PICA’s 2011 Time-Based Art festival kicks off tonight. The festival’s free visual arts programming is once again hosted at Washington High School (531 SE 14th) in Southeast—doors open tonight at 8 pm. Then at 9 pm, the aforementioned public installation The Hidden Lives of Bridges runs at 15-minute increments until 11 pm. And as always, […]
TBA
Posted inTBA
TBA:11 Starts Tonight!
PICA’s 2011 Time-Based Art festival kicks off tonight. The festival’s free visual arts programming is once again hosted at Washington High School (531 SE 14th) in Southeast—doors open tonight at 8 pm. Then at 9 pm, the aforementioned public installation The Hidden Lives of Bridges runs at 15-minute increments until 11 pm. And as always, […]
Posted inTBA
Introducing the Mercury‘s TBA:2011 Blog!
The annual Time-Based Art festival kicks off tomorrow, promising ten days of theater, dance, visual art, film, and dance parties in the back of a truck (true!). We’ll be covering the festival extensively over on our TBA blog: that means reviews, daily picks, beer-garden gossip, interviews, attempts to survive Mike Daisey’s 24-Hour Monologue, and anything […]
Posted inMovies & TV
Bridge Life, Revealed!
TBA:11 – ready or not, here it comes! I’m pretty psyched to check out The Hidden Life of Bridges which runs from this Thursday (opening night of the fest) through Saturday night. Here’s a little preview: In The Pit from Ed Purver As I mentioned in my article a couple weeks ago, this large-scale public […]
Posted inMovies & TV
The A/V Stylings of Donald Chapin, M.D.
And here you were thinking The Throne was what you’d be listening to all day. Scootch over, Hova and Kanye. Make some room for Donald Chapin, M.D.: If it’s not too late, TBA should really try to book him this year; barring that, there are more videos here. And keep this in mind, dickhead commenters: […]
Posted inTBA
TBA: The Aftermath
MINH TRAN Okay, my physical and intellectual TBA hangover has finally subsided, and after a few days to reflect (and a serious no-art-allowed TV binge) I’m finding myself a little underwhelmed by this year’s TBA offerings. My assessment? Overlap with MusicFest Northwest, early onset SAD, and a lineup that ultimately offered only a few must-sees […]
Posted inTBA
TBA: The Aftermath
MINH TRAN Okay, my physical and intellectual TBA hangover has finally subsided, and after a few days to reflect (and a serious no-art-allowed TV binge) I’m finding myself a little underwhelmed by this year’s TBA offerings. My assessment? Overlap with MusicFest Northwest, early onset SAD, and a lineup that ultimately offered only a few must-sees […]
Posted inTBA
Review: Storm Tharp’s High House
Kerosene Rose Storm Tharp’s High House At some point or another, everyone gets frustrated with their job. It doesn’t matter if you drink beer and jump on a trampoline for a living— eventually you’ll get tired of the boozing and bouncing. That’s why I wasn’t surprised when local artist Storm Tharp told me that he […]
Posted inTBA
Review: Eric Fredericksen and Weekend Leisure
Ian Goodrich I came mere minutes away from becoming TBA’s final performer. And dammit, I wanted to end the thing. Unfortunately, the timing fell just short. Karaoke was over. Before that it was dead. And to be quite honest, putting the microphone in my largely unprepared hands would’ve been every bit as disastrously ill-fated as […]
Posted inTBA
Here Are Some Pictures #11.Closing night with Eric Fredericksen and Weekend Leisure – Karaoke and Authenticity
Ian Goodrich There was karaoke with Weekend Leisure… Ian Goodrich And there was karaoke with locals… Ian Goodrich And there was karaoke with locals and Weekend Leisure and Eric Fredericksen… Ian Goodrich And there was the lecture… Ian Goodrich And there was community-conscious karaoke… Ian Goodrich And then there was this guy.
Posted inTBA
Here Are Some Pictures #10. After the fact with Shannon and the Clams, Guantanamo Baywatch
I remember going to this show, and then…then I woke up and there was the smell of sage brush and…rope! I remember rope. And something like a…a giant white hat. And the hat kept screaming at me. “Let’er Buck! Let’er Buck!” That’s where it turned really weird. But that I’ll not speak of now. Suffice […]
Posted inTBA
Staying Awake With Blackfish
Or rather, doing my best to stay awake with Blackfish. Which I found to be a slightly hard endeavor. But more on that soon.Blackfish is the musical duo (James Everest and Joel Pickard) that composes and performs the music for Emily Johnson’s multimedia dance piece, The Thank-You Bar. When I was first introduced to these […]