Kenneth Aaron FAIL! So, I don’t have anything nice to say about Fawn Krieger’s National Park— the exhibit at Washington High School which uses foam, wood, tar, cement, and felt to fabricate a cave, some rocks, and an ambiguous stream/lava flow thing (a material-based interpretation of a national park). Really, National Park reads as a […]
Matt Stangel
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REVIEW: Brian Lund at PNCA
Courtesy of PICA’s Image Bank Brian Lund’s untitled TBA contribution renders Oliver Stone’s Wall Street into 2-D, choreographic diagrams. Remembering scenes from the film in graphite tick marks, colored squares and circles, and layered lines, Lund notates characters and their movements. These tick marks, shapes, and lines are at times used to record specific scenes […]
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REVIEW: Sept. 7th, Daniel Barrow’s “Everytime I See Your Face I Cry” at Northwest Film Center
Courtesy of PICA’s image bank Daniel Barrow in a red button-up dress shirt, striped yellow-black tie, and plaid pants— he’s just skinny enough to squeeze behind his overhead projector which is wedged between two rows of seats on the floor of the Northwest Film Center. He preps for his performance of Everytime I See Your […]
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The Works: Opening Night at Washington High
Wayne Bund Washington High School circa 10 pm last night, packed with dance culture kids waiting for Gang Gang Dance to take the stage at TBA’s Works: “I’m so fucked up” she tells her friend, sprawled out in the center of the room, staring off into the ceiling, running her fingers through her friend’s hair. […]
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Tonight: Firsts and Lasts at First Thursday
Image borrowed from Jerod Ruleaux’s blog So, we’ve sounded the war drums as TBA has been ramping up, and tonight the bombers will fly when On Sight (TBA’s visual arts programming) and the Works (late-night performances) open at Washington High School. Yet, behind TBA’s metaphorical rat-a-tats and buzzy overhead engine sounds, First Thursday Artwalk is […]
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Oregon, in Verse
The Burnside Review Celebrates Oregon Poets
A series of readings celebrating the Burnside Review‘s Oregon
Issue.
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Deprogramming the Box
Ethan Rose’s Hacked Music Boxes
Pullout: TBA 2009
Ethan Rose’s manipulated music boxes plink out the sound installation
Movements.
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A Point of Entry
Exploring Visual Art at TBA
Pullout: TBA 2009
Exploring TBA’s visual art offerings.
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Marco Zamora
Give & Take
Painter and designer Marco Zamora’s solo show Give & Take uses the bicycle as its subject matter, along with other wheeled objects like shopping carts, skateboards, and mopeds. “For the past two years I have been riding [a bike], says Zamora, “so I decided it was time to incorporate my daily habits [in my art].” […]
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The Art of Touring
Mecca Normal’s tour diary, Toronto to Atlanta during September of 2001: “September 17, 2001: This is not a good time to present new songs. Audiences want to talk. I understand, but it’s hard to perform in this situation. My songs overwhelm me—introspection weighed down by irrelevance. I would like to be useful. Maybe we are […]
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The Portland Mercury‘s Guide to the TBA Festival 09:03:09-09:13:09
It’s that Time…
Pullout: TBA 2009
Introducing Cathy Edwards and TBA:09