CHAT

TBA:07 In a Nutshell

Thurs . Sept 6 . 12:30 pm

TBA:07 Artistic Director Mark Russell, Performing Arts Program Director Erin Boberg Doughton, and Visual Arts Program Director Kristan Kennedy talk about this year’s program of artists and events, and answer questions from the audience.

Liz Haley

POLYGRAPH

Thurs . Sept 6 . 1 pm

Part performance, part installation, Liz Haley will connect herself to an analog polygraph machine while participants are invited to ask her what they wish.

Rinde Eckert

On the Great Migration of Excellent Birds

Thurs . Sept 6 . 6:30 pm

Using hundreds of Portland voices raised in song, composer Rinde Eckert kicks off TBA:07 with a joyful noise in Pioneer Courthouse Square.

CHAT

On The Road

Fri . Sept 7 . 12:30 pm

TBA:07 Artists Scott Porter, Nat Andreini (Sincerely, John Head), Liz Haley, Gary Wiseman, and Darren O’Donnell (Mammalian Diving Reflex) discuss their projects which place art in the social environment, moderated by Erin Boberg Doughton.

Liz Haley

POLYGRAPH

Fri . Sept 7 . 1 pm

Part performance, part installation, Liz Haley will connect herself to an analog polygraph machine while participants are invited to ask her what they wish.

SALON

Jeffry Mitchell

Fri . Sept 7 . 3 pm

Preview Talk with TBA:08 Artist Jeffry Mitchell.

The Suicide Kings

In Spite of Everything

Fri . Sept 7 . 6:30 pm

In Spite of Everything is the latest entry into the emerging genre of hip-hop theater, featuring one of the Bay Area’s most dynamic spoken word collectives: The Suicide Kings.

Las Chicas del 3.5 Floppies

(The Girls of the 3.5 Floppies)

Fri . Sept 7 . 6:30 pm

Dangerously skirting the boundaries between existential comedy, Mexican telenovela, and social documentary, Las Chicas del 3.5 Floppies exposes the human repercussions of globalization and poverty with incisive humor and relentless honesty.

Taylor Mac

The BE(A)ST of Taylor Mac

Fri . Sept 7 . 6:30 pm

A subversive fusion of cabaret, political tirade and stark raving fabulousness, Taylor Mac’s Herald Angel Award-winning solo piece is both visually surreal and compellingly human.

Charlotte Vanden Eynde & Kurt Vandendriessche

MAP ME

Fri . Sept 7 . 8:30 pm

A starkly intimate duet by Charlotte Vanden Eynde and Kurt Vandendriessche, MAP ME unfolds with a unique combination of delicate, tactile choreography and live video projection.

Marc Bamuthi Joseph

The Living Word Project: the break/s (Work in Progress)

Fri . Sept 7 . 8:30 pm

A multimedia excursion across planet hip-hop, the break/s is presented in verse, dance and film, which dramatically realizes the living history of the hip-hop generation through the performed personal narrative of poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph.

Reggie Watts

Disinformation (conspired by Reggie Watts & Tommy Smith)

Fri . Sept 7 . 8:30 pm

What happens when we really listen? What happens when we decide as a species to finally give up the game? When will we learn that time is a myth, a set of training wheels that causes us to believe we really need them?

Lifesavas

Fri . Sept 7 . 10:30 pm

The dynamic duo that is Lifesavas consists of MC/producer JUMBO the Garbageman and MC VURSATYL, along with partner DJ Rev SHINES.

WORKSHOP

Marc Bamuthi Joseph

Sat . Sept 8 . 10 am

This workshop is for spoken word artists and dancers looking to find the right intersection of the poetic and movement forms, exploring elements of choreography, hip hop theatre, and butoh.

WORKSHOP

Donna Uchizono

Sat . Sept 8 . 12 pm

Donna Uchizono teaches movement from State of Heads, accompanied by dancers Levi Gonzalez, Rebecca Serrell, and Carla Rudiger.

Mammalian Diving Reflex

Haircuts by Children

Sat . Sept 8 . 12 pm

Haircuts by Children is a whimsical performance that playfully engages with the enfranchisement of children, trust in the younger generation, and the thrills and chills of vanity.

CHAT

Pop! Crash! Boom!

Sat . Sept 8 . 12:30 pm

Performance and installation artists whose work is inspired and transfigured by both minimalist conceptual strategies and popular movies and songs. Arnold J. Kemp, Larry Krone, and Jonathan Walters (Artistic Director of Hand2Mouth Theatre), with Erin Boberg Doughton and Kristan Kennedy.

SALON

Reception for TBA:07 Visual Artists

Sat . Sept 8 . 2 pm

Come meet TBA:07 Visual Artists and Visual Arts Program Director Kristan Kennedy, who will introduce this year’s program and answer questions from gallery visitors. Come by to pick up a map of TBA:07 Visual Art exhibits and installations throughout the city.

Liz Haley

POLYGRAPH

Sat . Sept 8 . 5 pm

Part performance, part installation, Liz Haley will connect herself to an analog polygraph machine while participants are invited to ask her what they wish.

Taylor Mac

The BE(A)ST of Taylor Mac

Sat . Sept 8 . 6:30 pm

A subversive fusion of cabaret, political tirade and stark raving fabulousness, Taylor Mac’s Herald Angel Award-winning solo piece is both visually surreal and compellingly human.

Las Chicas del 3.5 Floppies

(The Girls of the 3.5 Floppies)

Sat . Sept 8 . 6:30 pm

Dangerously skirting the boundaries between existential comedy, Mexican telenovela, and social documentary, Las Chicas del 3.5 Floppies exposes the human repercussions of globalization and poverty with incisive humor and relentless honesty.

Andrew Dickson

Sell Out

Sat . Sept 8 . 6:30 pm

Ten years ago Andrew Dickson was an independent filmmaker whose typical day involved riding his bike around Portland eating cheap burritos, going to basement punk rock shows and maybe doing a 4-hour temp job. Today, he writes ads for Fortune 500 companies, lives in a brand-new loft apartment, and hasn’t been on a bike in years. The Andrew of ten years ago would definitely consider the Andrew of today a sellout.

The Suicide Kings

In Spite of Everything

Sat . Sept 8 . 6:30 pm

In Spite of Everything is the latest entry into the emerging genre of hip-hop theater, featuring one of the Bay Area’s most dynamic spoken word collectives: The Suicide Kings.

Donna Uchizono Company

State of Heads (1999) & Leap to Tall (2006)

Sat . Sept 8 . 8:30 pm

With its breath-taking opening, State of Heads explores the feeling of waiting. Waiting for a hero, waiting to see what happens.

Marc Bamuthi Joseph

The Living Word Project: the break/s (Work in Progress)

Sat . Sept 8 . 8:30 pm

A multimedia excursion across planet hip-hop, the break/s is presented in verse, dance and film, which dramatically realizes the living history of the hip-hop generation through the performed personal narrative of poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph.

Reggie Watts

Disinformation (conspired by Reggie Watts & Tommy Smith)

Sat . Sept 8 . 8:30 pm

What happens when we really listen? What happens when we decide as a species to finally give up the game? When will we learn that time is a myth, a set of training wheels that causes us to believe we really need them?

Charlotte Vanden Eynde & Kurt Vandendriessche

MAP ME

Sat . Sept 8 . 8:30 pm

A starkly intimate duet by Charlotte Vanden Eynde and Kurt Vandendriessche, MAP ME unfolds with a unique combination of delicate, tactile choreography and live video projection.

"Awesome"

Here’s What Happened

Sat . Sept 8 . 10:30 pm

Revolution for fruit. Whales. Numerology. Men with bullhorns. Accidents at sea. Robot ghosts. Band/art collective “Awesome” tackles the major issues of our time on their latest voyage, Here’s What Happened, sailing the ship of music into the belly of theater.

tiny tba With Greasy Kid Stuff

Greasy Kid Stuff Dance-O-Rama with Belinda and Hova
Featuring Visuals by Indiekid Films

Sun . Sept 9 . 11 am

With music that refuses to draw the line between “kid” and “adult,” and visuals made by and for kids, families have a chance to shake their groove thing in an environment that is cool, fun and decibel-appropriate.

Cartune Xprez

SNDAY MRNING XPREZ, Curated by Peter Burr

Sun . Sept 9 . 11 am

Kick back in an EZ-chair for Sunday brunch cocktails and cartunes. Living Room Theaters will play host to SNDAY MRNING XPREZ, an awesome afternoon of animated videos with Hooliganship as your host.

WORKSHOP

Sara Greenberger Rafferty: Artist Book/Zine Making Workshop

Sun . Sept 9 . 11 am

TBA:07 Visual Artist and North Drive Press co-editor Sara Greenberger Rafferty shares her experience making artist books and zines.

Mammalian Diving Reflex

Haircuts by Children

Sun . Sept 9 . 12 pm

Haircuts by Children is a whimsical performance that playfully engages with the enfranchisement of children, trust in the younger generation, and the thrills and chills of vanity.

CHAT

Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop

Sun . Sept 9 . 12:30 pm

TBA:07 Artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Phil Busse from the Northwest Institute for Social Change, artist and Portland State University professor Harrell Fletcher, p:ear Executive Director Beth Burns, and Linda Kliewer, an artist and professor at Pacific Northwest College of Art, all join to discuss art as a tool for education, activism, and social transformation.

LECTURE: Leaps of Faith

A Conversation with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Donna Uchizono

Sun . Sept 9 . 3 pm

This special presentation features Donna Uchizono and Mikhail Baryshnikov in conversation with TBA:07 Artistic Director Mark Russell.

Gary Wiseman

Tea Project: Self-portrait 1980 - 2007

Sun . Sept 9 . 3:15 pm

Gary Wiseman abandons traditional modes of art making and presentation to bring his latest art project to the open spaces of the city.

Charlotte Vanden Eynde & Kurt Vandendriessche

MAP ME

Sun . Sept 9 . 4:30 pm

A starkly intimate duet by Charlotte Vanden Eynde and Kurt Vandendriessche, MAP ME unfolds with a unique combination of delicate, tactile choreography and live video projection.

Liz Haley

POLYGRAPH

Sun . Sept 9 . 5 pm

Part performance, part installation, Liz Haley will connect herself to an analog polygraph machine while participants are invited to ask her what they wish.

Las Chicas del 3.5 Floppies

(The Girls of the 3.5 Floppies)

Sun . Sept 9 . 6:30 pm

Dangerously skirting the boundaries between existential comedy, Mexican telenovela, and social documentary, Las Chicas del 3.5 Floppies exposes the human repercussions of globalization and poverty with incisive humor and relentless honesty.

Andrew Dickson

Sell Out

Sun . Sept 9 . 6:30 pm

Ten years ago Andrew Dickson was an independent filmmaker whose typical day involved riding his bike around Portland eating cheap burritos, going to basement punk rock shows and maybe doing a 4-hour temp job. Today, he writes ads for Fortune 500 companies, lives in a brand-new loft apartment, and hasn’t been on a bike in years. The Andrew of ten years ago would definitely consider the Andrew of today a sellout.

Taylor Mac

The BE(A)ST of Taylor Mac

Sun . Sept 9 . 6:30 pm

A subversive fusion of cabaret, political tirade and stark raving fabulousness, Taylor Mac’s Herald Angel Award-winning solo piece is both visually surreal and compellingly human.

William Kentridge

9 Drawings for Projection

Sun . Sept 9 . 7 pm

Celebrated internationally for his drawings, films, sculptures, installations and stage work, South African artist William Kentridge explores the history and post-apartheid political transformations of his country with extraordinary feeling and provocative passion.

Charlotte Vanden Eynde & Kurt Vandendriessche

MAP ME

Sun . Sept 9 . 8:30 pm

A starkly intimate duet by Charlotte Vanden Eynde and Kurt Vandendriessche, MAP ME unfolds with a unique combination of delicate, tactile choreography and live video projection.

Reggie Watts

Disinformation (conspired by Reggie Watts & Tommy Smith)

Sun . Sept 9 . 8:30 pm

What happens when we really listen? What happens when we decide as a species to finally give up the game? When will we learn that time is a myth, a set of training wheels that causes us to believe we really need them?

Donna Uchizono Company

State of Heads (1999) & Leap to Tall (2006)

Sun . Sept 9 . 8:30 pm

With its breath-taking opening, State of Heads explores the feeling of waiting. Waiting for a hero, waiting to see what happens.

Marc Bamuthi Joseph

The Living Word Project: the break/s (Work in Progress)

Sun . Sept 9 . 8:30 pm

A multimedia excursion across planet hip-hop, the break/s is presented in verse, dance and film, which dramatically realizes the living history of the hip-hop generation through the performed personal narrative of poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph.

Mirah & Spectratone International

Share This Place

Sun . Sept 9 . 10:30 pm

Share This Place is a multi-media performance with original live music by Lori Goldston and Kyle Hanson of Spectratone International, Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn, and stop-motion films by Britta Johnson. Based in part on the writings of the influential French scientist/poet, Jean Henri Fabré, the show explores the tender, dramatic, sordid, tragic and triumphant lives of insects.

WORKSHOP

Ultimate Blogger: A "How To"

Mon . Sept 10 . 10 am

UrbanHonking writers present an interactive workshop/demonstration on Ultimate Blogger.

CHAT

Illusion & Anti-Illusion

Mon . Sept 10 . 12:30 pm

TBA:07 Artists Melia Donovan and Larry Bamburg with Kristan Kennedy.

Liz Haley

POLYGRAPH

Mon . Sept 10 . 1 pm

Part performance, part installation, Liz Haley will connect herself to an analog polygraph machine while participants are invited to ask her what they wish.

SALON

Sara Greenberger Rafferty

Mon . Sept 10 . 3 pm

Visit with Kristan Kennedy and TBA:07 Visual Artist Sara Greenberger Rafferty who will be launching an artist book she created specifically for her TBA:07 project.

tEEth

Normal and Happy

Mon . Sept 10 . 6:30 pm

A kaleidoscopic new dance piece which features Angelle Hebert’s distinctive choreography, Normal and Happy is punctuated with rhythmic, fitful gestures; inhuman, creaturely movement; and a tense, awkward physicality.

Taylor Mac

The BE(A)ST of Taylor Mac

Mon . Sept 10 . 6:30 pm

A subversive fusion of cabaret, political tirade and stark raving fabulousness, Taylor Mac’s Herald Angel Award-winning solo piece is both visually surreal and compellingly human.

Las Chicas del 3.5 Floppies

(The Girls of the 3.5 Floppies)

Mon . Sept 10 . 6:30 pm

Dangerously skirting the boundaries between existential comedy, Mexican telenovela, and social documentary, Las Chicas del 3.5 Floppies exposes the human repercussions of globalization and poverty with incisive humor and relentless honesty.

Kassys

KOMMER

Mon . Sept 10 . 8:30 pm

How can something be deeply, profoundly sad yet hilarious at the same time? Somehow Dutch theatre company Kassys has created a performance which is just that in this sly and surreal work, combining film and live performance in equal measure.

Cloud Eye Control/Anna Oxygen

An Evening at Ape Canyon

Mon . Sept 10 . 10:30 pm

Fusing the fantastical visuals of Miwa Matreyek, inventive staging of Chi-wang Yang and the electronic space pop of Portland regular Anna Oxygen, the collective Cloud Eye Control brings you into their multiple landscapes of moon chasing, machine humans, and lucid dreaming.

WORKSHOP

Kassys

Tues . Sept 11 . 11:30 am

Get an inside look at the workings of this innovative Dutch performance troupe. Requirement: attendance at Kassys' Sept 10 performance of KOMMER.

CHAT

Shaking the Columns

Tues . Sept 11 . 12:30 pm

TBA:07 Artists Marko Lulic, Peter Kreider, and Guido van der Werve, with curators Kristan Kennedy, and Stephanie Snyder (Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College).

Liz Haley

POLYGRAPH

Tues . Sept 11 . 1 pm

Part performance, part installation, Liz Haley will connect herself to an analog polygraph machine while participants are invited to ask her what they wish.

LECTURE: Future Aesthetics

Roberta Uno: Future Vision, a talk and conversation

Tues . Sept 11 . 6 pm

tEEth

Normal and Happy

Tues . Sept 11 . 6:30 pm

A kaleidoscopic new dance piece which features Angelle Hebert’s distinctive choreography, Normal and Happy is punctuated with rhythmic, fitful gestures; inhuman, creaturely movement; and a tense, awkward physicality.

Gary Wiseman

Tea Project: Self-portrait 1980 - 2007

Tues . Sept 11 . 6:30 pm

Gary Wiseman abandons traditional modes of art making and presentation to bring his latest art project to the open spaces of the city.

Nature Theater of Oklahoma

No Dice

Tues . Sept 11 . 6:30 pm

Come for the magic, stay for the ham sandwiches! Nature Theater of Oklahoma presents a short four-hour version of their legendary eleven-hour melodramatic spectacle, No Dice.

Kassys

KOMMER

Tues . Sept 11 . 8:30 pm

How can something be deeply, profoundly sad yet hilarious at the same time? Somehow Dutch theatre company Kassys has created a performance which is just that in this sly and surreal work, combining film and live performance in equal measure.

Hand2Mouth Theatre

Repeat After Me

Tues . Sept 11 . 8:30 pm

Mining popular American music from the last hundred years, Hand2Mouth Theatre samples karaoke, outlandish theatricality, exhaustive dances, and absurdist humor in this imaginative work that questions what it means to be a true American.

Portland Cello Project

Tues . Sept 11 . 10:30 pm

Also known as “Celli” or “Cellodarity,” The Portland Cello Project is a multi-genre collaboration of cellists in the Portland area, created to celebrate the rich diversity of playing styles and invention by its members and the Portland community.

CHAT

Freestyle

Wed . Sept 12 . 12:30 pm

TBA:07 performance companies Kassys and Nature Theater of Oklahoma interview each other.

WORKSHOP

Hip Hop 101 with Vursatyl, DJ Rev. Shines & Lady Connie

Wed . Sept 12 . 3 pm

Lifesavas artists Vursatyl and DJ Rev. Shines and Lady Connie (manager of Portland DJ collective Stylus503) lead this two day workshop on the four essential elements of hip hop: DJ’ing, B-Boy/B-girl’ing, MC’ing & Graffiti. Attendance at both sessions is suggested.

Liz Haley

POLYGRAPH

Wed . Sept 12 . 5 pm

Part performance, part installation, Liz Haley will connect herself to an analog polygraph machine while participants are invited to ask her what they wish.

tEEth

Normal and Happy

Wed . Sept 12 . 6:30 pm

A kaleidoscopic new dance piece which features Angelle Hebert’s distinctive choreography, Normal and Happy is punctuated with rhythmic, fitful gestures; inhuman, creaturely movement; and a tense, awkward physicality.

Nature Theater of Oklahoma

No Dice

Wed . Sept 12 . 6:30 pm

Come for the magic, stay for the ham sandwiches! Nature Theater of Oklahoma presents a short four-hour version of their legendary eleven-hour melodramatic spectacle, No Dice.

Claude Wampler

PERFORMANCE (career ender)

Wed . Sept 12 . 6:30 pm

This new work completes Wampler’s ten-year cycle of creating experimental artworks that combine elements of visual art and performance and that call attention to the viewers’ role as audience.

Claude Wampler

PERFORMANCE (career ender)

Wed . Sept 12 . 8:30 pm

This new work completes Wampler’s ten-year cycle of creating experimental artworks that combine elements of visual art and performance and that call attention to the viewers’ role as audience.

Hand2Mouth Theatre

Repeat After Me

Wed . Sept 12 . 8:30 pm

Mining popular American music from the last hundred years, Hand2Mouth Theatre samples karaoke, outlandish theatricality, exhaustive dances, and absurdist humor in this imaginative work that questions what it means to be a true American.

The Gay Deceivers & Pash(ly)

With Special Guest Sarah Shapiro

Wed . Sept 12 . 10:30 pm

The Gay Deceivers were formed over a dance contest in 1986. Haley Weiner and Sarah Gottesdiener tied for first place. Fast forward 20 years to Portland, Oregon, where this divine duo crossed paths once again and received celestial transmissions from another dimension.

Barr aka Brendan Fowler

Summary

Wed . Sept 12 . 11 pm

BARR, the acronym used by Los Angeles-based Brendan Fowler for his solo projects, delivers his manic art-beat-punk amalgamation of half-sung, half-spoken songs mixed with jazz-based drum beats, hypnotic mantras and inspired confessional narratives.

WORKSHOP

Randee Paufve: Dancing on the Edge of Technique and Release

Thurs . Sept 13 . 9:30 am

Hosted by Ten Tiny Dances artist Randee Paufve, this class brings together training in technique, release work, and performance by integrating raw, highly physical movement into the art of expressive dancing.

CHAT

New Media and Performance

Thurs . Sept 13 . 12:30 pm

Andrew Dickson, UrbanHonking artists, Peter Burr (Hooliganship), and Stephen Slappe (artist and PNCA professor) moderated by Stephanie Snyder (Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College), converse about the intersection of fine art and emerging technologies, experiential media, relational aesthetics, and the primacy of user-generated content.

WORKSHOP

Hip Hop 101 with Vursatyl, DJ Rev. Shines & Lady Connie

Thurs . Sept 13 . 3 pm

Lifesavas artists Vursatyl and DJ Rev. Shines and Lady Connie (manager of Portland DJ collective Stylus503) lead this two day workshop on the four essential elements of hip hop: DJ’ing, B-Boy/B-girl’ing, MC’ing & Graffiti. Attendance at both sessions is suggested.

SALON

Gallery Talk with Kristan Kennedy

Thurs . Sept 13 . 3 pm

Gallery Talk with Kristan Kennedy

Liz Haley

POLYGRAPH

Thurs . Sept 13 . 5 pm

Part performance, part installation, Liz Haley will connect herself to an analog polygraph machine while participants are invited to ask her what they wish.

Nature Theater of Oklahoma

No Dice

Thurs . Sept 13 . 6:30 pm

Come for the magic, stay for the ham sandwiches! Nature Theater of Oklahoma presents a short four-hour version of their legendary eleven-hour melodramatic spectacle, No Dice.

Andrew Dickson

Sell Out

Thurs . Sept 13 . 6:30 pm

Ten years ago Andrew Dickson was an independent filmmaker whose typical day involved riding his bike around Portland eating cheap burritos, going to basement punk rock shows and maybe doing a 4-hour temp job. Today, he writes ads for Fortune 500 companies, lives in a brand-new loft apartment, and hasn’t been on a bike in years. The Andrew of ten years ago would definitely consider the Andrew of today a sellout.

Claude Wampler

PERFORMANCE (career ender)

Thurs . Sept 13 . 6:30 pm

This new work completes Wampler’s ten-year cycle of creating experimental artworks that combine elements of visual art and performance and that call attention to the viewers’ role as audience.

William Kentridge

9 Drawings for Projection

Thurs . Sept 13 . 7 pm

Celebrated internationally for his drawings, films, sculptures, installations and stage work, South African artist William Kentridge explores the history and post-apartheid political transformations of his country with extraordinary feeling and provocative passion.

Claude Wampler

PERFORMANCE (career ender)

Thurs . Sept 13 . 8:30 pm

This new work completes Wampler’s ten-year cycle of creating experimental artworks that combine elements of visual art and performance and that call attention to the viewers’ role as audience.

Holcombe Waller

Into the Dark Unknown: The Hope Chest

Thurs . Sept 13 . 8:30 pm

Holcombe Waller’s Into the Dark Unknown: The Hope Chest is a vocal performance that imagines movement, video, costume and character to be instruments as inextricable from the process of musical arrangement as piano, guitar and strings.

Larry Krone

In Concert

Thurs . Sept 13 . 8:30 pm

Larry Krone performs original songs and country music standards, infusing them with all the love and devotion one would expect from a down-home, defiantly wholesome, cross-dressing cowboy entertainer.

Hand2Mouth Theatre

Repeat After Me

Thurs . Sept 13 . 8:30 pm

Mining popular American music from the last hundred years, Hand2Mouth Theatre samples karaoke, outlandish theatricality, exhaustive dances, and absurdist humor in this imaginative work that questions what it means to be a true American.

Cartune Xprez

Curated by Peter Burr

Thurs . Sept 13 . 10:30 pm

CARTUNE XPREZ is a traveling roadshow that combines fresh animated videos with music, dance, and theatre performances for a genre-bending night of moving image and music.

Stan Shellabarger

Fri . Sept 14 . 12 am

Stan Shellabarger’s performances explore time through the evidence of change, growth, and endurance. His process-oriented work focuses on basic physiological activities.

WORKSHOP

Nature Theater of Oklahoma: The OK Acting Technique

Fri . Sept 14 . 9:30 am

Learn useful life skills, develop character accents, and expand your range of facial expression! Bring costume accessories to share with the group.

CHAT

PERFORMANCE Now

Fri . Sept 14 . 12:30 pm

Visual and performance artist Claude Wampler in conversation with the Walker Art Center’s Senior Curator of Performing Arts Philip Bither and TBA:07 Artistic Director Mark Russell.

Liz Haley

POLYGRAPH

Fri . Sept 14 . 1 pm

Part performance, part installation, Liz Haley will connect herself to an analog polygraph machine while participants are invited to ask her what they wish.

Elevator Repair Service

Gatz

Fri . Sept 14 . 4 pm

One morning in the low-rent office of a mysterious small business, one employee finds a ragged old copy of The Great Gatsby in the clutter of his desk and starts to read it out loud. And doesn’t stop.

Young Jean Lee's Theater Company

Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven

Fri . Sept 14 . 6:30 pm

Provocative writer/director Young Jean Lee’s worst nightmare is to make anything as predictable as a confessional, Korean-American identity play with a flowery Asian-sounding title, so she decided to do just that.

Claude Wampler

PERFORMANCE (career ender)

Fri . Sept 14 . 6:30 pm

This new work completes Wampler’s ten-year cycle of creating experimental artworks that combine elements of visual art and performance and that call attention to the viewers’ role as audience.

Andrew Dickson

Sell Out

Fri . Sept 14 . 6:30 pm

Ten years ago Andrew Dickson was an independent filmmaker whose typical day involved riding his bike around Portland eating cheap burritos, going to basement punk rock shows and maybe doing a 4-hour temp job. Today, he writes ads for Fortune 500 companies, lives in a brand-new loft apartment, and hasn’t been on a bike in years. The Andrew of ten years ago would definitely consider the Andrew of today a sellout.

Nature Theater of Oklahoma

No Dice

Fri . Sept 14 . 6:30 pm

Come for the magic, stay for the ham sandwiches! Nature Theater of Oklahoma presents a short four-hour version of their legendary eleven-hour melodramatic spectacle, No Dice.

Claude Wampler

PERFORMANCE (career ender)

Fri . Sept 14 . 8:30 pm

This new work completes Wampler’s ten-year cycle of creating experimental artworks that combine elements of visual art and performance and that call attention to the viewers’ role as audience.

Larry Krone

In Concert

Fri . Sept 14 . 8:30 pm

Larry Krone performs original songs and country music standards, infusing them with all the love and devotion one would expect from a down-home, defiantly wholesome, cross-dressing cowboy entertainer.

Holcombe Waller

Into the Dark Unknown: The Hope Chest

Fri . Sept 14 . 8:30 pm

Holcombe Waller’s Into the Dark Unknown: The Hope Chest is a vocal performance that imagines movement, video, costume and character to be instruments as inextricable from the process of musical arrangement as piano, guitar and strings.

Hand2Mouth Theatre

Repeat After Me

Fri . Sept 14 . 8:30 pm

Mining popular American music from the last hundred years, Hand2Mouth Theatre samples karaoke, outlandish theatricality, exhaustive dances, and absurdist humor in this imaginative work that questions what it means to be a true American.

Zoe Scofield & Juniper Shuey

The devil you know is better than the devil you don’t

Fri . Sept 14 . 8:30 pm

Danced with mesmerizing intensity and technical precision, Scofield and Shuey’s collaboration is part of a long term project exploring adolescent group dynamics; how and why people fall into or push each other into the roles of Leader, Follower and Outcast.

Fred Frith/Zeena Parkins/Ikue Mori

Fri . Sept 14 . 10:30 pm

Ikue Mori (electronics), Zeena Parkins (electric harp), and legendary guitarist Fred Frith are international icons of modern improvisation. These frequent collaborators have performed together since the 80s, earning widespread acclaim for their innovative experimentation with musical forms, techniques and instruments.

Stan Shellabarger

Sat . Sept 15 . 12 am

Stan Shellabarger’s performances explore time through the evidence of change, growth, and endurance. His process-oriented work focuses on basic physiological activities.

WORKSHOP

Young Jean Lee: Writing for Theatre

Sat . Sept 15 . 9:30 am

A writing workshop for anyone interested in playwriting who needs a bit of inspiration or encouragement to get started or keep going. Please bring paper and something to write with.

CHAT

Reading Between the Lines

Sat . Sept 15 . 12:30 pm

John Collins, Artistic Director of Elevator Repair Service, the creators of GATZ, in conversation with TBA:07 Artistic Director Mark Russell.

Liz Haley

POLYGRAPH

Sat . Sept 15 . 1 pm

Part performance, part installation, Liz Haley will connect herself to an analog polygraph machine while participants are invited to ask her what they wish.

Gary Wiseman

Tea Project: Self-portrait 1980 - 2007

Sat . Sept 15 . 3 pm

Gary Wiseman abandons traditional modes of art making and presentation to bring his latest art project to the open spaces of the city.

Elevator Repair Service

Gatz

Sat . Sept 15 . 3 pm

One morning in the low-rent office of a mysterious small business, one employee finds a ragged old copy of The Great Gatsby in the clutter of his desk and starts to read it out loud. And doesn’t stop.

Simple Actions & Aberrant Behaviors

Curated by Pablo de Ocampo

Sat . Sept 15 . 4 pm

In placing oneself both behind and in front of the lens, an artist creates an inescapable connection between the work and their own lives, regardless of the actual corollaries between that “presence” caught on tape and the lives of the performers making those actions.

Hand2Mouth Theatre

Repeat After Me

Sat . Sept 15 . 4:30 pm

Mining popular American music from the last hundred years, Hand2Mouth Theatre samples karaoke, outlandish theatricality, exhaustive dances, and absurdist humor in this imaginative work that questions what it means to be a true American.

Young Jean Lee's Theater Company

Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven

Sat . Sept 15 . 6:30 pm

Provocative writer/director Young Jean Lee’s worst nightmare is to make anything as predictable as a confessional, Korean-American identity play with a flowery Asian-sounding title, so she decided to do just that.

Claude Wampler

PERFORMANCE (career ender)

Sat . Sept 15 . 6:30 pm

This new work completes Wampler’s ten-year cycle of creating experimental artworks that combine elements of visual art and performance and that call attention to the viewers’ role as audience.

Nature Theater of Oklahoma

No Dice

Sat . Sept 15 . 6:30 pm

Come for the magic, stay for the ham sandwiches! Nature Theater of Oklahoma presents a short four-hour version of their legendary eleven-hour melodramatic spectacle, No Dice.

Claude Wampler

PERFORMANCE (career ender)

Sat . Sept 15 . 8:30 pm

This new work completes Wampler’s ten-year cycle of creating experimental artworks that combine elements of visual art and performance and that call attention to the viewers’ role as audience.

Holcombe Waller

Into the Dark Unknown: The Hope Chest

Sat . Sept 15 . 8:30 pm

Holcombe Waller’s Into the Dark Unknown: The Hope Chest is a vocal performance that imagines movement, video, costume and character to be instruments as inextricable from the process of musical arrangement as piano, guitar and strings.

Larry Krone

In Concert

Sat . Sept 15 . 8:30 pm

Larry Krone performs original songs and country music standards, infusing them with all the love and devotion one would expect from a down-home, defiantly wholesome, cross-dressing cowboy entertainer.

Hand2Mouth Theatre

Repeat After Me

Sat . Sept 15 . 8:30 pm

Mining popular American music from the last hundred years, Hand2Mouth Theatre samples karaoke, outlandish theatricality, exhaustive dances, and absurdist humor in this imaginative work that questions what it means to be a true American.

Zoe Scofield & Juniper Shuey

The devil you know is better than the devil you don’t

Sat . Sept 15 . 8:30 pm

Danced with mesmerizing intensity and technical precision, Scofield and Shuey’s collaboration is part of a long term project exploring adolescent group dynamics; how and why people fall into or push each other into the roles of Leader, Follower and Outcast.

Ten Tiny Dances

Sat . Sept 15 . 10:30 pm

An experiment in confined space, Ten Tiny Dances (TTD) is a performance series dedicated to fostering inventive dance/performance art and providing an accessible performance experience for a diverse audience... all on a 4x4 foot stage.

Stan Shellabarger

Sun . Sept 16 . 12 am

Stan Shellabarger’s performances explore time through the evidence of change, growth, and endurance. His process-oriented work focuses on basic physiological activities.

WORKSHOP

Zoe Scofield

Sun . Sept 16 . 9:30 am

This class will utilize technique as well as let it go, blending repertory, ashtanga yoga, ballet and modern.

Cartune Xprez

SNDAY MRNING XPREZ, Curated by Peter Burr

Sun . Sept 16 . 11 am

Kick back in an EZ-chair for Sunday brunch cocktails and cartunes. Living Room Theaters will play host to SNDAY MRNING XPREZ, an awesome afternoon of animated videos with Hooliganship as your host.

CHAT

Moving Images: An exploration of Music and Film

Sun . Sept 16 . 12:30 pm

Japanese experimental musicians Aki Onda and Fuyuki Yamakawa with Pablo de Ocampo (Artistic Director of Images Festival, Toronto).

Liz Haley

POLYGRAPH

Sun . Sept 16 . 1 pm

Part performance, part installation, Liz Haley will connect herself to an analog polygraph machine while participants are invited to ask her what they wish.

Elevator Repair Service

Gatz

Sun . Sept 16 . 3 pm

One morning in the low-rent office of a mysterious small business, one employee finds a ragged old copy of The Great Gatsby in the clutter of his desk and starts to read it out loud. And doesn’t stop.

Simple Actions & Aberrant Behaviors

Curated by Pablo de Ocampo

Sun . Sept 16 . 4 pm

In placing oneself both behind and in front of the lens, an artist creates an inescapable connection between the work and their own lives, regardless of the actual corollaries between that “presence” caught on tape and the lives of the performers making those actions.

Nature Theater of Oklahoma

No Dice

Sun . Sept 16 . 6:30 pm

Come for the magic, stay for the ham sandwiches! Nature Theater of Oklahoma presents a short four-hour version of their legendary eleven-hour melodramatic spectacle, No Dice.

Young Jean Lee's Theater Company

Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven

Sun . Sept 16 . 6:30 pm

Provocative writer/director Young Jean Lee’s worst nightmare is to make anything as predictable as a confessional, Korean-American identity play with a flowery Asian-sounding title, so she decided to do just that.

Claude Wampler

PERFORMANCE (career ender)

Sun . Sept 16 . 6:30 pm

This new work completes Wampler’s ten-year cycle of creating experimental artworks that combine elements of visual art and performance and that call attention to the viewers’ role as audience.

Claude Wampler

PERFORMANCE (career ender)

Sun . Sept 16 . 8:30 pm

This new work completes Wampler’s ten-year cycle of creating experimental artworks that combine elements of visual art and performance and that call attention to the viewers’ role as audience.

Zoe Scofield & Juniper Shuey

The devil you know is better than the devil you don’t

Sun . Sept 16 . 8:30 pm

Danced with mesmerizing intensity and technical precision, Scofield and Shuey’s collaboration is part of a long term project exploring adolescent group dynamics; how and why people fall into or push each other into the roles of Leader, Follower and Outcast.

Some Cats From Japan

Curated by Aki Onda

Sun . Sept 16 . 10:30 pm

Aki Onda is an acclaimed electronic musician, composer, and multimedia artist, currently living in New York, who has curated this truly singular audiovisual experience, a showcase of innovative music and optical art from Japan.

John Carpenter

John Carpenter

Sun . Sept 16 . 11:55 pm

New York's John Carpenter is the golden-throated voice of Modern American Gothic Blue-Eyed Soul.

Peter Kreider/Marko Lulic

Curated by Kristan Kennedy and Stephanie Snyder

Tues . Sept 4 . - Sun . Dec 9 .

Peter Kreider & Marko Lulic

Marko Lulic/Peter Kreider

Curated by Stephanie Snyder and Kristan Kennedy

Tues . Sept 4 . - Sun . Dec 9 .

Austrian artist Marko Lulic re-examines modernist art and architecture through a wide range of construction materials and media, often radically shifting the scale of historical monuments and artifacts. Peter Kreider’s work addresses a hidden potential in the content of the world and the interstices between wonder and understanding.

SuperNatural

curated by Arnold J. Kemp

Thurs . Sept 6 . - Sat . Sept 29 .

SuperNatural is an exhibition of Portland-area artists juried by Arnold J. Kemp, TBA:07 Artist and former Associate Curator of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.

Arnold J. Kemp

Daydream Nation (The Suspiria Version)

Thurs . Sept 6 . - Sat . Sept 29 .

PICA Artist in Residence Arnold J. Kemp further pursues the psychic and political spaces that are available in abstraction by continuing his ongoing body of work DAYDREAM NATION.

Sara Greenberger Rafferty

Thurs . Sept 6 . - Sat . Oct 6 .

Sara Greenberger Rafferty has always worked in a performative vein: while never actually taking the stage, an absent performer has always seemingly orchestrated the objects and pictures she presents.

Melia Donovan

The Clandestine Periphery

Thurs . Sept 6 . - Fri . Oct 5 .

The Clandestine Periphery is an invisible mural set into the wall and activated by a glance. Born from a reductive process that relies on photographic information, it is dependent on the architectural and pedestrian use of the space.

Larry Bamburg

Thurs . Sept 6 . - Sat . Oct 6 .

Larry Bamburg culls images and idiosyncratic details from the natural world to produce kinetic installations. Comprised of paper, string, tape, wire, fluorescent lighting, electrical fans, and photographic snapshots, his work activates the often unrealized potential in quotidian materials.

Ina Diane Archer

The Lincoln Film Conspiracy (LFC)

Thurs . Sept 6 . - Fri . Oct 5 .

The Lincoln Film Conspiracy is a 30-minute film that combines archival footage, new video segments and digital image manipulation.

Space Is a place

Curated by Rob Halverson

Thurs . Sept 6 . - Sun . Oct 7 .

A group show that brings together artists from outer space to this place. Space is a Place explores the psychological aura of an office by turning it into a gallery.

Urbanhonking

Ultimate Blogger 3

Thurs . Sept 6 . - Sun . Sept 16 .

UrbanHonking.com is an online community run by three close friends: Jona Bechtolt, Mike Merrill, and Steve Schroeder who claim to have "accidentally" created an internet phenomenon.

Guido Van Der Werve

The Clouds Are More Beautiful From Above

Thurs . Sept 6 . - Sun . Sept 16 .

New Hours. Opens Saturday, September 8, 2007 at 11 am

Guido Van Der Werve

The Clouds Are More Beautiful From Above

Thurs . Sept 6 . - Sun . Sept 16 .

Trained as a classical pianist, Guido van der Werve now only performs on film. Van der Werve mixes music, text and atmospheric scenes into slow sweeping cinematic gestures.

Regina Silveira

Outgrown (Tracks and Shadows)
Curated by Christy Wycoff and Mack McFarland

Thurs . Sept 6 . - Sat . Sept 29 .

Regina Silveira utilizes the white cube as the backdrop for her spatial experiments, which are made up of poetically profound, stark, black images.

Sincerely, John Head

Studio Sessions

Thurs . Sept 6 . - Sun . Sept 16 .

Sincerely, John Head (SJH) alternately and sometimes simultaneously plays the role of idolized performer and earnest fan by hosting events and producing artifacts that revel in both personas.

Larry Krone

Larry Krone's Campfire Exposition

Thurs . Sept 6 . - Sun . Sept 16 .

Larry Krone scavenges through the universe of Americana, ready-made culture to reinvigorate the folk and outsider art traditions.

Reading Out Loud

Coordinated by Buck Skelton

Thurs . Sept 6 . - Sun . Sept 16 .

Throughout the Festival, groups of poets, actors and artists will read aloud from ten great works of American literature.

Ryan Wilson Paulsen

I'm Searching Too

Thurs . Sept 6 . - Sun . Sept 16 .

Ryan Wilson Paulsen will be creating a series of postcards that will be sent to a mass of randomly selected people who form the once-a-year community that is the Time-Based Art Festival.

Dear PICA Friends

A letter from TBA:07 Artistic Director Mark Russell

Thurs . Sept 6 . - Sun . Sept 16 .

Dear PICA Friends,

I am so excited that in a few days we will open TBA:07! Tickets have been selling like hot cakes and people are coming from all across the world to see what PICA, Portland and TBA have to offer.

PICA Blog & TBA Radio

Thurs . Sept 6 . - Sun . Sept 16 .

Eric David Johnson

aka DJ Bunny Ears

Fri . Sept 7 . - Sun . Sept 16 .

Eric David Johnson (aka DJ Bunny Ears) is a filmmaker, musician, DJ, writer and producer, and has directed music videos for M. Ward, Cursive and Chin Up Chin Up.