100 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR 97232
IXNAY is the performance project of Maxx Katz and John Niekrasz. Using sound, video, and action, we make patterns for the third brain. Evidence of care, chaos on vacation, work and leisure, surfing undifferentiated space on bright veins of connective energy. We’re in love and the world is still beautiful.
BIOS:
Luke Wyland is an American interdisciplinary artist, composer, performer, and arts organizer who achieved international success as the multi-instrumentalist, singer and founder of the art-pop band AU (2005-2013). He has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe and has released records on New Amsterdam Records (US), Beacon Sound (US), The Leaf Label (EU), Aagoo (US), Hometapes (US), Crammed Discs (EU), Inpartmaint (Japan), and Pop Frenzy (Australia), amongst others.
His current project, Methods Body, is a collaboration with virtuosic drummer John Niekrasz. Their debut album is out now on New Amsterdam Records and Beacon Sound. Methodsbody.bandcamp.com
Maxx Katz is a multi-instrumentalist and composer whose work draws on vocabulary from metal, jazz, classical, free improvisation, and performance. A classically trained flutist with an M.A. in Music from the University of Virginia, she uses primarily flute, electric guitar, and voice as instruments of transformation. Katz has toured extensively in experimental bands across the U.S. and Europe. She was a resident at the 2019 Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music co-directed by Vijay Iyer and Tyshawn Sorey, and at the Atlantic Center for the Arts with flutist Nicole Mitchell. She composes work for ongoing ensembles including Yelling Choir, Floom, and Ixnay.
John Niekrasz is an American artist working in sound, language, and performance. His ensembles include Methods Body, IXNAY, Thicket, and Orchestra Becomes Radicalized. John received his MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is working on completing his first novel. John’s work struggles with such spectra as poverty and ornament, rigor and effortlessness, justice and militancy.
Long Drive Theatre is the collaborative project of Kaitlyn Petrik, artistic director, and Richie Greene, composer. Their first work, Six Monologues, was developed in collaboration with Kate Kilbourne and Andy Raybourne and had its premiere in August 2021. @longdrivetheatre
Kaitlyn Petrik is an artist and performer currently based in Portland, OR. Her work spans text, dance, video, and radio. She studied at the London Contemporary Dance School prior to receiving her BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art. In 2020, she founded Long Drive Theatre, a hub for the creation of new experimental works in music, dance, and theatre. @katalun
Richie Greene is a composer, arranger, tuning theorist and instrument builder based in Portland, Oregon. He has written music for the Oregon Symphony, 45ᵗʰ Parallel Chamber Orchestra, and choreographers and dancers of the New York City Ballet. Over the last six years Richie’s primary focus has been composing within microtonal systems, specifically “acoustic spectral realism,” works in extended just intonation, and temperaments other than 12-equal. @richiegreene
Shangri-La Sisters
Crystal Jiko and Salty present a treatise on love alchemizing loop sounds, spoken word and movement.
Crystal Jiko is a multiplicitous dance artist improvising formations of kinship. Salty Xi Jie Ng is a cosmic clown artist co-creating semi-fictional paradigms for the real and imagined lives of humans within the poetics of the intimate vernacular. Crystal and Salty are two watery creatures who chose to reunite in this lifetime to make a village together.
