By My Own Hand, Part 3: THE ACHE by Allie Hankins and Hannah Krafcik

By My Own Hand, Part 3: THE ACHE Allie Hankins & Hannah Krafcik

October 19 – November 5, 2023 15 NE Hancock St. Portland, OR pica.org

DATES & RELATED PROGRAMS

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

VIDEO EXHIBITION: Dates: October 19 – November 5, 2023 Gallery Hours: 12:00 – 6:00 pm Thursday & Friday / 12:00 – 4:00 pm Saturday & Sunday Location: PICA, 15 NE Hancock St.

Allie Hankins is a dancer, performer, and performance maker whose work toys with the destabilization of persona through uncanny physicality, layered imagery, and biting wit, all while trying to suppress her contentious eagerness to please. She is a resident artist and steward of FLOCK Dance Center, a studio and creative home to Portland’s experimental dance artists. In 2014, Allie co-initiated Physical Education, a performance research cooperative, with Lu Yim, keyon gaskin, and Takahiro Yamamoto. Physical Education hosts reading groups and lectures, curates festivals, and teaches workshops nationally. Most recently, Allie has danced for Milka Djordjevich (LA), Morgan Thorson (Minneapolis), and claire barrera (PDX). She has been an Artist in Residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, the Robert Rauschenberg Residency, Caldera, the Wassaic Project, Ucross, and Centrum.

VIDEO SCREENING AND PUBLICATION RELEASE RECEPTION: Date: October 28 from 2:00 – 4:00 pm Location: PICA, 15 NE Hancock St. The video installation and zine release event are open to the public and free to attend.

WORKSHOPS: Dates: October 21 & 22 / November 4 & 5

Hannah Krafcik is a Portland-based interdisciplinary neuroqueer artist and writer whose work emerges from ongoing reflections on social patterning and censorship, (over)stimulation, perseveration, and intuition. Their practices span dance and new media. They often create performances and teach dance in collaboration with artistic partner, Emily Jones.

By My Own Hand, Part 3: THE ACHE THE ACHE is the third installment of Allie Hankins’ five-part performance series of projects entitled,

By My Own Hand. Developed in collaboration with Hannah Krafcik, THE ACHE takes shape as 1) a video exhibition 2) a publication release and 3) a series of free intergenerational art-making workshops facilitated by local artists dee bustos, Muffie Delgado-Connelly, Midori Hirose, and Ralph Pugay.

THE ACHE calls attention to the myriad of ways selfhood can be constituted and remixed through creative acts of self-determination, exploring the tension between points of distinction and gradients of interrelation. It was conceived out of a desire to create more crossover between artistic field-based microcosms, to share knowledge of mediums, explore overlaps and divergences across practices, and to embolden artistic exploration of self by anyone at any age.

THE ACHE’s multichannel video installation includes: Videography by Allie Hankins, Miles Burnet, Jason Alberts, and Roland Dahwen Design and editing by Hannah Krafcik in collaboration with Allie Hankins Choreography by Allie Hankins with contributions from Linda Austin, claire barrera, keyon gaskin, Takahiro Yamamoto, and Lu Yim Lighting by Allison Knight-Blaine Captions by Marion Storm THE ACHE’s publication features: Layouts by Wes Mueller Illustrations and writing by Allie Hankins and Hannah Krafcik

ACCESS PHOTOSENSITIVITY WARNING: THE ACHE’s exhibition features complex, loud sound and multiple video projections that include footage that is shaky and quickened with fast cuts. It may not be safe for those who experience seizures, motion sickness, or overstimulation.

Please reach out to boxoffice@pica.org if you need ASL, or any other form of accommodation in order to participate in THE ACHE’s intergenerational art-making workshops.

Time-Released PICA welcomes you to Time-Released, a new member of the TBA family. From now through the end of November, PICA will present programming from local, national and international artists ranging from installations, exhibitions, workshops, performances, discussions, gatherings, and so much more! Developed with artists and you in mind, Time-Released reimagines how we come together in the name of curiosity, inquiry, and the expression of new ideas. Save the dates for the upcoming Time-Released programs: September 23 – November 5 Will Rawls, [siccer] October 28 DB Amorin, long shadow (co-presented with Third Angle New Music) November 9 K8 Hardy, Outfitumentary

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November 17 and 18 Andrew Tay and Stephen Thompson, Make Banana Cry

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pica.org/support/donations Special Thanks Many thank you to Allie Hankins, Hannah Krafcik, dee bustos, Ralph Pugay, Muffie Delgado Connelly, Midori Hirose, all of our Time-Released artists, our audience, and community members who mean so much to this organization. Thank you also to our board members, past, present, and future, and our donors and funders; this would not be possible without you. And, a very special thank you to Victoria Frey.

Thank you to our Time-Released Patron+Ticket holders Megan Gill and Mona McNeil.

Thank You The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Business Oregon The Collins Foundation The Ford Family Foundation The Jackson Foundation James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation The Kinsman Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Oregon Community Foundation Regional Arts & Culture Council

Time-Released Staff Lenny Beach Dan Bouthot Rory Breshears Alan Cline Kaya Kelly Saibi Khalsa Allison Knight-Blaine Urks Kurth Adrian McBride Nathan Norris Teddy Overalls Jake Powell Liz “L” Quezada Crimson Ravarra Mami Takahashi Hannon Welch

PICA Staff Roya Amirsoleymani Jakob Dawahare Erté deGarces Erin Boberg Doughton Arminda Gandara Molly Gardner Madison Hames Jeff Hu Kristan Kennedy Samantha Ollstein Van Pham Reuben Roqueñi Ashley Schmidt Leslie Vigeant