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Warning: this is just for laughs. There’s no redeeming social value. We’d apologize, but that’s sort of our goal every time we do what we do—you know, create an empty vessel you can fill with your own nonsense.
Learn moreEach spring, Romanian children set mounds of white poplar fluff aflame in the street gutters. The sparks and small fires in the film suggest the numerous catalysts for social change around the world.
Learn moreA forced-air-inflated, pink elephant-shaped, viewer-interactive jumproom, reflecting the ecstasy and absurdity of the modern artist.
Learn moreRodman’s installations use different forms of near-identical objects, creating a sense that despite their concrete physicality, something about them remains unresolved and unfixed.
Learn moreThe Fix It office will both produce the publication September, a daily art historical broadside specially produced for TBA:11, and be an active space where the artists will work on site to correct, revise and compile errata from previous editions of the paper.
Learn moreIn a private performance for the camera, a quintet of women will tear apart an enormous cube comprised of more than 5,050 pounds of wet clay.
Learn moreClaire Fontaine is a Paris-based collective artist, founded in 2004. After lifting her name from a popular brand of school notebooks, Claire Fontaine declared herself a “readymade artist” and began to elaborate a version of neo-conceptual art that often looks like other people’s work.
Learn moreAn all-ages, anything-goes variety show, Whoop Dee Doo enlists wildly diverse participants and collaborates with a wild range of performers—from science teachers and Celtic bagpipers to clogging troupes, drill teams and drag queens—all for an audience of wide-eyed children.
Learn moreA contemporary reenactment of the iconic, pre-Betsy Ross flag, altered by the bias of current events and the slow revisions of time, will fly from Washington High School’s flagpole.
Learn moreMeromi creates an architecture for action, in which visitors are invited to form their own troupe to interpret and perform scenes from his "Stage Exercises for Smokers and Non-Smokers."
Learn moreThis September, PICA takes over Portland with an all-hours happening of contemporary performance and visual art.
Learn moreParis-based artist collective Claire Fontaine will speak about their TBA:11 installation, their practice, and the future of the strike.
Learn morePICA's Visual Art Curator provides a behind-the-scenes look at this year's visual art projects at the TBA Festival.
Learn moreKristan Kennedy joins PICA Artist in Residence Storm Tharp in his TBA:10 installation for a conversation about his practice.
Learn moreStorm Tharp and Jessica Jackson Hutchins discuss mining the personal and the familial for inspiration and content.
Learn moreWomen Artists and Abstraction through the Moving Image.
Learn moreRumored to have been banned by the Catholic Church, a single uninterrupted chord will test both performer and audience endurance.
Learn moreThe artists will dig two holes deep and large enough for each man to lie in, and then tunnel between them to hold hands.
Learn moreA five-channel video installation based on Atlas’ early memories of tornado alerts in his childhood home of St Louis, Missouri.
Learn moreA collection of installations, exhibitions, projections, and gatherings by visual artists.
Learn moreThe demanding nature of a devoted studio art practice yields not only treasured and prideful moments, but also neurotic darkness and an exhausting grind to your body.
Learn moreIn response to the growing exclusivity of the art world, the exhibit will show 25 artists from outside of mainstream art centers.
Learn moreTaking queues from ritual, dance, cinema and video games, these two videos explore architecture and spiritual transcendence.
Learn moreA commanding voiceover appears to direct the action in a busy street, until the audience realizes that the director is fictional.
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