Thurs . Sept 4 . 8 pm
8:30 pm Anna Halprin Blank Placard Happening meet in PNCA Commons 9:00 pm Opening Night at THE WORKS at Leftbank including TBA:08 ON SIGHT
Thurs . Sept 4 . 8:30 pm
Join in a reenactment of Blank Placard Happening, a performance by pioneering artist Anna Halprin, originally performed by the San Fransicso Dancer’s Workshop in 1968.
Thurs . Sept 4 . 9 pm
Join us at Leftbank to open the 2008 TBA Festival’s visual art offerings, stay for late night music and other happenings upstairs at THE WORKS.
Thurs . Sept 4 . 9:30 pm
Drop in or stay all night for FREE Opening Night performances by Deelay Ceelay, Flash Choir and DJ Acidophilus.
Fri . Sept 5 . 12:30 pm
TBA:08 Artistic Staff Mark Russell, Erin Boberg Doughton, and Kristan Kennedy discuss the artists and ideas in TBA:08.
For TBA:08, Khris Soden invites you to join him on a historical and cultural walking tour of the city core of Tilburg, and you won’t even need to purchase a plane ticket.
Fri . Sept 5 . 2:30 pm
Fri . Sept 5 . 3 pm
Linda Wysong is a cross-disciplinary artist who works in social practice performance, public art and installation.
Fri . Sept 5 . 4:30 pm
Sojourn blends performance and dialogue in this site-responsive participatory performance set in the heart of Portland’s emerging South Waterfront district.
Fri . Sept 5 . 6:30 pm
Full of vivid, cinematic characters, Geisha is a sensual duet featuring Saar Harari and Jye-Hwei Lin, accompanied by spoken and sung text by Lee Sher.
A staple of the international performance scene, Watts received the 2006 Andy Kaufman Award for comedic performance.
Fri . Sept 5 . 8:30 pm
Winners of Great Britain’s 2005 Mercury Prize, Antony and the Johnsons join the Oregon Symphony for a one-of-a-kind concert. Co-presented with the Oregon Symphony.
Fri . Sept 5 . 10:30 pm
A faithful re-creaton of Beyonce’s 2007 hit concert DVD, The Beyonce Experience Live!, replete with back-up dancers and special guest appearances.
Fri . Sept 5 . 11 pm
With the release of his newest album, Ice Rod tells tales of psycho wards, feminist roommates, golden showers, camera phones, orgasms and glaucoma.
Sat . Sept 6 . 10 am
In this workshop we will use practical exercises and discussion to explore the role of the audience in the creation of text and performance.
Sat . Sept 6 . 12 pm
LeeSaar works with instincts, sensations and exploding power, keeping the dance real, extreme, specific and alive in a workshop influenced by the Gaga Training of Naharin.
Sat . Sept 6 . 12:30 pm
Sojourn Theatre's Michael Rohd, and social practice artists Linda Wysong and Khris Soden, moderated by PSU’s chair of Urban Planning Ethan Seltzer.
Sat . Sept 6 . 2 pm
Join in a creative process developed by Anna and Lawrence Halprin known as the RSVP cycles.
Sat . Sept 6 . 2:30 pm
Awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize in 2006 for his achievements, Kelley has had solo exhibitions at The Tate Liverpool, The Whitney Museum, and The Louvre.
Sat . Sept 6 . 3 pm
The Yes Men will conduct a workshop that gives an inside look at their methods and urges people to do something better.
Visit with PICA Artist in Residence Jacob Hartman and Visual Art Program Director Kristan Kennedy as they discuss Hartman’s new work and field questions.
Sat . Sept 6 . 4:30 pm
Sat . Sept 6 . 6:30 pm
ENGLAND enjoyed a sold-out run as part of the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and has gone on to receive three major awards including a Herald Archangel Award.
Lemon Andersen is a critically acclaimed poet and actor best known for his Tony Award winning work in Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam on Broadway and HBO.
Dialogue and action spin out of control as the inhabitants of this emerging space communicate through helium-pitched, sing-song conversations and slapstick ritual.
Sat . Sept 6 . 8:30 pm
As subversive as it is hilarious, MONOPOLY! weaves a breathtaking number of threads into one illuminating monologue by "master storyteller" Mike Daisey.
Sat . Sept 6 . 9 pm
"...portraiture in its purest form, as practiced by Titian or Rembrandt, only made with more recent technology for an audience that consumes its heroes on TV."
Sat . Sept 6 . 10:30 pm
Featuring Mary Oslund, Archana Kumar, Lucy Yim, Anne Furfey, Margretta Hansen, Obo Addy/Homowo, Michelle Fujii/Portland Taiko, Reggie Watts, Tiago Guedes, Meshi Chavez and Mike Barber followed by DJ Othertempo.
Sun . Sept 7 . 12 pm
Sun . Sept 7 . 12:30 pm
Comprised of significant emerging artists Ryan Trecartin, Lizzie Fitch, and Jacob Hartman, this panel explores how artists construct new interpretations of society.
Sun . Sept 7 . 2 pm
Sun . Sept 7 . 2:30 pm
Sun . Sept 7 . 3 pm
Sun . Sept 7 . 4 pm
Sun . Sept 7 . 4:30 pm
Sun . Sept 7 . 6:30 pm
Through a lively mixture of physical demonstration and spirited verbal debate, the piece documents Bel and Pichet’s lucid, humorous quest for understanding one another.
Featuring Beaty’s unique blend of music, poetry, comedy, and drama, Resurrection is an urgent, timely story of possibility and hope.
Sun . Sept 7 . 7:30 pm
Sun . Sept 7 . 8:30 pm
Sun . Sept 7 . 9 pm
Sun . Sept 7 . 10:30 pm
With the help of TBA:08, Parenthetical Girls will premiere Entanglements in its entirety, complete with live chamber orchestra.
Mon . Sept 8 . 12:30 pm
Choreographer Jérôme Bel, Steve Purcell of Guardians of Doubt and Mark Russell discuss how artists are challenging and redefining dance.
Mon . Sept 8 . 5:30 pm
Carl Abbott and Randy Gragg offer two histories of the South Auditorium District, before and after urban renewal and Lawrence Halprin’s plazas.
Mon . Sept 8 . 6:30 pm
In three very different documentaries, Jaqueline Caux, Andy Abrams and Jérôme Bel explore the lives of dancers Anna Halprin and Véronique Doisneau.
A meditation on the rediscovery of everyday materials, Materiais Diversos won the competition for Young Artists of the Portuguese Arts and Ideas Club.
Mon . Sept 8 . 8:30 pm
Surreal, funny and moving, Um Solo spontaneously creates inner territory—a climate, a potentiality, an expectation.
Mon . Sept 8 . 10:30 pm
Drawing from interests in musiquè concrete, chance operations and American minimalism, Rose creates shifting sound environments that merge old with new.
Mon . Sept 8 . 11 pm
Au manages to erase the high art/low art boundary between American contemporary classical music and American pop music, blending them into a simple, compelling, verse-chorus celebration.
Tues . Sept 9 . 12:30 pm
Lee Sher, Saar Harari, Jeffry Mitchell, and Neal Medlyn discuss the use of gender roles, identities, and cultural stereotypes in their work. Moderated by Stephanie Snyder.
Tues . Sept 9 . 3 pm
2008 Whitney Biennial artist Fritz Haeg comes to Portland for a residency at Reed College, implementing his Animal Estates project throughout the region.
Tues . Sept 9 . 6:30 pm
Tues . Sept 9 . 8:30 pm
Tony-nominated Kenny Mellman (Kiki & Herb) has created with Bridget Everett a fitting tribute to the “potty-mouthed and profound” Millie Jackson.
Tues . Sept 9 . 10:30 pm
A kind of alternative talent show, the performers improvise pieces while sharing the stage with Watts’ and Smith’s hilarious, self-produced DumbFilms.
Wed . Sept 10 . 10 am
Create real-time compositions using readily available audio and video equipment.
Wed . Sept 10 . 12:30 pm
Portuguese performer Tiago Guedes is joined by France’s Vivarium Studio, and moderated by TBA:04 Artist MK Guth, of PNCA.
Wed . Sept 10 . 6 pm
Wed . Sept 10 . 6:30 pm
Wed . Sept 10 . 8:30 pm
Wed . Sept 10 . 10:30 pm
Relying initially on pre-recorded sounds, samples, and drum machines, the group stumbled upon a system for generating short, catchy, poppy songs.
Wed . Sept 10 . 11 pm
Nollifur is an analog synth dance pop extravaganza utilizing computer technology, video clips, splits, and an onslaught of sound.
Thurs . Sept 11 . 12:30 pm
Exposing the tricks of the mind and the ills of society through visual and performative languages.
Thurs . Sept 11 . 6:30 pm
Serge’s subtle and focused concentration on his own universe highlights the futility in our daily rituals yet exposes the pleasure and necessity of these routines.
In his newest monologue, Mike Daisey tackles a story at the heart of our world today: the surprising, secret history of the Department of Homeland Security.
Thurs . Sept 11 . 7 pm
Thurs . Sept 11 . 8:30 pm
Sight is the sense... is a long, free-associating monologue that tumbles from topic to topic to create a vast, failing iteration and explanation of the world.
Thurs . Sept 11 . 10:30 pm
Featuring jazzy riffs and fierce improvised originals, the band will trade songs and perform with Watts for a truly unique experiment in music.
Fri . Sept 12 . 12 pm
Charles Birnbaum, director of the The Cultural Landscapes Foundation, speaks at City Club of Portland on Lawrence Halprin’s landscapes in Portland.
Charles Birnbaum, director of the The Cultural Landscapes Foundation speaks at City Club of Portland on Lawrence Halprin’s landscapes in Portland.
Fri . Sept 12 . 3 pm
Fri . Sept 12 . 4:30 pm
Walking tours of the Halprin-designed plazas with Janice Ross, author of the biography, Anna Halprin Experience As Dance, Randy Gragg, and others.
Fri . Sept 12 . 6:30 pm
The back room presents an intimate evening with TBA:08 visual artists Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn in conversation with Kristan Kennedy.
Fri . Sept 12 . 8:30 pm
Superamas dig under the surface of representation to expose the power of desire for happiness and at the same time its total vanity.
Fri . Sept 12 . 10:30 pm
Celebrities of the downtown NYC and greater PDX performance world are asked to interpret the week’s top of the charts hits LIVE on stage.
Sat . Sept 13 . 10 am
Try your hand in crafting and telling your own stories aloud, creating and shaping work as it happens.
Sat . Sept 13 . 11:30 am
Sat . Sept 13 . 12:30 pm
Superamas, with the help of Mark Russell, dig under the surface of spectacle and pop culture to question our desires and expectations of happiness.
A piece at the crossroads of performance, visual arts and theatre, Échantillons thwarts traditional frameworks of representation, and encourages a reconsideration.
Sat . Sept 13 . 2:30 pm
Tim Etchells is artistic director of Forced Entertainment, one of the UK’s most respected and groundbreaking experimental theatre companies.
Sat . Sept 13 . 3 pm
Visit with PICA Artist in Residence Lizzie Fitch and PICA’s Visual Art Program Director Kristan Kennedy, for an informal gallery talk about Fitch’s installation, Big Skin.
Sat . Sept 13 . 4 pm
Informal panel discussion with Janice Ross, Charles Birnbaum, David Bernstein, and others who frequently collaborated with Anna Halprin.
Sat . Sept 13 . 4:30 pm
Sat . Sept 13 . 6 pm
Lecture/music presentation by David Bernstein on the music of the mid-1960s Bay Area scene, milieu of the Halprins.
Sat . Sept 13 . 6:30 pm
A performance based on a text of 2,000 questions, the public is free to arrive, depart and return at any point during the six-hour performance.
Sat . Sept 13 . 8:30 pm
Sat . Sept 13 . 10:30 pm
MEGA*CHURCH is building an all loving spiritual revival for the 21st century. The religious sacraments are dancing and singing.
Sun . Sept 14 . 11 am
Putting the “All” in All-Ages, tiny tba is a festival within a festival, sampling dance, music and film that refuses to draw the line between “kid” and “adult.”
Sun . Sept 14 . 12 pm
Sun . Sept 14 . 12:30 pm
Sun . Sept 14 . 1 pm
With choreographers Linda K. Johnson, Cydney Wilkes, Linda Austin, and Tere Mathern and writer Randy Gragg.
Sun . Sept 14 . 2:30 pm
Mark Russell, Artistic Director of TBA for the last three years, will talk about: What is next? Plus a possible introduction of the next artistic director, for TBA:09.
Sun . Sept 14 . 3 pm
Sun . Sept 14 . 3:30 pm
Sun . Sept 14 . 4 pm
Sun . Sept 14 . 4:30 pm
Sun . Sept 14 . 6:30 pm
Brother and Sister have toured the Midwest and West Coast. Their most recent scavenger hunt was commissioned by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Sun . Sept 14 . 7:30 pm
Sun . Sept 14 . 8:30 pm
Sun . Sept 14 . 10 pm
Join us for our final night of TBA:08 where after three wonderfully inspiring years our Artistic Director Mark Russell bids us adieu.
Tues . Sept 16 . 3 pm
Sat . Sept 20 . 3 pm
Join Kristan Kennedy for a walk through of artist projects included in this year’s On Sight program.
Tues . Sept 23 . 3 pm
Mon . Aug 18 . - Fri . Aug 22 .
An introduction to Time-Based Art for teens taught through the Oregon College of Arts and Crafts youth program. Selected TBA Festival tickets are included.
Wed . Sept 3 . - Wed . Oct 8 .
As participants research and approach varied mediums and TBA artists, they will discuss creative ways to think and discourse about art.
Thurs . Sept 4 . - Sun . Sept 14 .
TBA:08 Schedule changes and updates.
The TBA Press Corps documents TBA Festival happenings from start to finish. Tune into TBA Radio on Portland Radio Authority for podcasts and other audible treats.
Approaching TBA through writing and visual art making, teenagers will create their own handmade self-publications otherwise known as “zines.”
The space has been known for life-sized butter carvings, the drafting of the Portland City Club charter, and most notably as the jazz club The Dude Ranch.
Gorman hopes to promote a connection between us and the spaces we build, evoking a personal response to urban spaces and city environments.
Thurs . Sept 4 . - Sun . Oct 26 .
As culture-jamming activists, The Yes Men has exposed dehumanizing business practices and enacted ethical “identity correction” since 1999.
Thurs . Sept 4 . - Sat . Oct 4 .
In two new video works, Ben-Tor continues her insightful and biting exploration into Jewish identity, caricature and history.
Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn were both born in California and currently live and work in Los Angeles. They were recently included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial.
Fitch and a cast of performers called The Experimental People Band will interact with the work, collapsing the boundaries between viewer and object, gallery and stage.
Hartman’s interest lies in cataloging a trajectory of a work coming into existence, where the moment of completion is never quite clear.
Depicting surreal landscapes, hybrid animals and the foibles of the common man, Lunn’s worlds are made up with equal parts dark comedy and social commentary.
Moments of ecstasy, brutality, beauty and frivolity are hewn in lumps of clay, pristine paper cuttings, sweet drawings, wall hangings and paintings.
Fast-paced and dense with drama, I-Be Area relates the intertwined stories of an exuberant ensemble, played by Trecartin and dozens of others.
Fri . Sept 5 . - Sun . Sept 7 .
For TBA:08, PAINTALLICA will take over a storefront to make objects, drawings, paintings and installations over the course of several days.
Fri . Sept 5 . - Sun . Sept 14 .
Neighborhood Projects will continue a multi-faceted set of public projects that include presentations, exhibitions, publications, posters, and much more.
Mon . Sept 8 . - Sun . Sept 14 .