Edges is unlike anything else you’ll see at TBA this year. Based in Yokohama, Japan, Offsite Dance Project is among the few international artists (also including collective Claire Fontaine) at the festival, and they bring a totally different, but welcome, “non-Western” sensibility. The primary goal of the group is to extend dance into urban spaces, […]
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PICA Receives $200,000 Grant
The well-timed news just broke that PICA has received a $200,000 grant for their “hub-and-spoke” programming model, which allows them to curate programming in venues around the city from one central office. PICA is currently looking for a new office space, which they intend both as hub of activity on its own, and as a […]
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PICA Receives $200,000 Grant
Big news out of PICA: They’ve just received a $200,000 grant from ArtPlace, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts and a handful of federal agencies and foundations whose goal is the support of “creative placemaking.” For the purposes of this post, that means PICA’s “hub-and-spoke facility model,” wherein a central office supports […]
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Tonight at TBA: Brooklyn Imports, Dance, Dean & Britta
With 13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests, Luna’s Dean Warham (former frontman of Galaxie 500) and Britta Philips provide a soundtrack to 13 of Andy Warhol’s screen tests—filmed portraits of Factory visitors including Edie Sedgwick and Nico. The soundtrack includes a few Velvet Underground covers and reprisals of Luna songs; Dean and […]
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Maybe the City’s Most Engaged Art Audiences AREN’T at TBA…
In his review of Michael Reinsch’s Gallery Walk, Matt Stangel has some choice words for the way TBA audiences approached Reinsch’s public performance, as opposed to the way people on the street reacted to the work: So, I wonder, what differentiates “art audiences” and “people who don’t fucking care about your stupid fucking art”? The […]
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Review: Kyle Abraham, Live! The Realest MC
Following his company’s weekend run of The Radio Show, the multi-talented Kyle Abraham performed last night a solo preview of Live! The Realest MC, a work in development that will eventually be an ensemble piece. Here’s a clip: Kyle Abraham Solo Excerpt of Live! The Realest MC (work-in-progress) Part 4. I predicted this piece would […]
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Review: Michael Reinsch’s Gallery Walk
I arrive at 7 pm on the Washington High School green, where Michael Reinsch is performing Gallery Walk under a forgiving sun. Nathanael Thayer Moss He’s costumed and cartoonish, standing inside a bulky white cube— his head turtling from a hole in the fully-operational, mobile gallery. Tonight, Monday the 12th, Reinsch’s white walls house a […]
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A Mid-Festival Chat with Guest Artistic Director Cathy Edwards
It’s Edwards’ last year as guest artistic director at TBA, and we’ve got an interview checking in with her right over here.
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It’s Happening Tonight!
CASANOVA—To help break in Floating World Comics’ snazzy new digs, fantastic local comics writer Matt Fraction will be in the store for a book release party and signing of his latest—Avaritia, the long-awaited third volume in his beloved Casanova series. And in addition to copies of Avaritia #1 being available, Floating World’s walls will be […]
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One Night, Two Experimental Videos
Last night at the Works was all about video, with back-to-back screening of two very different works in experimental film. The first, Alex Mackenzie The Wooden Lightbox: A Secret Art of Seeing presented by Portland avant garde film nonprofit Cinema Project was exactly what comes to mind when I hear the words “experimental film”: A […]
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A Mid-Festival Chat with Artistic Director Cathy Edwards
I got the chance to both meet and chat with Artistic Director Cathy Edwards to pick her brain a bit about how the festival was going. First off, I was surprised to hear how calm and downright tranquil she sounded. For whatever reason I figured that at this stage of the festival, with nearly half […]
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Today in TBA: Sarah Dougher, a Fake Preacher, and New Musics (For Real This Time)
I’m sorry, internet, I screwed up yesterday and posted the wrong info for TBA’s late night show. I promise to be more diligent today. OK. Here goes. Tonight, the sole TBA performance of Sarah Douger’s Fin de Siècle You’re in good hands with Sarah Dougher. The former indie rock queen from Cadallaca and the Crabs […]