Open Call Guerilla Outdoor Performance Festival

Photo Chris Freeman

North Park and South Park Blocks, Portland, OR

Videos: Chad States “Making the Weather” 2016, duration: 18:05 Sascha Hughes-Caley “Untitled (Mistake)” 2015, duration: 3:37 Sascha Hughes-Caley “Here” 2015, duration: 1:39 Matt Kalasky “I Am The One Who Knocks” 2017, duration 15:00 Maria Dumlao “Solar Motel Part I and Part II” 2014, duration 20:00

North Park Blocks, Portland, OR video by Chris Freeman

North Park Blocks, Portland, OR

Photos by Chris Freeman North Park Blocks, Portland, OR

South Park Blocks, Portland, OR

North Block Park, Portland, OR

Photo by Chris Freeman

Performance imprinting body onto American Flag in the mud. Photo by Chris Freeman South Park Blocks, Portland, OR

Get your lovely face drawn by a professional amateur portrait artist. Grinning, pouting, emotionless: you choose the face pose you want to be captured on paper. No money required. Just donate a piece of interesting trash in exchange for a portrait. Each portrait only costs 1 trash, so bring multiple trashes and get multiple portraits! North Park Blocks, Portland, OR

My performance will consist of making paper masks portraits of ordinary people in the city. While I am not skilled in the tradition of caricature art, my masks nonetheless bare stylized and often humorous likeness to my subjects, due to the intrinsically fun spirit of caricatures and plein air park portraiture. The masks are free and will be encouraged to be photographed and worn throughout the festival. I will set my station up on a simple box on a park bench, giving myself a flat surface and allowing room for a sitter. South Park Blocks, Portland, OR

Chelsea Couch Bowled Over I will provide a collection of fruits and vegetables as well as institutional objects alongside a reservoir of object-based interactive prompts. Participants will enact these prompts—each performance will be documented by a single photograph. Each participant will be invited to contribute a prompt utilizing the remaining objects. The performance will continue until each object has been interacted with once, or until the park closes. North Park Blocks, Portland, OR

For OCGOPF Lunch Series Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, PA

Using the vernacular of nature park signage, my plan is to create garden plaques, brochures and an informational kiosk to inform the public about pollinator-friendly native plants and their importance to the local ecosystem and community. This project takes inspiration from the Los Angeles Urban Rangers collective and current projects like the Seattle Pollinator Pathway and Portland’s City Repair. They serve their communities by encouraging city-dwellers to look at their urban landscape as part of the larger ecosystem. I’m also informed by the work of the Olmstead Brothers, whose involvement in the development of the Portland Parks system at the turn of the 20th century influenced the feel of the city that we still enjoy today. The Park Blocks already existed at that time, but the Olmsteads made recommendations that the city reunite the North and South blocks, as well as create green promenades connecting all their proposed nature parks together. They strongly believed that a connection to nature was essential to the health of any city. North Park Block, Portland, OR

We intend to create a performance piece that will interrogate rape culture in society. One of us will be partially clothed; while the other person paints “boys will be boys” repeatedly on her body for 3 hours, from 10am to 1pm in the South Park blocks, with a welcome mat placed in front that reads the definition of the phrase “boys will be boys” which is as follows: “used to express the view that mischievous or childish behavior is typical of boys or young men and should not cause surprise when it occurs.” A bucket of paint will be set out to invite the audience to participate. The only rule is that it has to be the words “boys will be boys.” South Park Blocks, Portland, OR

This work will consist of a performer (me) patrolling a small area enclosed by a 6 foot tall white picket fence as a means of addressing current immigration issues and the correlation between security and demarcation of land . Within the fence will be enclosed a small plastic American flag and the performer will be dressed as a security guard. The performer will not interact with the audience in any way except to prevent them from touching or getting too near the fence. This work is primarily in response to the immigration demand and proposal of building a border wall but also deals with issues of the privatization of public lands and the modern extensions of colonialism. This piece will be performed on April 18th from sunrise to sunset on the north park block in front of PNCA. North Park Blocks, Portland, OR