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When you stay up late to catch all of the artists and activity at the Time-Based Art Festival, you’re bound to get hungry. That’s why we’ve invited a mix of Portland chefs to drop the white tablecloths and cook the kind of food they make after-hours, indulging their secret, guilty pleasure tastes.
Learn moreDolan presents a new series of sculptural works which investigate various structural components of everyday life. These mechanics are contrasted with those of games and puzzles, which plainly present their rules.
Learn moreGet your first look at our new home for TBA, as we officially kick off the first night of the Festival. Gather with all of your PICA friends and artists as Mitchell Wines begins the celebration with a proper christening of THE WORKS (champagne across the bow?!).
Learn moreMinor Theatres (wrkshp 1) is a project to begin a project. A question of time over the horizon. Emily Roysdon has invited a dynamic array of specialists to talk about TIME- conceptually, abstractly, poetically, practically, materially and performatively. In symbols, text, stars, characters, and movements.
Learn morei want to know when we started noticing, when we realized, when we Became net artists, internet aware, post-internet, when we stabbed at making and when we finally pwnd understanding and maybe when we found ourselves in the thick of it, disconnected ONLINE
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Learn moreRoom Tone is an instruction piece for voice and electromagnetic tape. It is a live performance involving one operator and an indefinite number of visitors, who may come and go throughout the duration of the piece. The work was created as live homage to composer Alvin Lucier's 1969 recording, I am Sitting in a Room.
Learn moreWorking with fragments of language gathered from everyday encounters and experiences, Tompkins presents a selection of concrete poems and works on paper.
Learn moreA.L. Steiner uses constructions of photography, video, installation, collage, collaboration, writing, performance, and curatorial work as seductive tropes channeled through the sensibility of an activated skeptical queer ecofeminist androgyne.
Learn moreA gathering and discussion about queer performance, art, and culture. A casual and curious space for exploration of history and lineage. A group experiment in dialogue and community.
Learn moreThis workshop will explore the motive behind the creation of language and the creativity from which it originates.
Learn moreA workshop exploring the words we use to describe the people we know, as a process to understand how we identify ourselves. Gayle will introduce the model of personality considered most useful and valid by contemporary personality psychologists, and we will use the space and each others' words to uncover how our personalities are expressed in our daily lives.
Learn moreMany 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 moreAs a performing artist, Emily Johnson makes contemporary performance works that are infused with her experiences growing up in Alaska.
Learn moreLocal and regional contemporary artists discuss and contend with culturally specific readings of their work.
Learn moreIn this special matinee performance of Niicugni, artist Harrell Fletcher will intermittently “press pause” on performer Emily Johnson, adding his thoughts and questions about the artist and her work into the staged show.
Learn moreIn the Yup’ik language, “niicugni” is a directive to pay attention, to listen. Emily Johnson’s performance quietly compels such attentiveness through its layering of multiple dances, live music, and stories, housed within a light and sound installation of handmade, functional fish-skin lanterns.
Learn moreJoin us for the first of our Field Guide sessions, where an intimate group of curious audience members will gather for a participatory workshop, discussion, and dinner in conjunction will Emily Johnson's performance of Niicugni
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