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Yearly Archives: 2005
Ryan McGinness @ the PICA
Posted by Levi Hanes It has been a couple of weeks since the presentation/lecture. No real… Continue Reading
ARTFORUM HEARTS TBA!
I wish wish wish wish – the new issue of ARTFORUM were available online, becuase it… Continue Reading
PORT on McGinness
The debate is on… is there a winner ? a loser? a white flag? a tie?… Continue Reading
Ryan McGinness has landed.
Ryan McGinness landed in PDX mere moments ago. Exhausted from his cross country jaunt, and surviving… Continue Reading
TBA:05 PHOTOS
We are slowly but surely culling through massive amounts of TBA:05 Photos, not only did PICA’s… Continue Reading
Looking for your Twin in Melbourne
Posted by Erin Boberg Performance Art Program Director / Co-Curator TBA Festival, PICA When traveling, you… Continue Reading
Portrait(s) of our artists in Melbourne
Reports from visitors to Kristy Edmunds’ first Melbourne International Arts Festivalare floating in- Sam Adams has… Continue Reading
Lone Twin’s “Sledgehammer Songs”
Posted by Rob McMahon Note: This piece was created as part of the Kamikaze Writing Workshop… Continue Reading
“Rise:Rose,” mesmerizing Dance of Darkness, premieres at Lincoln Hall
This review was written in the “Kamikaze Writing Workshop” that Elizabeth Zimmer of “The Village Voice”… Continue Reading
Insects Present at TBA
(a list, posted by Amber Bell) Aphids locust spider bee butterfly beetle (Slow Dance Recyttal) cicada… Continue Reading
Aura, a brilliant collaboration, seduces with darkness and beauty
“I want you to imagine that you are here. So we can be together. That is my goal, to be with you. It is all about you. This is what happens in my imagination about you.”
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Save The Last Dance For Me: Pantoums Villanelles and Sestinas Or I Am Not Done With You Yet Part Two
Lone Twin at Corberry Press on Sunday Evening –posted by Lisa Radon Very quickly: I have… Continue Reading
Play Or I Am Not Done With You Yet, Part One
From the Show + Tell to DJ Spooky to the M.O.S.T. to Alain Buffard and Anna… Continue Reading
How We Investigate
posted by Amber Bell Sometimes, artists make work purely about themselves. Sometimes, artists make work essentially… Continue Reading
The Swifts, Lone Twin, and Always Coming Back to the Same Thing
posted by Amber Bell My friend and I were lying on the hillside at Chapman School,… Continue Reading
pleasing portlander ponderings
how we investigate – short films/videos/power point presentation…curated by morgan currie posted by laura becker i… Continue Reading
Titán at the Dada ball
Photos / text by Patrick Sullivan These guys rocked, and sort of sucked. The guitarist stripped… Continue Reading
GROUP HUG
Kota Yamazaki Fluid hug-hug at Lincoln Hall (Thursday, Sept. 15) [posted by Tim DuRoche] Note: the… Continue Reading
“A brief conceptual sidebar before we go on. . .it’s concerning positive and negative space.”
[posted by Tim DuRoche] Note: the following was written as part of Village Voice critic Elizabeth… Continue Reading
“Dadaismus ist nicht Tod! Wo ist mein Bier?” vs. ART
[posted by Tim DuRoche] Amid the thumpa-thumpa, chugga-chugga, and hubba-hubba of last night’s Dada Ball (in… Continue Reading
“Without your space helmet, Dave, you’re going to find that rather difficult.”
[posted by Tim DuRoche] For three days last week the LED-reading at the Streetcar stop at… Continue Reading
Intimate Antony (and the Johnsons)
Posted by Annie Robb I am normally the type of person who, when told to arrive… Continue Reading
On NOT Seeing Antony and the Johnsons
posted by Kirsten Collins Rushing over to The Works directly after Lone Twin, I was distraught… Continue Reading
Rosanna Gamson-World Wide/Contradanza-Holy Shit!!
Posted by Rob McMahon Visually stunning, Rosanna Gamson’s Aura plays one last time at the Newmark… Continue Reading
Being Here Now
Being Here Now: Alternative Strategies for Documentation PNCA –posted by Lisa Radon This was the most… Continue Reading
Tides, Laundry … Fluid Hug Hug
posted by Amber Bell The second Kota Yamazaki appeared onstage, I was stunned by his movements…. Continue Reading
GO THERE: SEE SARAH RUDINOFF’S LAST PERFORMANCE (SUNDAY)
posted by Laura Moulton The last performance of “Go There” is tonight at 7 p.m. at… Continue Reading
Talking, and thinking, talking thinking…
posted by Amber Bell Photos by Patrick Sullivan I wasn’t so sure right at first. In… Continue Reading
Thoughts on Black identity and nationalism
DJ Spooky–Friday Sept 9 Daniel Bernard Roumain–Saturday Sept 10 Faustin Linyekula–Monday Sept 12 posted by Gavin… Continue Reading
The Best Thing I’ve Seen
Lone Twin Thursday–Sept 15 posted by Gavin Shettler I can’t say enough great things about Gregg… Continue Reading
The Worst Thing I’ve Seen
Aphids Thursday–Sept 15 posted by Gavin Shettler This was awful. I was terribly bored. I aliments… Continue Reading
Carl Hancock Rux: Mycenaean
Posted by Levi Hanes “Mycenaean” is a work in progress. For the most part that forgives… Continue Reading
Brontosaurus-Sized Bone To Pick, But Anyway
Brontosaurus-Sized Bone To Pick, But Anyway …or DADA does not equal Surrealism I know there is… Continue Reading
Everything does sound better with a British accent- Part 2 (Lone Twin)
Lone Twin: Sledgehammer Songs: Friday September 16, 2005 8:30pm Everything does sound better with a British… Continue Reading
Absolutely amazing- Victoria Hanna
Victoria Hanna- The Works- September 14 2005 10pm Absolutely amazing- Victoria Hanna Catie O’Keefe She is… Continue Reading
Has this cat had too much cat-nip?- Meow Meow
Meow Meow- My mouth is a Wonder, etc . . .Wednesday September 14 2005 9pm Has… Continue Reading
How heavy are My thoughts? – The truth of it all!
Ivana Müller- How Heavy are My Thoughts? Wednesday September 14 6pm How heavy are My thoughts?… Continue Reading
Show + Tell workshop
Show + Tell: Dance to the Music Conduit, Tuesday –Lisa Radon Billed as a workshop, run… Continue Reading
Ladies of the Lake
Thursday night at The Works posted by Kirsten Collins Ladies of the lake Wade over wade… Continue Reading
Oh, Mostlandia!
posted by Amber Bell At the Mostlandian Embassy, I filed a Love and Friendship index form…. Continue Reading
Sung Hwan Kim & Nina Yuen: An Imaginary Relationship with Ourselves
Posted by Levi Hanes I had one of those lovely moments yesterday when viewing the creation… Continue Reading
Aphids Skin Quartet
Posted by Levi Hanes The Aphid’s show was a concept work based on the CIA’s categories… Continue Reading
Kota Yamazaki Fluid hug-hug is liquid love
Posted by Rob McMahon Not since TBA year one have I seen artistry of Kota Yamazaki’s… Continue Reading
In the Backseat with Tracy + the Plastics
posted by Amber Bell I went to The Works to see Tracy + the Plastics. I… Continue Reading
BIG, HEAVY, FAST: DANCING WITH ROSANNA GAMSON
posted by Laura Moulton She’s personable, casual and funny, cracking jokes and occasionally poking fun at… Continue Reading
Pinkk – go tonight 7pm-11pm at Office (photos)
Photography by Serena Davidson… Continue Reading
Fact or Fiction Photos
Fact or Fiction The Works Photography by Serena Davidson… Continue Reading
the journey’s always quicker on the way back – lonetwin
posted by laura becker “that’s how all dramas end- with some kind of sweating some kind… Continue Reading
Ladies of the Lake
“Are you mechanical? Because you don’t seem mechanical.”
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WC4 – Wally Cardona – photography
Photography by Serena Davidson… Continue Reading
White Rainbow – Photography
White Rainbow Full-Spectrum Vibrational Healing Center Photography by Serena Davidson… Continue Reading
on the road and/or “in the mind”
noontime chat – on the road: outdoor and mobile works which featured a panel of “on… Continue Reading
Wally Cardona (WC4) Photos
Photography by Serena Davidson… Continue Reading
VICTORIA HANNA, MY HEART IS AWAKE
Posted by Annie Robb Movie by Patrick Sullivan If you weren’t there to see it, you… Continue Reading
~*~Meow Meow, 1,2, 40 pairs of underwear~*~
Meow Meow puts on a fabulous show. There is another one Thursday, go see it if… Continue Reading
~*~The Works is the Place to Be~*~
If you haven’t been going to The Works after hours you’ve been missing out on half… Continue Reading
Neal Medlyn – The Works, 9/12/05
I don’t expect anything to top Neal’s unicorn felatio surprise at this year’s TBA.
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~*~Faustin Linyekula, or the DJ Needs a Monitor~*~
I want to start this blog by saying that Faustin is the only show I’ve seen… Continue Reading
~*~Locust, or Beat Boxing Finally Makes Its Dance Debut~*~
photo credit: serenadavidson.com First and foremost: The theatre is impossible to find. The directions on mapquest… Continue Reading
ON NOT DANCING WITH WALLY CARDONA
posted by Laura Moulton We won’t be dancing today, Cardona said when he entered the studio… Continue Reading
Everywhere: all at once forever. Wally Cardona + Ethel
I found that for myself the world that Wally build was representative of a city I left ten years ago and the one I live in now, a maze, an architectural wonderland, a lonely field, a crowded space. It was this city that the dancers carefully moved through, watched surround and confound them eventually surviving its destruction – either from psychic forces or physical force, and contributed to its new beginning one beam at a time.
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wc4 with ethel – everywhere
posted by laura becker so…you know that samuel beckett play, where the audience doesn’t know what… Continue Reading
Vaux’s Swifts, Allen Johnson, and life
posted by Rob McMahon Allen Johnson – photo credit: serenadavidson.com According to the Audubon Society, this… Continue Reading
The Levity of Ivana Muller
Posted by Annie Robb Photo by Patrick Sullivan You probably know by now, she did not… Continue Reading
Vladmaster: Actaeon at Home
Vladmaster: Actaeon at Home The Works, Saturday evening last –posted by Lisa Radon photo credit: serenadavidson.com… Continue Reading
Wally Cardona Quartet with Ethel: Everywhere
posted by Kirsten Collins I wanted so badly for Everywhere to be good. For it to… Continue Reading
Faustin Linyekula Workshop
by mel favara The class was supposed to have maxed out at twelve participants, but another… Continue Reading
Kenny Mellman Presents: I’ve Got a Bulletproof Heart
Posted by Levi Hanes Photos by Patrick Sullivan Kenny Mellman played his heart out on Monday… Continue Reading
Faustin Linyekula/Les Studios Kabako
Posted by Levi Hanes Faustin Linyekula started the performance before the house lights went down or… Continue Reading