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This wiki has been started in response to a posting on a Portland music list by local musican Adam Forkner looking for assistance/input in a project to document and chronicle the Portland arts scene from the 1990's. Here's an excerpt from Adam's message:
been thinking a lot about the under-documented 90's diy/underground scenes. a lot has come out recently documenting the late 70's thru the 80's diy portland scene..a prime motivator in thinking about the development after that, which not so far past but is nevertheless fading from memory……. before the internet starting cataloging stuff, but after, say, 1990 or so….
been talking with others, lots of deep brain clouds of memory and things and people and bands and venues and houses and art and ideas and specific shows and everything…
we are just beginning to collect data, the use of which will maybe be a big thick book and/ or maybe some sort of online wiki-type open source knowledge base and/or a series of lectures/panels
at this point just collecting data
unlike other scene retrospectives i want to go from the bottom up (the most weird and obscure up to the most popular/well-known/well-documented) giving as much space and room as needed for as much data (verbal accounts, photos, videos, audio?, flyers and hand bills, interviews, discographies etc) as possible. EXTENSIVE and ALL-INCLUSIVE, but with the core being the diy/underground/punk/weird/noise/etc spirit
This wiki is an attempt to provide a central workspace for this project. Currently things are pretty bare-bones. I am putting up the information from Adam's original list, though and should be adding some more names and content as I have time.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or comments.
- Michael
(michael at meaningliberation dot org)
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