Past
This special screening includes selections from the last ten years of Biswas’ work, and features one of her most lauded films: Untitled (The Trials and Tribulations of Mickey Baker), 1997.
Learn moreOscillating between the staged and the real, the works synthesize charged silences and permeating pop songs in order to reflect the psychology of group dynamic.
Learn moreThe artists of Vivarium Studio chat with PNCA Professors Linda Kliewer and David Eckard about their work and contemporary performance in France.
Learn moreFrom the humble starting point of an artist’s flat and recording studio, Philippe Quesne and Vivarium Studio create a multi-tiered whimsical revue about flying and falling.
Learn moreDrawing from recent experiences as NASA’s first artist-in-residence, Laurie Anderson creates an ambitiously large portrait of contemporary American culture.
Learn moreWhy do you want to be an artist? Why do you want to do it professionally? Why do you want to do it now? With a wry sense of humor and almost fifteen years of experience as a professional artist, James Yarker offers up a compendium of strategies and practical advice for the incipient artist.
Learn moreGuest Artistic Director Mark Russell and Kristan Kennedy, Visual Art Program Director of the Festival, talk about this year’s program of artists and events, and answer questions from the audience.
Learn moreFor this beautifully simple performance/installation, Stan’s Cafe will bring 300 million grains of rice to Portland, a grain for every person in the United States.
Learn moreThe Willamette River snakes through Portland and creates movement, boundaries and divisions. This natural, slow flowing artery is an arena for commerce, sport and spectacle.
Learn morePortland-based artist Mack McFarland teams up with film archivist Dennis Nyback to revamp our collective memory...
Learn moreComposer John King leads dozens of electric guitar players from Portland’s music community with a unique concert staged on the steps of Pioneer Courthouse Square.
Learn moreAdkins will show up at TBA Central every day at 2 pm.
Learn morelaptop considers how the pace of technological change and obsolescence bring about the potential for what the artists deem “micro-nostalgia.”
Learn moreThis pirate radio station and walk-in jukebox is devoted to auditory pick-me-ups. Check out 96.7 FM
Learn moreCampbell’s single-channel piece is a voyeuristic view into a personal history playing out with multiplying endings.
Learn moreAs part of an ongoing collaboration, Desktop is a diorama of a virtual environment that pulls freely from the vocabularies of computer technology, new media, and contemporary art practice.
Learn moreThis single-channel video installation was shot in a free after-school center in Dubrava, a suburb of Zagreb, Croatia.
Learn moreThe TBA Press Corps is comprised of a group of volunteer artists, writers, photographers and enthusiasts who document TBA Festival happenings from start to finish.
Learn moreAdvance registration is required for all workshops, call the TBA Central Box Office 503.224.PICA. Workshops included in all levels of TBA Passes. $10 mem / $15 gen
Learn moreTsong has been interested in the layered meanings of the words alien, stranger, and other.
Learn moreJackson presents a proposal for the beginning of a post-apocalyptic earth in which the wrongs of our past can be rectified.
Learn moreA four-part single channel video work depicting “the burn,” a massive section of Oregon forest destroyed by natural fires in 2003.
Learn moreThis major new work and multi-channel video installation explores how sexuality was defined in Balkan pagan traditions.
Learn moreThe film installations of British East-Indian artist Sutapa Biswas are metaphorical journeys that re-imagine culture and family through diverse time periods and works of art.
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