Join us for the final artist performance in Conductions: Black Imaginings II, a seven-hour endurance work by Miles Greenberg titled Landscape with Figures. Centralizing 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. This iteration of Landscape with Figures is performed by Mykel Illa and AfreakanO.
Please note that this performance includes partial nudity.
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 activated with often extreme durational performances that invoke the body as sculptural material, with the goal of making visible the poetics of the human form; particularly through the lens of the African diaspora. At age seventeen, Greenberg left formal education, launching himself into 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 & 2018) among others. In 2023, Greenberg was featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 in the Art & 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, Athens Biennial, BoCA Lisbon, and the Bangkok Art Biennale.
Born in Pasadena, California, Mykel Illa is a multi-instrumentalist and singer in Portland. With a large background in the performing arts (emphasis on music and acting), it is surprisingly Mykel’s first time being a part of an art production in this category. You can often find him singing or playing bass around the Portland/Seattle area. You can connect with Mykel and/or find his music on all streaming platforms under the alias Thatillaguy. Follow his Instragram @Thatillaguy to follow his music, art and acting endeavors!
