Ian Douglas Miguel Guiterrez walks onto Washington High’s empty stage. “Hi,” he say. “Hi,” the audience dutifully responds. “So,” he says, “my piece has already started.” In his disarming new show Heavens What Have I Done, the New York-based Gutierrez invites the audience onstage to witness firsthand the anxiety, excitement, and inspiration that goes into […]
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Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol: Supertitles are the Worst!
I had two thoughts as I walked out of the premier TBA performance of Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol’s El Rumor del Incendio. The first: “well that was charming.” The second: “I want to watch that all over again and not pay one shred of attention to the supertitles.” This is not to say that supertitles […]
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Tonight’s MFNW & TBA Events at Your Fingertips!
Need fast info on tonight (and every night’s) TBA and MFNW events? Hop over to MercMobile (m.portlandmercury.com) on your smart phone for up to the second listings, addresses, times and prices! MERCMOBILE: We got your number.
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Tonight at TBA: Christeene
“African Mayonnaise”: It’s art, dudes. Washington High School, 13th & Stark. 10:30 pm, $7 Tonight and tomorrow are also your last chances to see The People—Portland, a large-scale spectacle based on the Oresteia, snippets of which last night prompted me to loudly make the intellectually dubious argument that “updating” classic theater is a bullshit waste […]
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Opening Night at the Works!
Pat Moran TBA’s fancy new sign! Opening night of TBA is less about art and more about taking in the scene, so to that end: Fancy new signs! Delicious snacks! Pretty art school students! Cranky homeless people! Click over to the TBA blog to read all about it. ALSO! Last night, Matt Stangel posted an […]
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Spectacle Vs. Substance: Big Art Group
So, full disclosure guys, I was pretty stoked to go see opening night of Big Art Group’s The People: Portland tonight. After interviewing both of the New York City based collective’s co-founders, Caden Manson and Jemma Nelson, I was fairly convinced that I was going to dig what they had to offer… Recorded interviews of […]
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Opening Night at the Works
Pat Moran TBA’s fancy new sign! TBA is fancy this year. There’s a shiny new sign announcing the presence of shiny art things, and the outdoor beer garden at the Works has gotten a makeover, with a smaller, aggressively reinforced perimeter that affects crowd flow in a weird way—you can no longer grab a drink […]
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Interview: PICA Visual Art Curator Kristan Kennedy (On All Things End Things)
PICA When I met up with PICA Visual Art Curator Kristan Kennedy, beyond digging into TBA:12’s pared-down visual art program, End Things, I wasn’t sure about where our conversation would go. Kennedy showed me to a cluster of comfortable chairs in PICA’s swanky new office and event space, and, without much build-up, began speaking very […]
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The Quiet Volume: Crazy-Making Performance Art at the Central Library
PICA I saw my first show of TBA yesterday: A strange, intimate little piece called The Quiet Volume, which is set in the Central Library and designed for two people at a time. You grab an iPod, sit down next to a stranger, and are guided by narration and text on a tour through the […]
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Losing Control of the Language: The Quiet Volume
PICA About an hour before seeing The Quiet Volume, while flipping through the new David Foster Wallace biography Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story at Powell’s, I landed on a passage describing how Wallace’s ideas about language were influenced by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein’s early work characterized language as a rigidly logical system, […]
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TBA Starts Tonight!
The 10th annual Time-Based Art festival kicks off tonight with a performance of Big Art Group’s The People—Portland (a mashup of live theater, video, and footage from interviews with Portlanders, loosely based on the Oresteia)—followed by a free dance party at Washington High, and the opening of TBA’s visual art exhibits. I have it on […]
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TBA Starts Tonight!
The 10th annual Time-Based Art festival kicks off tonight with a performance of Big Art Group’s The People—Portland (a mashup of live theater, video, and footage from interviews with Portlanders, loosely based on the Oresteia)—followed by a free dance party at Washington High, and the opening of TBA’s visual art exhibits. I have it on […]