One of the best art centers in the NW is in Springfield, Oregon, just outside of Eugene. Yes, Eugene, famous for people sitting in trees to save them from logging and the fire-bombing of the occasional SUV lot.
Opening Saturday at Ditch Projects is Patrick Rock’s happening/installation, Face It, You’re Hippies!
In Face It You’re Hippies!, anti-sociologist Patrick Rock spends six days living in a bunker below the Ditch Projects space, using that time to obsessively and painstakingly construct a physical manifesto of Oregonian identity designed to turn the viewer into salt at a single glance. Details are fuzzy, but the following statements are certainly true: something is going to burn, something is going to die, and the landlord is going to be pissed. Rock’s tenure will culminate in a neo-pagan anti-potluck on Aug. 15 featuring a musical performance by cock rockers PISS.
Patrick Rock, from his series, The West, 2002:
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