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Thin Skin is a true story about keeping it together when you're falling apart.
Learn moreCONVERSATION with Demian DinéYazhi’ and Kevin Holden with Joseph M. Pierce
Learn moreSHATTER/// unhinges the romanticism of settler colonialism, implanting cosmic seedlings to nurture the political resurgence of Queer indigeneity. Performers Demian DinéYazhi’ and Kevin Holden elevate poetry and sound to transcend the brutality of history and celebrate collective liberation.
Learn moreFor the TBA Institute, home school will curate and host Friday afternoon virtual presentations and discussions. home school is a free pop-up art school co-run by manuel arturo abreu and Victoria Anne Reis, in its fifth year of curriculum presenting multimedia, genre-nonconforming edutainment and creating welcoming contexts for critical engagement with contemporary art.
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Learn more"The Who Cares Clock" is a time-based publication of essays released at random over an undetermined amount of time. While there is no official end there is a beginning. Our first essay is written by d.a. carter, under the working title in/on time and will be released on the occasion of the eighteenth Time-Based Art Festival.
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Learn moreReading Groups: Jaamil Olawale Kosoko’s American Chameleon: The Living Installments
Learn moreAmerican Chameleon: The Living Installments is a hybrid multimedia living artwork, instigated by Nigerian-American artist Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, that explores the ever-evolving ways in which digitality intersects with the fugitive realities and shapeshifting principles that Black queer people employ to survive and heal.
Learn moreAn immersive evening of ethereal performance, film, and sound, with textures of reflection dipped in impressions of deconstruction and decay. A new project by Liz Harris (Grouper), featuring guests January Hunt and Dicky Bahto.
Learn moreWe start the festival with a BBQ and end with a breakfast! For our final daytime event, wind things down with a brunch time extravaganza of pancakes, bacon, vegan sausages, mimosas, and PICA Executive Director Victoria Frey’s famous Bloody Marys! Our curators will be hard at work flipping pancakes and serving sides. Take this moment to reflect on the festival with old friends and new. This year’s Pancake Breakfast is also a chance to thank and appreciate the many artists and generous volunteers who make this festival possible.
Learn moreFeeling of Home will reconstruct what home and healing can feel like for local, intergenerational Black and Brown artists and communities. In this space we will focus on home and what it feels like for the individual but also what home feels like when we come together as a community.
Learn moreOn Sept. 14, Yale Union will premier The Dope Elf, a comedic play and performance environment about housing, power, and magic. Commissioned by LA-based playwright Asher Hartman, the project will transform YU into a makeshift mobile home park inhabited for five weeks by Hartman’s company, Gawdafful National Theater. In the play, an aging transman psychopomp fears losing his power as his life and the lives of his community teeter against the demands of urban life, which are increasingly stark. The play’s structure includes a meta-play (the actors living in the gallery space performing as townspeople); a fourteen-part scripted play to be performed during the run of the exhibition; and a live-streamed variety show populated by the Elf and the townspeople. Through online and IRL involvement in performances and live-streams, the program will catalyze individual and collective agency by creating interactive opportunities for audiences to change the theater piece during the course of its production.
Learn moreMemento Stella is an original phrase I coined to remind me to "remember the stars" and "never forget that we too reside among the stars", as well as the title of a project I started from winter of 2016. Screening of Memento Stella, with original soundtrack by Reinier van Houdt, Sept. 14 and screening of Memento Stella, with live music of Takashi Makino, Sept. 15.
Learn moreChoreographer Adam Linder discusses his TBA project, The WANT, an experimental dance, musical score, and opera created in collaboration with composer Ethan Braun and visual artist and designer Shahryar Nashat.
Learn moreMusician, composer, writer, and comedian Ahamefule J. Oluo shares insights into his interdisciplinary artistic practice and the development and stories behind SUSAN, his TBA work-in-progress performance that explores “the failings of men, and the endurance of women.” * This conversation will be ASL interpreted
Learn moreThreshold Practice: A Grotto Worlds Performance Workshop With Larissa Kaul, Grant Miller, Jonathan Paradox Lee, and Dare Sohei
Learn more‘JUDY' is a queer party that materializes every last Saturday night of the month at a dive bar in Portland, Oregon. Run by queer women and exclusively featuring female identified, trans, and non-binary DJs, JUDY was started in 2014. Each month, JUDY features hand-drawn flyers of community members, party people, and over-the-top queens, with the ritual of crowning of a new “Judy” at every party.
Learn more„The Want“ adapts Marie-Koltes’ In the Solitude of Cotton Fields (1985) as an experimental dance, musical score, and opera--with a libretto littered with interjections from Derrida to Missy Elliot--examining language, desire, and the contract between performer and audience. Curated by Kristan Kennedy and Roya Amirsoleymani
Learn moreSUSAN, the follow-up to Ahamefule J. Oluo’s acclaimed musical Now I’m Fine, is a story about the failings of men and the endurance of women. The performance on Sept 14 will be ASL interpreted.
Learn moreSUSAN, Ahamefule J. Oluo’s darkly comic musical portrait of his mother, builds one story out of many, a journey from Section 8 housing in 1980s Seattle, to the mangrove swamps of the Niger Delta, to the Clallam Bay Correctional Facility. With stunning new compositions performed by some of Seattle's best musicians, combined with soul-baring stand-up interludes, Oluo explores two intertwining narratives: his mother’s life as the white, Midwestern wife of a Nigerian chief, and later a destitute single mother; and his own journey to Nigeria as an adult, to visit his late father’s village and discover a family on the other side of the world. SUSAN, the follow-up to Oluo’s acclaimed musical Now I’m Fine, is a story about the failings of men and the endurance of women. It is a crystalline slice of American life; a collision of class, race, bodies, love, and men with bad intentions; a tragedy about the most comically optimistic person on earth. Through decades of chaos and catastrophe, one thing was always consistent. Susan loved her children. She loved them so much. SUSAN is a story about doing what it takes.
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