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Blog: TBA
Critical Mascara
Subtitled “A Post-Realness Drag Ball,” Critical Mascara celebrated its fifth and final presentation at Time-Based Art on Saturday night with an expansive queer showcase of vogue, drag, and fashion…. Continue Reading
Dead Thoroughbred
What if TBA were a space for rage? Dead Thoroughbred (Portland artists sidony o’neal and keyon gaskin) propose the question through a beautifully gestural performance in PICA’s newly minted annex…. Continue Reading
9 Notes from 4 days of art experiences at TBA 2017
TBA 2017 gave me 10 to 14 hours of art experiences each day. I drank it up. Here are a few thoughts or observations I had along the way…. Continue Reading
Traveling Light – An Evening With Ivo Dimchev
Ivo Dimchev’s “Songs from my Shows” radicalizes the notion of the archetypal cabaret, presenting a gorgeous… Continue Reading
Interview: Kemi Adeyemi and Sidony O’Neal
This interview was conducted after TBA:16 Guest Scholar Kemi Adeyemi and Sidony O’Neal sat on the… Continue Reading
Interview: Dylan Mira In Conversation With Ashley Stull Meyers
Tonight is Dylan Mira’s last performance at TBA. Don’t miss her at 8:30 PM tonight at… Continue Reading
Interview: Alessandro Sciarroni in conversation with Jesse Hewit
Last year at TBA, I had a big old storm of a time with Alessandro Sciarroni’s… Continue Reading
Maya Mikdashi on Carlos Motta’s Deseos / رغبات
Deseos / رغبات was presented on Monday, September 12, 2016 at the Hollywood Theatre as part… Continue Reading
Interview: Allie Hankins with Jesse Hewit
Allie Hankins is a friend of mine. I’ve tried to recall the moment when we first… Continue Reading
TBA Interview: Sampada Aranke with Ashley Stull Meyers
Ashley Stull Meyers: I want to ask you first about “Style Wars: Shades of Cool”, the… Continue Reading
Interview: A.K. Burns with Jesse Hewit
I met A.K. in New York in 2012 because she was a guest artist in a… Continue Reading
Nothing Is Actually Okay…(and other reflections on TBA:15)
Almost two weeks ago, I was up in Portland for 4 days for TBA 15. I… Continue Reading
The grit and taste and smell and sound and delight
Cinnamon (right? or was it nutmeg?) flying through the air. Repeated gestures at the corner of… Continue Reading
The dead dads of the Winningstad
Early Morning Opera & Preparation for the Obsolescence of the Y Chromosome: Two very different performances… Continue Reading
Theatre of the Melancholy Volkswagen
Imagine a troupe of earnest and childlike French theatre philosophers decide to form a heavy metal… Continue Reading
broken sentences and opaque spaces as political resistance
incomplete thoughts on broken sentences and opaque spaces as political resistance At the Gloves Off panel… Continue Reading
Church for the New Believers: Requiem Mass: LGBT
The TBA festival was launched in 2002, a few months after I moved to Portland,… Continue Reading
Please tell me what to do
keyon gaskin – its not a thing At first when we arrive he puts himself at… Continue Reading
Audience Response to Super Nature by BodyCartography at TBA:14
Typically, my favorite parts of a dance performance are the costumes, the sleek bodies and the… Continue Reading
sexy deconstructed
Double feature, Death of the Pole Dancer and Macho Dancer by Eisa Jocson I get great… Continue Reading
Making A Living and ‘A Living Documentary’
I’m so glad that I read Kate Sanderson Holly’s post about Cynthia Hopkins’ A Living Documentary… Continue Reading
Dear Cynthia Hopkins
Dear Cynthia Hopkins, You may not remember this but I met you once in Gary Grundei’s… Continue Reading
TBA INTERVIEW: CLARE CROFT WITH EISA JOCSON
Eisa Jocson speaks about gender performativity, choreographing the gaze, and much more in an interview… Continue Reading
TBA Interview: Clare Croft with Luke George
Luke George and I sat down face-to-face (via Skype) to discuss his work, Not About Face, fake belief, and how to keep dancing while being watched by an audience of people looking at you through long, white shrouds…. Continue Reading
TBA Interview: Clare Croft with BodyCartography Project
Over the course of the TBA:14 festival, 400 people will have the opportunity to be one-on-one with the members of BodyCartography in the intimate performance installation, Super Nature. I recently talked about the installation with BodyCartography founders, Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad. Two-on-one talking about one-on-one.
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Some lingering reflections
Collected from audience interviews by Ariana Jacob “It was about relationships. Like with Linda Austen, she… Continue Reading
Noticing repetition aka Some initial themes
Collected from audience interviews conducted by Ariana Jacob “Remixing of the real.” “The threat of failure…. Continue Reading
Sense Memory Snacks: Smorgasbord
Collected from audience interviews conducted by Ariana Jacob Seeing: “A massive yellow wig: incredibly massive, four… Continue Reading
Nacera Belaza: Dancing the Mind
by Satya Byock If Peace could dance, it took the stage in act one of Nacera… Continue Reading
Tamsk with Alex Mackin Dolan
by Satya Byock If Alex Mackin Dolan’s exhibit Cycle, Sun, Limit were open during The Works performances, I’d… Continue Reading
After Antigone, Jr.: An Interview with Trajal Harrell
Lacy M. Johnson interviews Trajal Harrell over email in the days after the September 15 performance… Continue Reading
Identifying with Identify Yourself
By Olivia Mitchell It seems very appropriate to be writing a blog post about Identify Yourself,… Continue Reading
Trajal Harrell: Of course it was intentional.
by Satya Byock After the show, my friend walked up to him and asked about the… Continue Reading
El Año Que Nací: A Play in Documentary
by Satya Byock I am running late from a meeting, but I am here. I join friends… Continue Reading
Lola Arias: El año en que nací / The Year I Was Born
by Lacy M. Johnson [photo courtesy of David Alarcón] In El año en que nací /… Continue Reading
TRAJAL HARRELL’S (EMAIL) JOURNEY FROM JUDSON TO HARLEM
Trajal Harrell Interviewed by Ariel Osterweis over email in early September for PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival…. Continue Reading
Apparitional Tools
Artist Karen Sherman Interviewed by Ariel Osterweis over email in early September for PICA’s Time-Based Art… Continue Reading
In the Dark
Reposted from Third Angle New Music. Catch their performance of In the Dark at TBA:13, September 17, 18,… Continue Reading
Inside Spaces, Spaces Inside
Choreographer Nacera Belaza Interviewed by Ariel Osterweis, August 27 for PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival. On a… Continue Reading
TBA SUMMER PLAYLIST
TBA sounds like a joyful noise. TBA sounds like new arrangements. TBA sounds like teen spirit…. Continue Reading
GET CRITICAL: COMPETE IN TBA DRAG BALL
Kaj-anne Pepper and Chanticleer Tru INVITE YOU TO COMPETE IN CRITICAL MASCARA: “A Post-Realness Drag Ball”… Continue Reading
Bookmarks, Chapter 6
Irregular updates on the comings-and-goings of our many, many alumni artists (and a few random thoughts… Continue Reading
The Hitchhiker
Back in June, a cohort of PICA staff, board members, and artist traveled to the Airlie… Continue Reading
Questions for the City
Last week, a posse of PICA staff, board members, and artist traveled to the Airlie Center… Continue Reading
Bookmarks, chapter 4
Irregular updates on the comings-and-goings of our many, many alumni artists. The Crosscut profiled Mike Daisey… Continue Reading
Bookmarks, chapter 3
Irregular updates on the comings-and-goings of our many, many alumni artists. Jaamil Olawale Kosoko interviewed TBA:12… Continue Reading
water music
Claudia Meza Water White Box Gallery, University of Oregon, Portland Post and photos by Nicole Leaper… Continue Reading
Strike our debt/This is not a piece about gratitude
By Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen It’s nice when there is a collision between your… Continue Reading
The Office
We never complain, but my coworkers and I can never agree on the temperature in our… Continue Reading
Sorry Bucky
By Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen “Why does everyone look so glum?” Someone asked as… Continue Reading
second city
Exhibit A: Portland 1 For 10 days each year, there are two Portlands at once, as… Continue Reading
Being the Audience
Who are we, the audience, to the piece and to each other? 1.At the beginning of… Continue Reading
In-between things
By Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen Every year I find myself treating the festival as… Continue Reading
BUILDING THE WORKS
This year—our final one occupying Washington High School—we’ve switched things up a bit for our beer… Continue Reading
TBA SURVIVAL KITS
A few years ago, then-Mercury writer Patrick Alan Coleman shared his packing list for a TBA… Continue Reading
TBA FLIGHTS: LOCAL LOVE
To help you navigate this year’s Festival, we’ll be sharing regular posts on some of the “through-lines”… Continue Reading
FOOD THAT MAKES YOU GO (H)MMM
This year’s TBA will be tastier than ever, thanks to the hard work of the inimitable… Continue Reading
TBA FLIGHTS: UNCOMMON SOUNDS
To help you navigate this year’s Festival, we’ll be sharing regular posts on some of the “through-lines”… Continue Reading
TBA FLIGHTS: WHAT FOURTH WALL?
To help you navigate this year’s Festival, we’ll be sharing regular posts on some of the “through-lines”… Continue Reading
TBA FLIGHTS: JUST GOTTA DANCE
To help you navigate this year’s Festival, we’ll be sharing regular posts on some of the “through-lines”… Continue Reading
TBA FLIGHTS: TAKE A STAND
To help you navigate this year’s Festival, we’ll be sharing regular posts on some of the… Continue Reading
TBA FLIGHTS: BEYOND THE SCREEN
To help you navigate this year’s Festival, we’ll be sharing regular posts on some of the… Continue Reading
TBA FLIGHTS: GLOBE TROTTER
To help you navigate this year’s Festival, we’ll be sharing regular posts on some of the… Continue Reading
A GUIDE TO THE GUIDEBOOK
Seeing as this year marks the 10th edition of the TBA Festival, we’ve developed a quite… Continue Reading