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Two clever puppeteers play out small-scale dramas live and projected on-screen.
Learn moreA collaboration with six dancers from Japan, Senegal, Ethiopia, and the US that evokes classical Japanese aesthetics and the subtle interplay of light and shadow.
Learn moreGutierrez offers insight into his provocative practice and introduces his new work in development, co-commissoned by PICA as part of the 2013 TBA Festival.
Learn moreSome people know exactly what they want out of life and how to get it. Good for them. But most of us could use some help navigating the increasingly infinite options modern life affords.
Learn moreFresh from the premiere of her latest work, choreographer Nora Chipaumire discusses female iconography, the burdens and freedoms of exile, and ideas of the female African body as subjugated and unknowable.
Learn moreA shameless and sexually infused sewer of live rap and RnB who challenges the American obsession with charm and grace, CHRISTEENE is a new, dangerous breed of entertainer and “Drag Terrorist.”
Learn moreTaking her name from the South African singer, activist, and icon Miriam Makeba, Miriam explores the tensions that women face between public expectations and private desires and the perfection and sacrifice of the feminine ideal.
Learn moreA bold "documentary" play exploring the radical revolutionary history of 60s Mexico, reigniting the social critiques of an earlier generation.
Learn moreVogt discusses the conceptually complex and layered environments she creates out of videos and objects.
Learn moreRitter's "charged objects"—whether a working fountain or a series of precarious sculptures—are formed from raw and rehydrated clay pulled directly from the Oregon earth.
Learn moreA series sprayed wall paintings derived from 16mm films, recalling Impressionist landscapes and Modernist abstractions. Paired with several films from the artist's oeuvre.
Learn moreBig Art Group director Caden Manson will discuss the group’s serial site-specific project, The People, along with the local Portland residents who participated in the performance.
Learn moreThe force behind New York City’s epic GHE20G0TH1K parties, DJ Venus X will mash-up a global mix of chopped and screwed pop songs, club mixes, political newscasts, and big dance beats.
Learn moreFeaturing Alex Cecchetti, Isabelle Cornaro, Claudia Meza, Morgan Ritter, Van Brummelen & De Haan, and Erika Vogt.
Learn moreTBA returns for its tenth anniversary with a slate of international artists and projects that cross the boundaries of forms and ideas.
Learn moreCast forms suspended by pulleys from the gallery ceiling invite audience interaction, guided by Vogt's enigmatic drawings.
Learn moreA "relay performance" illustrated with found and adapted objects, handed off from the artist to subsequent performers like a game of telephone.
Learn moreA multi-part project re-animating the contested Pergamon Museum frieze, highlighting the contemporary and historic power dynamics between Turkey and Germany.
Learn moreOur kitchen kicks off TBA opening night with Boke Bowl's Japanese steam buns, rice bowls, and more!
Learn moreBlending real-time film, live actors, and a video “chorus” of interviews with a cross-section of Portlanders, Big Art Group pushes the formal boundaries of theater and film.
Learn moreA self-generated 'automatic' performance for two audience members/participants at a time, who take cues from words both written and whispered through headphones.
Learn moreLinda Hutchins, Future Death Toll, Austin Adkins, and Robert Tyree perform live for a steaming online international performance festival.
Learn moreLos Angeles-based artist Jennifer West makes 16mm, 35mm, and 70mm films by manipulating the film celluloid to a level of performance. The film emulsion might be doused with perfume, alcohol, mascara, or pepper spray, skateboarded on, kissed, or dragged through tar pits. The concept-specific materials she employs for each film enhance and reinforce the experiential and performative nature of each work. She often makes her work with social groupings such as friends, students, artists, writers, even the babysitter. West's practice is characteristically influenced by urban mythology, folklore, and popular culture, and often addresses issues of the body, of gender, and of self-presentation. Her silent films have a strong synesthetic effect, in that she causes the viewers to taste or smell the "ingredients" that led to her particular visual expression. She is also known for her "Zines" - DIY photo booklets of production stills of the making of the films- that she gives away at her exhibitions.
Learn moreA hands-on day at the presses with Portland printmakers Catharine Rondthaler and John Brandsberg.
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