It's here! PICA just announced the lineup for this year's Time-Based Art Festival, slated for September 10-20, and it looks GREAT. I'm especially excited that keyon gaskin is presenting his performance its not a thing, which I saw reduce audience members to tears back in February at PICA. It's a performance that takes on race in a way that is deeply overwhelming, uncomfortable, intimate, and—more than anything else—necessary. Again, PICA's pulling comedy into the festival, as they did last year, with Mercury bud Bri Pruett among those on the comedy docket. Also, Zola Jesus! Also, this year the Works moves to the Redd, which is ever-so-slightly more centrally located than last year's Fashion Tech.

And that's just the beginning!

Last year's TBA was basically my introduction to covering the Portland art world, and though I had deer-in-headlights eyes for roughly three days, and maybe lost some of my hearing to Oneohtrix Point Never's blippy-beepy performance, it was TOTALLY worth it. Performance art can be kind of a drag if you do it wrong, and TBA is one of your best bets for seeing it done on a world-class, feels-inducing level.

Full lineup after the jump.

TBA:15 MAIN STAGE PERFORMANCE

Holcombe Waller
Requiem Mass: LGBT / Working Title
September 11, 12

Alessandro Sciarroni

FOLK-S
Will you still love me tomorrow?
September 11, 12

keyon gaskin
its not a thing

September 11, 12

Okwui Okpokwasili
Bronx Gothic
September 11, 12, 13

Suniti Dernovsek
Leading Light
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Luke Gutgsell in collaboration with Nicholas Daulton

The Self Possessed
September 12, 13

Lars Jan / Early Morning Opera
The Institute of Memory (TIMe)

September 12, 13

Lucy Yim
Devastation Melody

September 12, 13, 14

Tyondai Braxton
September 13

Aki Onda & Akio Suzuki

September 14

Michelle Ellsworth
Preparation for the Obsolesce of the Y Chromosome
September 15, 16, 17


Radhouane El Meddeb / La compagnie de Soi

Je danse et je vous en donne à bouffer

September 15, 16

Philippe Quesne
La Mélancolie des dragons

September 17, 18


Amy O’Neal
Opposing Forces
September 17, 18, 19

Dana Michel
Yellow Towel

September 18, 19

Radhouane El Meddeb / La compagnie de Soi
Au temps où les Arabes dansaient…

September 18, 19

DakhaBrakha

September 19

Ingri Fiksdal, Ingvild Langgård and Signe Becker
NIGHT TRIPPER

September 19, 20

TBA:15 VISUAL ART

Dynasty Handbag
Good Morning Evening Feelings
Co-presented by Portland Museum of Modern Art


Tannaz Farsi

Jibade-Khalil Huffman
Vanishing Point / A Drive-In at the End of the World



Bill Jenkins



Dawn Kasper

WHAT IS TIME?



Karl Larsson with Morgan Ritter, Pascal Prosek, and Container Corps

Commonplace

MPA
Nothing to You.
Curated by Chiara Giovando, Disjecta Curator-in-Residence, 2015-2016

Peter Simensky
Surface Contents 1 & 2 



Akio Suzuki
Nami

TBA:15 THE WORKS AT THE REDD

TBA OPENING NIGHT AT THE WORKS, Free and open to the public
Surprise Headliner TBA!
Thursday, September 10

LIVE RIOT: SINGING WE MUST RAGE! A SING ALONG
Featuring: General Sisters and The Feminist Art Gallery with Emily Kingan, and other Alien She collaborators

Friday, September 11

Critical Mascara: A Post-Realness Drag Extravaganza
Pepper Pepper
Saturday, September 12

S1 NIGHT AT THE WORKS
S1 Presents: Zola Jesus (DJ Set), U.S. Hard / Contemporary, Coast2C
Sunday, September 13


Ten Tiny Dances

Monday, September 14

Disoriented Comedy
Bri Pruett, Jenny Yang, D’Lo
Tuesday, September 15

BEACON SOUND NIGHT AT THE WORKS

Bardo:Basho, Benoit Pioulard, and Apartment Fox
Wednesday, September 16

DJ KLYPH NIGHT AT THE WORKS

Welcome to the Neighborhood Live!
Featuring: DJ O.G., Vursatyl, Mic Capes, Theory Hazit, and Neka & Kahlo
Thursday, September 17

DECIBEL FESTIVAL NIGHT AT THE WORKS
Friday, September 18

PARTY LIKE IT’S 1995! (PICA’s TBA 20th Anniversary Dance Party)
Featuring: SNAP! + MORE
Saturday, September 19