Signal Fire provides residencies on public land to artists of any creative discipline. Each
summer we bring selected artists out to the forest and provide them
with food, maps, battery power and a magnificent 12x12 canvas wall tent
for work and sleep space. The tents are equipped with a desk, cot and rug for a comfortable living space, as well as kitchen utensils
and food for self-served breakfast and lunch. Each tent is set apart
from the others, but within a short walk to a base camp.
Signal Fire organizers are stationed at the base camp, available for emergency and unforeseen needs. The group gathers for dinner each evening, served by the organizers at the base camp. This year’s Outpost Residency took place in Eastern Oregon’s stunning Wallowa Mountains. The Wallowas, often called “Oregon’s Alps,” are one of the wildest places in the continental U.S. They are home to Oregon’s largest wilderness area (Eagle Cap), Sacajawea Peak (nearly 10,000 feet), and the recent reintroduction of gray wolves. Residents enjoyed a remote, self-directed experience on the public land of Wallowa-Whitman National Forest. Signal Fire provides camping accommodation in canvas wall tents, simple food, and regional transportation. Residents are responsible for their own materials and supplies, and transportation to and from either Portland or La Grande, Oregon. Aside from service animals, no pets are permitted. | 2012 OUTPOST Session 1: July 14-20 Miguel Arzabe Dan Gilsdorf Shaw Pong Liu Eva Struble Session 2: July 22-28 Pele Bauch Photos of 2012 Outpost THE JURY  Matthew Stadler is a writer and editor living in Portland, Oregon. He has written four novels and received several awards and fellowships in recognition of his work. More recently, he has compiled four anthologies about literature, city life and public life. His essays have been published in magazines and museum catalogs around the world. In 2009, Matthew cofounded Publication Studio, bringing together the common view of DIY practice with global reach by using cheap, widely-available print on demand technologies. Publication Studio has published close to 150 titles.  Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen are artists. Working at the nexus of art and text, reading and writing, theory and action, their idea-based practice fuses history, fiction, autobiography, and artistic commentary into a wide variety of material works, from poster projects, sculpture and multi-media installations, to publications, indexes and performative lectures. Their work has been recently shown at PDX Contemporary Art, Tacoma Art Museum, PICA's Time-Based Arts Festival, and published in NOON Literary Annual. They are represented by PDX Contemporary Art in Portland, Oregon.  Julie Perini is an artist working in video, film, audio, installation, and performance, living in Portland, Oregon. Her work has exhibited at the Northwest Film Festival in Portland, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions in San Francisco, Anthology Film Archives in New York City, and other national and international venues. She has had solo exhibitions and screenings in New York City, Ithaca, Buffalo, Rochester, Los Angeles, Portland, Lake Tahoe, and Rome, Italy. She is a recipient of the 2007 New York Foundation for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship in Cross-Disciplinary/Performative work. Julie holds a B.S. from Cornell University and an M.F.A. from the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo. Her writing on performance, video, and socially engaged art has been published in books and periodicals including A.K. Press, Afterimage, and INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media & Radical Aesthetics. Julie has been involved with collaborative initiatives that promote independent media, community cultural production, and progressive social change. She is the Assistant Professor of Video Art/Time-based Media at Portland State University.  mbilly is a Portland, OR based musical project of M. William Helfrich who is releasing his second album, Malheur in February 2012. Following the 2010 release of Mister Nobody Baby, Oregon Public Broadcasting wrote, "Mbilly's songs are so powerfully understated, so unaffectedly real. Reflective insight and good songwriting make for a good listen." He has shared the stage with the likes of Vetiver, Weinland, Michael Hurley, Robbie Fulks, Tara Jane Oneil, Norfolk and Western. |
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