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TBA Sep 18 10:30 AM

TBA Review: Yelling Choir by Maxx Katz Commands Sonic Space

Freed from the confines of predictable harmony, riotous sound can stimulate emotional release.

Lindsay Costello

TBA Review: <em>Goner</em> Contains Some of the Best Booty-Shaking You'll Ever See

TBA Sep 13 4:07 PM

TBA Review: Goner Contains Some of the Best Booty-Shaking You'll Ever See

Is Malik Nashad Sharpe's choreography a means of torture, escape, or memory?

Suzette Smith

TBA Sep 10 1:05 PM

TBA Review: If You Want Solitude, Stay Far Away From Club Alive

Kye Grant's monthly, genre-fluid event blends participatory art and dance parties.

Lindsay Costello

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TBA Review: <em>Te Moana Meridian </em>Proposes Moving the Prime Meridian

Theater & Performance Sep 9 4:47 PM

TBA Review: Te Moana Meridian Proposes Moving the Prime Meridian

Sam Hamilton makes a solid proposal; Mere Tokorahi Boynton sings it in te reo Māori.

Suzette Smith

The <em>Mercury</em>'s Time-Based Art Festival Picks

Visual Art Sep 3 3:00 PM

The Mercury's Time-Based Art Festival Picks

Don't miss the dance parties, itty bitty music collages, and complete cacophonies—planning your TBA 2024 itinerary is an art form in itself.

Martha Daghlian

TBA Aug 7 10:30 AM

Portland's Favorite Experimental, Time Based Art Festival Bounces Back

On the TBA 2024 schedule: weird music, Black horror, and an opera about the prime meridian.

Martha Daghlian

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Theater & Performance Sep 7 7:00 AM

Portland's Time-Based Art Festival (TBA) Goes Time-Released

Martha Daghlian

TBA Review:<em> They Can Never Burn the Stars</em> Is TBA at Its Best

TBA Sep 16 1:00 PM

TBA Review: They Can Never Burn the Stars Is TBA at Its Best

Standing in certain locations turned viewers’ bodies into conduits for deep vibrating bass lines.

Martha Daghlian

TBA Sep 16 10:00 AM

TBA Review: Drag Clown Carla Rossi Clowns Harder

Clown Down 2: Clown Out of Water is a like a Jim Henson apocalpyse cult Greek tragedy.

Suzette Smith

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TBA Review: Adrienne Truscott Is the Centerpiece of <em>THIS</em>

TBA Sep 14 1:40 PM

TBA Review: Adrienne Truscott Is the Centerpiece of THIS

By the time Adrienne Truscott was on a scissor lift, sipping a glass of red wine, I had already given myself over to the dance.

McKinzie Smith

Four Hilarious Things That Happened at Takahiro Yamamoto's <em>NOTHINGBEING</em>

TBA Sep 10 2:07 PM

Four Hilarious Things That Happened at Takahiro Yamamoto's NOTHINGBEING

Consideration of pace and comfort on the Time Based Art Festival's second night.

Suzette Smith

TBA Sep 9 3:59 PM

San Cha Opens TBA with a Sold Out Show

The Los Angeles-based singer wowed with a slow baked layer cake set of emotion and drama.

Martha Daghlian

Fall Arts 2022 Sep 6 1:10 PM

Start Your Time-Based Art Engines

PICA's 2022 TBA festival schedule reveals themes of personal journeys, communal healing, cosmic connections, and sensory immersion.

Martha Daghlian

TBA Oct 1 11:53 AM

Arts Festival TBA Ends This Sunday—Don’t Miss These Two Stand-Out Experiences

Ashley Gifford

TBA Sep 22 1:01 PM

Photo Essay: Striking Scenes From PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival

Andrew Jankowski

TBA Sep 22 11:24 AM

Photo Essay: Striking Scenes From PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival

Andrew Jankowski

TBA Sep 21 1:01 PM

Our Favorite Virtual Events at the Time-Based Art Festival, Happening Now

Ashley Gifford

Read the Story That Inspired <i>Thin Skin</i>—Screening Saturday at TBA:20

Movies & TV Sep 11 2:00 PM

Read the Story That Inspired Thin Skin—Screening Saturday at TBA:20

Ahamefule J. Oluo

Theater & Performance Sep 11 10:20 AM

TBA:20 Begins This Weekend to Make Note of a Time We'll Never Forget

Suzette Smith

Ahamefule J. Oluo's <em>SUSAN</em> at TBA 2019: Wonderful Music, Not Enough <em>SUSAN</em>

Theater & Performance Sep 19 10:30 AM

Ahamefule J. Oluo's SUSAN at TBA 2019: Wonderful Music, Not Enough SUSAN

Suzette Smith

TBA 2019: Photos of Eiko Otake's <em>The Duet Project: Distance is Malleable</em>

Theater & Performance Sep 18 11:27 AM

TBA 2019: Photos of Eiko Otake's The Duet Project: Distance is Malleable

Briana Cerezo

<em>The Dope Elf</em> Review: TBA and Yale Union Join Forces to Bring Portland One Weird Play About Gentrification

Theater & Performance Sep 17 11:55 AM

The Dope Elf Review: TBA and Yale Union Join Forces to Bring Portland One Weird Play About Gentrification

TJ Acena

TBA 2019: With <em>The Want</em> Adam Linder Seems to Want to Prevent Us from Understanding

Theater & Performance Sep 14 1:28 PM

TBA 2019: With The Want Adam Linder Seems to Want to Prevent Us from Understanding

TJ Acena

Fin de Cinema Is a Late Night TBA Classic and Their Approach to <em>Black Orpheus</em> Was Perfect

Theater & Performance Sep 12 11:29 AM

Fin de Cinema Is a Late Night TBA Classic and Their Approach to Black Orpheus Was Perfect

Ben Coleman

At TBA 2019 Eiko Otake's <em>A Body in Places</em> Is Both a Dance and an Installation

Theater & Performance Sep 11 4:30 PM

At TBA 2019 Eiko Otake's A Body in Places Is Both a Dance and an Installation

Sebastian Zinn

Theater & Performance Sep 11 12:30 PM

TBA 2019 Late Night: The Back to School Kiki Celebrates and Educates

Andrew Jankowski

Theater & Performance Sep 10 12:30 PM

TBA 2019 at First Presbyterian: Kara-Lis Coverdale's Quiet Swells of Sound Demand Reverence

Robert Ham

Miguel Gutierrez’s <em>This Bridge Called My Ass</em> Seeks to Destroy the Relationship Between Bodies and Objects

Theater & Performance Sep 8 2:30 PM

Miguel Gutierrez’s This Bridge Called My Ass Seeks to Destroy the Relationship Between Bodies and Objects

Andrew Jankowski

Dystopian Cyberpunk Interpretive Dance With Notes of <em>Blade Runner</em>: Ligia Lewis' <em>Water Will (in Melody)</em> at TBA 2019

Theater & Performance Sep 8 11:16 AM

Dystopian Cyberpunk Interpretive Dance With Notes of Blade Runner: Ligia Lewis' Water Will (in Melody) at TBA 2019

Ben Coleman

TBA Sep 6 3:50 PM

TBA 2019: Photos of Cannupa Hanska Luger at C3: Initiative

Briana Cerezo

TBA Sep 6 2:30 PM

Noche Libre DJs at TBA 2019: There’s More to This Multi-Disciplinary Collective Than Meets the Ear

Sebastian Zinn

TBA Sep 5 4:30 PM

TBA Is TONIGHT!

Suzette Smith

TBA Sep 4 4:44 PM

Holland Andrews Talks Moving to NYC and Mixing Beauty and Dissonance On Their New Album

Robert Ham

Arts Aug 29 4:00 AM

Our Picks For TBA 2019

Robert Ham & Suzette Smith

Theater & Performance Aug 28 4:30 PM

TBA 2019 Starts Next Week! Here Are Our Picks!

Suzette Smith & Robert Ham

TBA: <em>Sanity TV</em> Puts Autumn Knight's Audience on the Spot

TBA Sep 20 10:01 AM

TBA: Sanity TV Puts Autumn Knight's Audience on the Spot

Joshua James Amberson

TBA Sep 19 4:38 PM

TBA: Demian DinéYazhi' Wrote "An Infected Sunset" For Indigenous Persons and People of Color

Andrew Jankowski

TBA Sep 18 4:00 PM

TBA: Next LVL Is a Site for Experimental Music and Radical Change

Andrew Jankowski

TBA Sep 16 2:00 PM

TBA: Utopian Visions Art Fair Lives Up to Its Utopian Ideals

Megan Grace Harned

TBA: Raquel André Exposes More Than Just Her <em>Collection of Lovers</em>

TBA Sep 16 1:00 PM

TBA: Raquel André Exposes More Than Just Her Collection of Lovers

Alison Hallett

TBA: Sitting in the Dark, Laughing About Death at Andrew Schneider's <em>AFTER</em>

TBA Sep 15 1:23 PM

TBA: Sitting in the Dark, Laughing About Death at Andrew Schneider's AFTER

Suzette Smith

TBA: <em>Tender Table</em> and TBA Food Examine the Intersection of Food, Art and Community

Food and Drink Sep 14 10:00 AM

TBA: Tender Table and TBA Food Examine the Intersection of Food, Art and Community

Andrea Damewood

TBA: We Went to All Three <em>Some Styles of Masculinity</em> and Here Are Our Notes

TBA Sep 13 5:00 PM

TBA: We Went to All Three Some Styles of Masculinity and Here Are Our Notes

Andrew Jankowski

Theater & Performance Sep 13 12:30 PM

TBA: Back to School with Professor Vag(inal Davis)

Alison Hallett

TBA: <em>PUSHIT!</em> Has Audiences Chasing Art (and NIC Kay) Down North Williams

Theater & Performance Sep 12 5:05 PM

TBA: PUSHIT! Has Audiences Chasing Art (and NIC Kay) Down North Williams

April MacKay

Theater & Performance Sep 12 12:00 PM

TBA: Legendary Isn't Shown the Love it Deserves

Santi Elijah Holley

TBA: Waxing Philosophical with Robin Deacon's <em>Vinyl Equations</em>

Theater & Performance Sep 11 4:15 PM

TBA: Waxing Philosophical with Robin Deacon's Vinyl Equations

Santi Elijah Holley

TBA: <em>The Beautiful Street</em> Presents Their Primer in Underrepresented Dance and Welcomes Everyone to the Floor

Theater & Performance Sep 9 4:45 PM

TBA: The Beautiful Street Presents Their Primer in Underrepresented Dance and Welcomes Everyone to the Floor

Andrew Jankowski

TBA: Powerful Dancer Stares at <em>ANTHEM</em>, Nothing Much There in <em>Soft Goods</em>

Theater & Performance Sep 9 2:08 PM

TBA: Powerful Dancer Stares at ANTHEM, Nothing Much There in Soft Goods

Robert Ham

TBA: <em>Unexploded Ordinances (UXO)</em> Selects a Council of Elders to Discuss Modern Anxieties

Theater & Performance Sep 9 12:22 PM

TBA: Unexploded Ordinances (UXO) Selects a Council of Elders to Discuss Modern Anxieties

Ben Coleman

TBA Sep 8 5:36 PM

TBA: Late Night TBA with S1 DJs, The Creatrix, Isabella and Portland's Decorum

Robert Ham

TBA: Kaneza Schaal's <em>Jack &</em> Mixes Theater, Stand-Up, Dance, Music, and Ritual

Theater & Performance Sep 8 3:01 PM

TBA: Kaneza Schaal's Jack & Mixes Theater, Stand-Up, Dance, Music, and Ritual

TJ Acena

TBA: Ann Hamilton's <i>Habitus</i> Is an Interactive Installation of Dwelling, Shelter, and Sanctuary

TBA Sep 7 2:31 PM

TBA: Ann Hamilton's Habitus Is an Interactive Installation of Dwelling, Shelter, and Sanctuary

Megan Grace Harned

Theater & Performance Sep 7 9:45 AM

The Fall Arts Guide's Picks for TBA: S1, Milka Djordjevich and More!

Suzette Smith

Theater & Performance Sep 3 1:30 PM

TBA on the Cheap: Five Affordable, Approachable TBA Picks!

Andrew Jankowski

Theater & Performance Aug 29 4:00 AM

All the Amazing Things at the 2018 Time-Based Arts Festival

LA Choreographer Milka Djordjevich, NY Video Arts Monologist Gregg Bordowitz, S1 DJs and Holocene’s Fin de Cinema

Suzette Smith

TBA Review: Erin Markey's <i>Boner Killer</i> Lives Up to the Hype

Theater & Performance Sep 18 3:15 PM

TBA Review: Erin Markey's Boner Killer Lives Up to the Hype

Noah Dunham

Theater & Performance Sep 18 1:01 PM

TBA Review: Half Straddle's Power Pop and Sisterhood

Noah Dunham

Theater & Performance Sep 17 1:15 PM

TBA Review: Morgan Bassichis Attempts to Update the Protest Song

Noah Dunham

Theater & Performance Sep 17 11:44 AM

TBA Review: Tanya Tagaq's Contemporary Throat-Singing Addresses Violence Against Native Women and the Earth

Kjerstin Johnson

TBA Review: Faye Driscoll's <i>Play</i> Will Leave You Scratching Your Head

Theater & Performance Sep 15 5:08 PM

TBA Review: Faye Driscoll's Play Will Leave You Scratching Your Head

Noah Dunham

Theater & Performance Sep 15 1:14 PM

TBA Review: Sounds et al. Puts on the Platonic Ideal of an Experimental Music Show

Robert Ham

TBA Review: <i>Notes of a Native Song</i>'s Lovingly Messy Tribute to James Baldwin

Theater & Performance Sep 14 10:30 AM

TBA Review: Notes of a Native Song's Lovingly Messy Tribute to James Baldwin

Robert Ham

Arts Sep 13 4:00 AM

TBA Is Happening

What We Saw and Loved in the First Week of the Performance Festival

Mercury Arts Staff

Theater & Performance Sep 12 6:15 PM

TBA Review: EMA Delivers An Unfuckwithable Rock Set

Suzette Smith

TBA Review: Crying Through Glitter at the Last <i>Critical Mascara</i>

Theater & Performance Sep 11 4:59 PM

TBA Review: Crying Through Glitter at the Last Critical Mascara

Megan Burbank

TBA Review: Spirituality and Resistance in Dohee Lee's <i>MU/巫</i>

Theater & Performance Sep 11 12:44 PM

TBA Review: Spirituality and Resistance in Dohee Lee's MU/巫

Kjerstin Johnson

TBA Review: <i>They, Themself, and Schmerm</i> Puts On a Delightful, Humorous Show About Abuse and Gender Transition

Theater & Performance Sep 10 6:44 PM

TBA Review: They, Themself, and Schmerm Puts On a Delightful, Humorous Show About Abuse and Gender Transition

Suzette Smith

Theater & Performance Sep 8 9:52 AM

TBA Review: Genesis P-Orridge Wages a Poignant War on the Gender Binary

Robert Ham

Theater & Performance Sep 6 11:12 AM

Oh Right, TBA Starts Tomorrow

Megan Burbank

TBA Review: Britt Hatzius’s <i>Blind Cinema</i> is Not For Child-Hating Roald Dahl Villains

TBA Sep 20 12:44 PM

TBA Review: Britt Hatzius’s Blind Cinema is Not For Child-Hating Roald Dahl Villains

Katie Pelletier

TBA Review: Grief and Humor in Mohamed El Khatib's <i>Finir en beauté</i>

TBA Sep 20 11:44 AM

TBA Review: Grief and Humor in Mohamed El Khatib's Finir en beauté

Katie Pelletier

TBA Sep 19 4:14 PM

TBA Reviews: She's In Parties Was Not Much Of A Party After All

Robert Ham

TBA Review: Watching Grown Men Juggle in Alessandro Sciarroni’s <em>UNTITLED_I will be there when you die</em>

TBA Sep 19 10:24 AM

TBA Review: Watching Grown Men Juggle in Alessandro Sciarroni’s UNTITLED_I will be there when you die

Noah Dunham

TBA Sep 16 5:45 PM

TBA Review: Pondering Desire With Allie Hankins and Her "Fuck Machines"

Suzette Smith

TBA Sep 16 3:10 PM

TBA Review: Amenta Abioto Nearly Achieves Transcendence

Robert Ham

TBA Preview: Repurposed Nostalgia in <i>Mechanics Laid Bare </i>

TBA Sep 15 6:03 PM

TBA Preview: Repurposed Nostalgia in Mechanics Laid Bare

Suzette Smith

TBA Sep 15 4:09 PM

TBA Review: The Effervescent Spirit of AU and the Camas High School Choir

Robert Ham

TBA Review: Unpacking “Otherness” in Carlos Motta’s <em>Deseos / رغبات </em>

Movies & TV Sep 15 1:59 PM

TBA Review: Unpacking “Otherness” in Carlos Motta’s Deseos / رغبات

Noah Dunham

TBA Sep 14 4:22 PM

TBA Review: Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble's Stealthy Mindfulness and Toxic Masculinity

Megan Burbank

TBA Review: Disco Nostalgia and Wildwood Fantasies in Meg Wolfe's <i>New Faithful Disco</i>

TBA Sep 13 3:46 PM

TBA Review: Disco Nostalgia and Wildwood Fantasies in Meg Wolfe's New Faithful Disco

Katie Pelletier

TBA Review: When Watching One Part of Morgan Thorson’s <i>Still Life</i>, Another Part Passes You By

TBA Sep 13 10:23 AM

TBA Review: When Watching One Part of Morgan Thorson’s Still Life, Another Part Passes You By

Suzette Smith

TBA Review: Narcissister’s Sublime, <i>Ab Fab</i>-Approved Spectacle

TBA Sep 12 11:04 AM

TBA Review: Narcissister’s Sublime, Ab Fab-Approved Spectacle

Katie Pelletier

Artsy Sep 9 10:44 AM

TBA is Here! Here's What You Need to Know.

Megan Burbank

TBA Sep 5 11:24 AM

At This Year’s Time-Based Art Festival, the Stakes Will Be Higher

Megan Burbank

TBA Sep 24 1:13 PM

Final Thoughts on TBA 2015, Plus Art It's Not Too Late to See!

Megan Burbank

TBA Sep 24 11:14 AM

Final Thoughts on TBA 2015, Plus Art It's Not Too Late to See!

Megan Burbank

The Confines of Gender (and Dance) in Radhouane El Meddeb’s <i>Au temps où les arabes dansaient</i>

TBA Sep 23 3:25 PM

The Confines of Gender (and Dance) in Radhouane El Meddeb’s Au temps où les arabes dansaient

Katie Pelletier

The Confines of Gender in Radhouane El Meddeb’s <i>Au temps où les arabes dansaient</i>

TBA Sep 23 3:20 PM

The Confines of Gender in Radhouane El Meddeb’s Au temps où les arabes dansaient

Katie Pelletier

Artsy Sep 23 10:14 AM

Between Satire and Sincerity: Michelle Ellsworth's Briefing on the End of Men

Katie Pelletier

TBA Sep 22 4:14 PM

Between Satire and Sincerity: Michelle Ellsworth's Briefing on the End of Men

Katie Pelletier

The Absurd Joy of French Metalheads and a Touring Amusement Park in <i>La Mélancolie des Dragons</i>

Theater & Performance Sep 22 3:16 PM

The Absurd Joy of French Metalheads and a Touring Amusement Park in La Mélancolie des Dragons

Thomas Alexander Ross

TBA Sep 22 3:13 PM

The Absurd Joy of French Metalheads and a Touring Amusement Park in La Mélancolie des Dragons

Thomas Ross

Back to Nature with <i>Night Tripper</i>'s Forest Ritual

Artsy Sep 21 4:16 PM

Back to Nature with Night Tripper's Forest Ritual

Noah Dunham

Back to Nature with <i>Night Tripper</i>

TBA Sep 21 4:06 PM

Back to Nature with Night Tripper

Noah Dunham

Subverting Cultural Expectations with Purposeful Confusion in Dana Michel's <i>Yellow Towel</i>

Artsy Sep 21 11:59 AM

Subverting Cultural Expectations with Purposeful Confusion in Dana Michel's Yellow Towel

Noah Dunham

Artsy Sep 21 11:14 AM

Dynasty Handbag's Delusions and Grandeur

Jenna Lechner

TBA Sep 20 9:51 AM

Subverting Cultural Expectations with Purposeful Confusion in Dana Michel's Yellow Towel

Noah Dunham

TBA Sep 19 9:04 AM

Dynasty Handbag's Delusions and Grandeur

Jenna Lechner

B-Boys Deconstruct Gender in Amy O'Neal's <i>Opposing Forces</i>

Artsy Sep 18 4:18 PM

B-Boys Deconstruct Gender in Amy O'Neal's Opposing Forces

Megan Burbank

TBA

Freed from the confines of predictable harmony, riotous sound can stimulate emotional release.

Is Malik Nashad Sharpe's choreography a means of torture, escape, or memory?

Kye Grant's monthly, genre-fluid event blends participatory art and dance parties.

Sam Hamilton makes a solid proposal; Mere Tokorahi Boynton sings it in te reo Māori.

Don't miss the dance parties, itty bitty music collages, and complete cacophonies—planning your TBA 2024 itinerary is an art form in itself.

On the TBA 2024 schedule: weird music, Black horror, and an opera about the prime meridian.

Standing in certain locations turned viewers’ bodies into conduits for deep vibrating bass lines.

Clown Down 2: Clown Out of Water is a like a Jim Henson apocalpyse cult Greek tragedy.

By the time Adrienne Truscott was on a scissor lift, sipping a glass of red wine, I had already given myself over to the dance.

Consideration of pace and comfort on the Time Based Art Festival's second night.

The Los Angeles-based singer wowed with a slow baked layer cake set of emotion and drama.

PICA's 2022 TBA festival schedule reveals themes of personal journeys, communal healing, cosmic connections, and sensory immersion.

LA Choreographer Milka Djordjevich, NY Video Arts Monologist Gregg Bordowitz, S1 DJs and Holocene’s Fin de Cinema

What We Saw and Loved in the First Week of the Performance Festival

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