Saturday night at PSU’s Lincoln Hall, vocalist and musician Liz Harris (aka Grouper) and experimental filmmaker Paul Clipson performed Hypnosis Display for the first time on US soil. The 75-minute, live audiovisual collaboration, commissioned by Opera North, is sourced from Harris’ field recordings and Clipson’s in-camera-edited films that capture naturalistic and manmade American landscapes. The […]
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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 […]
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Review: Hypnosis Display
Last night at PSU’s Lincoln Hall, vocalist and musician Liz Harris (aka, Grouper) and experimental filmmaker Paul Clipson performed Hypnosis Display for the first time on US soil. The 75-minute, live audiovisual collaboration, commissioned by Opera North, is sourced from Harris’ field recordings and Clipson’s in-camera-edited films that capture naturalistic and man-made American landscapes. The […]
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Chelfitsch: Ground and Floor
Photo by Misako Shimizu Japanese playwright and director Toshiki Okada’s theater group chelfitsch specialize in a certain kind of discomfort. In Enjoy, which saw it’s Portland premiere earlier this year at CoHo, that discomfort manifested in the way characters addressed the audience. His characters, members of Japan’s “lost generation,” frequently seemed to plead with the […]
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GERMINAL: A Delightful Microcosm
TBA performances are winding down this week, so it seems safe to say: GERMINAL has to be one of the best performances of the festival this year. GERMINAL is a piece of theater, created by Halory Goerger and Antoine Defoort, that probably shouldn’t work. (I’m not sure what I like more: this performance, or the […]
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SQUART: Review
Tonight Chanticleer Trü reins in this final Works performance of this year’s TBA Festival. He made a guest appearance however earlier this week (Wednesday) during SQUART, which, to recap, was a performance of mayhem and asses— literal asses, which aligned nicely with the New York Times‘s recent declaration about our fine butt nation. LB Tomczak/PICA […]
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Chelfitsch: Ground and Floor
Photo by Misako Shimizu Japanese playwright and director Toshiki Okada’s theater group chelfitsch specialize in a certain kind of discomfort. In Enjoy, which saw it’s Portland premiere earlier this year at CoHo, that discomfort manifested in the way characters addressed the audience. His characters, members of Japan’s “lost generation,” frequently seemed to plead with the […]
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GERMINAL: A Delightful Microcosm
TBA performances are winding down this week, so it seems safe to say: GERMINAL has to be one of the best performances of the festival this year. GERMINAL is a piece of theater, created by Halory Goerger and Antoine Defoort, that probably shouldn’t work. (I’m not sure what I like more: this performance, or the […]
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A Gossip-Free Recap of “All the Sex I’ve Ever Had”
Photo by Lucia Eggenhoffer At the beginning of Mammalian Diving Reflex’s new show “All the Sex I’ve Ever Had,” the audience was asked to stand and take a pledge not to gossip. For the next two hours, a panel of Portland’s friskiest seniors would describe, year by year, their sexual history. With admirable, impossible candor, […]
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A Gossip-Free Recap of “All the Sex I’ve Ever Had”
Photo by Lucia Eggenhoffer At the beginning of Mammalian Diving Reflex’s new show “All the Sex I’ve Ever Had,” the audience was asked to stand and take a pledge not to gossip. For the next two hours, a panel of Portland’s friskiest seniors would describe, year by year, their sexual history. With admirable, impossible candor, […]
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Jack Ferver Hosts an Artist Q&A You’d Actually Want to Attend
PICA/Ian Douglas “Ask me about ‘Return to Oz’!” “I never wanna stay for the Q&A.” That’s how Jack Ferver opened his TBA performance, “Mon, Ma, Mes,” at Ecotrust last night. And why would he? At worst, post-show Q&As can seem like exercises in cruelty*. So I have to admit, the conceit of Ferver’s performance—an artist […]
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Jack Ferver Hosts an Artist Q&A You’d Actually Want to Attend
PICA/Ian Douglas “Ask me about ‘Return to Oz’!” “I never wanna stay for the Q&A.” That’s how Jack Ferver opened his TBA performance, “Mon, Ma, Mes,” at Ecotrust last night. And why would he? At worst, post-show Q&As can seem like exercises in cruelty*. So I have to admit, the conceit of Ferver’s performance—an artist […]