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Artists 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 morePatrick Rock talks about male-ness, artist-ness, and fun-ness.
Learn morePerformer and choreographer Yukio Suzuki leads a Butoh-based workshop emphasizing the unique characteristics of each mover and communication with others through the body.
Learn moreFeaturing No Age, Dangerous Boys Club, Ghost Mom, Harry K, Nudity in Groups, John Wiese, DJ Linoleum, Sick Jaggers, and more.
Learn moreA play about the ecstasy and excesses of performing, the dangers of public intimacy, and the incompatibility of truth on stage and sanity in real life.
Learn moreGloriously larger than life, the fabulous performer, writer, and director Taylor Mac draws from the traditions of drag and performance art to create a style all his own.
Learn moreThe loss of a community radio station and the impact of Alzheimer’s on a family, seen through contemporary choreography and classic soul and hip hop recordings.
Learn moreHalsey Rodman will discuss his time-based sculptural paintings that exist as copies with no original.
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 moreA live performance and video installation that invites the audience deeper into the world of the company's dance.
Learn moreExpect high-powered booty originals and a Southern storm of her Bounce and Memphis favorites, remixed for the dance floor.
Learn moreMore than your typical hip-hop act, Vockah Redu and the Cru set the stage for a sweaty, hands-down, booty-up good time, transforming any party, bar, or dance floor in your neighborhood.
Learn moreFrom his portable stage before incidental audiences, Eckard echoes the cry and tactics of midway barker, medicine showman, and snake oil huckster.
Learn moreFor this live event, video projections on the river piers of the Morrison Bridge and audio compositions from the Hawthorne Bridge will bring the two structures to life.
Learn moreThe United States has over 700 military bases on foreign soil in sovereign countries where we have no declaration of war. This project unites musicians, researchers and music-lovers to gather covers by American musicians of songs that originate from each of these places.
Learn moreJesse Sugarmann’s automotive performances are elegant pile-ups. His vehicular actions engage the car accident as an inadvertent monument, a spectacle of trauma and a point of social exchange.
Learn moreWarning: this is just for laughs. There’s no redeeming social value. We’d apologize, but that’s sort of our goal every time we do what we do—you know, create an empty vessel you can fill with your own nonsense.
Learn moreEach spring, Romanian children set mounds of white poplar fluff aflame in the street gutters. The sparks and small fires in the film suggest the numerous catalysts for social change around the world.
Learn moreA forced-air-inflated, pink elephant-shaped, viewer-interactive jumproom, reflecting the ecstasy and absurdity of the modern artist.
Learn moreRodman’s installations use different forms of near-identical objects, creating a sense that despite their concrete physicality, something about them remains unresolved and unfixed.
Learn moreLucas’ video makes a sly commentary on the diaspora of Western factories to the Third World, through an encounter with one such British company, Europleasure International LTD.
Learn moreThe Fix It office will both produce the publication September, a daily art historical broadside specially produced for TBA:11, and be an active space where the artists will work on site to correct, revise and compile errata from previous editions of the paper.
Learn moreIn a private performance for the camera, a quintet of women will tear apart an enormous cube comprised of more than 5,050 pounds of wet clay.
Learn moreClaire Fontaine is a Paris-based collective artist, founded in 2004. After lifting her name from a popular brand of school notebooks, Claire Fontaine declared herself a “readymade artist” and began to elaborate a version of neo-conceptual art that often looks like other people’s work.
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