Three public lectures (all at different times!) take place this week before First Thursday.

Mon • Jan 29 • 8:15



Frida Yngstrom & Staffan Hjalmarsson • PSU MFA Monday Night Lecture Series
5th Avenue Cinema • Room 92
510 SW Hall St

• Frida Yngstrom and Staffan Hjalmarsson are two Swedish artists living in the city of Gothenburg where they are active as individual practitioners and working together in the group GLU. During the last two years they have collaborated and using artistic strategies in working with asylum politics and different kinds of educational programs to teach and use contemporary art to intervene and affecting change in society. GLU has been functioning within the political networks ‘Flyktingamnesti 2005’ (refugee amnesty 2005), ‘Natverket Asyl’ (Asylum network) , ‘Ingen Manniska ar illegal’ (no man is illegal) as well as within the educational program of Goteborgs Konsthall and in the upcoming spring at the artist run gallery space Box in Gothenburg.

Frida Yngström works with audience participation, site specific installation and performance. The work involves questions of value and delegation of responsibility.

Frida Yngström has been working and exhibiting worldwide in China, Bogota Columbia, Melbourne Australia and recently showed with the experimental London gallery ‘the center of attention‘ in London May 2006, Istanbul Modern Oct 2006-Jan 2007 and was awarded the prize of best Artist 2006 by Gothenburg Nojesguiden.

Staffan Hjalmarsson has during the past five years collaborated with a number of individual artists, schools and different kind of organizations. An ongoing project is a temporary art centre at Göteborg´s main shopping centre in collaboration with the regional library, artists, hidden refugees and different groups that have little or none access to privileged parts of the city. Staffan Hjalmarsson has exhibited among other places in different spaces in Gothenburg and at Modern Museum of Beograd, Serbia and Galleri Titanik Abo, Finland. (press release)


Wed • Jan 31 • 12:30p



Julie Orser
Artist Talk : PNCA’s Feldman Gallery
Wed • Jan 31 • 12:30-1:30p
1241 NW Johnson St

• Artist and PNCA alumna Julie Orser ’99, brings her latest video installation "Anna Moore" to the Feldman Gallery. Orser will also curate several international works from ART OFFICE, a time-based collective. (press release)


Wed • Jan 31 • 3:30-5p


Harrell Fletcher
5th Avenue Cinema • Room 90
510 SW Hall St

• Harrell Fletcher will be doing a free public lecture about his work as part of his Art and Social Practice class on Wednesday, 1/31 from 3:30-5pm at the 5th Ave cinema room 90.