TBA
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Back to Back Theatre at TBA Fest
It’s not too early to start thinking about PICA’s annual TBA Fest—the Central Box Office opened today, in fact, at 224 NW 13th. If you haven’t started looking into the lineup, I recommend that you do so ASAP—there are some super intriguing artists and performances this year. Take Back to Back Theatre, a company driven […]
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Mike Daisey Returns to Portland
My single favorite moment of the TBA last year was Mike Daisey’s unrehearsed performance at the Works, wherein the sweaty monologist launched an absolutely scathing attack on the passivity of contemporary art audiences. “If you don’t like something, leave,” he said at one point. “Do something! Put your dick on the table, make a little […]
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“Plant Tenders” Needed for TBA’s Labor Day Picnic
Remember how I said I was unusually excited for the Time Based Art festival this year? I just got EVEN MORE EXCITED. First of all, the Works—TBA’s late-night performance venue—is being held in the old Washington High School building (531 SE 14th), which has been sitting vacant for years amid talk of building condos and […]
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New TBA Artists Added
In which I copy and paste a press release, because it is too weird to paraphrase: Pink Martini / Oregon! Oregon! 2009 : A Sesquicentennial Fable in IV Acts / Visit pinkmartini.com for showtime and ticket prices. / All Ages In 1959, to celebrate the 100th birthday of Oregon, the Blitz-Weinhard Brewing Company commissioned the […]
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TBA:09 Lineup Announced
If all went as planned at PICA’s annual Tada! benefit last night, the lineup for 2009’s Time-Based Art festival was announced. I wasn’t there, but I did receive a handy press release detailing the lineup, which I will post after the jump. This year, Cathy Edwards replaces Mark Russell as guest artistic director—she’ll curate the […]
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TBA: In Conclusion
PICA’s Time-Based Art festival concluded on Sunday. The consensus seems to be that the third and final year of Guest Artistic Director Mark Russell’s tenure was the festival’s most accessible yet, with a notable selection of straightforward personal and political narratives (Mike Daisey, Lemon Anderson, Daniel Beatty) amidst the more conceptual offerings. A few more […]
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Zidane: A Time-Based Portrait
Douglas Gordon ranks among the preeminent artists of our generation to take the malleable idea of time as a central object of inquiry. The Scottish artist, who garnered both the prestigious Turner Prize and a mid-career retrospective at MoMA before his 40th birthday, is best known for his film work, which deconstructs cinematic conventions via […]
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Tiago Guedes: Materiais Diversos and Um Solo
In the least successful line of Bob Dylan’s otherwise devastating “Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall,” the narrator, while describing the hallucinatory events he’d witnessed, reports that he “met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow.” Never a sentimentalist, it’s hard to determine how Dylan intended this rendezvous with Roy G. Biv’s altruistic, feminine purity to […]
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Forced Entetainment’s Quizoola
This six-hour ambling little thing was engaging enough for a while, but I don’t think it fully shows off the “groundbreaking” aspects of experimental theater maker Tim Etchells. The premise: Etchells and two other dudes sat in a room with some Christmas lights strewn around and stacks of paper with thousands of questions written on […]
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I Never Liked the Bloodhound Gang
So you can imagine that I was probably not the best person to hop on board the “scavenger hunt” organized by the art rock duo of Brother and Sister. I put scavenger hunt in quotes because it implies that you’d be running around town collecting a list of objects. Instead, we were running around town […]
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Touring Tilburg with Khris Soden
Yes, Tilburg is a real place in Holland, and for eleven days, it was the ghostly double of Portland—if you squinted your eyes juuuust right you could barely make it out. As Khris Soden lead groups of tourists through the streets of Portland, he was actually following a route in Tilburg. The Tilburg map had […]