(Better than “TBA for Idiots,” no?) I’ve had a few people ask for recommendations on stuff to see at the Time-Based Art festival, which opens Sept 9—specifically, picks tailored to those who are a little leery of the contemporary art scene, but definitely identify as TBA-curious.* •Obviously any TBA for Idiots TBA Picks for the […]
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Quick TBA Picks for the Discriminating Performance Goer.
(Better than “TBA for Idiots,” no?) I’ve had a few people ask for recommendations on stuff to see at the Time-Based Art festival, which opens Sept 9—specifically, picks tailored to those who are a little leery of the contemporary art scene, but definitely identify as TBA-curious.* •Obviously any TBA for Idiots TBA Picks for the […]
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Today in TBA Updates: Food Carts!
At the Works this year, “Violetta’s ‘Etta‘ cart will be there for the entire week, backed up by Jeremy Larter of Holocene, who will be making things like bahn mi, tacos, and tapas,” according to PICA press dude Patrick Leonard. Read our rundown of the TBA festival here; also stay tuned for an idiot’s guide […]
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Today in TBA Updates: Food Carts!
At the Works this year, “Violetta’s ‘Etta‘ cart will be there for the entire week, backed up by Jeremy Larter of Holocene, who will be making things like bahn mi, tacos, and tapas,” according to PICA press dude Patrick Leonard. Read our rundown of the TBA festival here; and our TBA blog went live as […]
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TBA10 Lineup Announced!
Yes, Stumptown and Bridgetown just ended. Yes, we are already talking about 2010’s Time-Based Art Festival. First of all, PICA just signed another lease on Washington High School—the old Southeast high school will once again house performances, most of TBA’s visual art programming, and TBA’s late-night happenings, the Works. And in true back-to-school spirit, the […]
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TBA10 Lineup Announced!
Yes, Stumptown and Bridgetown just ended. Yes, we are already talking about 2010’s Time-Based Art Festival. First of all, PICA just signed another lease on Washington High School—the old Southeast high school will once again house performances, most of TBA’s visual art programming, and TBA’s late-night happenings, the Works. And in true back-to-school spirit, the […]
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REVIEW: Fawn Krieger’s National Park
Kenneth Aaron FAIL! So, I don’t have anything nice to say about Fawn Krieger’s National Park— the exhibit at Washington High School which uses foam, wood, tar, cement, and felt to fabricate a cave, some rocks, and an ambiguous stream/lava flow thing (a material-based interpretation of a national park). Really, National Park reads as a […]
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The Spooky Spirituality of the Oregon Painting Society
The opening moments of Friday night’s Oregon Painting Society show were dark. With the stage lights off, three women in shiny shirts and leotards crossed through the audience crowded onto the cement floor close to the stage. The three women took their places on the step leading up the stage and raised three brooms. Together […]
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REVIEW: Raimund Hoghe’s “Bolero Variations” @ Newmark Theatre and Oregon Painting Society @ The Works (Friday, Sept 11)
There was a simple, moving moment during PICA’s TBA Festival this past Friday night at the Newmark Theatre. One that left the audience breathless. It happened when PICA artistic director Cathy Edwards, in another of her graceful and understated pre-performance speeches, described the conditions under which dancemaker Raimund Hoghe‘s company entered the United States earlier […]
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Quasi and Bugskull at the Works, Saturday, September 12
For the final night of the Works, a pair of Portland rock bands played, one well known, the other nearly lost to memory. Quasi opened the evening with a thundering set of old songs and new, proving once and for all that they are an infinitely better band once Sam Coomes gets off the synthesized […]
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Erik Friedlander: Block Ice and Propane
Erik Friendlander’s Block Ice and Propane was not a show I was particularly excited to see. A cellist playing songs to accompany videos and photos from his childhood—it sounds pleasantly snoozy. The reality is far more beautiful, and more moving, than I’d anticipated. Friedlander’s show is structured like a road trip, based on the trips […]
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REVIEW: Brian Lund at PNCA
Courtesy of PICA’s Image Bank Brian Lund’s untitled TBA contribution renders Oliver Stone’s Wall Street into 2-D, choreographic diagrams. Remembering scenes from the film in graphite tick marks, colored squares and circles, and layered lines, Lund notates characters and their movements. These tick marks, shapes, and lines are at times used to record specific scenes […]