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TBA returns for its tenth anniversary with a slate of international artists and projects that cross the boundaries of forms and ideas.
Learn moreOffsite Dance Project returns to Portland and embeds three dynamic choreographers in the Central Eastside Industrial District. Under bridges and at loading docks, the performers will explore the “edges” of Portland, both in geographic and psychological terms. The audience will be guided on a walk between three different sites.
Learn moreMichel Groisman will lead audiences in participatory games and captivate their attention with graceful performances.
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 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 moreA forced-air-inflated, pink elephant-shaped, viewer-interactive jumproom, reflecting the ecstasy and absurdity of the modern artist.
Learn moreA contemporary reenactment of the iconic, pre-Betsy Ross flag, altered by the bias of current events and the slow revisions of time, will fly from Washington High School’s flagpole.
Learn moreThis September, PICA takes over Portland with an all-hours happening of contemporary performance and visual art.
Learn moreWearing a constructed gallery costume, Reinsch will wander throughout Portland accompanied by a gallery assistant as a living personification of the site of exhibition.
Learn moreErin Boberg Doughton, PICA's Performing Arts Program Director offers her early insight into the 2011 artists of THE WORKS and TBA OUTSIDE.
Learn moreNew Japanese choreographers explore and illuminate the hidden subtext of the overlooked urban landscape.
Learn moreThe artists will dig two holes deep and large enough for each man to lie in, and then tunnel between them to hold hands.
Learn moreJoin us September 9-19, 2010 in Portland, Oregon for a ten-day happening of contemporary performance, dance, music, and new media, with an additional month of visual arts installations.
Learn moreThis mobile performance-based outdoor video installation examines the lines between private and public, voyeurism and exhibitionism.
Learn morerobbinschilds performs a series of original performances and interactions in, on, and around the Washington High School grounds.
Learn moreOn Labor Day, bring your neighborhood picnic to TBA and share in the making of community and the making of a feast.
Learn moreAudiences are invited to experience the artists' live mixing from outside the gallery, where sound will spill out and projections will fill the windows.
Learn moreToyoda has worked exclusively in the medium of slideshows, consisting of images taken in the course of his daily life, for the past decade.
Learn moreA piece at the crossroads of performance, visual arts and theatre, Échantillons thwarts traditional frameworks of representation, and encourages a reconsideration.
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 moreAdkins will show up at TBA Central every day at 2 pm.
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.
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