Thurs . Sept 4 . 8 pm
8:30 pm Anna Halprin Blank Placard Happening meet in PNCA Commons 9:00 pm Opening Night at THE WORKS at Leftbank including TBA:08 ON SIGHT
Thurs . Sept 4 . 8:30 pm
Join in a reenactment of Blank Placard Happening, a performance by pioneering artist Anna Halprin, originally performed by the San Fransicso Dancer’s Workshop in 1968.
Thurs . Sept 4 . 9 pm
Join us at Leftbank to open the 2008 TBA Festival’s visual art offerings, stay for late night music and other happenings upstairs at THE WORKS.
Sat . Sept 6 . 3 pm
Visit with PICA Artist in Residence Jacob Hartman and Visual Art Program Director Kristan Kennedy as they discuss Hartman’s new work and field questions.
The Yes Men will conduct a workshop that gives an inside look at their methods and urges people to do something better.
Sat . Sept 6 . 6:30 pm
Dialogue and action spin out of control as the inhabitants of this emerging space communicate through helium-pitched, sing-song conversations and slapstick ritual.
Sun . Sept 7 . 7:30 pm
Tues . Sept 9 . 3 pm
2008 Whitney Biennial artist Fritz Haeg comes to Portland for a residency at Reed College, implementing his Animal Estates project throughout the region.
Wed . Sept 10 . 6:30 pm
Fri . Sept 12 . 6:30 pm
The back room presents an intimate evening with TBA:08 visual artists Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn in conversation with Kristan Kennedy.
Sat . Sept 13 . 3 pm
Visit with PICA Artist in Residence Lizzie Fitch and PICA’s Visual Art Program Director Kristan Kennedy, for an informal gallery talk about Fitch’s installation, Big Skin.
Sat . Sept 13 . 6:30 pm
A performance based on a text of 2,000 questions, the public is free to arrive, depart and return at any point during the six-hour performance.
Tues . Sept 16 . 3 pm
Sat . Sept 20 . 3 pm
Join Kristan Kennedy for a walk through of artist projects included in this year’s On Sight program.
Tues . Sept 23 . 3 pm
Thurs . Sept 4 . - Sun . Oct 26 .
As culture-jamming activists, The Yes Men has exposed dehumanizing business practices and enacted ethical “identity correction” since 1999.
Thurs . Sept 4 . - Sun . Sept 14 .
The TBA Press Corps documents TBA Festival happenings from start to finish. Tune into TBA Radio on Portland Radio Authority for podcasts and other audible treats.
TBA:08 Schedule changes and updates.
The space has been known for life-sized butter carvings, the drafting of the Portland City Club charter, and most notably as the jazz club The Dude Ranch.
Thurs . Sept 4 . - Sat . Oct 4 .
In two new video works, Ben-Tor continues her insightful and biting exploration into Jewish identity, caricature and history.
Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn were both born in California and currently live and work in Los Angeles. They were recently included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial.
Fitch and a cast of performers called The Experimental People Band will interact with the work, collapsing the boundaries between viewer and object, gallery and stage.
Hartman’s interest lies in cataloging a trajectory of a work coming into existence, where the moment of completion is never quite clear.
Depicting surreal landscapes, hybrid animals and the foibles of the common man, Lunn’s worlds are made up with equal parts dark comedy and social commentary.
Moments of ecstasy, brutality, beauty and frivolity are hewn in lumps of clay, pristine paper cuttings, sweet drawings, wall hangings and paintings.
Fast-paced and dense with drama, I-Be Area relates the intertwined stories of an exuberant ensemble, played by Trecartin and dozens of others.
Fri . Sept 5 . - Sun . Sept 7 .
For TBA:08, PAINTALLICA will take over a storefront to make objects, drawings, paintings and installations over the course of several days.
Mon . Sept 8 . - Sun . Sept 14 .