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Larry Bamburg culls images and idiosyncratic details from the natural world to produce kinetic installations.
Learn moreThe 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.
Learn moreSara 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.
Learn moreThe Lincoln Film Conspiracy is a 30-minute film that combines archival footage, new video segments and digital image manipulation.
Learn morePICA 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.
Learn moreSuperNatural 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.
Learn moreNo one belongs here more than you. A reading and book signing with Miranda July.
Learn moreStephanie Snyder and Rose Bond (PNCA), with artists Bebe Miller, Crispin Spaeth, and Marty Schnapf.
Learn moreMiller combines virtuoso choreography with cutting edge motion capture technology to investigate the relation between the foreign and familiar in contemporary life.
Learn moreDavid 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.
Learn moreChoreographer Linda K. Johnson speaks with hip hop performance poet Jerry Quickley, artist Bob Braine, and choreographer and community activist Jennifer Monson.
Learn morePerformed in a lightless room for a small audience equipped with night vision apparatus.
Learn moreArtist Deborah Hay discusses her writings about Dance and the creative process with the Henry Art Gallery’s Betsey Brock.
Learn moreFlight of Mind marks the culmination of a five-year project tracking animal migration and devising choreographic systems in response.
Learn moreMark Russell chats with Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper of Nature Theater of Oklahoma about their radical perspectives on contemporary theatre.
Learn moreDavid Eckard, with the performers of Stan’s Cafe, Red76, and MK Guth (PNCA), on innovative artistic practices that engage the urban environment.
Learn moreWith a provocative brand of stagecraft wizardry, everyday gestures as simple as sleeping, walking, listening and waiting transform into a carnivalesque ballet of everyday life.
Learn moreArtists Matthew Day Jackson, Sutapa Biswas, and Daniel Duford (PNCA), with Kristan Kennedy, and Stephanie Snyder.
Learn moreMark 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.
Learn moreThe focus of this panel is the development of new strategies to nurture and sustain the Creative City.
Learn moreLinda 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.
Learn moreCommissioned by EXPO 2005 Aichi, Japan, Hidden Inside Mountains is a high definition film that debuted in Japan at WORLD EXPO 2005 on the largest high definition Astrovision screen in the world and features an original score written and recorded by Laurie Anderson with additional vocals by singer/performer Antony (of Antony and the Johnsons).
Learn moreWith 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.
Learn moreTen 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.
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