Thurs . Sept 7 . 2 pm
PNCA Art History Professor, Isaac Peterson, leads a two day crash course in visual art criticism
Thurs . Sept 7 . 6:30 pm
Composer John King leads dozens of electric guitar players from Portland’s music community with a unique concert staged on the steps of Pioneer Courthouse Square. FREE!
Thurs . Sept 7 . 7:45 pm
The Willamette River snakes through Portland and creates movement, boundaries and divisions.
Thurs . Sept 7 . 8 pm
Following John King’s Extreme Guitar Orchestra performance in Pioneer Square, join us...
Thurs . Sept 7 . 9 pm
Formerly known as Adelaide, Small Sails is a music and film collective based in Portland...
Fri . Sept 8 . 12:30 pm
PICA's Guest Artistic Director Mark Russell and Visual Art Program Director, Kristan Kennedy, talk about this year’s program of artists and events, and answer questions from the audience.
Fri . Sept 8 . 2 pm
Fri . Sept 8 . 3 pm
Fri . Sept 8 . 7 pm
Drawing from recent experiences as NASA’s first artist-in-residence, Anderson uses song, stories, and original electronic music to suggest the symmetry between journeys in...
Yubiwa Hotel inscribes a mesmerizing dreamscape of Japanese pop culture, traditional Buddhist practice, and abstract movement as they explore what it means to be a modern Japanese woman.
Fri . Sept 8 . 9 pm
From the humble starting point of an artist’s flat and recording studio, Philippe Quesne and Vivarium Studio create a multi-tiered whimsical revue about flying and falling.
Fri . Sept 8 . 10 pm
The organized sound of Shaky Hands veers off the path right from the start.
Fri . Sept 8 . 11 pm
Scout Niblett reduces audiences around the world to jibbering wrecks with the sheer force of her performances.
Sat . Sept 9 . 9:30 am
Sat . Sept 9 . 12:30 pm
The artists of Vivarium Studio chat with PNCA Professors Linda Kliewer and David Eckard about their work and contemporary performance in France.
Sat . Sept 9 . 2 pm
Feelings of melancholy and intrigue permeate Billing’s films which represent changing societies and the emotions people lose touch with.
Sat . Sept 9 . 4 pm
...dreamy, metaphorical journeys that re-imagine culture and relationships through diverse time periods and works of art.
PICA will be holding an opening reception with various TBA Artists in attendance for this year’s TBA Festival Visual Art program.
Sat . Sept 9 . 7 pm
Sat . Sept 9 . 9 pm
Sat . Sept 9 . 10 pm
Universes is an ensemble of multi-disciplined writers and performers who fuse poetry, theater, jazz, hip-hop, politics, down home blues...
Sat . Sept 9 . 11 pm
6 DJs in 6 installations in 5 cities (including Berlin, Mexico City, and PS122 in NY) around the world come together to form one super-party.
Sun . Sept 10 . 12:30 pm
Ten short talks by invited guests about their direct or indirect experience with the American War in Vietnam. Stay for the duration or drop in. In conjunction with Harrell Fletcher’s exhibition, The American War.
Sun . Sept 10 . 1 pm
Greasy Kid Stuff & Indiekid Films with Plasmic Stallion. With music that refuses to draw the line between “kid” and “adult,” and visuals made by and for kids...
Sun . Sept 10 . 2 pm
...features an original score written and recorded by Laurie Anderson with additional vocals by singer/performer Antony (of Antony and the Johnsons).
Sun . Sept 10 . 4 pm
Linda Austin and Tahni Holt perform their solo adaptations of Room, individually commissioned and adapted as part of Hay’s Solo Performance Commissioning Project in Findhorn, Scotland.
Sun . Sept 10 . 9 pm
Sun . Sept 10 . 10 pm
Following a philosophy of collaboration and shared creative energy, Fleshtone developed the themes and characters of the electro-opera Fleshtonics before the eyes of...
Sun . Sept 10 . 11 pm
Neal Medlyn, the Paris Hilton of Performance Art...
Mon . Sept 11 . 9:30 am
Mon . Sept 11 . 12:30 pm
The focus of this panel is the development of new strategies to nurture and sustain the Creative City.
Mon . Sept 11 . 6 pm
Mark Russell will talk about his own experience of the history of performance and its future. Writer Matthew Stadler may ask some questions. We will see what happens.
Mon . Sept 11 . 8 pm
Kiki is a washed up chanteuse and Herb is her piano-battering, lifelong accompanist. Together forever they...
On September 11, the Oregon Department of Kick Ass presents an evening of films assembled by Vanessa Renwick which cast a meditative gaze on death in many forms.
Mon . Sept 11 . 10 pm
Portland’s Holcombe Waller has been writing, recording and performing music for the past 15 years...
Mon . Sept 11 . 11 pm
Mellman (of Kiki and Herb) and Medlyn (the Paris Hilton of Performance Art) wear fancy clothes and present a formal evening of R. Kelly songs.
Tues . Sept 12 . 9:30 am
Tues . Sept 12 . 12:30 pm
Artists Matthew Day Jackson, Sutapa Biswas, and Daniel Duford (PNCA), with Kristan Kennedy, and Stephanie Snyder.
Tues . Sept 12 . 3 pm
...interplay between local/historical tradition and contemporary movements and ideas...
Tues . Sept 12 . 6 pm
With a provocative brand of stagecraft wizardry, everyday gestures as simple as sleeping, walking, listening and waiting transform into a carnivalesque ballet of everyday life.
Tues . Sept 12 . 7 pm
Tues . Sept 12 . 8 pm
Somewhere between a band and a theatre group, with none of the hangups of either, Jollyship the Whiz-Bang is an irresistible multimedia force of nature!
Portland-based artist Mack McFarland teams up with film archivist Dennis Nyback to revamp our collective memory...
Part of an ongoing project to honor Spalding Gray’s memory and perhaps capture one of his elusive “perfect moments” in which doubt, distress, and angst yield momentarily to a broader epiphany.
Tues . Sept 12 . 10 pm
What you are reading is not mere propaganda...this is not a test! This is the REVOLUTION and YOU, my deviant darlings, are the Revolutionaries!
Tues . Sept 12 . 11 pm
Electro pop duo from Portland...
Wed . Sept 13 . 9:30 am
Wed . Sept 13 . 12:30 pm
David Eckard, with the performers of Stan’s Cafe, Red76, and MK Guth (PNCA), on innovative artistic practices that engage the urban environment.
Wed . Sept 13 . 2 pm
Wed . Sept 13 . 6 pm
Wed . Sept 13 . 7 pm
Wed . Sept 13 . 8 pm
Wed . Sept 13 . 10 pm
Characterized by whimsical themes, an eclectic rock sound, and unconvincing “period” dialogue between dubiously lovable seafaring puppets...
Wed . Sept 13 . 11 pm
Punk meets Prog in this three-piece band made up of...
Thurs . Sept 14 . 9:30 am
Thurs . Sept 14 . 12:30 pm
Mark Russell chats with Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper of Nature Theater of Oklahoma about their radical perspectives on contemporary theatre.
Thurs . Sept 14 . 6 pm
Flight of Mind marks the culmination of a five-year project tracking animal migration and devising choreographic systems in response.
Thurs . Sept 14 . 6:30 pm
Thurs . Sept 14 . 7 pm
Thurs . Sept 14 . 8 pm
Utilizing hand-constructed puppets made from thrift store cast-offs, BlingLab presents a bumbling set of explorers by reading between the lines of Lewis & Clark’s infamous expedition.
Thurs . Sept 14 . 10 pm
An experiment in confined space, Ten Tiny Dances is a performance series...
Fri . Sept 15 . 9:30 am
Fri . Sept 15 . 12:30 pm
Artist Deborah Hay discusses her writings about dance and the creative process with the Henry Art Gallery’s Betsey Brock.
Fri . Sept 15 . 6 pm
Performed in a lightless room for a small audience equipped with night vision apparatus...
Mountain is a provocative new trio by post-modern dance pioneer Deborah Hay in collaboration with three of the Northwest’s most compelling contemporary choreographers...
Fri . Sept 15 . 7 pm
Directed by reg e. gaines, acclaimed journalist Jerry Quickley tells the sweat-inducing tale of his travels to Iraq...
Fri . Sept 15 . 8 pm
Fri . Sept 15 . 9 pm
Fri . Sept 15 . 9:30 pm
Fri . Sept 15 . 10 pm
Flamboyant chameleon of spoken word, music, and sociopolitical tirades...
Julie Atlas Muz, the reigning Miss Coney Island, is one of the most acclaimed and prolific...
New York’s leading boylesque performer since 1997, James Tigger! Ferguson has been stripping and grinding...
Fri . Sept 15 . 11 pm
The Wau-Wau Sisters have been wooing audiences all across the land since...
Sat . Sept 16 . 10:30 am
Sat . Sept 16 . 12:30 pm
Choreographer Linda K. Johnson speaks with hip hop performance poet Jerry Quickley and choreographer and community activist Jennifer Monson.
Sat . Sept 16 . 3 pm
David Weissman, with Taylor Mac, Julie Atlas Muz, James Tigger! Ferguson, the Wau Wau Sisters, and Zebra from Sissyboy, on the intersection between burlesque and performance art.
Sat . Sept 16 . 4 pm
In recent years, the CIA has been using unmarked civilian airplanes to kidnap and transport suspected terrorists to countries like Syria...
Sat . Sept 16 . 5 pm
Sat . Sept 16 . 6 pm
Sat . Sept 16 . 7 pm
Sat . Sept 16 . 8 pm
Sat . Sept 16 . 9 pm
Miller combines virtuoso choreography with cutting edge motion capture technology to investigate the relation between the foreign and familiar in contemporary life.
Sat . Sept 16 . 10 pm
Backed by her rollicking band Gloria Deluxe, Hopkins performs songs from her new show-in-progress...
Sat . Sept 16 . 11 pm
Copy (AKA Marius Libman) has created an emotionally affecting sound that doesn’t neglect the dance floor.
Sun . Sept 17 . 9:30 am
Sun . Sept 17 . 12:30 pm
Stephanie Snyder and Rose Bond (PNCA), with artists Crispin Spaeth, Marty Schnapf and Edie Tsong (via live video feed).
Sun . Sept 17 . 3 pm
Sun . Sept 17 . 4 pm
Sun . Sept 17 . 5 pm
Sun . Sept 17 . 6 pm
Sun . Sept 17 . 7 pm
Sun . Sept 17 . 9 pm
As the Portland sun sets, a flock of songbirds crafted from flammable magnesium tape will ignite along the streets under the Hawthorne Bridge...
Sun . Sept 17 . 10 pm
The glowing, groaning and grinding noise of New Humans...
Mon . Aug 28 . - Sat . Oct 21 .
A multi-media exhibition celebrating what is rapidly becoming the “degenerate art” of a corporate age.
Tues . Aug 29 . - Sun . Oct 8 .
The film installations of British East-Indian artist Sutapa Biswas are metaphorical journeys that re-imagine culture and family through diverse time periods and works of art.
Thurs . Sept 7 . - Sat . Oct 7 .
Jackson presents a proposal for the beginning of a post-apocalyptic earth in which the wrongs of our past can be rectified.
Thurs . Sept 7 . - Sun . Sept 17 .
Tsong has been interested in the layered meanings of the words alien, stranger, and other.
Thurs . Sept 7 . - Fri . Oct 6 .
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A four-part single channel video work depicting “the burn,” a massive section of Oregon forest destroyed by natural fires in 2003.
For this beautifully simple performance/installation, Stan’s Cafe will bring 300 million grains of rice to Portland, a grain for every person in the United States.
A roving installation presented in the mobile exhibition space, THE UNIT...
As part of an ongoing collaboration, Desktop is a diorama of a virtual environment that pulls freely from the vocabularies of computer technology, new media, and contemporary art practice.
Campbell’s single-channel piece is a voyeuristic view into a personal history playing out with multiplying endings.
While in Ho Chi Minh City, Fletcher re-photographed The War Remnants Museum including its wall tags and supporting documents for what the Vietnamese call The American War.
Adkins will show up at TBA Central every day at 2 pm...
This single-channel video installation was shot in a free after-school center in Dubrava, a suburb of Zagreb, Croatia.
This major new work and multi-channel video installation explores how sexuality was defined in Balkan pagan traditions.
Watch the two new TBA:06 commercials! Special thanks to Comcast.
Tues . Sept 26 . - Wed . Oct 25 .
THANK YOU to everyone who helped make this TBA Festival so very successful.