Photo by Pat Moran Opening night of TBA is alternately thrilling and amusing. I love being among these folks who are very excited to be celebrating the international arts community and the conversations that come out of this meeting of likeminded folks. But I also have to stifle chuckles at the folks who throw on […]
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Introducing TBA:14’s Visual Art Programming
PICA Each year for the Time-Based Art Festival, PICA Visual Art Curator Kristan Kennedy assembles artists around a theme. This year, that theme is poetry. It sounds pretty antique on the surface, but poetry was chosen for very good reason: these days, International Art English is everywhere, artists are getting tired of using it, and […]
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TBA:14, the Pre-Game
It’s hard to believe, given the endless summer, that it’s almost time to pull your head out of that can of Ranier you’re floating down a river with and put your Art Pants on. But lo, TBA:14 kicks off on Thursday! If you’ve yet to peruse this year’s offerings, you’re late! Luckily we’ll have our […]
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Is This the New “Street Fee” Proposal?
Remember yesterday, when we said a PBOT draft document indicates Mayor Charlie Hales and Commissioner Steve Novick will propose a $11.56 per month street fee? It’s still too early to say whether that will indeed be the number. Hales and Novick will formally unveil their proposal at 9 am. But here are some shots of […]
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TBA Festival: Over but Not Over
Evan LaLonde Jamie Isenstein performing silently, on the harp. Aka a piece called Rug Woogie X. TBA performances wrapped up today, however TBA’s presence lingers for the remainder of September with a number of visual art shows curated in conjunction with the festival. A.L. Adams did a run-down of the shows in last week’s print […]
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Review: Nacera Belaza, Le Cri
Agathe Poupeney Arm swinging. Lots of arm swinging. It can feel like there is a lot of pressure to understand and celebrate all the really unusual and challenging work presented at an art festival like TBA, especially as a reviewer. After all, it’s very carefully curated, and many of the artists have won international awards […]
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Natasha Kmeto and Rap Class: Finally
Patti Miller Rap Class Because I’d been running headlong into TBA without watching the changing schedule, I was under the impression I’d be seeing Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang last night at closeout party at The Works. I realized slowly, after my second (or third or whatever) Natasha Kmeto/Rap School punch that I was […]
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Alexandro Segade: Boy Band Audition
Of all the performances I’ve seen at TBA over the years (a fair sampling), I can’t think of one that comes close to Alexandro Segade’s Boy Band Audition in how much the concept really took over the reality of the performance. This event really, actually did feel like a boy band audition. The real performers […]
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Ivana Müller’s We Are Still Watching: Who Needs Actors?
Sanne Peper Yesterday I sat in a theater full of people I’d never met before, having a conversation. We were supposed to be seeing a play called We Are Still Watching, by the Croation-born, Paris-based artist Ivana Müller. Instead, we walked into a theater without a stage, sat in our assigned seats, and waited. It […]
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Review: Daniel Barrow, The Thief of Mirrors/Looking for Love in the Hall of Mirrors
Daniel Barrow “The new creed of the obscenely rich: sorrow for sorrow’s sake alone.” Daniel Barrow’s The Thief of Mirrors is a wry takedown of the upper class, positing that “crying is a class privilege.” The wealthy victims of the story’s protagonist, a harlequin “kissing bandit,” wake one morning to find that they’ve been robbed […]
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Review: One with Others
Jeffrey Wells “This feels like a really interesting experience,” says performer Jeffrey Wells during One with Others, “a really interesting, almost satisfying encounter,” he follows up. He’s referring to the performance itself; It’s partly sarcastic. It’s partly a challenge. One with Others, a trio choreographed by Minneapolis-based Karen Sherman, is “meta” and self-aware in a […]
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Review: Bouchra Ouizguen’s Ha!
Image courtesy of the artist Bouchra Ouizguen’s opening show was cancelled on Wednesday. Luckily the show opened instead on Thursday, to a packed theater. It was beautiful. And moving. It was moving in how intense it was, yet spare at the same time. One of my favorite kind of performances is one that can do […]