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This September, PICA takes over Portland with an all-hours happening of contemporary performance and visual art.
Learn moreWearing a constructed gallery costume, Reinsch will wander throughout Portland accompanied by a gallery assistant as a living personification of the site of exhibition.
Learn moreParis-based artist collective Claire Fontaine will speak about their TBA:11 installation, their practice, and the future of the strike.
Learn morePICA's Visual Art Curator provides a behind-the-scenes look at this year's visual art projects at the TBA Festival.
Learn moreErin Boberg Doughton, PICA's Performing Arts Program Director offers her early insight into the 2011 artists of THE WORKS and TBA OUTSIDE.
Learn moreTBA Artistic Director Cathy Edwards will provide the inside scoop on the ON STAGE artists and performances of this year's Festival.
Learn moreRojas' folk-inspired installations address social concerns and the representations of women in our culture.
Learn moreChin's multi-disciplinary practice insinuates art into unlikely places explores how art can provoke social awareness and responsibility.
Learn moreThe Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum discusses building community and context for the arts.
Learn moreWith acoustic guitars and digital effects, the duo creates live improvised songs respond to the sonic influences of the local area.
Learn moreChef Jeremy Larter and Holocene Catering team up with local winemakers for a three-course, closing night meal.
Learn moreA riotous and tender evening of artist-made karaoke videos to your favorite power ballads, with a hidden lecture inside.
Learn moreOffsite Dance Project in conversation about cultural and artistic exchange between the Pacific NW and Japan.
Learn moreAfter dressing identically for nearly 10 years, AndrewAndrew have now become the world's first iPad DJs.
Learn moreThe Finnish DJ duo mixes danceable gypsy and folk club sounds with mountain fresh costumes and visuals.
Learn moreKristan Kennedy joins PICA Artist in Residence Storm Tharp in his TBA:10 installation for a conversation about his practice.
Learn moreNative film and video artists consider the relationship between land and identity.
Learn moreOn the Boards leads a dynamic conversation about performance, the Internet, and the questions raised by OntheBoards.tv.
Learn moreFill your dance-party hunger with the earliest (or latest) breakfast around.
Learn moreHope for the drum circle! Digital beats, pounding drums and singular and collective voices come together in this suite of acts.
Learn moreNew Japanese choreographers explore and illuminate the hidden subtext of the overlooked urban landscape.
Learn moreNature Theatre of Oklahoma shares their generative process including interviews, games, and recorded phone conversations.
Learn moreDance, storytelling, live multi-layered music and visual image merge to explore displacement, personal history and igloo myth.
Learn moreRonnie Bass & Gandalf Gavan discuss, metaphysics, art, and pop music with Ethan Siegel, Theoretical Astrophysicist.
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