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Many thousands of languages are spoken today across the world. Each language offers a unique perspective, a world view, a window into the mind of its speakers. Language are richly varied and this variation offers insight into what is possible and what is not, and why.
Learn moreThe Dying Wind / A Ventriloquist’s Art / Luminist Silence and the Sublime Noise of Progress (2013) is a dual-synched video presentation that takes the form of an automated lecture.
Learn moreThree activities will focus on learning through touch as a language, two with clay as a medium.
Learn moreA workshop comparing ancient cave paintings, hieroglyphics, and cuneiform text to modern day street art, propaganda, and graffiti.
Learn moreA critical conversation on method and madness, knowledge and respect, theory and nascent wonder, ignorance and arrogance, authority and tradition, judgment and distinction, learning and the pleasing of another, sober realism and the rage for justice, in the style of G.K. Chesterton, and drawing on the work of a wide range of interlocutors, including Hannah Arendt, Ivan Illich, John Dewey, Peter Sloterdijk, Jacques Rancière, Bifo, and the Black Mountain Founders, to help us rethink this thing called education, higher and other.
Learn moreThis workshop is devoted to writing with constraints.
Learn moreThis will be an exercise in the making of a container or woven form, and also in the communication of these skills to students.
Learn moreAn interdisciplinary weekend of art, performance, and conversations, investigating the complexity of constructing and communicating culture in contemporary art
Learn moreC’mon Language is an exhibition in pursuit of an artistic vocabulary.
Learn moreCecchetti talks about his performative, media-crossing body of work, and his TBA:12 “relay” performance, Summer is Not the Prize of Winter.
Learn moreRitter's "charged objects"—whether a working fountain or a series of precarious sculptures—are formed from raw and rehydrated clay pulled directly from the Oregon earth.
Learn moreA series sprayed wall paintings derived from 16mm films, recalling Impressionist landscapes and Modernist abstractions. Paired with several films from the artist's oeuvre.
Learn moreFeaturing Alex Cecchetti, Isabelle Cornaro, Claudia Meza, Morgan Ritter, Van Brummelen & De Haan, and Erika Vogt.
Learn moreTBA returns for its tenth anniversary with a slate of international artists and projects that cross the boundaries of forms and ideas.
Learn moreCast forms suspended by pulleys from the gallery ceiling invite audience interaction, guided by Vogt's enigmatic drawings.
Learn moreA "relay performance" illustrated with found and adapted objects, handed off from the artist to subsequent performers like a game of telephone.
Learn moreA multi-part project re-animating the contested Pergamon Museum frieze, highlighting the contemporary and historic power dynamics between Turkey and Germany.
Learn moreFor years Mike Daisey has been working on an insane project: a live, 24-hour monologue on the scale of War and Peace and The Iliad. Unbelievably, this dream will at last be realized as the finale of this year’s TBA Festival.
Learn moreTiny TBA is a mini-festival within a festival that refuses to draw the line between kids and adults. Bring your families for open gallery hours and take part in activities led by TBA Festival artists and community volunteers.
Learn moreYOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES and Kristan Kennedy in conversation about how artists and curators use their “voices” to talk about work, money, and the world.
Learn morePatrick Rock talks about male-ness, artist-ness, and fun-ness.
Learn moreHalsey Rodman will discuss his time-based sculptural paintings that exist as copies with no original.
Learn moreThe 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.
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