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Portland artist and net native Krystal South shares her digital essay created as part of the TBA:13 visual projects—a personalized history of “internet aware” art, and how its diffuse communities function online and IRL.
Learn moreTwo leading Argentine theater artists discuss their own work as it intersects with aesthetic and conceptual trends in Latin American performance, as well as both artists’ thematic and documentary-inflected engagement with the experiences of Latin America’s post-dictatorship generation. Moderated by Ruth Wikler-Luker, Curator and Producer, Boom Arts.
Learn moreChoreographer Trajal Harrell will talk with Judy Hussie-Taylor, Artistic Director of Danspace Project in New York, unpacking the sources for his Judson Church is Ringing in Harlem project.
Learn moreKhaela Maricich and Melissa Dyne—the collaborating artists and musicians of The Blow—discuss the place of pop music in contemporary art and its value as a performance practice.
Learn moreFaustin Linyekula discusses his bold solo dance and its themes of legacy, forgetting, and memory with Angela Mattox.
Learn moreLuisa Pardo and Gabino Rodriguez from Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol talk about performance in Mexico with Olga Sanchez, Artistic Director of Teatro Milagro.
Learn moreInternational curators discuss the festival model and its role in the world of contemporary performance.
Learn moreCecchetti talks about his performative, media-crossing body of work, and his TBA:12 “relay” performance, Summer is Not the Prize of Winter.
Learn moreInternational curator Zvonimir Dobrovic of Perforacije Festival and Queer New York International talks about the generation of artists currently making performance work in Eastern Europe and the Balkan states.
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 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 moreVogt discusses the conceptually complex and layered environments she creates out of videos and objects.
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 morePICA’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.
Learn moreMatsue Okazaki of Offsite Dance Project and Malina Rodriguez of Dance Truck discuss their shared interest and experience in presenting dance in nontraditional locations.
Learn moreRachid Ouramdane explores global and political anxieties through the body in his conceptual dance works. In conversation with Cathy Edwards.
Learn moreYOUNG-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.
Learn moreEnsemble theatre company Rude Mechs discuss their collaborative approach to creating multi-disciplinary performance with Fusebox Festival Director Ron Berry.
Learn moreMusicians Sarah Dougher and Claudia Meza share their “essential listening” list, contextualizing their own work within the larger history of American 20th century avant-garde.
Learn moreCathy Edwards talks with performer, writer, and director Taylor Mac about his theatrical concerns, his approach to social commentary, and his aesthetic of the fabulous.
Learn moreArtists 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.
Learn morePICA’s artistic staff Cathy Edwards, Kristan Kennedy, and Erin Boberg Doughton share their thoughts on the artists, ideas, and themes of TBA:11.
Learn moreOffsite Dance Project in conversation about cultural and artistic exchange between the Pacific NW and Japan.
Learn moreOn the Boards leads a dynamic conversation about performance, the Internet, and the questions raised by OntheBoards.tv.
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