About PDL

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PDL as SBC at TAM

Offspring at Olympic Sculpture Park

Ceci N'est Pas Une Swing Set @ OSP

Portable Confessional Units

Deep Space at Motel, Motel, Motel

Seattle Art Museum
Unauthorized Audio Tour

SQUAT at Kerry Park

Wake(up) at OSP

Wind Farm in Bellevue Park

Blog Theatre

Zoo to You Foundation at Free Sheep

Portland Art Museum
Unauthorized Audio Tour

On March 14, 2009, PDL drove to Portland and set up a makeshift recording studio in a room at the Jupiter Hotel. Over the course of three days, they toured the museum’s permanent collection and returned to their room to write and record late into the night.

At the end of this long drunken weekend, they had compiled 34 tracks weaving through a wide range of PAM’s permanent collection, from antiquities to contemporary works. From Renoir to Oldenburg, this unauthorized audio tour offered a diverse and strikingly unique commentary about the museum’s vast and impressive collection.

An edition of fifty tours were ripped and Jed drafted a map identifying the works that were explored by PDL. While the power of this tour is only fully realized in the museum itself, a selection of tracks from the tour are posted below for those unable to visit the museum. If you live in, or plan on visiting Portland, send us an e-mail and if there are any remaining copies of the tour, we will gladly mail you one. We encourage you to burn it onto your MP3 player and pass it along for others to enjoy.

This audio tour was created by Arne Pihl, Jed Dunkerley, Greg Lundgren, Mike Katell. PDL would like to thank Christine Taylor, Chris Lundgren, Karrie Pukstas, Diana Falchuk and Amy Jo LaRubbio.

		Arlie Lee Kelly 02:58				The English Silver Collection 01:55
		The Little Harpist Eastman Thomas 00:53				Kaufman Portraits Milton Avery 01:55
		Evaporate 3 Jessica Loughlin 02:22				Volumnia Before Corialanus Gebrand van den Eeckhout 02:16
		Portrait of Gregory Gillespie William Beckman 00:08				Vater und Sohn Michael Schulze 00:51
		Two Lying Figures On Base Lynn Chadwick 00:05				Embriology Magdalena Abakanowicz 01:07
		Light from the Other Side James Lavadour 02:52				Charette de Beouf Vincent Van Gogh 01:25
		Young Girls Reading Pierre-Auguste Renoir 01:36				The Seine at Argenteuil Pierre-Auguste Renoir 02:16
		Tuileries Gardens, Paris Oskar Kokoschka 02:52				Untitled William Ivey 04:49
		Lucky You Too John Chamberlain 01:40				Night Truck Mark di Suvero 00:54
		Spaced Out Orbit Helen Frankenthaler 00:45				End of Day Nightscape II Louise Nevelson 01:24
		Tactual Stimulation, Petal Pink Dafna Kaffeman 00:56				Ice Bag Scale-B Claes Oldenburg 01:00
		Baby Pink Painting with 3 Girls Su-En Wong 01:50				Five Words in Neon Orange Joseph Kosuth 00:08