| The Tomorrow Theater - 3530 SE Division St. Portland, ORñ (enye) performance by ILVS + Memoria w/ Risk/Reward // PLUS PLUS FEST
We begin with ñ (enye), a performance by ILVS Strauss—an audiophile’s meandering, slyly humorous exploration of sound, language, and human connection, guided by a green rabbit across a lush, intentional soundscape.
Then, sink into Memoria, the beguiling, time-bending film from Palme d’Or-winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, starring Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton as a woman in Colombia plagued by an otherworldly auditory phenomenon.
Presented in partnership with PAM CUT, this pairing of live performance and cinematic mystery offers an evening designed to be felt as much as it is seen.
Performance by ILVS Strauss. Runtime: 20 minutes.
An audiophile’s unhurried story telling tangents into explorations of the physics of sound, speculations about the advent of language, and inquiries of basic human needs. Humorous, sly, and introspective, the titular character, a green rabbit, guides the audience on a journey through an intentional soundscape, audible and otherwise.
2021. Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Runtime: 136 minutes.
From the extraordinary mind of Palme D’or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and starring Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton, comes a bewildering drama about a Scottish woman, who, after hearing a loud ‘bang’ at daybreak, begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia.
Doors 6:30 p.m.; Event 7 p.m.
From a sociodemographic standpoint, ILVS is a 45-year-old, educated, queer, mixed-race, white-passing, female-bodied, Honduran-American artist. From a non-sociodemographic standpoint, they are still those things, but manifested in 3D by the ethereal: experience, values, judgement, desire, need, love, motivation, inspiration, etc.
ILVS once had a job as an analytical chemist for a pharmaceutical company (BA Chemistry – OSU) but then slowly pivoted to the arts (MFA Interdisciplinary Arts – SFU). The hats they wear are aplenty and at times they have been known to wear several at once: multi-disciplinary performance artist, writer, dancer, facilitator, technical director, lighting designer, and sound engineer.
Risk/Reward champions artists and audiences who push the boundaries of the performing arts. Finishing its 17th year, Risk/Reward empowers artists who live and work in our region; cultivates audiences that are hungry for adventurous performance work; forges collaborations across artistic disciplines and communities; and ignites ideas and provokes possibilities. Risk/Reward’s flagship is the Festival of New Performance, an annual festival that supports the creative process as a launch point for short new works. Using a community-curated approach wherein a panel of regional artists and administrators program each year’s lineup, the festival presents 4-6 pieces of new contemporary performance by Northwest artists. Risk/Reward then champions those works throughout their lifespan, including bringing new full-length contemporary performances to Portland stages.
Learn more at www.risk-reward.org or check out all seventeen years of festivals on the Risk/Reward YouTube channel.