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A 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 moreLucas’ video makes a sly commentary on the diaspora of Western factories to the Third World, through an encounter with one such British company, Europleasure International LTD.
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 moreWearing a constructed gallery costume, Reinsch will wander throughout Portland accompanied by a gallery assistant as a living personification of the site of exhibition.
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 moreErin Boberg Doughton, PICA's Performing Arts Program Director offers her early insight into the 2011 artists of THE WORKS and TBA OUTSIDE.
Learn moreTBA Artistic Director Cathy Edwards will provide the inside scoop on the ON STAGE artists and performances of this year's Festival.
Learn moreThe Hollywood Theatre hosts Miranda July on May 6th and 7th, presenting advanced screenings of her latest film The Future.
Learn moreA previously banned screening of short films straddling the line and blurring the boundaries of art, sexuality, and pornography.
Learn moreRojas' folk-inspired installations address social concerns and the representations of women in our culture.
Learn moreChin's multi-disciplinary practice insinuates art into unlikely places explores how art can provoke social awareness and responsibility.
Learn moreThe Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum discusses building community and context for the arts.
Learn moreWith acoustic guitars and digital effects, the duo creates live improvised songs respond to the sonic influences of the local area.
Learn moreChef Jeremy Larter and Holocene Catering team up with local winemakers for a three-course, closing night meal.
Learn moreA riotous and tender evening of artist-made karaoke videos to your favorite power ballads, with a hidden lecture inside.
Learn moreOffsite Dance Project in conversation about cultural and artistic exchange between the Pacific NW and Japan.
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