Our monthly guest artist series continues with Tim DuRoche in September 2007. Join the discussion as he writes about his experiences in creating art that celebrates the South Waterfront community.
Monthly Artist: September 07
Tim DuRoche is a musician/intermedia artist who melds a conceptual art sensibility with a jazz-based poetics of surprise to explore the slim boundaries between art, entertainment, and civic engagement. Over the last decade he has created site-specific performances, sound installations and action-events, and festival appearances with Beijing Opera musicians, Russian circus clowns, classic silent films, performance artists, auctioneers, blues legends, and an extensive array of US and European avant-garde jazz giants. DuRocheís conceptual strategies around sound-making have formed the ground for a bevy of intermedia collaborations with dancer-choreographers, poets, filmmakers, and with musical iconoclasts as diverse as Tiny Tim and Capín Jack McDuff. As a drummer, DuRoche currently leads the trio Resolution 57, Comme Il Faut (a project that explores the music of Ornette Coleman) and performs with the cooperatively led free music ensemble Better Homes & Garden.
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM Daily Movement Journal, Weekly Performance Happenings, Monthly Guest Artist Series, Place-based Installations, Big Dance Event (Jul/08), Summer Stage (Aug/08)
MONTHLY GUEST ARTISTS Tim DuRoche (Sep/07), Dana Lynn Louis (Oct/07), Dmae Roberts (Nov/07), Tahni Holt (Dec/07), David Oates (Jan/08), Christopher Rauschenberg (Feb/08), Adam Kuby (Mar/08), Mark R. Smith/Maria Inocencio (Apr/08), Horatio Hung-Yan Law (May/08), Linda Wysong (Jun/08), Bill Will (Jul/08), Sojourn Theatre (Aug/08)
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Linda K. Johnson has been a professional dance artist based in Portland, Oregon for the last 20 years. She has taught, performed, created and produced extensively throughout the region. Her concerns as an artist are social and environmental, and her projects have often addressed these interests in hybrid and unconventional compositional forms, formats and venues.
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