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Mobile Projection Unit presents new, experimental, site specific outdoor projected video works throughout Portland by use of a mobile studio. MPU is both an artistic collaboration between Sarah Turner and Fernanda D’Agostino, and a curatorial project. Through both of these avenues, MPU provides new media artists tools, software, mentorship, and access to outdoor spaces in order to create and present these works to a public audience. Sarah Turner is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the Mobile Projection Unit (MPU) with Nanda D’Agostino. MPU is funded in part by the Regional Arts and Culture Council, Precipice Fund, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Calligram Foundation, the Portland Art Museum, and Northwest Film Center.

Mobile Projection Unit presents “Dia de los Muertos” by Anabel Uyana at the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, November 2020.

Mobile Projection Unit presents “Against the Current” Phase 1 by artists Sarah Turner and Fernanda D’Agostino, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s TBA Festival, September 30, 2020.

Mobile Projection Unit presents “Against the Current” Phase 2 by artists Sarah Turner and Fernanda D’Agostino, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s TBA Festival, September 30, 2020.

Mobile Projection Unit presents “Against the Current” Phase 3 by artists Sarah Turner and Fernanda D’Agostino, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s TBA Festival, September 30, 2020.

Mobile Projection Unit presents “Che La Luna” by artists Sarah Turner and Fernanda D’Agostino at Venice VR Expanded, Portland Art Museum, September 2020.

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MPU x BoogieBuffet x Portland Unknown Film Festival present: “Respect Due” a collection of BIPOC produced Music Videos curated by Nora Colie, 2020.

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Snack Bloc & Mobile Projection Unit Walk-In Movie Night, July, 14, 2020.

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“been here” is a program of short films and experimental video work created by Black artists based in Portland, Oregon, curated by ariella tai. Drive in Screening presented and produced by Mobile Projection Unit.

works by: jayy dodd, princess bouton, kanda Michelle, sika stanton, mikai arion, ariella tai, maximilliano, jaleesa johnston, & ruben garcía marrufo. July 11, 2020.

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SNACK BLOC x Mobile Projection Unit Tuesday Movie Night, Walk in Movie, July 7, 2020.

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MPU Screening of “Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon” with filmmakers Jodi Darby, Julie Perini, & Erin Yanke, June 24, 2020

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Mobile Projection Unit presents A Black Art Ecology of Portland (BAEP) with Sharita Towne & Hasan Mahmood at Portland Institute of Contemporary Art. March 2020.

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Mobile Projection Unit presents Phases of the Moon I with Sarah Turner and Fernanda D’Agostino at the Portland Art Museum during Northwest Film Center: Portland International Film Festival. March 2020.

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Mobile Projection Unit presents Phases of the Moon II with Sarah Turner and Fernanda D’Agostino at the Portland Art Museum during Northwest Film Center: Portland International Film Festival. March 2020.

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Mobile Projection Unit presents Phases of the Moon III with Sarah Turner and Fernanda D’Agostino at the Portland Art Museum during Northwest Film Center: Portland International Film Festival. March 2020.

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Mobile Projection Unit presents nacer by Juracán+rubén garcía marrufo, Portland, OR, February 2020.

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Mobile Projection Unit presents Many Worlds by Jaleesa Johnston and Megan McKissack, Portland, OR, December 2019.

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Mobile Projection Unit Presents “Illuminated Voices” by Sabina Haque & Victoria Wells, 2019. Exhibited at APANO during the 3rd Annual Portland Art and Literary Festival. Special thanks to Disjecta & Open Signal.

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Mobile Projection Unit @ NEO MYTHOS, an event by Open Signal and Open School North, March 2019

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Mobile Projection Unit BYOC @ Portland, OR August 2019

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