Drama Informed are two old friends and allies, Miau and Vera, creating space for themselves and others to further discover themselves.

Drama Informed are a live electronic dance music duo from Portland, Oregon.

Drama Informed are two radical queers envisioning an empowered queer utopia together using an immersive sensory experience.

Vera (Krista Catwood) is a longtime Portland burlesque dancer, drag artist, stage performer, costume artist, and lead singer for PDX band, Ancient Heat. Miau (Amoxtli Reyes) is a transdisciplinary artist and musician with an MFA from Portland State. Returning Risk/Reward audiences may recognize Amo from ATOLE – we presented their performance of CANELA last August in Portland Center Stage’s studio theater. It’s awesome to be able to bring Vera and Miau in to finish out our Late Night Showcase!

Photos by Mason Rose and Drama Informed.

Vera and Miau will be performing their piece “Drama Informed” as part of the Late Night Showcase event of our 2024 Festival of New Performance – June 22nd and 23rd, 10pm each night.

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Have you ever been to the ASStral plane? You know, the place to dream, the place to grow, the place to suck your toes until you blow? It’s a place of exploration, transportation, transmutation. Your desires, your fantasies, your big sticky icky wishes can come to life. On the ASStral plane, gorgeous gorgeous girls get their gorgeous gorgeous wings before they fly away. glitch_bitch wants to take you there.

Remember, there’s no shame on the ASStral plane.

This inventive and recursive video project is the perfect thing for our new Late Night Showcase – artistic, sexy, and weird as hell. Join us in the Warehouse to party on the ASStral plane!

Sarah Turner is a new media and video artist who creates large scale immersive environments and performances through analog media and creative coding. She engages in ritual and contemporary mythologies to augment reality through performative psycho spiritual activations. Turner is the Co-Founder of Mobile Projection Unit, which creates site specific installations around the Pacific Northwest & New York through outdoor projection mapping. Her work has been shown at Portland Art Museum, Wieden + Kennedy, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s TBA Festival, Portland International Film Festival, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Northwest Film Center, Spaceness Festival, Marfa Open Festival, Laboratory Residency and more. Turner received an MFA at Alfred University in Electronic Integrated Art.

Sarah Turner will be performing their piece “Fantasy Download” as part of the Late Night Showcase event of our 2024 Festival of New Performance – June 22nd and 23rd, 10pm each night.

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A naked figure stands in front of a river in an arid landscape, wearing a headdress of orange tulle atop a cow skull

One of the best parts of being at PICA and having both of their huge and excellent spaces is exactly that – having two spaces, right next to each other. Without spoiling exactly what will happen, we are very excited that the Trash Witch Trio is up for blending those two spaces together. Their part of the evening is going to start as the mainstage show is getting out, a long site-specific element that will culminate with the beginning of the 10pm Late Night Showcase. Combining film-making, performance, and ritual, this piece is going to deal with some heavy themes in some very novel ways, and it could only happen in its full glory in this larger, multi-venue festival format.

Crimson Ravarra, Mychelle Moritz, and Megita Denton aka The Trash Witch Trio are three multi-media artists who intertwine the contemporary, movement, fine arts, and time based mediums to evoke powerful social reverberations. Megita’s textile work will also be on view until August as part of Oregon Contemporary’s Biennial.

A figure stands in an arid grassland, green hills in the distance, facing away; they wear an outfit of pink and orange tulle, blowing in the wind

Trash Witch Trio will be performing their piece “Brujas de Basura” as part of the Late Night Showcase event of our 2024 Festival of New Performance – June 22nd and 23rd, 10pm each night. (For the FULL experience, come to the 7pm mainstage event and stick around after!)

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Artist Profile: Drama Informed

Drama Informed are two old friends and allies, Miau and Vera, creating space for themselves and others to further discover themselves.

Drama Informed are a live electronic dance music duo from Portland, Oregon.

Drama Informed are two radical queers envisioning an empowered queer utopia together using an immersive sensory experience.

Vera and Miau will be performing their piece “Drama Informed” as part of the Late Night Showcase event of our 2024 Festival of New Performance – June 22nd and 23rd, 10pm each night.

GET TICKETS!

Artist Profile: Sarah Turner

Remember, there’s no shame on the ASStral plane.

Sarah Turner will be performing their piece “Fantasy Download” as part of the Late Night Showcase event of our 2024 Festival of New Performance – June 22nd and 23rd, 10pm each night.

Artist Profile: Trash Witch Trio

Trash Witch Trio will be performing their piece “Brujas de Basura” as part of the Late Night Showcase event of our 2024 Festival of New Performance – June 22nd and 23rd, 10pm each night. (For the FULL experience, come to the 7pm mainstage event and stick around after!)

GET TICKETS!