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TBA:24 schedule at a glance.
Learn moreThe 2024 Time-Based Art Festival opens by honoring the Portland tradition of First Thursday with a come one, come all jam session with Videotones, Elbow Room’s neurodiverse digital media collective. No musical ability required—bring yourself, an instrument,* your voice. Come make a sound or just witness our giant, undulating community band.
Learn moreTrue to the title, we’ll slowly share more information about each Time-Released program over the coming months. Read on to learn more.
Learn moreMake Banana Cry is a critical and destabilizing dance performance that questions Asian stereotypes while examining the transmission of cultural identity.
Learn moreIn 2001, artist and filmmaker K8 Hardy set out to document her daily outfits on video.
Learn moreThe Japanese ceramic bell-making workshop is an immersive experience that centers around creating Furin "wind bells," historically suspended from trees in Japan. This unique workshop encourages participants to delve into the world of Furin by offering artistic interpretations of these unique creations.
Learn moreIn this workshop, we will question how movement can be used to facilitate deeper relationships with ourselves and each other. This gathering weaves together social dance forms, authentic movement, improvisation scores, somatic inquiry, theatrical intimacy education, dance parties and summer camp field games with a focus on how we can use these forms for community connection. This space invites all bodies, abilities, and ranges of movement experience.
Learn moreDB Amorin's "long shadow" is a 45-minute soundwalk composition inspired by the desire to return to that which may no longer be familiar to us. The layered audio experience, drawing on the artist’s memories of the Ko’olau mountain range, the transition of season, and the longing for vanishing eras, is designed to trace the path of the MAX Red Line from the urban center of Portland to the Portland International Airport as a soundtrack for the movement towards unreachable places.
Learn moreIn this workshop, Ralph Pugay will facilitate a series of activities aimed at empowering participants to conjure their own imaginary worlds through drawing and painting.
Learn moreWorkshop Description: This workshop will begin with a series of gentle somatic exercises to practice shifting our attention to ourselves, each other, and our collective space as we prepare to express ourselves through collage.
Learn moreTHE ACHE is the third installment of Allie Hankins’ five-part performance series of projects entitled, By My Own Hand. Developed in collaboration with Hannah Krafcik, THE ACHE calls attention to the myriad of ways selfhood can be constituted and remixed through creative acts of self-determination; it takes shape as 1) a video exhibition 2) a publication release and 3) a series of free intergenerational art-making workshops facilitated by local artists dee bustos, Muffie Delgado-Connelly, Midori Hirose, and Ralph Pugay.
Learn moreCommissioned by PICA in 2022 and now being released in full,ﾠCove of Harmony, Episode 1 is a musical film about a mysterious and transformative encounter, showcasing an in-studio performance by vocalist and composer Holland Andrews, and a conversation between Joseph and Holland.
Learn moreWill Rawls presents a new interdisciplinary work, [siccer], that addresses the relationship between blackness and image-making through a live performance accompanied by a video installation. Encompassing dance, photography, and sound, [siccer] experiments with stop-motion, a filmmaking technique in which subjects incrementally shift positions between photographs to produce the illusion of movement.
Learn moreWill Rawls presents a new interdisciplinary work, [siccer], that addresses the relationship between blackness and image-making through a live performance accompanied by a video installation. Encompassing dance, photography, and sound, [siccer] experiments with stop-motion, a filmmaking technique in which subjects incrementally shift positions between photographs to produce the illusion of movement.
Learn moreIn conjunction with the video installation Alka domo and performance Flowing Like Waterfalls, join us on August 29 at 6:00 pm for a panel discussion with Seba Calfuqueo, artist Malcolm Peacock, and radical educator Vo Vo. Moderated by Converge 45's Derek Franklin.
Learn moreSeba Calfuqueo (b. 1991, Santiago, Chile) is an internationally celebrated artist of Indigenous Mapuche origin. Their work appeals to their Indigenous inheritance to propose critical reflections on the social, cultural, and political status of the Mapuche subject in contemporary Chilean society, in Latin America and the world. Calfuqueo’s work marshals, among other elements, installation, ceramic, performance, and video art to explore the cultural similarities, differences, and stereotypes produced by the melding of Indigenous and Western ways of thinking. Their work often starts from the broad field of performance art, but also extends into videos that are often exhibited later and sometimes together with elements used in the action itself.
Learn moreIn addition to major video installation, Alka domo — on view at PICA August 24 through September 24, 2023 — Seba Calfuqueo will present Flowing Like Waterfalls (2022-2023) in PICA's Annex on August 26 at 3:30 pm. Flowing Like Waterfalls is a 20-minute performance that approaches the power of water's fluidity as a means to explore the body, gender, sexuality, and the relationship of water with life, forests, and ecosystems.
Learn moreJoin drag duo Carla Rossi and Pepper Pepper for a wellness seminar gone wrong—or right?—when the mushrooms peak. Tackling wellness culture, microdosing, land acknowledgments, and featuring a lipsync on an actively-inflating airbed, GLOOP is a gauntlet of spectacularly unhinged drag from two of Portland’s most beloved grifters.
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Learn moreA creation of Black narrative, an offering to Black lineage, Black Feast is a culinary event celebrating Black artists and writers through food. Black Feast: Black Imagerial, envisioned by artists Intisar Abioto, Akela Jaffi, and Salimatu Amabebe with creative support from Annika Hansteen-Izora, is a culinary creation and site-specific performance on Black-stewarded land inspired by the legacies of Black movement artists in Portland and the Pacific Northwest.
Learn moreUwU & Friends is a multidisciplinary event series showcasing underground dance music created by, and for, Portland’s Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and Trans/Gender nonconforming community. With the dancefloor as the center, established and emerging DJs and artists explore a new type of party—a queer utopia.
Learn moreRadio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ is the first collaboration between Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, Zoë Poluch, and Elisa Harkins. It is an Indigenous futuristic concert, a beautiful and uncomfortable dance performance, and a perverse triangle of shifting power that seeks to be unfaithful to both minimalism and postmodern dance’s claims to so-called “neutrality.” This choreography in the expanded field haunts the recognizable toolbox of abstraction, form, repetition, and pattern by striving to make visible that which has been kept invisible and illegible in colonial systems of aesthetics. Within Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ there are many references to the number 3; there are 3 performers, the piece has 3 sections, and there are 3 duets, one being a triplet. Created and developed on the Muscogee Reservation, Stockholm, Sweden, and Montréal, Quebec, the piece brings together components and concerns that are an interdisciplinary and counter-colonial approaches to performance.
Learn moreFirst Nations Performing Arts is focused on cultural change, commissioning, touring, and presenting Indigenous performance, as well as capacity building for the Indigenous and non-Indigenous performing arts sectors.
Learn moreIn this creative engagement between Cree sound artist Chloe Alexandra Thompson and Pacific Islander interdisciplinary artist DB Amorin, the pair work towards a joint generative investigation of survivance, waves in their many forms, and the ever-changing relationship of knowledge and tradition to that which is more than human.
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