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Te Moana Meridian Conference is the ongoing public program counterpart to the experimental opera Te Moana Meridian, which centers around a speculative United Nations General Assembly Resolution to formally relocate the international prime meridian from the UK to Te Moananui-ā-Kiwa/the South Pacific Ocean.
Learn moreThis new “solo” performance by Morgan Bassichis humbly attempts to ensure that the performer Frank Maya’s legacy is no longer overlooked, while also resolving the bottomless queer search for laughter in times of crisis and for fame and father figures and intense attachment dynamics no matter how fleeting.
Learn moreFORCE! an opera in three acts is a Black femme story of interior lives and shared fantasies. What blooms in the shadows of the bureaucratic state, of carceral power? What dreams of a sisterhood with the power to disintegrate walls? Through sound, movement, and shared silences—as well as lessons learned from direct action, mutual aid, and emergent strategies—we put into practice the free worlds of our dreams.
Learn moreTe Moana Meridian is a major new experimental opera based on a speculative United Nations General Assembly Resolution that upends the colonial machinations embedded within our current means of determining global space and time by relocating the international prime meridian from the UK to Te Moananui-ā-Kiwa/the South Pacific Ocean.
Learn moreThe Things Around Us is a solo, live-looping, music and narrative performance featuring trumpet, clarinet, everyday objects, and darkly humorous stories about other people. Composed, written, and performed by Ahamefule J. Oluo.
Learn morePart beer garden, party happy hour, and part afterparty, BEFORE & AFTER is an opportunity to come together with the TBA:24 community at PICA. These dedicated gatherings bookend the festival experience with a blend of celebration, conversation, and decompression, offering space to grab a drink or a bite before the first performance of the day, or cap off the evening after daily events have wrapped up. With a variety of food and drink options to explore, BEFORE & AFTER is more than a pit stop—it's a time to deepen your connections and extend the magic of TBA.
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Learn moreEqual parts survey exhibition and emergent experiment, Outside Inside World activates PNCA’s 511 Gallery as a showcase for works in the Videotones archive as well as a site for making and sharing new work.
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Learn moreThe 2024 Time-Based Art Festival opens by honoring the Portland tradition of First Thursday with a come one, come all jam session with Videotones, Elbow Room’s neurodiverse digital media collective. No musical ability required—bring yourself, an instrument,* your voice. Come make a sound or just witness our giant, undulating community band.
Learn moreFor the 2024 Artists’ Biennial, presented by Oregon Contemporary, Bean Gilsdorf presents an experimental lecture-performance that enmeshes facts, figures, memes, and clichés about the arts with key theories from psychology, philosophy, and linguistics.
Learn morePlease join us on Saturday, May 11, 2024, for Mapping the Pipeline Education Series, created and organized by Buddy Terry and Master Artist Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr.
Learn moreMMIR: Keeping Us Safe: Community Safety Strategies from PDX Native Community organizers.
Learn moreJoin us for an in-person group listening session of the new audio documentary about Black Cross Healthcare Collective (BCHC).
Learn moreDo Not Resist (2016): Thursday, April 18, 7:00 p.m. Short: Conditioned Response (2017)
Learn morePlease join us on Saturday, April 6, 2024, for Mapping the Pipeline Education Series. This program is part of Policing Justice, which is on view at PICA from February 23 – May 19, 2024.
Learn moreAlien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse (2013): Thursday, April 4, 7:00 p.m. Short: Just a Dog (2016)
Learn moreArtist: Power and Practices is a stimulating community conversation that will bring together five of Portland's most innovative creators to discuss the power that visual storytellers hold and the ethics around their process.
Learn moreArresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon (2015): Thursday, March 21, 7:00 p.m. Short: State of Oregon (2017)
Learn moreThis symposium will bring together panels of local community leaders for discussions on the history of police violence and racist policing in Portland, ongoing attempts to hold police accountable and reform policing practices, and burgeoning efforts to radically reimagine public safety in our communities.
Learn moreReimagining Safety (2023): Thursday, March 7, 7:00 p.m. Short: Is Portland Dying? (2024) Q&A with directors Matthew Solomon and Cory Elia, moderated by Alex Vitale
Learn moreArtist Panel Discussion Moderator: Mac Smiff Participants: Tai Carpenter, Robert Clarke, Alfredo Jaar, Kimberly Moreland, Sandy Rodriguez, Master Artist Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr., and Robert Trafford
Learn moreThis exhibition examines policing practices in Portland, Oregon, and their relationship to longer local and national histories of oppression through the lens of artists who call Portland their home and those who played witness and documentarian from across the globe.
Learn moreFor this lecture, American Artist will speak about new and old work and the conceptual ties that inform their practice as an interdisciplinary artist.
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