The more things change, the more they stay the same—especially for a contemporary arts festival founded to highlight the most cutting-edge innovations in art. The Time-Based Art Festival—PICA’s flagship event for the past 20 years, known to most of us as TBA—is going through some changes this year.
As an experiment, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) has modified the 10-day whirlwind format of past years, opting instead for a more leisurely timeline of performances and exhibitions, thoughtfully scheduled from late August through November.
Dubbed Time-Released, the format is not guaranteed to be a new, permanent version of TBA, just something the arts organization is trying on. Brand new Executive Director Reuben Roqueñi described it as “an exploratory exercise in which PICA considers its presenting formats.”
