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The 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.
Learn moreAn all-ages, anything-goes variety show, Whoop Dee Doo enlists wildly diverse participants and collaborates with a wild range of performers—from science teachers and Celtic bagpipers to clogging troupes, drill teams and drag queens—all for an audience of wide-eyed children.
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 moreMeromi creates an architecture for action, in which visitors are invited to form their own troupe to interpret and perform scenes from his "Stage Exercises for Smokers and Non-Smokers."
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 moreParis-based artist collective Claire Fontaine will speak about their TBA:11 installation, their practice, and the future of the strike.
Learn morePICA's Visual Art Curator provides a behind-the-scenes look at this year's visual art projects at the TBA Festival.
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 moreTBA Artistic Director Cathy Edwards will provide the inside scoop on the ON STAGE artists and performances of this year's Festival.
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