Tiffany Lee Brown: magdalen.com: MANOR OF ART + ART IS SPECTRUM

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Tiffany's writing has appeared in UTNE, Bookforum, Oregon Humanities, Tin House, Bust, Wired, and Portland Monthly, and in charming literary journals and anthologies such as Gargoyle, Northwest Edge, Slow Trains, and The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order. Her performance and installation works have been presented at Performance Works NW, Wordstock, the Enteractive Language Festival, and PICA, among others.

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Tiffany holds BA and MFA degrees, and has studied at the University of California, Berkeley; Goddard College; and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. She has received grants and residencies from RACC (Regional Arts & Culture Council), the City of Portland, Caldera Arts, Soapstone, and Hypatia, and serves on the Selection Committee for the Visual Arts Chronicle of Portland. She recently won the ArtEx Award.

Monday, August 17, 2009

MANOR OF ART + ART IS SPECTRUM

Greetings from one hell of a hectic August. Good news: the new Burning Tarot deck is complete! With the help of photographer Steven Fritz, and friends like Lena Munday and Donald Spitzer, I have installed the Burning Tarot live/installation at the Manor of Art at Milepost 5 in Portland, Oregon, on exhibition Aug 14-23.

I inhabit and wear part of the installation (frankly, it's just not so fun when I ain't inside it) at various times, and I give Tarot readings there, free or for an optional donation to New Oregon Arts and Letters. I'll definitely be around the following times: Wed Aug 19, 4-7 pm; Thurs 1:30-??; Fri 5-7 pm (probably longer); and Sat 3-5 pm (possibly longer). Come check it out.

To see the Burning Tarot project at Burning Man 2009, look on the Center Camp Cafe fence art installation, or come find us on the Playa. A bit of participatory, interactive work from The Easter Island Project will also be on display on the fence. We have a little yellow Tarot hut and a small sign that reads, you guessed it, "Burning Tarot." We'll be somewhere on the roadside perimeter of the Rocketship builders crew camp around 6:30 and B. The people of Burning Tarot are proud to be Oregon rocketeers in solidarity with the Oakland builders! Woo! I'm also helping the Flamethrower Shooting Gallery builders and workers, and simply insist that you go out there and shoot some flames if you're going to the festival this year.

Also, MikeT has assembled an interesting stream of quotes into a story about working with digital technology in art. I'm among the artists interviewed. Read it at artisspectrum.com.