Pro Arts Gallery & Commons

Pro Arts' resident Music Research Strategies/Marshall Trammell, is premiering a film project, shot in The Tribune Tower for the Borealis Festival, this Friday, March 19 at 9pm to 11pm (Oslo time) AND 1pm to 3pm PST time. Here is the trailer: https://assets.adobe.com//bb5834cd-9dc1-4dde-42b2-046ba25d.

We got vaxed @molliekatrinaunderwood

@music.research.strategies Performing Pro Arts COMMONS in Oakland CA #PPAC @proartsoakland @andnat

This is what I am doing with my new comrades @Agency! stay tuned on massive updates..!!! @endeavors_oakland @thepeoplesconservatory

@akili.simba our micro-gallery looking good

it’s very official! #occupyip #copyright #intellectualproperty #proartscommons #performingproartscommons #certificateofregistration

TERRAIN: ART & CRISIS IN DOWNTOWN OAKLAND EDITED BY SAM LEFEBVRE Charting the contemporary landscape of art and crisis in Oakland. This print publication features more than a dozen Oakland artists and writers on mutual-aid and cultural production during a year of interlocking crises and unrest. Published by Pro Arts Gallery & COMMONS, edited by Sam Lefebvre, designed by June Little Soldier and Dio Brooks, and printed in collaboration with Mollie Underwood (Pro Arts), also fea...tures the following individual and collective contributors: alex cruse, Moments Cooperative & Community Space, Queers United in Community Care, Julian Francis Park, We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For, Phillip Greenlief and Brian Bartz. 44-page publication, 7.5"x9.5", perfect-bound and risograph-printed in an edition of 200. https://www.proartscommons.org//terrain-art-and-crisis-by-

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More pics of brand new zine by Oakland artist @johannapoethigsilver. Link to purchase in bio! Out now!

INVOCATION DEMOCRACY is live!! ID is a political and mystical virtual exhibition hosted at www.proartscommons.org Go check it out! Show curation by the wonderful @monetclark

Tomorrow! The wonderful Praba Pilar with Charlotte Sáenz and Ben Simmons. Visit Prabapillar.com to register for the Zoom webinar, 4-5pm PST #technotamales #technotamaladas

INVOCATION DEMOCRACY a Political and Mystical Virtual Exhibition Curated by Monet Clark Art provides us with a liminal space wherein momentary suspensions from our patterned thoughts and identities can be experienced, allowing for us to align with new states of awareness. Art can reveal cultural biases and their impacts, function as a catalyst for change, and it builds culture. As we nationally and globally navigate through this time of political, social, environmental and he...alth crises, the voice of the artist is needed now more than ever. With a nod to Holistic Theory and Intersectional Feminism or what I like to refer to as Holistic Intersectionality, and through the synergy of the sum of its parts, INVOCATION DEMOCRACY provides a virtual space to reflect on and envision the preservation and repair of our democracy. Joining together painters, performance, video, interdisciplinary and recording artists from across the nation, INVOCATION DEMOCRACY provides an interstice for grief, a necessary step for action, and suggests that all of our intentions, actions and our votes matter, especially during this time of transitioning power structures. INVOCATION DEMOCRACY proposes that a healthy democracy protects not only all of the people within its borders, but also the land within its boundaries, through policies which promote proper land stewardship and management, which includes protections of animals with respect to local and global ecosystems. It maintains that healthy regional democracies engage in practices which contribute healthfully to the global climate both socially, politically and environmentally. It explores the links between Climate Change and misogyny, empire, white supremacy and cultural biases that are dismissive of indigenous perspectives globally, the mystic, the intuitive, the feminine, and the sentience of animals and nature. INVOCATION DEMOCRACY contemplates the impacts of all of these on our ailing democracy, and just what it may take to transform it.

Tonight on @ratskinrecords YouTube channel. Ticket link in our bio.

tomorrow! Co-Presented with. @ratskinrecords . Ticket link in bio. Saturday October, 24th, 2020. 8pm-11pm.... $5-15 Sliding Scale Ticket Link Dream lineup Ratskin Night w/ MATMOS, @daxpiersonmusic , @wizard.apprentice , @2xmono @malocculsion x @serioushype as coral remains. @headboggle DJ’s A Virtual Night Of Outsider Experimental Music, Sound, and Performance featuring First up, a group that has been hugely influential to Ratskin as well as Coral Remains ..... Baltimore’s MATMOS Matmos is M. C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel. Currently based in Baltimore, the duo formed in San Francisco in the mid 1990s, and self-released their eponymous debut album in 1997. Marrying the conceptual tactics and noisy textures of object-based musique concrete to a rhythmic matrix rooted in electronic pop music, the two quickly are known for their highly unusual sound sources: amplified crayfish nerve tissue, the pages of bibles turning, water hitting copper plates, liposuction surgery, washing machines, chin implant surgery, contact microphones on human hair, rat cages, tanks of helium, a cow uterus, human skulls, snails, plastic objects, cards shuffling, laser eye surgery, whoopee cushions, balloons, latex fetish clothing, rhinestones, insects, life support systems, inflatable blankets, rock salt, solid silver ingots, the sound of a frozen stream thawing in the sun, a five gallon bucket of oatmeal. These raw materials are manipulated into surprisingly accessible forms, and often supplemented by traditional musical instruments played the group’s large circle of friends and collaborators. Image Description: Two white men holding pink plastic shields in front of their faces, both with glasses,. The shield form a sharp rectangle around their face and tints their skin dark pink, a rather warm vibe but slightly unnerving. One man had brown hair and the other has light silver / light brown hair. They play in the band Matmos. #matmos #sanfrancisco #baltimore #experimentalmusic #oakland #jeffcarey #wizardapprentice #coralremains #ratskinrecords #music #avantgarde

NEW on Intervenxions "The Techno-Tamaladas" by Pilar Praba "The project is based on maíz and nixtamalization as Indigenous technologies of life. It asks publics to reimagine technological development by affirming the concepts of relational accountability and reciprocity of the Indigenous and Afro Americas. Through community tamaladas, we share possibilities of resurgence amidst our communities in crisis."... Click the link in bio to read more. #LatinxProjNYU #TechnoTamaladas

We are excited to announce that our writer in residence @lefebvre.sam will be creating a multi-contributor, standalone publication, Terrain: Art & Crisis in Downtown Oakland. Included commissions will be paid (1500 words). Find the link to apply in Sam’s bio. The link for more info on the projects we are currently incubating, including this printed publication is in our bio!

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PRO ARTS IS AN APPLICATION STATION FOR THE RED BULL ARTS MICROGRANT PROGRAM: OAKLAND. $1000 Grants! https://www.proartscommons.org/red-bull-microgrants

This saturday! Ticket Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/matmos-wizard-apprentice-dax-p... Matmos Dax Pierson Wizard Apprentice Jeff Carey Coral Remains DJ Headboggle 8PM PST / 11PM EST Stream at: https://youtube.com/c/ratskinrecordsofficial

ATTN OAKLAND ARTIST: Need $1k for your art project or practice? Apply here (deadline for this round is Nov. 20) https://www.proartscommons.org/red-bull-microgrants

https://www.eastbayexpress.com//the-musical-reinv/Content Dax Wentworth Pierson on the cover of East Bay Express "The Musical Reinvention Of Dax Pierson"... Catch a special set from Dax on 10/24. Not to be missed. "I had to put together a workflow that wasn't already there," he explained. "Things are still in development, and it seems like the users are dictating how they develop. A lot of software developers are new to this, and they're noticing gaps in the market."

Register to Attend or Watch Live Stream at YouTube Register to attend: https://sfsu.zoom.us/web/register/WN_VYScRLW2QEiRf5GwKOFvjQ... Watch Live Stream: https://www.youtube.com/playlist For the last program in The Poetry Center's In Common Writers Series for 2020, we are delighted to host renowned poet and art critic John Yau, appearing from New York City. Saturday October 17, Yau joins with Claudia La Rocco, poet/performer and editor of Open Space at SFMOMA, reading and in conversation. Saturday's eventwhich follows Yau reading his poetry and talking, Thursday October 15, with Andrew Joron also reading, emcee Carlos Quinteros IIIwill focus on John Yau's work as art critic and curator. With emcee, Brandon Brown. Please note early start time! This remote-access event starts promptly at 6:00 pm Pacific Time, and is free and open to the public. Media captioning at YouTube link; for reasonable accommodations please contact [email protected]. The In Common Writers Series is supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund. Co-sponsored by The Poetry Center, Open Space, and Pro Arts Gallery & Commons, Oakland. Please consider making a donation to Pro Arts Gallery & Commons, "a shared space for the expanded field of art, debate, experimentation, and collaboration...." This event was formerly slated to be hosted by Pro Arts and we'd like to help generate support for their crucial cultural work. The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University Natalia Ivanova Mount