Past
Portland’s Holcombe Waller has been writing, recording and performing music for the past 15 years.
Learn moreOn September 11, the Oregon Department of Kick Ass presents an evening of films assembled by Vanessa Renwick which cast a meditative gaze on death in many forms.
Learn moreKiki is a washed up chanteuse and Herb is her piano-battering, lifelong accompanist. Together forever they...
Learn moreMark Russell will talk about his own experience of the history of performance and its future. Writer Matthew Stadler may ask some questions. We will see what happens.
Learn moreThe focus of this panel is the development of new strategies to nurture and sustain the Creative City.
Learn moreThe new economy of Chamber Music.
Learn moreMellman (of Kiki and Herb) and Medlyn (the Paris Hilton of Performance Art) wear fancy clothes and present a formal evening of R. Kelly songs.
Learn moreFollowing a philosophy of collaboration and shared creative energy, Fleshtone developed the themes and characters of the electro-opera Fleshtonics before the eyes of Portland and Seattle audiences, and will be performing the full work for the first time at TBA:06.
Learn moreLinda Austin and Tahni Holt perform their solo adaptations of Room, individually commissioned and adapted as part of Hay’s Solo Performance Commissioning Project in Findhorn, Scotland.
Learn moreStaging and set design with Vivarium Studio.
Learn moreCommissioned by EXPO 2005 Aichi, Japan, Hidden Inside Mountains is a high definition film that debuted in Japan at WORLD EXPO 2005 on the largest high definition Astrovision screen in the world and features an original score written and recorded by Laurie Anderson with additional vocals by singer/performer Antony (of Antony and the Johnsons).
Learn moreWith music that refuses to draw the line between “kid” and “adult,” and visuals made by and for kids, families have a chance to shake their groove thing in an environment that is cool, fun and decibel-appropriate.
Learn moreTen short talks by invited guests about their direct or indirect experience with the American War in Vietnam. Stay for the duration or drop in. In conjunction with Harrell Fletcher’s exhibition, The American War.
Learn moreThis special screening includes selections from the last ten years of Biswas’ work, and features one of her most lauded films: Untitled (The Trials and Tribulations of Mickey Baker), 1997.
Learn more6 DJs in 6 installations in 5 cities (including Berlin, Mexico City, and PS122 in NY) around the world come together to form one super-party.
Learn moreUniverses is an ensemble of multi-disciplined writers and performers who fuse poetry, theater, jazz, hip-hop, politics, down home blues.
Learn moreOscillating between the staged and the real, the works synthesize charged silences and permeating pop songs in order to reflect the psychology of group dynamic.
Learn moreThe artists of Vivarium Studio chat with PNCA Professors Linda Kliewer and David Eckard about their work and contemporary performance in France.
Learn moreUniverses: Poetry in Performance, a journey from page to stage with particular emphasis on movement.
Learn moreScout Niblett reduces audiences around the world to jibbering wrecks with the sheer force of her performances.
Learn moreThe organized sound of Shaky Hands veers off the path right from the start.
Learn moreFrom the humble starting point of an artist’s flat and recording studio, Philippe Quesne and Vivarium Studio create a multi-tiered whimsical revue about flying and falling.
Learn moreDrawing from recent experiences as NASA’s first artist-in-residence, Laurie Anderson creates an ambitiously large portrait of contemporary American culture.
Learn moreWhy do you want to be an artist? Why do you want to do it professionally? Why do you want to do it now? With a wry sense of humor and almost fifteen years of experience as a professional artist, James Yarker offers up a compendium of strategies and practical advice for the incipient artist.
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