or more contemporary artworks

A final draft by November 1^st, 2010

Playfulness & campiness are strongly encouraged!

Please join us this Saturday at 11 am for Regifting Economies, a short talk by Helen Reed. This is the third lecture happening in conjunction with Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen’s exhibition The Classroom, which is on view this month at PDX Contemporary Art.

In The Classroom, Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen present a new body of work that deals with the politics and aesthetics of education. Through the exploration of a variety of pedagogical tools and methods they have created a selection of objects and prints. From modular Mondrian building blocks to color analyses of literary classics there is something for every kind of student. With the current inflation of people pursuing higher education, despite its mounting cost, increased privatization and decreased rigor, it seems particularly appropriate to portray the classroom transparently as a place of commerce. Knowledge is valuable, but it is more valuable still to acquire the ability to transmit that knowledge. What we learn is less important than how we learn.

Helen Reed is an artist based in Portland, Oregon. Over the past 5 years Helen’s art practice has involved working with specific invested communities. During this time she has landed the first senior citizen on the moon, contacted Marshall McLuhan by Ouija Board, and coordinated a lesbian-separatist rave in the farmlands of Ontario. Her most recent project is Twin Twin Peaks, a 3rd Season of Twin Peaks, written and acted by the show’s fans. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at The Kitchen in New York City, Power Plant Contemporary Art in Toronto, The Portland Art Museum, The Seattle Art Museum and La Centrale in Montreal. Helen Reed holds a BFA from the Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver, BC and an MFA in Art and Social Practice from Portland State
University.

This is one of four lectures happening in conjunction with Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen’s exhibition The Classroom on view at PDX Contemporary during the month of July. Each Saturday a local educator will use the objects of The Classroom to present on a variety of topics including, but not limited to, fan culture, pedagogy, language and literacy.

Saturday, July 24th: Helen Reed
Saturday, July 31st: Barry Sanders

All lectures will be at 11 am at PDX Contemporary Art.

925 NW Flanders, Portland, OR

We hope to see you there!

Here’s Jill:

She recently graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design MFA program. Here is an image from her thesis exhibition  Hyper Hyper:

Wish I coulda been there… in flesh, instead of on facebook.

But I want to draw your attention to this:

Condensations of the Social, the show, curated by Sara Reisman, at Smack Mellon.

There is a lot of really exciting work in the show, including documentation of Touch Sanitation by Mierle Laderman Ukeles (legendary!)

I feel really honored to have participated as well, with six of my classmates, on a project called Let Knowledge Serve the City.

Exhibition Dates: June 19 – August 1, 2010

Smack Mellon, 92 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn, New York

If you are in New York I recommend taking a look!

Portland State University MFA in Contemporary Art Practice Graduate exhibition tonight!

GROWN UPS | Opening Saturday, June 5 | 6 – 9 pm | @ Disjecta 8371 N Interstate