Anna Daedalus — visual artist
co-producer of The Late Now
Leo Daedalus — polyartist | performer | writer | filmmaker
host/impresario of The Late Now
IMMINENT:
Low Mass — May 19–27 in Experimental Film Festival Portland 2012
Opening May 19, 5–8 PM at PLACE Gallery: 700 SW 5th Ave.
The video installation Low Mass is an aural-visual-visceral experience of uncanny surface tension between sacred and profane modes, in which commercial culture-products are repurposed as richly liturgical and even mystical vehicles.
Agelastes Walks Into a Bar — May 23 in Neurobics (doors at 6:30)
Leo contemplates the precarious place of comedy in high culture in a talk entitled AGELASTES WALKS INTO A BAR: In defense of comedy in high culture in the Neurobics series.
7 PM (doors at 6:30) at PLACE, a gallery space on the third floor of the Pioneer Place Mall (Atrium Bldg) in downtown Portland. See details.
CURRENT:
Artists' Book Cornucopia III — April 20 – June 2 at Abecedarian, Denver
Anna & Leo'sTen Rocks with their English Translations, an edition of 8 handmade artists books, each with its accompanying rock, is in Abecedarian Gallery's third annual juried exhibition of artist's books, Artists' Book Cornucopia III, in Denver, Colorado.
EVIDENCE: collaborative works by 13 Hats — May 4–26 at Milepost 5
Opening Reception May 4, 6–10 PM.
Anna shows new work as a member of 13 Hats, a collaborative group of visual artists and writers active since 2011.
COMING UP:
★ THE LATE NOW — First Annual Bloomsday Garden Party — June 16
Leo hosts the thinking mammal’s live avant-variety-cabaret-talk show. Next up: Getting our James Joyce on with our first Bloomsday Garden Party, plus the first ever HugoBall Test Match. See details.
THE LATE NOW — Live from Mother Foucault's — June 20 6–7 PM
Live and Webcast
It's the second in the series: Leo and Craig and TLN cohost Alex Reagan talk serious books none too seriously in this monthly live webcast from Mother Foucault's Bookshop.
Experimental bookshelf performance — June 30 at St. Johns Booksellers
Coordinated by David Abel and also featuring fluxmaster Mark Owens. Details TBA.
13 Hats at Director Park — August 8 7–9 PM
Anna participates in this event as a member of 13 Hats, a collaborative group of visual artists and writers active since 2011.
Director Park Reading Series coordinator David Abel has invited 13 Hats to take over this evening's free, open-air event, right in downtown Portland at SW Park & Yamhill.
★ THE LATE NOW — at Director Park — August 13 7–9 PM FREE!
Leo hosts the thinking mammal’s live avant-variety-cabaret-talk show. TLN #3, Experimental Urban Poetics is a free, open-air episode, right in downtown Portland at SW Park & Yamhill.
Director Park Reading Series coordinator David Abel has invited Leo & The Late Now to take the stage and share the mic with special guest-star poets and performers.
★ THE LATE NOW — John Cage Centenary @ PNCA ~October 20 Details TBD
Leo hosts the thinking mammal’s live avant-variety-cabaret-talk show. This celebration of John Cage's 100th birthday live at Pacific Northwest College of Art coincides with Happy Birthday: A Celebration of Chance and Silence.
We're also working on a special skypecast with phenomenal Dutch sound poet/performer Jaap Blonk!
Exact date and times TBA. Stay tuned to the TLN site.
13 Hats at Gallery Homeland — December 2012 details TBA
Anna shows new work in this group exhibition as a member of 13 Hats, a collaborative group of visual artists and writers active since 2011.
13 Hats at SOIL Gallery, Seattle — April 2013 details TBA
Anna shows new work in this group exhibition as a member of 13 Hats, a collaborative group of visual artists and writers active since 2011.
PAST EVENTS:
International Waters (PDX Passport Project) — May 15 at Valentine's
Leo performs Hugo Ball sound poems with theremin master Mark Keppinger. Plus a bajillion other Research Club phenomena kicking off the Portland Passport Project.
THE LATE NOW — Live from Mother Foucault's — May 16 6–7 PM
Live and Webcast
Leo and Craig talk serious books none too seriously in this first of a new series of live webcasts from Mother Foucault's Bookshop.
13 Hats at Mother Foucault's Bookshop — May 10 6:30–7:30
Anna shows new work and a chap book designed and printed by her (with Leo) as a member of 13 Hats, a collaborative group of visual artists and writers active since 2011.
Mother Foucault's Bookshop, 523 SE Morrison St, PDX 97214.
★ THE LATE NOW — début Saturday, April 21 at Performance Works NW
Leo hosts the thinking mammal’s live avant-variety-cabaret-talk show. A considered fiasco for the avant set. The début episode was historic!
Liminal Presents Gertrude Stein — March 22–24 in March Music Moderne
Leo performs in, and Anna & Leo Daedalus produce a video accompaniment for, John Berendzen's presentation of Gertrude Stein's "Capital Capitals", composed by Virgil Thompson. All part of the March Music Moderne festival.
Wild Combination — March 7 at Holocene
Leo emcees Wild Combination, presented by Research Club and Holocene.
Barbara Guest Marathon Reading — Sat. Feb 11 at YU
Leo and 24 other readers feature in Spare Room Presents: A Marathon Reading of Barbara Guest's Collected Poems.
Everything Must Go — February 3 at Gallery Homeland
Leo performs in this dada/fluxus-veined performance organized by poet James Yeary for the opening of Jeff Diteman's Fabbri Series painting exhibition.
The Labyrinth of Tantalus — January at 23 Sandy Gallery
Installation for closed gallery + limited edition artist's book by Anna & Leo Daedalus.
2011
Worldviewer 60 — Dec. 2–31 — 23 Sandy Gallery
An interactive, modified, electrified globe and book by Anna & Leo Daedalus with Samuel Miller. Part of group show curated by Robert Tomlinson and Laura Russell.
Ten Rocks — Nov. 4–26 — 23 Sandy Gallery
Ten Rocks with their English Translations is an edition of 8 handmade artists books, each with its accompanying rock. Shown as part of Object Poems, a group exhibition curated by David Abel. (A few unsold copies are still on display at the gallery.)
Foreman Fest 2011 — Nov. 8–9 — Performance Works NW
Leo Daedalus emceed the 9th Annual Richard Foreman MiniFest, with special accomplices John Berendzen and Alex Reagan. It was crazy. Photos/video coming eventually.
