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Based in Los Angeles since the early 1970s, Jackson has expanded the definition and practice of painting more than any other contemporary figure. His wildly inventive, exuberant, and irreverent take on “action” painting has dramatically extended its performative dimensions, merged it with sculpture, and repositioned it as an art of everyday experience.
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 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 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 moreProfessor Culp lectures on the current moment in Latin American theater and the tensions between presentation and representation on stage.
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 moreDance with members of Keith Hennessy’s Turbulence cast, exploring improvisation and circus skills.
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 moreWorking from the proposition that dance is a mode of perceptual inquiry, students will be led through explorations that prioritize sensation and non-rational action and trigger automatic, unprepared physical response.
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 moreBy using imagination and a sense of absence and presence, butoh invites a constant transformation to your body.
Learn moreTBA returns for its tenth anniversary with a slate of international artists and projects that cross the boundaries of forms and ideas.
Learn moreLos Angeles-based artist Jennifer West makes 16mm, 35mm, and 70mm films by manipulating the film celluloid to a level of performance. The film emulsion might be doused with perfume, alcohol, mascara, or pepper spray, skateboarded on, kissed, or dragged through tar pits. The concept-specific materials she employs for each film enhance and reinforce the experiential and performative nature of each work. She often makes her work with social groupings such as friends, students, artists, writers, even the babysitter. West's practice is characteristically influenced by urban mythology, folklore, and popular culture, and often addresses issues of the body, of gender, and of self-presentation. Her silent films have a strong synesthetic effect, in that she causes the viewers to taste or smell the "ingredients" that led to her particular visual expression. She is also known for her "Zines" - DIY photo booklets of production stills of the making of the films- that she gives away at her exhibitions.
Learn moreDuke Riley combines populist myths and contemporary social dilemmas in his installations, drawings, and performances.
Learn morePie Ranch works to connect people to the source of their food, and inspire them to bring greater health to the food system from seed to table.
Learn moreA class that incorporates contemporary dance technique, composition, and improvisation, as well as repertory material from the company’s acclaimed Home Made.
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 moreZoe Scofield offers a rigorous, deep, and intellectually challenging class including set exercises and structured improvisation inspired by Ashtanga Yoga, Gaga Gyrokenesis, and contemporary ballet.
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