Holland Andrews Every decision that Holland Andrews makes isnโt arrived upon lightly. The experimental artist who records and performs under the name Like A Villain arrives at them through deep intention, serious deliberation, and a dash of gut feelings. That includes everything from shaving their head (โThe cutting of the hair meant a lot of […]
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Our Picks For TBA 2019
If this is your first TBA, welcome! Everyone has a first. Mine was in 2008, and I just followed someone I had a crush on for the entire eventโa fine approach. One of the reasons I love the Portland Institute for Contemporary Artโs (PICA) Time-Based Art Festival is that, year after year, they always strive […]
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TBA 2019 Starts Next Week! Here Are Our Picks!
Eiko Otake WILLIAM JOHNSTON If this is your first TBA, welcome! Everyone has a first. Mine was in 2008, and I just followed someone I had a crush on for the entire eventโa fine approach. One of the reasons I love the Portland Institute for Contemporary Artโs (PICA) Time-Based Art Festival is that, year after […]
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TBA: Sanity TV Puts Autumn Knight’s Audience on the Spot
Courtesy of the artist / PICA Stepping up to the door of Sanity TV, I was handed a chair. Once I entered that door, my chair and I were thrust into the world of a fictional daytime talk show. Autumn Knight performed as the talk show’s host, and she also guided people (and their chairs) […]
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TBA: Demian DinรฉYazhi’ Wrote “An Infected Sunset” For Indigenous Persons and People of Color
Courtesy of the artist / PICA On the anniversary of the World Trade Center tragedy, transdisciplinary artist Demian DinรฉYazhi’ read an ekphrastic, long-form poem about one of Americaโs deepest traumas: indigenous genocide. DinรฉYazhi’ explained that the poem, “An Infected Sunset,” was published by, designed by, written by, and performed for people of colorโcontrasting with other […]
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TBA: Next LVL Is a Site for Experimental Music and Radical Change
Serpentwithfeet Photo by Chris Freeman, Courtesy of Portland Institute for Contemporary Art It was a dance party. It was a concert. It was a place to support activism and non-profit work. Next LVLโs late night social justice social Four Ethers was all that and also yet another attempt by the TBA Festival at drafting and […]
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TBA: Utopian Visions Art Fair Lives Up to Its Utopian Ideals
Megan Harned Utopian Visions Art Fair is less of a place to purchase wares and more of an art installation meets street fair. It’s extremely interactive. The art intermingles, but every piece has enough space to exist in its own right. There were performances, videos, a silent auction, and moreโall happening simultaneously. Surrounded by so […]
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TBA: Raquel Andrรฉ Exposes More Than Just Her Collection of Lovers
Photo by Tiago de Jesus Brรกs, Courtesy of PICA The opening of A Collection of Lovers is clinical, almost cold: Against a clean white backdrop, wearing a white smock and blue leggings that evoke a doctorโs scrubs, Raquel Andrรฉ recites name after name, accompanied by a stethoscopic, thudding score. These are the names, we soon […]
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TBA: Sitting in the Dark, Laughing About Death at Andrew Schneider’s AFTER
Photo by Maria Baranova, Courtesy of PICA Last night’s performance of AFTER, played to a full house. The photographer we sent was not allowed to take photos, but I’m not sore about it because most of the play took place in near total darkness. Photography would have been next to impossible to capture and additional […]
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TBA: Tender Table and TBA Food Examine the Intersection of Food, Art and Community
Photo by Vy Hong Pham, Courtesy of PICA If you think about it, food is the ultimate time-based art (unless you count those McDonaldโs Big Macs that wonโt even grow mold). This year, the juggernaut that is the TBA Festival seeks to examine the intersection of food, art, and community with their TBA Food programing, […]
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TBA: We Went to All Three Some Styles of Masculinity and Here Are Our Notes
Photo by Chloe Foussianes, Courtesy of PICA On the first night of Rosh Hashanah and the two days preceding it, artist, activist, and writer Gregg Bordowitz delivered three personal, sermonical lectures at Reed Collegeโs Eliot Hall Chapel. The seriesโtitled Some Styles of Masculinityโspread masculinity (specifically Bordowitz’s) into three categories: Rock Star, Rabbi and Comedian. It […]
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TBA: Back to School with Professor Vag(inal Davis)
Nebojsฬa-Tabacฬk / Courtesy of TBA When confronted with something as prosaic as a lecture in the TBA lineup, particularly from a figure as iconoclastic as the legendary โdrag terroristโ Vaginal Davis, one could be forgiven for expecting an ambushโa smashed paradigm, a knife to the heart of convention, or any of the other violences that […]