AIF crew 2024
Jason Rhodes /the 181
Bend, OR ( and elsewhere )
Artist collective the 181 is based in Bend, Oregon; Eugene, Oregon; and Old Fort, North Carolina. As far as they can tell, the 181 has been working together since 2007 when they found themselves gathered by the Pacific Ocean with a glim glam golden Q, roughly 10 yards of transparent lavender vinyl, and a broken hold on the sea’s reflection.
The 181 is interested in composing situations that generate experiential spaces which expand, contract, or reassemble as information sloshes about. Imperfect approximations of the universe as a whole. Artists, a physicist/electronic engineer/musician, a mushroom forager/rockhound, and a former linotype operator—any attempts to formalize their practice are viewed with distress.
Jason Rhodes
Tom Hughes
Abby Donovan
Brandon Boan
the 181 TREX report
fast from afar his friends hurried heavily gazing
The 181 Report Refrain for Confluence Lab
June 2024
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KET IO> slurred
A star, or the like of a star, that is hurled down by the night. And the work, like the wind,
has direction.
(Any parameter that is specified is a function of an array)
Within “the” fire
woke the thirst•
thickening
radiance
from all physical being
instrumentation noted
<Intervallic inversion>
increased in degree
by proximities
to flickering shoreline
for the quench of flame
Smoke also has direction. But smoke has direction within direction within direction...so the
work is more like smoke than like wind.
courtings of erasure
a longing
for the burning
lick
the promise of things beyond these
SOUND CARRIES
open :end
finding the position of a distant object
the 181: Brandon Boan, Abby Donovan, Tom Hughes, & Jason Rhodes
we were standing on the shore |non-planetary twilight>
the 181: Brandon Boan, Abby Donovan, Tom Hughes, & Jason Rhodes