Conductions: Black Imaginings II

Downtown

When

Ongoing

Every Wednesday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

Where

Portland Art Museum

1219 SW Park Ave
Portland, OR 97205

Conductions: Black Imaginings II is a series of in-gallery activations that look at the ways Black performance, sound, video, and social-practice art bridge the current and future Museum space. This iteration considers the role ephemera plays as a conduit for remembrance through the performance work of Noah Beckham, Bridgette Hickey and Miles Greenberg, along with a piece by Nick Cave from the Museum’s collection. As a cumulative show, Beckham, Hickey and Greenberg fill the gallery through performance, leaving behind objects that remain on view until the close of the exhibition.

Conductions: Black Imaginings II is presented in collaboration with CREATE SPACE—an interactive environment within the Black Art and Experiences (BAE) galleries that invites visitors to slow down, reflect, and respond. Designed as a rest area, reading room, art studio, and a site for community gatherings, CREATE SPACE supports connection, creativity, and dialogue. Together, Conductions and CREATE SPACE emphasize process — research, writing, improvisation, and experimentation — as essential to the creative journey.

Performance schedule

• Saturday, March 28, 2026: Miles Greenberg, Landscape with Figures: a seven-hour endurance work that centralizes the body as sculptural material, this piece invites visitors to reflect on decay, change and living movement present in both land and body through duration and stillness.   

Miles Greenberg (b. 1997 in Montreal, Canada) is a performance artist and sculptor. His work consists of large-scale, sensorially immersive and site-specific environments revolving around the physical body in space. These installations are often activated by extreme durational performances that invoke the body as a sculptural material, aiming to make visible the poetics of the human form, particularly through the lens of the African diaspora. At age seventeen, Greenberg left formal education, embarking on four years of independent research on movement and architecture. He has worked under the mentorship of Édouard Lock, Robert Wilson, and Marina Abramović and has been an artist in residence at Fountainhead Arts, Miami (2023); La Manutention at Palais de Tokyo (2019), and The Watermill Center Residency, NY (2017 and 2018), among others. In 2023, Greenberg was featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 in the Art and Style Category. He has exhibited and performed internationally at museums and galleries, including The Louvre (Paris), Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin), The New Museum (New York), the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), Salon 94 (New York), Galleria Continua (Les Moulins) and more. Greenberg’s work has also been included in numerous international art surveys, including the Venice Biennale, the Athens Biennial, BoCA Lisbon, and the Bangkok Art Biennale.