Fri . Aug 26 . 6 pm
Paris-based artist collective Claire Fontaine will speak about their TBA:11 installation, their practice, and the future of the strike.
Thurs . Sept 1 . 6 pm
Wearing a constructed gallery costume, Reinsch will wander throughout Portland accompanied by a gallery assistant as a living personification of the site of exhibition.
Drawing upon images and sounds recorded in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, O’Say Can You See evokes the experience of disorientation and loss that continues to haunt the nation.
Disorientalism’s preoccupation with junk culture translates into junk food, as Ready Mix stirs up the story of Aunt Jemima’s century-long makeover from “slave mammy” to “modern working mother.”
Three West Coast masters—Guillermo Gómez Peña, Dale Hoyt, and Tony Labat—who have pioneered an intellectual, multifaceted approach to identity and art as means for social justice in the post-Bush era.
Thurs . Sept 8 . 12 am
Meromi creates an architecture for action, in which visitors are invited to form their own troupe to interpret and perform scenes from his "Stage Exercises for Smokers and Non-Smokers."
Thurs . Sept 8 . 8 pm
The Fix It office will both produce the publication September, a daily art historical broadside specially produced for TBA:11, and be an active space where the artists will work on site to correct, revise and compile errata from previous editions of the paper.
Rodman’s installations use different forms of near-identical objects, creating a sense that despite their concrete physicality, something about them remains unresolved and unfixed.
Positioning three Chrysler minivans atop 42 inflatable airbeds, Sugarmann creates a slow-motion wreck.
Claire Fontaine is a Paris-based collective artist, founded in 2004. After lifting her name from a popular brand of school notebooks, Claire Fontaine declared herself a “readymade artist” and began to elaborate a version of neo-conceptual art that often looks like other people’s work.
In a private performance for the camera, a quintet of women will tear apart an enormous cube comprised of more than 5,050 pounds of wet clay.
The United States has over 700 military bases on foreign soil in sovereign countries where we have no declaration of war. This project unites musicians, researchers and music-lovers to gather covers by American musicians of songs that originate from each of these places.
A forced-air-inflated, pink elephant-shaped, viewer-interactive jumproom, reflecting the ecstasy and absurdity of the modern artist.
We’d apologize, but that’s sort of our goal every time we do what we do—you know, create an empty vessel you can fill with your own nonsense. Go ahead, knock yourself out. Is that a joke? Uh, no, not that I’m aware of.
Each spring, Romanian children set mounds of white poplar fluff aflame in the street gutters. The sparks and small fires in the film suggest the numerous catalysts for social change around the world.
An all-ages, anything-goes variety show, Whoop Dee Doo enlists wildly diverse participants and collaborates with a wild range of performers—from science teachers and Celtic bagpipers to clogging troupes, drill teams and drag queens—all for an audience of wide-eyed children.
Lucas’ video makes a sly commentary on the diaspora of Western factories to the Third World, through an encounter with one such British company, Europleasure International LTD.
Thurs . Sept 8 . 9 pm
For this live event, video projections on the river piers of the Morrison Bridge and audio compositions from the Hawthorne Bridge will bring the two structures to life.
Thurs . Sept 8 . 10:30 pm
From his portable stage before incidental audiences, Eckard echoes the cry and tactics of midway barker, medicine showman, and snake oil huckster.
Thurs . Sept 8 . 11 pm
More than your typical hip-hop act, Vockah Redu and the Cru set the stage for a sweaty, hands-down, booty-up good time, transforming any party, bar, or dance floor in your neighborhood.
Thurs . Sept 8 . 11:55 pm
Expect high-powered booty originals and a Southern storm of her Bounce and Memphis favorites, remixed for the dance floor.
Fri . Sept 9 . 12 pm
A live performance and video installation that invites the audience deeper into the world of the company's dance.
Fri . Sept 9 . 12:30 pm
PICA’s artistic staff Cathy Edwards, Kristan Kennedy, and Erin Boberg Doughton share their thoughts on the artists, ideas, and themes of TBA:11.
Fri . Sept 9 . 3 pm
Michel Groisman will lead audiences in participatory games and captivate their attention with graceful performances.
Fri . Sept 9 . 5 pm
Halsey Rodman will discuss his time-based sculptural paintings that exist as copies with no original.
Fri . Sept 9 . 5:45 pm
Fri . Sept 9 . 6:30 pm
A program of four solo dances, including collaborations with renowned choreographers Pina Bausch and Ushio Amagatsu; as well as works by Savitry Nair and Shivalingappa.
The loss of a community radio station and the impact of Alzheimer’s on a family, seen through contemporary choreography and classic soul and hip hop recordings.
Fri . Sept 9 . 8:30 pm
Mac arrives in a flourish of sequins with his newest show, in which he dissects the darker side of comparison with songs from Bowie and Tiny Tim.
A play about the ecstasy and excesses of performing, the dangers of public intimacy, and the incompatibility of truth on stage and sanity in real life.
Fri . Sept 9 . 9 pm
Fri . Sept 9 . 10:30 pm
Featuring No Age, Dangerous Boys Club, Ghost Mom, Harry K, Nudity in Groups, John Wiese, DJ Linoleum, Sick Jaggers, and more.
Sat . Sept 10 . 10 am
Performer and choreographer Yukio Suzuki leads a Butoh-based workshop emphasizing the unique characteristics of each mover and communication with others through the body.
Sat . Sept 10 . 12 pm
Sat . Sept 10 . 12:30 pm
Artists Ed Purver and Tim DuRoche discuss their project The Hidden Life of Bridges with Tony Lester, the Multnomah County Bridge staff who helped to create the project through RACC’s intersections residency program. Moderated by Peggy Kendellen of RACC.
Sat . Sept 10 . 2 pm
Patrick Rock talks about male-ness, artist-ness, and fun-ness.
Sat . Sept 10 . 3 pm
Sat . Sept 10 . 4 pm
Sat . Sept 10 . 5:45 pm
Sat . Sept 10 . 6:30 pm
We're opening THE WORKS beer garden early with special deals on drinks! Hang out before (or after) catching a show.
A male and female duo explore the fine balance between tenderness and hostility, where playfulness becomes manipulation and exploration shades into aggression.
Sat . Sept 10 . 7 pm
Sat . Sept 10 . 8:30 pm
Sat . Sept 10 . 9 pm
Sat . Sept 10 . 10:30 pm
Ten Tiny Dances presents its 25th performance! For this special event, producer Mike Barber brings you a lineup of hits from the past nine years of tiny dances, joined by visiting main stage artists from TBA.
Sun . Sept 11 . 10 am
Classes taught by A.I.M emphasize four specific core values: exploration, musicality, abandonment, and intuition.
Sun . Sept 11 . 12 pm
Sun . Sept 11 . 12:30 pm
Cathy Edwards talks with performer, writer, and director Taylor Mac about his theatrical concerns, his approach to social commentary, and his aesthetic of the fabulous.
Sun . Sept 11 . 3 pm
Sun . Sept 11 . 4 pm
Sun . Sept 11 . 5:45 pm
Sun . Sept 11 . 6:30 pm
Sun . Sept 11 . 7 pm
Sun . Sept 11 . 8:30 pm
Sun . Sept 11 . 10:30 pm
Comic, contemplative, and surreal, Whispering Pines 10 is a one-act, live-performance, video opera featuring Moulton’s alter ego, Cynthia.
Mon . Sept 12 . 12:30 pm
Musicians Sarah Dougher and Claudia Meza share their “essential listening” list, contextualizing their own work within the larger history of American 20th century avant-garde.
Mon . Sept 12 . 6 pm
Mon . Sept 12 . 6:30 pm
Mon . Sept 12 . 8:30 pm
Mon . Sept 12 . 10:30 pm
Experimental 1/2 Hour, a biweekly cable access program produced by Eva Aguila & Brock Fansler, presents a night of video and live multimedia music performances produced for stage and television.
Tues . Sept 13 . 12:30 pm
Ensemble theatre company Rude Mechs discuss their collaborative approach to creating multi-disciplinary performance with Fusebox Festival Director Ron Berry.
Tues . Sept 13 . 3 pm
Tues . Sept 13 . 6:30 pm
A carpet-pacing, pulpit-pounding performance reanimating an out-of-print vinyl record of a sermon by the evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.
Tues . Sept 13 . 8:30 pm
A solo dance that tweaks Pinocchio's plight to be a "real boy," to explore gender roles in the black community and societal perspectives of the black masculinity through hip hop and celebrity culture.
Tues . Sept 13 . 10:30 pm
A home-built, hand-cranked projector presents turn-of-the-century cinematic prototypes and long-forgotten ideas surrounding the moving image and its early promise.
Tues . Sept 13 . 11:30 pm
Miwa Matreyek steps behind the video screen to enter as a shadow into a world of her own animation.
Wed . Sept 14 . 12 pm
Wed . Sept 14 . 12:30 pm
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES and Kristan Kennedy in conversation about how artists and curators use their “voices” to talk about work, money, and the world.
Wed . Sept 14 . 3 pm
Wed . Sept 14 . 6 pm
Wed . Sept 14 . 6:30 pm
Wed . Sept 14 . 7 pm
Three dynamic Japanese choreographers (Yoko Higashino, Yukio Suzuki, and Ho Ho-Do) dance in the Central Eastside Industrial District, under bridges, off of loading docks, and in newly-developing buildings.
Benning explores duration and the cinematic industrial sublime in a series of masterfully composed long-take shots of Germany's Ruhr Valley.
Wed . Sept 14 . 8:30 pm
Three experimental poem-plays by the late Leslie Scalapino, staged with a small ensemble of instruments and singers.
Wed . Sept 14 . 10:30 pm
NEW MUSICS invites Portland’s most exciting sound scientists and pop adventurers to collaborate with some of the city’s under-sung traditional music ensembles.
Thurs . Sept 15 . 12 pm
Thurs . Sept 15 . 12:30 pm
Rachid Ouramdane explores global and political anxieties through the body in his conceptual dance works. In conversation with Cathy Edwards.
Thurs . Sept 15 . 3 pm
Thurs . Sept 15 . 6:30 pm
Thurs . Sept 15 . 7 pm
Thurs . Sept 15 . 7:30 pm
Thurs . Sept 15 . 7:45 pm
Thurs . Sept 15 . 8:30 pm
A meditation on the moments that divide people’s lives into linear experiences of time, played out through 3-D animation, atmospheric lighting, and compelling choreography.
A live, cinematic concert of songs scored by Dean & Britta for 13 of Andy Warhol's famous black and white Screen Tests.
Thurs . Sept 15 . 10:30 pm
A performance showcase featuring work by the most exciting Portland and New York artists, including Luciana Achugar, Oregon Painting Society, Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner, and more.
Fri . Sept 16 . 12 pm
Fri . Sept 16 . 12:30 pm
Matsue Okazaki of Offsite Dance Project and Malina Rodriguez of Dance Truck discuss their shared interest and experience in presenting dance in nontraditional locations.
Fri . Sept 16 . 6:30 pm
The Distillery Row artisans will host a Friday night happy hour at THE WORKS beer garden, mixing special drinks and sharing their local spirits.
Fri . Sept 16 . 7 pm
Fri . Sept 16 . 7:30 pm
Fri . Sept 16 . 7:45 pm
Fri . Sept 16 . 8:30 pm
World Fair blends movement and video to present the body as a bank able to record, erase, or register different ingredients of modern reality and national identity.
Fri . Sept 16 . 9:30 pm
Fri . Sept 16 . 10:30 pm
Big Terrific is a weekly comedy show in Brooklyn hosted by Gabe Liedman, Jenny Slate, and Max Silvestri.
Sat . Sept 17 . 10 am
Zoe Scofield offers a rigorous, deep, and intellectually challenging class including set exercises and structured improvisation inspired by Ashtanga Yoga, Gaga Gyrokenesis, and contemporary ballet.
Sat . Sept 17 . 11 am
Tiny TBA is a mini-festival within a festival that refuses to draw the line between kids and adults. Bring your families for open gallery hours and take part in activities led by TBA Festival artists and community volunteers.
Sat . Sept 17 . 12 pm
Sat . Sept 17 . 12:30 pm
PICA’s outgoing Artistic Director Cathy Edwards reflects on her three-year tenure with the TBA Festival, in conversation with PICA’s soon-to-be-announced incoming Artistic Director.
Sat . Sept 17 . 1 pm
Sat . Sept 17 . 3 pm
Sat . Sept 17 . 4 pm
Sat . Sept 17 . 6 pm
A live, 24-hour monologue that spans the globe, weaving together stories from every time zone into an electric road movie for our time.
Sat . Sept 17 . 6:30 pm
Sat . Sept 17 . 7 pm
Sat . Sept 17 . 7:30 pm
Sat . Sept 17 . 7:45 pm
Sat . Sept 17 . 8:30 pm
Sat . Sept 17 . 10:30 pm
Revelers will be treated to intermittent dance performances by local and visiting artists, empty truck beds for makeshift dance floors, and specials on Southern treats like mint juleps and boiled peanuts.
Sun . Sept 18 . 10 am
A class that incorporates contemporary dance technique, composition, and improvisation, as well as repertory material from the company’s acclaimed Home Made.
Sun . Sept 18 . 6:30 pm
Join us on closing night to celebrate the moveable feast that was TBA
Thurs . Sept 22 . 4 pm
Fri . Sept 23 . 4 pm
Sun . Sept 25 . 1 pm
Thurs . Sept 29 . 6 pm
Sat . Oct 1 . 9 am
Sat . Oct 1 . 1 pm
Sun . Oct 2 . 9 am
Sun . Oct 2 . 2 pm
From their TBA:11 office, the artist duo will share insight into their collaborative practice and their fascination with alternative histories.
Wed . Oct 5 . 12 pm
Explore work by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Dale Hoyt, and Tony Labat with exhibit curator Justin Hoover.
Sun . Oct 9 . 1 pm
Sat . Oct 22 . 2 pm
Ohad Meromi will talk about kibbutzim, utopian ideals, and social sculpture.
Sat . Oct 22 . 3 pm
Fri . Oct 28 . 5:30 pm
Thurs . Sept 1 . - Sat . Oct 22 .
Thurs . Sept 1 . - Sun . Oct 2 .
Thurs . Sept 8 . - Sun . Oct 30 .
A contemporary reenactment of the iconic, pre-Betsy Ross flag, altered by the bias of current events and the slow revisions of time, will fly from Washington High School’s flagpole.
Fri . Sept 9 . - Sun . Sept 18 .
Fri . Sept 9 . - Sun . Oct 30 .