Briana Cerezo In our preview for this year’s Time Based Arts Festival (TBA) we noted that “the return of Eiko Otake to TBA is a centerpiece of this year’s festival.” Otake appeared at the first TBA as part of the internationally recognized performance duo Eiko & Koma, but—after over 40 years of working together—Otake began […]
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The Dope Elf Review: TBA and Yale Union Join Forces to Bring Portland One Weird Play About Gentrification
TJ Acena A lot of us have the feeling that there’s something wrong with our country. And also that the wrongness runs deeper than our elected officials. How could anyone make a single play about that? You can’t. So instead, Asher Harman and the Gawdafful National Theater are creating a six-part play/gallery installation/livestream called The […]
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TBA 2019: With The Want Adam Linder Seems to Want to Prevent Us from Understanding
TJ Acena In college, I took a course on literary and cultural theory. I spent hours, face buried in my textbook, reading and rereading chapters on Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida. Thankfully my professor was skilled at explaining the ideas of these philosophers. If not for her, it would have been a completely […]
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Fin de Cinema Is a Late Night TBA Classic and Their Approach to Black Orpheus Was Perfect
Simone Fischer An ongoing concert series at Holocene for ten (10!) years, Fin de Cinema pairs snooty film nerd deep cuts (and I say that with affection) with live scores from local musicians. The end result is part silent film / part concert / part feature-length video installation. Suffice to say, it’s awesome and the […]
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At TBA 2019 Eiko Otake’s A Body in Places Is Both a Dance and an Installation
Amie Leeking A fascinating through line from this year’s Time Based Arts Festival (TBA) is how many of the festival’s artists disrupt the established gallery relationship between art and audience by soliciting attendee participation in public spaces. The work of interdisciplinary, movement-based artist Eiko Otake is no exception. On TBA’s opening afternoon, spectators gathered on […]
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TBA 2019 Late Night: The Back to School Kiki Celebrates and Educates
Andrew Jankowski Class was back in session this weekend, at TBA’s Late Night Saturday Back to School Kiki Ball, where New York’s Precious Ebony and Portland’s Brandon Harrison summoned spectators and legendary children to watch and walk looks inspired by the theme of “Back to School.” If you’ve missed out on all the entertaining education […]
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TBA 2019 at First Presbyterian: Kara-Lis Coverdale’s Quiet Swells of Sound Demand Reverence
Robert Ham It’s impossible to do anything quietly within the Portland’s nearly 130-year-old First Presbyterian Church. Everything inside is made of wood: the pews, the seats, the floors, the doors. And that wood creaks and groans with the slightest shift of your body. Or if you want to leave the sanctuary unobtrusively—after listening to an […]
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Miguel Gutierrez’s This Bridge Called My Ass Seeks to Destroy the Relationship Between Bodies and Objects
Andrew Jankowski Searching for a way to connect choreographer Miguel Gutierrez’s performance This Bridge Called My Ass to the book from whence it takes its name This Bridge Called My Back, I found myself returning to a poem in the collection by Donna Kate Rushin, “The Bridge Poem.” “I’ve had enough,” Rushin declares, “I’m sick […]
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Dystopian Cyberpunk Interpretive Dance With Notes of Blade Runner: Ligia Lewis’ Water Will (in Melody) at TBA 2019
Ben Coleman There’s a scene in the 1982 film Blade Runner where futuristic bounty hunter / cop-with-a-cool-jacket Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) shoots Pris (Daryl Hannah), a renegade “basic pleasure model” android with a penchant for violent gymnastics. In life, Pris is animated, sensual, and dangerous. But in the moment of her death she is reduced […]
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TBA 2019: Photos of Cannupa Hanska Luger at C3: Initiative
Briana Cerezo Last night Cannupa Hanska Luger’s A Frayed Knot, AFRAID NOT exhibition opened at downtown art gallery C:3 Initiative as an offsite performance/installation, presented as part of this year’s Time Based Arts Festival (TBA). Luger is a New Mexico-based artist and was raised on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota. He works with […]
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Noche Libre DJs at TBA 2019: There’s More to This Multi-Disciplinary Collective Than Meets the Ear
Photo by Marin Vesely The opening night, late-night performance of PICA’s Time Based Arts Festival (TBA), featured three members of the Noche Libre—a radical Latinx DJ collective—spinning records and new sounds for two glorious hours, throughout PICA’s cavernous mainspace. Festival attendees danced with friends and strangers after a long day of engaging with challenging performance […]
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TBA Is TONIGHT!
Eiko Otake TBA flyer Photo: Wm Johnston The 2019 Time Based Arts Festival (TBA) opens tonight! There’s so much going on. Almost everything about TBA’s opening night is free and programed to intersect with downtown’s First Thursday gallery openings. Here are our picks for the fest, one of which you can attend this evening. At […]