Ian Goodricch Ahem… GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! A more nuanced appraisal, After the Jump! Ian Goodrich *cough cough* There is no solitude in Radoslaw Rychcik/Stefan Zeromski Theatre’s In the Solitude of Cotton Fields. When the curtain opens, flooding the audience with enormous billows of artificial fog, it marks the beginning of one hour of pure, loud, lurid, muscular […]
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Tick, Tock
Time’s Running out on TBA
A mid-festival check-in with the Time-Based Art Festival.
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Two for the Row
Deco and Stone Barn Build Good Booze
Two new distilleries on the row add great products to Portland’s rainbow of boozy goodness.
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Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner and the Conversation Lags
Ian Goodrich Hey! Art DOES Imitate Life It would have been nice to have some kind of program, or set list, or someone to tell the audience who the fuck we were watching at any given moment. I say this mostly because the first act of the evening’s program was so painful, I’d like to […]
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Hard Edge, Hard Work Puts a Foot Up My Chauvinistic Ass
Kate Gilmore, from Walk This Way I would say I was less than a minute into the film program Hard Edge, Hard Work, which explores the abstract film and video works of women artists, when all of my preconceived notions were unceremoniously shattered by the tastefully high-heel clad foot of Kate Gilmore, kicking the shit […]
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Bass, Atlas, Video
Ronnie Bass, The Astronomer There are plenty of video installations at the Works this year: Some are interesting and thought provoking, others less so. But that seems de rigueur for video work. Truthfully, I’ve never really been a fan of the medium. Unless the video in question is part of a larger performance piece, I […]
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Boozing the Works: Tonight!
Hey, Blogtown! I know you’ve probably missed me (I mean, who wouldn’t, right?), but I haven’t gone far. In fact I’ve been kicking it with the Mercury Arts crew over at our TBA Blog where we’re having all sorts of pretentious high-minded fun as PICA’s Time Based Art Festival continues to chug along. I just […]
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Thoughts on the Short Films of Dayna Hanson
Sitting in the darkened Whitsell Auditorium, watching the Hanson’s short films flicker past with all of their dancey, frenetic verve, it became clear to me what an impressively talented multi-disciplinary artist she is. With works spanning from her time with Seattle-based performance group 33 Fainting Spells, to her newest work Improvement Club, a companion piece […]
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A Late and Practically Irrelevant Breakdown on the 22nd Installment of Ten Tiny Dances (with Pictures!)
Ian Goodrich Anne Furfey’s Sink The difficulty with a Tiny Dance is that within the constraints of space and time—a small stage, and maybe around ten minutes—it can be hard for a choreographer to get across what they want to get across. It seems to me, longer performances with more stage allow choreographers/performers much more […]
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Eating, Drinking, the Works
Wayne Bund Alison covered some of this in her Works Opening Night post, but I thought I’d put a fine point on the goodies available at TBA’s interim late night art club. In brief: Off the Menu at the Distillery Row Lounge This space, right across from the auditorium, is currently one of the most […]
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Dance… 10. Looks… 10. An Evening with Cédric Andrieux
It can be difficult to cultivate intimacy in the theater. There are so many barriers between an audience and a performer, not the least of which is just the strangeness of a group of people seated in a dark auditorium, facing the stage, separated by distance, and lighting, and that damn fourth wall we’re all […]