The Revolting Dance Party
Presented as part of Open Engagement
Amber LandgraffOne Night Only:
Saturday, May 19th
8:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.
@ RECESS
1127 SE 10th Avenue
Portland, OR 97214
The Revolting Dance Party is an ongoing project, based on Group Material’s project of the same name, that engages with music that is focused on social and political issues. Amber Landgraff DJs the event using songs shared on sites like Youtube in order to bring social media as an act of activism back from the imaginary space of the Internet and into a physical community space. For Open Engagement at RECESS, Landgraff will take the Revolting Dance Party into the streets, taking over the street and using the road as a gathering place to dance and share social and political music.
From Miami and living in Portland, Tori Abernathy is founder and co-director of RECESS. She studied art and anthropology at Reed College. The aesthetics and tactics of her work are borrowed directly from advertising, surveillance, city planning, social media and other institutional entities that mediate human behavior. Her work is concerned with exposing limitations on individual agency while championing the capacities of human subjectivity and free movement.
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