Thurs . Sept 7 . 2 pm
PNCA Art History Professor, Isaac Peterson, leads a two day crash course in visual art criticism
Thurs . Sept 7 . 6:30 pm
Composer John King leads dozens of electric guitar players from Portland’s music community with a unique concert staged on the steps of Pioneer Courthouse Square. FREE!
Thurs . Sept 7 . 7:45 pm
The Willamette River snakes through Portland and creates movement, boundaries and divisions.
Thurs . Sept 7 . 8 pm
Following John King’s Extreme Guitar Orchestra performance in Pioneer Square, join us...
Thurs . Sept 7 . 9 pm
Formerly known as Adelaide, Small Sails is a music and film collective based in Portland...
Fri . Sept 8 . 12:30 pm
PICA's Guest Artistic Director Mark Russell and Visual Art Program Director, Kristan Kennedy, talk about this year’s program of artists and events, and answer questions from the audience.
Fri . Sept 8 . 2 pm
Fri . Sept 8 . 3 pm
Fri . Sept 8 . 7 pm
Drawing from recent experiences as NASA’s first artist-in-residence, Anderson uses song, stories, and original electronic music to suggest the symmetry between journeys in...
Yubiwa Hotel inscribes a mesmerizing dreamscape of Japanese pop culture, traditional Buddhist practice, and abstract movement as they explore what it means to be a modern Japanese woman.
Fri . Sept 8 . 9 pm
From the humble starting point of an artist’s flat and recording studio, Philippe Quesne and Vivarium Studio create a multi-tiered whimsical revue about flying and falling.
Fri . Sept 8 . 10 pm
The organized sound of Shaky Hands veers off the path right from the start.
Fri . Sept 8 . 11 pm
Scout Niblett reduces audiences around the world to jibbering wrecks with the sheer force of her performances.
Sat . Sept 9 . 9:30 am
Sat . Sept 9 . 12:30 pm
The artists of Vivarium Studio chat with PNCA Professors Linda Kliewer and David Eckard about their work and contemporary performance in France.
Sat . Sept 9 . 2 pm
Feelings of melancholy and intrigue permeate Billing’s films which represent changing societies and the emotions people lose touch with.
Sat . Sept 9 . 4 pm
...dreamy, metaphorical journeys that re-imagine culture and relationships through diverse time periods and works of art.
PICA will be holding an opening reception with various TBA Artists in attendance for this year’s TBA Festival Visual Art program.
Sat . Sept 9 . 7 pm
Sat . Sept 9 . 9 pm
Sat . Sept 9 . 10 pm
Universes is an ensemble of multi-disciplined writers and performers who fuse poetry, theater, jazz, hip-hop, politics, down home blues...
Sat . Sept 9 . 11 pm
6 DJs in 6 installations in 5 cities (including Berlin, Mexico City, and PS122 in NY) around the world come together to form one super-party.
Sun . Sept 10 . 12:30 pm
Ten short talks by invited guests about their direct or indirect experience with the American War in Vietnam. Stay for the duration or drop in. In conjunction with Harrell Fletcher’s exhibition, The American War.
Sun . Sept 10 . 1 pm
Greasy Kid Stuff & Indiekid Films with Plasmic Stallion. With music that refuses to draw the line between “kid” and “adult,” and visuals made by and for kids...
Sun . Sept 10 . 2 pm
...features an original score written and recorded by Laurie Anderson with additional vocals by singer/performer Antony (of Antony and the Johnsons).
Sun . Sept 10 . 4 pm
Linda Austin and Tahni Holt perform their solo adaptations of Room, individually commissioned and adapted as part of Hay’s Solo Performance Commissioning Project in Findhorn, Scotland.
Sun . Sept 10 . 9 pm
Sun . Sept 10 . 10 pm
Following a philosophy of collaboration and shared creative energy, Fleshtone developed the themes and characters of the electro-opera Fleshtonics before the eyes of...
Sun . Sept 10 . 11 pm
Neal Medlyn, the Paris Hilton of Performance Art...
Mon . Sept 11 . 9:30 am
Mon . Sept 11 . 12:30 pm
The focus of this panel is the development of new strategies to nurture and sustain the Creative City.
Mon . Sept 11 . 6 pm
Mark Russell will talk about his own experience of the history of performance and its future. Writer Matthew Stadler may ask some questions. We will see what happens.
Mon . Sept 11 . 8 pm
Kiki is a washed up chanteuse and Herb is her piano-battering, lifelong accompanist. Together forever they...
On September 11, the Oregon Department of Kick Ass presents an evening of films assembled by Vanessa Renwick which cast a meditative gaze on death in many forms.
Mon . Sept 11 . 10 pm
Portland’s Holcombe Waller has been writing, recording and performing music for the past 15 years...
Mon . Sept 11 . 11 pm
Mellman (of Kiki and Herb) and Medlyn (the Paris Hilton of Performance Art) wear fancy clothes and present a formal evening of R. Kelly songs.
Tues . Sept 12 . 9:30 am
Tues . Sept 12 . 12:30 pm
Artists Matthew Day Jackson, Sutapa Biswas, and Daniel Duford (PNCA), with Kristan Kennedy, and Stephanie Snyder.
Tues . Sept 12 . 3 pm
...interplay between local/historical tradition and contemporary movements and ideas...
Tues . Sept 12 . 6 pm
With a provocative brand of stagecraft wizardry, everyday gestures as simple as sleeping, walking, listening and waiting transform into a carnivalesque ballet of everyday life.
Tues . Sept 12 . 7 pm
Tues . Sept 12 . 8 pm
Somewhere between a band and a theatre group, with none of the hangups of either, Jollyship the Whiz-Bang is an irresistible multimedia force of nature!
Portland-based artist Mack McFarland teams up with film archivist Dennis Nyback to revamp our collective memory...
Part of an ongoing project to honor Spalding Gray’s memory and perhaps capture one of his elusive “perfect moments” in which doubt, distress, and angst yield momentarily to a broader epiphany.
Tues . Sept 12 . 10 pm
What you are reading is not mere propaganda...this is not a test! This is the REVOLUTION and YOU, my deviant darlings, are the Revolutionaries!
Tues . Sept 12 . 11 pm
Electro pop duo from Portland...
Wed . Sept 13 . 9:30 am
Wed . Sept 13 . 12:30 pm
David Eckard, with the performers of Stan’s Cafe, Red76, and MK Guth (PNCA), on innovative artistic practices that engage the urban environment.
Wed . Sept 13 . 2 pm
Wed . Sept 13 . 6 pm
Wed . Sept 13 . 7 pm
Wed . Sept 13 . 8 pm
Wed . Sept 13 . 10 pm
Characterized by whimsical themes, an eclectic rock sound, and unconvincing “period” dialogue between dubiously lovable seafaring puppets...
Wed . Sept 13 . 11 pm
Punk meets Prog in this three-piece band made up of...
Thurs . Sept 14 . 9:30 am
Thurs . Sept 14 . 12:30 pm
Mark Russell chats with Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper of Nature Theater of Oklahoma about their radical perspectives on contemporary theatre.
Thurs . Sept 14 . 6 pm
Flight of Mind marks the culmination of a five-year project tracking animal migration and devising choreographic systems in response.
Thurs . Sept 14 . 6:30 pm
Thurs . Sept 14 . 7 pm
Thurs . Sept 14 . 8 pm