Courtesy Radhouane El Meddeb French Tunisian artist Radhouane El Meddeb. Affectionately called “the couscous piece” by PICA’s Artistic Director Angela Mattox at an artist talk Wednesday, Radhouane El Meddeb prepares and feeds his audience both dance and the traditional North African dish in Je danse et je vous en donne à bouffer, performed Tuesday and […]
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TBA is Happening: Tiny Dances, Electronic Squiggles, and Art Kim Davis Would Hate
It’s happening again*! PICA’s 2015 Time-Based Art Festival is here, and you still have four more days to immerse yourself in some of the most innovative art this city (and so many other cities!) has to offer. Here are the highlights from TBA’s first week: Given our current political climate, with the Kim Davises of […]
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With Beyoncé and Blue Paint, Ten Tiny Dances’ Triumphant Return to TBA
Monday night at the Works, dancer/choreographer Mike Barber’s Ten Tiny Dances proved once again to be a crowd favorite. The performance series has been around since 2002 (with its first appearance at TBA in 2003—the very first year of TBA itself—and appearing at most TBA Festivals since then). I feel like this performance really took […]
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With Beyoncé and Blue Paint, Ten Tiny Dances’ Triumphant Return to TBA
Monday night at the Works, dancer/choreographer Mike Barber’s Ten Tiny Dances proved once again to be a crowd favorite. The performance series has been around since 2002 (with its first appearance at TBA in 2003—the very first year of TBA itself—and appearing at most TBA Festivals since then). I feel like this performance really took […]
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Confronting the Audience in Keyon Gaskin’s Its Not a Thing at BodyVox
<img src="https://www.portlandmercury.com/images/blogimages/2015/09/13/1442186746-keyongaskin_02.jpg" alt="Keyon Gaskin performs Its Not a Thing.” title=”Keyon Gaskin performs Its Not a Thing.” width=”500″ height=”281″ /> Alex Riedlinger via TBA Keyon Gaskin performs Its Not a Thing. Keyon Gaskin’s long-running piece, It’s Not a Thing, appearing as part of TBA Friday and Saturday at BodyVox, began subverting performance tropes as soon as […]
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Confronting the Audience in Keyon Gaskin’s Its Not a Thing at BodyVox
<img src="https://www.portlandmercury.com/images/blogimages/2015/09/13/1442186746-keyongaskin_02.jpg" alt="Keyon Gaskin performs Its Not a Thing.” title=”Keyon Gaskin performs Its Not a Thing.” width=”500″ height=”281″ /> Alex Riedlinger via TBA Keyon Gaskin performs Its Not a Thing. Keyon Gaskin’s long-running piece, It’s Not a Thing, appearing as part of TBA Friday and Saturday at BodyVox, began subverting performance tropes as soon as […]
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Reckoning with Tyondai Braxton’s Restless Synths
By Nomo michael hoefner via Wikimedia Commons As Tyondai Braxton stood onstage at PSU’s Lincoln Hall Sunday night, conjuring long strings of squeaks, blurbles, and rough-hewn beats out of a box of Eurorack synths, a nonstop stream of dry ice smoke billowed and drifted behind him. It was as if the 36-year-old composer and musician […]
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TBA 2015 is Here! Stephen Malkmus Invades the Works, Keyon Gaskin Performs Tonight
Keyon Gaskin/PICA Keyon Gaskin performs tonight. You should go see him. PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival launched last night, with nighttime programming the Works bringing Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks to the Redd in inner Southeast for a free show, and the opening reception for TBA’s visual art component, Pictures of the moon with teeth, at […]
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TBA 2015 is Here! Stephen Malkmus Invades the Works, Keyon Gaskin Performs Tonight
Keyon Gaskin/PICA Keyon Gaskin performs tonight. You should go see him. PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival launched last night, with nighttime programming the Works bringing Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks to the Redd in inner Southeast for a free show, and the opening reception for TBA’s visual art component, Pictures of the moon with teeth, at […]
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Final Days of TBA: Frisky Seniors, Disco, and Art You Still Have Time to See
PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival is over, and with it our 10:30 commitments to the Works, waiting in line to see sold out shows (some featuring old folks talking about sex), eavesdropping on art conversations, and hanging out in a warehouse that once held window blinds. Here’s what we saw over the past couple days as […]
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Final Days of TBA: Frisky Seniors, Disco, and Art You Still Have Time to See
PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival is over, and with it our 10:30 commitments to the Works, waiting in line to see sold out shows (some featuring old folks talking about sex), eavesdropping on art conversations, and hanging out in a warehouse that once held window blinds. Here’s what we saw over the past couple days as […]
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Disco Balls and Balloons: Until Next Time, TBA
Photo courtesy of the artist Today was the official, final day of this year’s TBA Festival (phew!). Last night ushered it in with a big celebration: Chanticleer Trü’s Evelyn. Folks made figure eights on roller skates, circling a giant disco ball wrapped in a pink tulle bow in the middle of the room. Balloons hovered […]