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Dolan presents a new series of sculptural works which investigate various structural components of everyday life. These mechanics are contrasted with those of games and puzzles, which plainly present their rules.
Learn moreGet your first look at our new home for TBA, as we officially kick off the first night of the Festival. Gather with all of your PICA friends and artists as Mitchell Wines begins the celebration with a proper christening of THE WORKS (champagne across the bow?!).
Learn moreMinor Theatres (wrkshp 1) is a project to begin a project. A question of time over the horizon. Emily Roysdon has invited a dynamic array of specialists to talk about TIME- conceptually, abstractly, poetically, practically, materially and performatively. In symbols, text, stars, characters, and movements.
Learn morei want to know when we started noticing, when we realized, when we Became net artists, internet aware, post-internet, when we stabbed at making and when we finally pwnd understanding and maybe when we found ourselves in the thick of it, disconnected ONLINE
Learn moreRoom Tone is an instruction piece for voice and electromagnetic tape. It is a live performance involving one operator and an indefinite number of visitors, who may come and go throughout the duration of the piece. The work was created as live homage to composer Alvin Lucier's 1969 recording, I am Sitting in a Room.
Learn moreLegendary musician and artist Laurie Anderson performs the third and final of her groundbreaking solo story works
Learn moreSound artist Akio Suzuki, experimental poet Gozo Yoshimasu, and improvisatory guitarist/turntablist Otomo Yoshihide present a range of performances that cross between literature, sound art, music, and improvisation.
Learn moreA taste of the LA bass sound as a closing night TBA party of surreal visions, sideways club trax, and darkside R&B dubs.
Learn moreOver thirty local musicians, composers, and sound artists have mapped out their favorite sonic spaces in Portland, creating an "audio tour" of the most interesting naturally occurring acoustic landscapes, concluding in a one-day live concert.
Learn moreAn accessible workshop with members of Circo Zero, exploring improvisation and movement techniques.
Learn moreCompany members from Gob Squad lead a performance workshop right in the set of Gob Squad’s Kitchen, exploring their unique blend of theater and real life.
Learn moreA bizarro cooking demonstration exploring the effects of black light, led by the adorable host of FOOD PARTY.
Learn moreLip-smacking, filled-to-the-brim sandwiches from the crew at Bunk.
Learn moreThree vignettes track the absurd and mundane stories of a group of office employees in this stylized performance derived from everyday gestures.
Learn moreFaustin Linyekula discusses his bold solo dance and its themes of legacy, forgetting, and memory with Angela Mattox.
Learn moreA workshop led by cheltfisch’s award-winning director and playwright, Toshiki Okada, known for his stylized hybrids of oddly humorous text, distinctive lighting, and idiosyncratic movement.
Learn moreNew York-based singer, performer, DJ, and personality Penney will travel an emotional journey in song, from childhood to first love to romantic dissolution to ecstatic hope and empowerment.
Learn moreRecreating the iconic 60s films of Andy Warhol, live actors cross in and out of the film and audience.
Learn moreVegan Italian dishes that satisfy everyone: vegetable terrines, beet-pine nut manicotti, corn and mushroom chowder, and more.
Learn moreLinyekula bears witness through his dance to decades of war, terror, and fear, while also subverting the dominant image of contemporary Congo with one of resourcefulness and hope.
Learn moreA design fiction presentation pitching a speculative service that would remove ended relationships from the internet, storing them in physical objects.
Learn morePerformances by collaborators past and present, concluding in a grand-scale, multi-disciplinary concert. Featuring musical guests Golden Retriever, Classical Revolution PDX performing compositions by Jherek Bischoff, and a solo dance by choreographer Allie Hankins.
Learn moreA "live documentary" film with a live soundtrack by Yo La Tengo, examining the legacy of the visionary Buckminster Fuller.
Learn moreLuisa Pardo and Gabino Rodriguez from Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol talk about performance in Mexico with Olga Sanchez, Artistic Director of Teatro Milagro.
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