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Ritter'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 moreBig Art Group director Caden Manson will discuss the group’s serial site-specific project, The People, along with the local Portland residents who participated in the performance.
Learn moreBy using imagination and a sense of absence and presence, butoh invites a constant transformation to your body.
Learn moreThe force behind New York City’s epic GHE20G0TH1K parties, DJ Venus X will mash-up a global mix of chopped and screwed pop songs, club mixes, political newscasts, and big dance beats.
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 moreAbby's Table & Fifty Licks Ice Cream will be vending farmer's market "snacks" from the Principal's Office.
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 moreOur kitchen kicks off TBA opening night with Boke Bowl's Japanese steam buns, rice bowls, and more!
Learn moreBlending real-time film, live actors, and a video “chorus” of interviews with a cross-section of Portlanders, Big Art Group pushes the formal boundaries of theater and film.
Learn moreA self-generated 'automatic' performance for two audience members/participants at a time, who take cues from words both written and whispered through headphones.
Learn moreLinda Hutchins, Future Death Toll, Austin Adkins, and Robert Tyree perform live for a steaming online international performance festival.
Learn moreLos Angeles-based artist Jennifer West makes 16mm, 35mm, and 70mm films by manipulating the film celluloid to a level of performance. The film emulsion might be doused with perfume, alcohol, mascara, or pepper spray, skateboarded on, kissed, or dragged through tar pits. The concept-specific materials she employs for each film enhance and reinforce the experiential and performative nature of each work. She often makes her work with social groupings such as friends, students, artists, writers, even the babysitter. West's practice is characteristically influenced by urban mythology, folklore, and popular culture, and often addresses issues of the body, of gender, and of self-presentation. Her silent films have a strong synesthetic effect, in that she causes the viewers to taste or smell the "ingredients" that led to her particular visual expression. She is also known for her "Zines" - DIY photo booklets of production stills of the making of the films- that she gives away at her exhibitions.
Learn moreA hands-on day at the presses with Portland printmakers Catharine Rondthaler and John Brandsberg.
Learn moreDuke Riley combines populist myths and contemporary social dilemmas in his installations, drawings, and performances.
Learn moreRomanian poet Rotaru and Oregon Book Award finalist Schomburg will read their latest poems.
Learn morePie Ranch works to connect people to the source of their food, and inspire them to bring greater health to the food system from seed to table.
Learn moreWhether you’ve just emerged from 24 hours with Mike Daisey or you’re winding down after 10 stimulating days of art, join us on closing night to celebrate the moveable feast that was TBA.
Learn moreA class that incorporates contemporary dance technique, composition, and improvisation, as well as repertory material from the company’s acclaimed Home Made.
Learn moreRevelers will be treated to intermittent dance performances by local and visiting artists, empty truck beds for makeshift dance floors, and specials on Southern treats like mint juleps and boiled peanuts.
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.
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