One of the coolest things happening at the Works is the ongoing project by Justin Gorman. Gorman creates large signs of painted text that he erects in various city locales. They are a bit like temporary, truth-searching billboards, and they’ll be popping up around Portland over the next week. Instead of creating his signs in […]
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TBA Opening Night at the Works
Last night a few hundred people convened at PNCA, some dressed in white, some carrying blank white signs, and walked across the Broadway Bridge to Leftbank to join the line of people waiting to get into the Works. It was a surreal-looking procession, I imagine, but I was too excited for music and fun and […]
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Ready for TBA
There are some amazing things coming up during the TBA festival. I’m excited about Reggie Watts, and Antony. And I’m cautiously optimistic feeling hopeful about Tiago Guedes and Vivarium Studio. If you’re not normally the type to go in for these artsy-fartsy type things, I’d encourage you to get a TBA brochure and take a […]
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Ready for TBA
There are some amazing things coming up during the TBA festival. I’m excited about Reggie Watts, and Antony. And I’m cautiously optimistic feeling hopeful about Tiago Guedes and Vivarium Studio. If you’re not normally the type to go in for these artsy-fartsy type things, I’d encourage you to get a TBA brochure and take a […]
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TBA:08 Starts Tonight!
PICA‘s Time-Based Art festival kicks off tonight with a procession based on choreographer Anna Halprin’s 1968 Blank Placard Happening. Halprin was the wife of architect Lawrence Halprin, who designed several Portland fountain (including the Keller); her work reputedly influenced his, and the couple are a recurring theme in this year’s festival. To participate in tonight’s […]
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TBA:08 Starts Tonight!
PICA‘s Time-Based Art festival kicks off tonight with a procession based on choreographer Anna Halprin’s 1968 Blank Placard Happening. Halprin was the wife of architect Lawrence Halprin, who designed several Portland fountain (including the Keller); her work reputedly influenced his, and the couple are a recurring theme in this year’s festival. To participate in tonight’s […]
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The Works @ Leftbank: In Utero
Backside of the WorksThe thing I love about the Works—TBA’s interim late night performance space, cocktail lounge, and cafe—is that it generally has the smell of cut wood and fresh drywall. I missed that last year, when the Works inhabited the Wonder. This year, however, BOORA architects (who’ve designed three of the previous Works spaces) […]
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Neighborhood Projects
When our TBA issue went to print, there was little information to be found about what to expect from Neighborhood Projects, a group made up of students in PSU’s art and social practice masters program. (As of our press date, the only entry on their Google calendar was for something called “Drinking Beer with Friends.”) […]
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Welcome to the Mercury‘s TBA:08 blog!
For the second year in a row, we’re pleased to present the Mercury‘s TBA blog, your one-stop source for all things TBA. Check back often for news, updates, interviews with TBA artists, a sneak-peek behind the scenes at the Works and, of course, comprehensive coverage of all TBA events beginning Sept 4.
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Art Spark Tonight
Every now and then I like to put my BA in Trophy Wifeism Liberal Arts to good use—you know, use “poststructuralism” in a sentence, that kinda shit. The monthly Art Spark parties are a fine place to do so: Every third Thursday, art boosters, movers, shakers, etc. convene on the bar at the Living Room […]
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Last TBA Orientation Tonight!
Just a reminder that tonight is your last chance to sign up to volunteer for PICA’s Time-Based Art festival (and earn free tickets and passes in the process): Orientations are held in Room 201 at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA): 1241 NW Johnson, Portland, Oregon 97209. Enter building on the corner of NW 13th […]