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Celebrate the start of TBA:22 at our Opening Night with a headlining performance by renowned Los Angeles-based musician San Cha.
Learn more100 Keyboards is a live music performance/installation featuring as the title implies over 100 keyboards. This performance focuses on the phenomenon of “interference sound," the complex distribution of sound pressure and other parameters as sound waves of the same frequency but with a different direction of transmission overlap. As each keyboard plays a sustained note of a certain pitch, and as the number of notes increases, a “moiré of sound” is created. The auditory experience is akin to weaving an individual “textile pattern" (the original meaning of “moiré") and a sound equivalent to the visual “moiré effect.”
Learn moreFaye Driscoll's first solo exhibition, Come On In, offers an enveloping sensory installation. Bringing the immersive experience of her performance works into the gallery, Come On In conjures states of longing and seizes desire as I take listeners on a journey that reflects upon power and presence, yearning and absence, while inviting them to reconceive their body and its limits.
Learn moreLet 'im Move You is a series of works choreographed by jumatatu m. poe and Jermone Donte Beacham that stem from their decade-long research into J-Sette performance. Intervention brings together a group of Black dancers for a live outdoor performance work on sidewalks and in alleyways in historically or predominantly Black neighborhoods.
Learn moreThis offering is a sci-fi-inspired multi-sensory stim, a personal reflection on the ways our sensitive systems intertwine with surroundings—how they collapse time, reorganize, spin out, and regulate. Apogee is climax at a distance.
Learn moreIn Raja Feather Kelly’s HYSTERIA, Kelly continues his study of pop culture and its displacement of queer Black subjectivity. Picking up where his 2018 performance UGLY left off, Kelly re-situates himself as a glamorous, extraterrestrial entity—both alien to the world and wholly consuming its pop-cultural byproducts. HYSTERIA marks the collapse of fiction into fact, tracking the subsequent inner turmoil, confusion, and mania that Kelly sets out to exorcise.
Learn moreAT THE END OF EMPIRE: the glitching of ghosted bodies haunting, collapsing time and space. As the rumble unbounds, dust blows to sleep in the heart of those existing. Veiled figures, both on screen and embodied, perform rituals at the end of empire.
Learn moreMia Imani interrogates the ways that disenfranchised communities can heal individual, communal, and societal trauma by creating works that live in between the worlds of art and science.
Learn moreTHE BLUE WALK is a spectacle of LOVE. It activates RAGE, TENDERNESS, REST, RHYTHM and THE HOLINESS OF THE BLACK BODY ON THE LIVING PLANET as a healing channel of release and power.
Learn moreAs part of a creative residency at PICA, Emily Johnson gathers an extraordinary group of collaborating artists to create an in-process activation and installation as part of her newest work in development, Being Future Being. Along with composer Raven Chacon, visual and tattoo artist Holly Mititquq Nordlum, and artist and mask maker Drew Michael, the group delves into the power of creation to build a visual, aural, and ancestral landscape of Indigenous power.
Learn moreGet a sneak(er wave) peek at next year's follow-up to Anthony Hudson's acclaimed Clown Down: Failed to Mount, in which Portland's premier drag clown, Carla Rossi, finds herself trapped on a rock in the ocean as the water level rises.
Learn moreFellow to Felt is an ongoing, multi-channel video and series that examines various aspects of Filipina/o American identity and tradition. Each short video features original and found footage, archival photographs, and obscure historical events, spliced together with pop culture and internet references.
Learn moreInside layers of oppressive weather, words fall over a city, making control concrete. An adolescent shield absorbs, distorts, purges in the night, becomes a reservoir for a death dance. Made by Hong Kong raised sister/brother artists Jennie MaryTai Liu and Simon Liu with sound by Portland raised artist Andrew Gilbert, Conviction is a video installation containing two films, force and Sistern, shot in Hong Kong in 2019 and 2021 respectively.
Learn moreThere You Are is a one-on-one, individualized musical performance piece by Holland Andrews which takes place over a phone call and text message conversation. Each participant is called and sung to by Andrews while they listen to a new original composition meant to foster expansion, presence, and self-realization from the comfort of their own sound system.
Learn moreThe Drift is a visual archive of the future, where the politics and excuses for failed Indigenous repatriation are bypassed through an inexplicable force that returns all that is lost and stolen.
Learn moreIt is with joy and gratitude that we announce the launch of a new season of programming for Knowledge of Wounds 2021-22, and with it, the kindling of our evolving digital container, www.knowledge of wounds.com. In observance of the 2021 Solstice, we extend an invitation to join us by this virtual fireside for the unveiling of the full KoW 2021-22 program, a series of Indigenous-led events which will continue to unfold in this space over the course of an entire celestial year.
Learn morePICA is pleased to present deadbird and can anybody help me hold this body by New York-based artist devynn emory on May 27-30, 2021.
Learn moreThe music, artistry, and personal story of celebrated singer, songwriter, and guitarist Edna Vázquez (Portland, Oregon) fearlessly crosses genres, cultures, and borders. /// La a música, el talento artístico y historia personal de la celebrada cantante, compositora y guitarrista Edna Vázquez (Portland, Oregón) cruzan géneros, culturas y fronteras valientemente.
Learn moreA Movement for Black Laughs celebrates the role of Black humor in political movements, through a one-hour show that features Portland based Black comedians, and sound/video artists.
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Learn moreDao Strom will give an intimate performance of songs and visual poetry from her forthcoming hybrid poetry and music project, Instrument/Traveler’s Ode, a unique book/album release forthcoming from Fonograf Editions and Antiquated Future Records this Fall. This event marks the Portland release and debut of the project.
Learn morePURO TEATRO: a spell for Utopia embraces the dystopian reality of bodies cannot touch one another, but, can touch a screen. This work surrenders to the magical powers given to our gadgets as amulets and portals transporting us into altered states of being.
Learn moreLa Luz De La Esperanza is a musical telenovela that tells the tale of Dolores, a poor yet elegantly dressed domestic worker who falls in love with a rich man named Salvador. The story follows the abusive dynamic between Salvador and Dolores, leading to Dolores eventually finding true love with Esperanza, a genderless spirit.
Learn moreAgainst the Current is a processional audiovisual journey along the Willamette River teaming Mobile Projection Unit with three performers and two roving “guides” with “lanterns”.
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