Thurs . Sept 3 . 6 pm
Set to a fast-paced dance track, the work functions as both a critique and parody while raising the question: what if all is not as it seems?
Lund draws on two cinematic sources: Oliver Stone’s Wall Street and Busby Berkeley’s choreographed dance sequences.
Thurs . Sept 3 . 8 pm
Episode VII portrays the melodramatic life of Katonya and several other characters through misguided love affairs punctuated with dreams and distraction.
The Walls Of My Hall is a multichannel video installation referring to the human body as a place to exist—a structure—related to its built environment.
National Park takes its cues from Lewis & Clark, museum dioramas, Superstudio, and the U.S.’s post-war middle-class tourism pastime, the roadtrip.
Ma Qiusha presents a simple confessional that explores the artist's conflict with personal, parental, and societal pressures to be successful.
robbinschilds presents a full-spectrum video with acutely visual live dance, set to a score by rock quartet Kinski and edited in succinct rainbow-hued sections.
Movements consists of over one hundred altered music boxes, carefully timed and methodically displayed across the gallery walls.
Slappe creates an army of costumed youth in a project that mines your photo albums for evidence of what he calls “contemporary cultural indoctrination."
Catala uses complex technology and simple physical transformation to alter television images in real time.
Please ask the attendant about this work.
Without Sun is an edited compilation of “found performances” of individuals on a psychedelic substance.
Several hundred painted, stackable boxes are presented for our collaboration in an installation intended for direct audience manipulation.
Join us at THE WORKS to open the 2009 TBA Festival's visual art offerings; stay for GANG GANG DANCE and other late-night happenings.
Thurs . Sept 3 . 10:30 pm
With strong ties to the visual art community and almost boundless creative energy, Gang Gang Dance grew out of the turn-of-the-century Null NY scene.
Fri . Sept 4 . 12:30 pm
PICA’s artistic staff Cathy Edwards, Kristan Kennedy, and Erin Boberg Doughton share their thoughts on the artists, ideas, and themes of TBA:09.
Fri . Sept 4 . 6:30 pm
Mining movement and text from James Dean Last Meadow creates a non-narrative collage of an America where the jig is up and the dream has died.
Subversive, sharp, and irreverent, THE SHIPMENT distorts stereotypes, and unsettles the audience’s certainties about race relations.
Fri . Sept 4 . 8:30 pm
MAYBE FOREVER explores loss, longing, the place in between dreams and wishes, mourning and meeting.
Toyoda has worked exclusively in the medium of slideshows, consisting of images taken in the course of his daily life, for the past decade.
Fri . Sept 4 . 10:30 pm
Explode into Colors teams up with fellow Portland locals, experimental dancer/musician Janet Pants and the all-boy video wizard Chris Hackett.
Sat . Sept 5 . 10 am
In this master class, participants will explore techniques and strategies for developing material through improvisation.
Sat . Sept 5 . 12 pm
Sat . Sept 5 . 12:30 pm
Artistic partners Layla Childs and Sonya Robbins (robbinschilds), AJ Blanford, and A.L. Steiner compare notes on the collaborative process.
Sat . Sept 5 . 2:30 pm
A professor at the New School in New York City, Goldman will pay particular attention to the choreographers presenting work at TBA:09.
Sat . Sept 5 . 4:30 pm
Over a decade later, Crock continues to vex audiences with its weirdly puritan perversity and disregard for cinematic conventions.
Sat . Sept 5 . 6:30 pm
Rarely seen outside of gallery walls, Linzy's satirical narratives are inspired by television soap operas, telenovelas, and Hollywood melodramas.
Sat . Sept 5 . 7 pm
A musical comedy about the beaver state with a new Act IV, complete with brand new songs and rollicking plot in celebration of Oregon's 150th birthday!
Sat . Sept 5 . 8:30 pm
Sat . Sept 5 . 10:30 pm
An experiment in confined space, TTD is a performance series dedicated to fostering inventive dance/performance on a 4x4-foot stage.
Sun . Sept 6 . 10 am
Boulé is a dance artist, teacher, and BodyTalk practitioner who has worked with Miguel Gutierrez, John Jasperse, Deborah Hay, and Donna Uchizono.
Sun . Sept 6 . 12:30 pm
Playwright and director Young Jean Lee discusses the nature of her process and her provocative new work THE SHIPMENT with artist Arnold J. Kemp.
Sun . Sept 6 . 2:30 pm
W.A.G.E. advocates that fair payment practices be established for visual artists, performers, and independent curators in the United States.
A collection of video works gathered by Owen while traveling in Paris, Quebec, Iceland, and the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains.
Sun . Sept 6 . 3 pm
Artist Fawn Krieger and Visual Art Program Director Kristan Kennedy invite you to join them in National Park, for conversation and exploration.
Sun . Sept 6 . 4:30 pm
Denied the charged interplay with other actors, Franco adopts a strangely flat affect, imbuing the film with a dialectic quality.
Sun . Sept 6 . 6:30 pm
Psychedelic Soul includes a video installation by French artist Antoine Catala and a live performance by Brody Condon.
Audiences are invited to experience the artists' live mixing from outside the gallery, where sound will spill out and projections will fill the windows.
Sun . Sept 6 . 7 pm
Sun . Sept 6 . 7:30 pm
Sun . Sept 6 . 8:30 pm
Sun . Sept 6 . 10:30 pm
C.L.U.E. Live is a psychedelic dance/rock/video/installation experience with original score performed live by Seattle-based Kinski.
Mon . Sept 7 . 10:30 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.
Mon . Sept 7 . 12:30 pm
On Labor Day, bring your neighborhood picnic to TBA and share in the making of community and the making of a feast.
Mon . Sept 7 . 1 pm
This mobile performance-based outdoor video installation examines the lines between private and public, voyeurism and exhibitionism.
Mon . Sept 7 . 2 pm
robbinschilds performs a series of original performances and interactions in, on, and around the Washington High School grounds.
Mon . Sept 7 . 4:30 pm
Artist Antoine Catala and Visual Art Program Director Kristan Kennedy discuss Catala's installation, TV, and field questions from gallery visitors.
Mon . Sept 7 . 6:30 pm
Dancers sing and musicians dance in this feverishly physical dissection of cause and effect.
Mon . Sept 7 . 8:30 pm
Overhead projection combines with video, music, and live narration to tell the story of a garbage man with a vision to create an independent phone book.
Mon . Sept 7 . 10:30 pm
Portland-based composer Ben Darwish will lead a nine-piece band interpret Jackson's songs using Afrobeat techniques popularized by Fela Kuti.
Tues . Sept 8 . 12:30 pm
PNCA faculty member Stephen Slappe and fellow festival artists Antoine Catala and Gregory Green talk about the layered use of media in their work.
Tues . Sept 8 . 5 pm
Broadcast explores the ways in which artists since the late 1960s have engaged with official channels of broadcast television and radio.
Tues . Sept 8 . 6:30 pm
Tues . Sept 8 . 8 pm
Tues . Sept 8 . 8:30 pm
Tues . Sept 8 . 10:30 pm
Linzy performs songs from SweetBerry Sonnet, with video segments produced as a result of a PICA residency, along with local jazz and rock rising stars.
Tues . Sept 8 . 11 pm
Beyonda brings the deep soulful jams that dig deep into early 60s soul, rare Stax, and swinging gritty late 50s RnB, all on original 45rpm records.
Wed . Sept 9 . 10 am
locust co-director Zeke Keeble leads a workshop on beatboxing, looping, and real-time composition techniques.
Wed . Sept 9 . 12:30 pm
Daniel Barrow, Nicole Dill, and Tyler Wallace discuss strategies for creating work through real-time manipulation of images and performance.
Wed . Sept 9 . 1 pm
Wed . Sept 9 . 6:30 pm
Set against the shifting backdrop of a city, the audience is wired via headphones to an intensely personal drama that unfolds somewhere in the crowd.
Wed . Sept 9 . 8:30 pm
A deconstructed Hansel and Gretel, this wickedly funny multimedia theater piece blends the imaginary, subconscious, and real.
Wed . Sept 9 . 10:30 pm
The first installment in a two-part Britney Spears/Hannah Montana extravaganza, built around the idea and music of Spears, purity, and nonsexual touch.
Wed . Sept 9 . 11 pm
One hour plus of the conceptual workout experience you always wanted but never could embarrass yourself enough to find or do in public.
Thurs . Sept 10 . 10 am
A hands-on workshop about new, unknown, and impossible practices of artistic expression born from new and leading ideas.
Thurs . Sept 10 . 12:30 pm
Kalup Linzy and Neal Medlyn interview each other about the use of pop culture, alter-ego, gender, and music in their work.
Thurs . Sept 10 . 6:30 pm
Two dancers encounter 50 people in a series of dreamlike meetings but manage to miss each other while environments and people constantly change.
Thurs . Sept 10 . 8:30 pm
A highly personal multimedia work with solo cello compositions at the core and based on recollections of childhood family car vacations.
Thurs . Sept 10 . 10:30 pm
In Winnipeg in the late 1970s, anyone with a dream, concept, or exhibitionist politic would be endowed with airtime and professional production services.
Thurs . Sept 10 . 11 pm
The original YouTube cover band, Portland-based Rush-N-Disco reappropriates found media into an absurdly entertaining assault on the senses.
Fri . Sept 11 . 10 am
Amy O’Neal will lead a workshop focused on a blend of contemporary and hip-hop technique.
Fri . Sept 11 . 12:30 pm
Erin Boberg Doughton interviews Back to Back Theatre about their site-specific work, which addresses dynamics of viewer and voyeur.
Fri . Sept 11 . 6:30 pm
Fri . Sept 11 . 8:30 pm
Variations pieces together different performances of the bolero: from Eydie Gormé to Maria Callas, Benny Goodman to Tchaikovsky.
Fri . Sept 11 . 10:30 pm
An art collective from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2007, they will use home-crafted objects and sounds to take you deeper into the mystery.
Fri . Sept 11 . 11 pm
HEALTH is noise, music, disco, and fashion; their shows mix, recombine, and reorient the senses. Pictureplane is going to destroy dance-floors in 2009.
Sat . Sept 12 . 10 am
Friedlander offers a master class for cellists exploring traditional and experimental forms.
Sat . Sept 12 . 12:30 pm
Cathy Edwards speaks with Raimund Hoghe and his company members about their performance Boléro Variations.
Sat . Sept 12 . 2:30 pm
Halaby looks into the varying and matching points between collective and personal stories inside the choreographic creative processes.
Sat . Sept 12 . 4:30 pm
In a lecture as riotous as it is serious, Kreider describes his experience of having work fabricated in the “world’s workshop" for an exhibition in Shanghai.
Sat . Sept 12 . 6:30 pm
Sat . Sept 12 . 8:30 pm
Sat . Sept 12 . 10:30 pm
Quasi has toured or recorded with Sleater-Kinney, Elliott Smith, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Built to Spill, and Bright Eyes, among others.
Sat . Sept 12 . 11 pm
Called Portland's "sleeping giants" by Snipehunt magazine, the band reforms for an evening of soulful inner space travel. Be there when the giants awaken.
Sun . Sept 13 . 12:30 pm
Let us gather together, eat fresh blueberry pancakes hot off the griddle, lie in the grass and stare at the sky.
Sun . Sept 13 . 2:30 pm
Sun . Sept 13 . 4:30 pm
Sun . Oct 18 . 3 pm
A walking tour of the visual art projects. Roam room to room, ask all of the questions you were afraid to ask, and take one last look.
Mon . Nov 2 . 6:30 pm
Fri . Nov 13 . 6:30 pm
Join curators Kristan Kennedy (PICA) and Stephanie Snyder (Reed) for a discussion of Antoine Catala's installation and Psychedelic Soul.
Mon . Aug 31 . - Sat . Oct 24 .
Tues . Sept 1 . - Sat . Dec 5 .
Thurs . Sept 3 . - Sun . Sept 13 .
Three more ways to get ready or learn more about all things TBA.
This series of TV-commercial-length video vignettes, called Dramas, features narratives constructed with fake-real objects.
Thurs . Sept 3 . - Fri . Oct 23 .
Built 1912 on the site originally occupied by East Portland High, Washington High School is a beautiful architectural reminder of a design era long past.
Thurs . Sept 3 . - Mon . Sept 7 .
This year, TBA brings the mayhem to Labor Day Weekend. Celebrate the end of summer and the beginning of a new season of contemporary art.
Fri . Sept 4 . - Sun . Oct 18 .
Tues . Sept 8 . - Fri . Dec 11 .