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KOMMER, Dutch for "sorrow," traces the intersecting paths of six people as they race through inventive evasions, slapstick parlor tricks and dialogue culled from a soap opera in their search for something human and familiar.
Learn moreA dance piece which features Angelle Hebert’s distinctive choreography, Normal and Happy is punctuated with rhythmic, fitful gestures and a tense, awkward physicality.
Learn moreWith its breath-taking opening, State of Heads explores the feeling of waiting.
Learn moreLong fascinated with street cred, artistic self-identification, personal economy, and the relationship between corporate America and culture, Dickson is publicly mining the evolution of his lifestyle from DIY to 2.0. Sell Out, his latest PowerPoint monologue, or PowerLogue, documents this journey.
Learn moreA starkly intimate duet by Charlotte Vanden Eynde and Kurt Vandendriessche, MAP ME unfolds with a unique combination of delicate, tactile choreography and live video projection.
Learn moreAnthropological humorist Reggie Watts utilizes the latest in presentational technologies to outline humanity’s refusal to accept a global paradigm shift of unimaginable eventuality.
Learn moreA multimedia excursion across planet hip-hop, the break/s is presented in verse, dance and film, which dramatically realizes the living history of the hip-hop generation through the performed personal narrative of poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph.
Learn moreA subversive fusion of cabaret, political tirade and stark raving fabulousness, Taylor Mac sings songs about love, mermaids, subway safety directives and revolution.
Learn moreLas Chicas del 3.5 Floppies exposes the human repercussions of globalization and poverty with incisive humor and relentless honesty.
Learn moreIn Spite of Everything is the latest entry into the emerging genre of hip-hop theater, featuring one of the Bay Area’s most dynamic spoken word collectives: The Suicide Kings.
Learn moreUsing hundreds of Portland voices raised in song, composer Rinde Eckert kicks off TBA:07 with a joyful noise in Pioneer Courthouse Square.
Learn moreA group show that brings together artists from outer space to this place. Space is a Place explores the psychological aura of an office by turning it into a gallery.
Learn moreLarry Bamburg culls images and idiosyncratic details from the natural world to produce kinetic installations.
Learn moreThe Clandestine Periphery is an invisible mural set into the wall and activated by a glance. Born from a reductive process that relies on photographic information, it is dependent on the architectural and pedestrian use of the space.
Learn moreSara Greenberger Rafferty has always worked in a performative vein: while never actually taking the stage, an absent performer has always seemingly orchestrated the objects and pictures she presents.
Learn moreThe Lincoln Film Conspiracy is a 30-minute film that combines archival footage, new video segments and digital image manipulation.
Learn morePICA Artist in Residence Arnold J. Kemp further pursues the psychic and political spaces that are available in abstraction by continuing his ongoing body of work DAYDREAM NATION.
Learn moreSuperNatural is an exhibition of Portland-area artists juried by Arnold J. Kemp, TBA:07 Artist and former Associate Curator of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
Learn moreThe glowing, groaning and grinding noise of New Humans...
Learn moreAs the Portland sun sets, a flock of songbirds crafted from flammable magnesium tape will ignite along the streets under the Hawthorne Bridge.
Learn moreStephanie Snyder and Rose Bond (PNCA), with artists Bebe Miller, Crispin Spaeth, and Marty Schnapf.
Learn moreDeveloping a personal score, with an emphasis on body awareness and performance presence.
Learn moreCombining dense harmonies, delivered in an 8-bit baroque electro style, Copy delivers snap-tight digital beats.
Learn moreBacked by her rollicking band Gloria Deluxe, Hopkins performs songs from her new show-in-progress, Must Don’t Whip ‘Um.
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