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Universes is an ensemble of multi-disciplined writers and performers who fuse poetry, theater, jazz, hip-hop, politics, down home blues.
Learn moreOscillating between the staged and the real, the works synthesize charged silences and permeating pop songs in order to reflect the psychology of group dynamic.
Learn moreThe artists of Vivarium Studio chat with PNCA Professors Linda Kliewer and David Eckard about their work and contemporary performance in France.
Learn moreUniverses: Poetry in Performance, a journey from page to stage with particular emphasis on movement.
Learn moreScout Niblett reduces audiences around the world to jibbering wrecks with the sheer force of her performances.
Learn moreThe organized sound of Shaky Hands veers off the path right from the start.
Learn moreFrom the humble starting point of an artist’s flat and recording studio, Philippe Quesne and Vivarium Studio create a multi-tiered whimsical revue about flying and falling.
Learn moreDrawing from recent experiences as NASA’s first artist-in-residence, Laurie Anderson creates an ambitiously large portrait of contemporary American culture.
Learn moreWhy do you want to be an artist? Why do you want to do it professionally? Why do you want to do it now? With a wry sense of humor and almost fifteen years of experience as a professional artist, James Yarker offers up a compendium of strategies and practical advice for the incipient artist.
Learn moreGuest Artistic Director Mark Russell and Kristan Kennedy, Visual Art Program Director of the Festival, talk about this year’s program of artists and events, and answer questions from the audience.
Learn moreYubiwa Hotel inscribes a mesmerizing dreamscape of Japanese pop culture, traditional Buddhist practice, and abstract movement as they explore what it means to be a modern Japanese woman.
Learn moreFor this beautifully simple performance/installation, Stan’s Cafe will bring 300 million grains of rice to Portland, a grain for every person in the United States.
Learn moreFormerly known as Adelaide, Small Sails is a music and film collective based in Portland.
Learn moreMusic Population Project is an effort to bring chamber music back to the people, invoking times when performances were public spectacles, when operas were performed in front of enthusiastic audiences, when uprisings followed premieres and classical music was pop music.
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 moreComposer John King leads dozens of electric guitar players from Portland’s music community with a unique concert staged on the steps of Pioneer Courthouse Square.
Learn moreNew perspectives on looking at and writing about contemporary visual art. This two-day workshop includes a visit to TBA’s visual art exhibitions.
Learn moreAdkins will show up at TBA Central every day at 2 pm.
Learn morelaptop considers how the pace of technological change and obsolescence bring about the potential for what the artists deem “micro-nostalgia.”
Learn moreThis pirate radio station and walk-in jukebox is devoted to auditory pick-me-ups. Check out 96.7 FM
Learn moreCampbell’s single-channel piece is a voyeuristic view into a personal history playing out with multiplying endings.
Learn moreAs part of an ongoing collaboration, Desktop is a diorama of a virtual environment that pulls freely from the vocabularies of computer technology, new media, and contemporary art practice.
Learn moreThis single-channel video installation was shot in a free after-school center in Dubrava, a suburb of Zagreb, Croatia.
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