Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper are GLOOP
Anthony Hudson / Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper August 17, 18, and 19, 2023, at 7:00 pm 15 NE Hancock St. Portland, OR pica.org
GLOOP Workshop Primer As part of GLOOP’s corporate culture, tipping cash is encouraged via the “intention buckets” located a the front of your seating section.
The artists would like to thank RiMoan (
@rimoan_) for their tip butlering and services, and Ralph for his sacrifice.
GLOOP is sponsored in part by The Property Weirdos: Queer Realtors Queering Portland, One House at a Time. Are you Buy-Curious? Visit propertyweirdos.com to learn more.
Sometimes you will want to hand items, money, and other offerings to the administratrixes on stage—DO NOT TOUCH THESE WOMEN—that is what the bucket is for. Alternatively, there will be opportunities to tip (with intention) projected digitally via unique 5G and immune-boosted QR codes or via Cashapp @thepepperpepper or venmo @thepepperpepperpdx.
May your heart be as generous and as light as your wallet. many blursings. - TEAM GLOOP
Time-Released PICA welcomes you to Time-Released, a new member of the TBA family. From now through the end of November, PICA will present programming from local, national, and international artists ranging from installations, exhibitions, workshops, performances, discussions, gatherings, and so much more! Developed with artists and you in mind, Time-Released reimagines how we come together in the name of curiosity, inquiry, and the expression of new ideas. Save the dates for the full lineup of programs: August 17, 18, and 19 Anthony Hudson / Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper, Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper are GLOOP
GLOOP GLOOP is a lifestyle. GLOOP is a brand. GLOOP is a modality. GLOOP is Glamorous Ladies of Opulent Persuasion. GLOOP is Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper—Portland, Oregon’s premier avant-garde drag duo— bringing you an evening-length, partially improvised drag explosion sending up whiteness and wellness culture. In GLOOP, Carla and Pepper are slated to lead a psychedelic wellness seminar in Sedona until their party bus runs out of gas at PICA, where they are left with no choice but to teach homodalities and hole-istic healing practices— and all before the mushrooms kick in. Tackling art therapy, micro-dosing, land acknowledgments, and demonstrating what it looks like when a drag queen has a meltdown while lip-syncing on an actively-inflating airbed, GLOOP will teach you how to overcome (and monetize) your limiting beliefs through a gauntlet of spectacularly unhinged drag from two of Portland’s most beloved grifters. About the Artists
August 24 – September 24 Seba Calfuqueo, Alka domo (Co-presented with Converge 45) August 26 Seba Calfuqueo, Flowing Like Waterfalls (Co-presented with Converge 45) August 29 Seba Calfuqueo with Malcolm Peacock, Vo Vo, and moderator Derek Franklin, Panel Discussion September 23 – November 5 / Performances October 6, 7, and 8 Will Rawls, [siccer] October 10 – November 10 Allie Hankins and Hannah Krafcik, By My Own Hand, Part 3: THE ACHE
Anthony Hudson (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Siletz) is an artist and writer sometimes better known as Portland’s premiere drag clown Carla Rossi. Together they host and program Queer Horror—the only LGBTQ horror film and performance series in the country—at the historic Hollywood Theatre. Anthony’s performances have been featured at the New York Theatre Workshop, La Mama, PICA’s TBA Festival, Portland and Seattle Art Museums, Portland Center Stage, and they have toured internationally. Find out more at TheCarlaRossi.com.
November 17 and 18 Andrew Tay and Stephen Thompson, Make Banana Cry
So spice, they named her twice—Pepper Pepper is a multimedia performance artist and writer. Their work explores the comedy and vulnerability of life through a surreal filter of magic, history, and technology. Their 15+ year participation in Portland’s drag nightlife parallels collaborations with Portland theater and dance companies Hand2Mouth Theater, Risk/Reward, and Linda Austin Dance. A 2020 Visual Arts Fellow from Oregon Arts Commission, Pepper actively hybridizes visual and performance practices through projects like Diva Practice and, more recently, Pink Moment—a series of self-portraits about gender, magic, and digital identity in ink, video, and dance. Find out more at thepepperpepper.com.
DB Amorin, long shadow (Co-presented with Third Angle New Music)
Release Dates Coming Joseph Keckler in collaboration with Holland Andrews, Cove of Harmony, Episode 1
Special Thanks Thank you to Anthony Hudson, Pepper Pepper, and our Time-Released artists who will present work over the next four months. Thank you to our audience and community members who mean so much to this organization. Thank you also to our board members, past, present, and future, and our donors and funders; this would not be possible without you. And, a very special thank you to Victoria Frey. Thank You The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Business Oregon The Collins Foundation The Ford Family Foundation The Jackson Foundation The Kinsman Foundation James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Oregon Community Foundation Regional Arts & Culture Council
PICA Staff Roya Amirsoleymani Carol Atkinson Jakob Dawahare Erté deGarces Erin Boberg Doughton Arminda Gandara Molly Gardner Madison Hames Jeff Hu Kristan Kennedy Samantha Ollstein Van Pham Reuben Roqueñi Ashley Schmidt Leslie Vigeant Time-Released GLOOP Staff Rory Breshears Alan Cline Abby Jacquin
Saibi Khalsa
Allison Knight-Blaine Lenny Beach Mat Larimer Adrian Mcbride Nathan Norris Liz “L” Quezada