tBA dAy By dAy - Portland Institute for Contemporary Art

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Meg Stuart & Philipp Gehmacher
Young Jean Lee's Theater Company
Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People
Pink Martini
locust
Daniel Barrow
Back to Back Theatre
Pan Pan Theatre
Amyo / tinyrage
Erik Friedlander
Raimund Hoghe
on screen
Crock: The Motion Picture
Kalup Linzy
circles and spinning wheels
Carter
on sight
Robert Boyd
Antoine Catala
Peter Coffin
Brody Condon
Jesse Hayward
Johanna Ketola
Fawn Krieger
Kalup Linzy
Brian Lund
Ma Qiusha
robbinschilds + A.L. Steiner
Ethan Rose
Stephen Slappe
Broadcast
Psychedelic Soul
outsiDe
Hitoshi Toyoda
Ethan Rose, Laura Gibson, and Ryan Jeffery
Labor Day Picnic
robbinschilds
Tyler Wallace & Nicole Dill
Fawn Krieger
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Gang Gang Dance
Explode into Colors, Janet Pants, Los Moustachios
Ten Tiny Dances
Kinski / robbinschilds
tiny tba with Greasy Kid Stuff
Afrobeat Tribute to Michael Jackson
Kalup Linzy and Friends
DJ Beyonda
Neal Medlyn
Miguel Gutierrez
Winnipeg Babysitter
Rush-N-Disco
Oregon Painting Society
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PICA Presents the 2009
tIme-BAsed Art FestIvAl
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s annual convergence of contemporary
performance, dance, music, new media, and visual arts projects in Portland,
Oregon. Now in its seventh year, the Time-Based Art (TBA) Festival is presented
September 3—13, 2009, with visual art installations running until October 18.
Examining and celebrating every form of contemporary art, TBA:09 is the only
festival of its kind in North America.
tIme-BAsed Art All dAy long
PICA presents a festival that bridges disciplines and geography with morning
workshops, daytime installations, noontime lectures, afternoon salons, evening
performances, outdoor happenings, and no shortage of late-night activity.
Contemporary masters and significant emerging artists mix and mingle in a true
immersion in the art of our time.
PortlAnd InstItute For
ContemPorAry Art (PICA)
PICA is about the activity generated by a community using its energy. Since
1995, we have been committed to presenting diverse works by artists in
various disciplines from all over the world. PICA develops exhibitions and
residencies, stimulates conversation, commissions new work, and encourages
the simmering of new ideas.
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a note from cathy edwards, tBa:09 artistic Director
Welcome to another TBA Festival! This year we have made it official—a festival
is about celebration, and what better time to do that than on a holiday? Join
us for the festival kickoff over Labor Day weekend and start your year off
right. This time around, we bring you to the school year of your dreams as
Team PICA takes over the former Washington High School—home base for THE
WORKS, visual arts programming and live art performances in the fantastically
old-school auditorium. On Labor Day itself, meet us on the school field for a day
of picnics, old-fashioned games, and art that pushes the envelope.
The TBA Festival is about bringing together emerging ideas and important artistic
voices from around the world, the United States, and the Pacific Northwest—all in
the fabulous city of Portland. We mix a heady cocktail of art and audience and this
is an opportunity to participate in Portland at its creative zenith. Whether you live
here or are visiting, we know it will be a one-of-a-kind immersive experience.
We have brought together a fantastic roster of artists and programs: a textured,
bracing, and complex festival experience. Yes, times are hard right now—the
artists in this festival are exploring anxiety, but also the sheer exhilaration of
pushing ideas, energy, and physicality to the breaking point. We welcome the
funny, the dark, the brilliantly imagined, and the sublime—all coming together
in a variety of artistic manifestations.
This year I am honored to be the new guest curator in town, and it’s been
a truly collaborative experience to work with Kristan Kennedy, Erin Boberg
Doughton, and the entire PICA staff. As we assembled the group of artists
we most want to see, we also uncovered some undeniable TBA themes:
meditations on the nature of private experience brought into the public
arena, the intersection of the American landscape and the individual
imagination, and the dynamic relationship between insiders and outsiders.
Come and visit, come and stay—tell us how these themes resonate with
you, and join the TBA mix. Enjoy the festival!
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Major sponsors:
Media sponsors:
jAmes F. mIller &
mArIon l. mIller FoundAtIon
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tBA stAyCAtIon!
TBA Labor Day Weekend Events!
on sight opening at THE WORKS at Washington High School
Thurs . Sept 03 . 8 pm, FREE (Page 052)
gang gang Dance at THE WORKS at WHS
Thurs . Sept 03 . 10:30 pm, FREE (Page 102)
hitoshi toyoda at THE WORKS at Washington High School
Fri . Sept 04 . 8:30 pm & Sat . Sept 05 . 8:30 pm, FREE (Page 086)
ethan rose, laura gibson and ryan Jeffery at PDX Contemporary Art
Sun . Sept 06 . 6:30 pm, FREE (Page 088)
labor Day Picnic at THE WORKS at Washington High School
Mon . Sept 07 . 12:30–4 pm, FREE (Page 090)
robbinschilds at THE WORKS at Washington High School
Mon . Sept 07 . 2 pm, FREE (Page 092)
tyler wallace + nicole Dill at THE WORKS at Washington High School
Mon . Sept 07 . 9 pm, FREE (Page 094)
This year, Time-Based Art brings the mayhem to Labor Day Weekend. Stay
in town this year and celebrate the end of summer in Portland and the
beginning of a new season of contemporary art. We'll kick off the weekend
with a full set of shows from local and international artists including
Belgium's Meg Stuart and Philipp Gehmacher's MAYBE FOREVER; tribalfuturistic
rhythmeers Gang Gang Dance; New York-based Young Jean Lee's
Theater Company's THE SHIPMENT, the dance-punk juggernaut of Explode
into Colors, Janet Pants, and Los Moustachios; and Seattle's post-pop
extravagants Kinski.
That's just the weekend; once Monday comes, it's time to relax with our first
annual Labor Day Picnic. Cap off your weekend of TBA performances with
a picnic on the lawn of Washington High School sponsored by Slow Food
Portland. Bring your own feast made from organics from your garden or
come by and sample goodies from Portland's celebrated street vendors. The
day wouldn't be complete without a fest of ungames: noncompetitive games
of conversation, inquiry, and sharing of knowledge.
www.pica.org
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tBa on stage presents performances by artists from around the
region and around the world, drawing on the vast and varied traditions of
dance, music, theatre, media, and live arts to create new works and new
forms. Admission is included in the Flex, Immersion, and Patron Pass.
Individual tickets range in price from $10-$25. Please refer to indivdual
pages for details.
tBa on stage projects are supported in part by:
TBA on sTAge
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MAYBE FOREVER
"They slip away from each other's wavering embraces...they
chase shadows: their own and the other's...the awareness
of the finite grows."
—De Standaard (Brussels)
MAYBE FOREVER explores loss, longing, the place
in between dreams and wishes, mourning and
meeting. Stuart and Gehmacher offer themselves
as a reluctant template for the contradictions
of modern love, conjuring potent images of a
relationship on the verge. They are accompanied
live by singer-songwriter Niko Hafkenscheid, who
invites them to waltz, to hear lullabies, and enter
into promised lands.
Stuart received her BFA in dance from NYU and was a
member of the Randy Warshaw Dance Company for
five years. On invitation from the Klapstuk Festival
in Leuven in 1991, she created her first full-length
piece, Disfigure Study. In 1994 Meg Stuart/Damaged
Goods began a series of collaborations with visual
artists, including Lawrence Malstaf, Gary Hill, and
Ann Hamilton. Together with choreographer/dancer
Benoît Lachambre and composer Hahn Rowe—
both honored with Bessie Awards—Stuart created
Forgeries, Love, and Other Matters. Over the past
years Philipp Gehmacher’s choreographic works
(mountains are mountains, incubator, like there's no
tomorrow) have been shown at numerous festivals
and theaters across Europe. He curated the series
Still Moving at Tanzquartier Wien to introduce the
lecture performance format of walk+talk in March
2008 and collaborated on the video installation
dead reckoning with Vladimir Miller.
MAYBE FOREVER was co-produced by Kaaitheater (Brussels), Wexner
Center for the Arts (Columbus, Ohio), Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), and
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (Berlin).
www.damagedgoods.be
west coast Premiere
Newmark Theatre
Portland Center for
the Performing Arts
Fri . Sept 04 . 8:30 pm
Sat . Sept 05 . 8:30 pm
Running time: 90 min
Seating capacity: 880
$20 members / $25 general
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young jeAn lee's theAter ComPAny
THE SHIPMENT
"She offers the pleasure of brazen theatrical inventiveness."
—The New Yorker
Young Jean Lee challenged herself, as a Korean
American, to create a politically engaged theater
piece about black American identity. Subversive,
sharp, and irreverent, THE SHIPMENT raises
pointed questions about ethnic appropriation and
race relations, distorts stereotypes, and unsettles
the audience’s certainties. Young Jean Lee exposes
the racial filter through which we unconsciously
perceive reality, and beneath the humor, reveals
how difficult it is to see the world in terms other
than black and white.
Born in Korea in 1974, Young Jean Lee moved to
the US when she was two. She received her BA at
UC Berkeley and studied Shakespeare for six years
in a PhD program before moving to New York to
become a playwright. She earned her MFA from
Brooklyn College and is the recipient of the 2007
zurich Theatre Festival Patronage Prize and a 2007
Emerging Playwright OBIE Award. Her plays have
toured worldwide and have been published in New
Downtown Now (2006) and Songs of the Dragons
Flying to Heaven and Other Plays (2009).
This work is made possible in part by a grant from the National
Performance Network's Performance Residency Program. Major
contributors to the NPN include the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation,
Ford Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts (a federal
agency), Altria, and the Nathan Cummings Foundation. www.npnweb.
org. THE SHIPMENT is co-commissioned by the Wexner Center for the
Arts and The Kitchen. Additional support provided by the Greenwall
Foundation, Jerome Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts,
and the Rockefeller MAP Foundation.
www.youngjeanlee.org
Portland Center Stage:
Gerding Theater at the
Armory (Mainstage)
Fri . Sept 04 . 6:30 pm
Sat . Sept 05 . 12:00 pm
Sun . Sept 06 . 8:30 pm
Running time: 90 min
Seating capacity: 599
$15 members / $20 general
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And the PowerFul PeoPle
Last Meadow
“At a time when so much art lacks a heartbeat, Mr.
Gutierrez’s chest pounds...smart and moving and full of
questions, the way only real art can be.”
—Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times
A new performance from the critically acclaimed
Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People, Last
Meadow is set to an original score created by firsttime
composer Neal Medlyn and lighting by longtime
collaborator Lenore Doxsee. Mining movement and
text from James Dean’s East of Eden, Rebel Without
a Cause, and Giant, Last Meadow creates a nonnarrative
collage of sensorial confusion, aka an
America where the jig is up and the dream has
died. Last Meadow is about the space of waiting,
when things don’t move forward, don’t happen
as they should, and mixed messages are the only
ones we get.
Gutierrez is based in Brooklyn, NY, and creates group
and solo work. Past work includes dAMNATION rOAD
(2004) and Retrospective Exhibitionist and Difficult
Bodies (2005), which won a 2006 Bessie Award.
His work has appeared at Dance Theater Workshop
and The Kitchen (NY), the Walker Art Center in
Minneapolis (MN); and internationally at ImPuls
Tanz (Vienna) and Springdance Festival (Utrecht).
Last Meadow is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund
Project co-commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop in partnership
with Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Flynn Center for the
Performing Arts and NPN. Major contributors of NPN are the Doris Duke
Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation,
MetLife Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts (a
federal agency). www.npnweb.org. Last Meadow is a project of Creative
Capital. Additional support for Last Meadow has been provided by The
Jerome Foundation, The MAP Fund, Lambent Fellowship, a project of
Tides Foundation, New York, the Josephine Foundation, the New York
Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Choreography and the generous
support of individual donors. The commission and performance of this
piece is supported in part by the Kristy Edmunds Fund for New Work.
www.miguelgutierrez.org
world Premiere
Winningstad Theatre
Portland Center for
the Performing Arts
Fri . Sept 04 . 6:30 pm
Sat . Sept 05 . 6:30 pm
Sun . Sept 06 . 6:30 pm
Mon . Sept 07 . 8:30 pm
Running time: 90 min
Seating capacity: 250
$15 members / $20 general
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PInk mArtInI
presents Oregon! Oregon! 2009: A Sesquicentennial Fable in IV Acts
with the 234th Army Band—Oregon National Guard
In 1959, to celebrate the 100th birthday of Oregon,
the Blitz-Weinhard Brewing Company commissioned
the Grammy Award-winning radio personality
Stan Freberg to write a 21-minute-long musical
comedy about the beaver state. The result was a
hilarious tale of two explorers in 1859 named Harry
and David, their encounter with a witch, and the
subsequent birth of a state which must go back into
the bottle after 100 years…that is, if the citizens of
1959 can’t break the spell. Sound confusing?
Well hold on to your myrtlewood, because a
team of Oregonians, including Metro President
David Bragdon, Chariots of Fire conductor Harry
Rabinowitz, Thomas Lauderdale of Pink Martini,
PICA Flash Choir’s Sarah Dougher & Pat Janowski,
and the writers of Livewire! have teamed up to
write a new Act IV, complete with brand new songs
and rollicking plot!
With sets by Scrappers and an all-star Oregonian
cast backed by the 234th Army Band—Oregon
National Guard and Pink Martini, Oregon! Oregon!
2009 will debut at the Oregon State Fair, followed
by performances in Bend, and Jacksonville. The
final performance—in Portland—will be co-presented
by PICA in the bowl of the historic Memorial
Coliseum (built 1959) for one night only!
The creation of Oregon! Oregon! 2009 : A Sesquicentennial Fable in IV
Acts is made possible in part by The Kinsman Foundation, The Wessinger
Foundation, Stoel Rives LLP, Hotel Lucia, and Hotel deLuxe in celebration
of Oregon's 150th Birthday.
www.pinkmartini.com
www.oregon150.org
world Premiere
Memorial Coliseum
Sat . Sept 05 . TBD
Running time: 120 min
including an opening set by
the 234th Army Band and a
closing set by Pink Martini
Visit pinkmartini.com for
showtime and ticket prices.
Seating capacity: 6,000
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locust
crushed
“locust is refreshingly one of the few modern dance groups
situated to make direct social commentary with their art.”
—Andrea Liu, NYArts Magazine
crushed is a dance/music/video performance in
which control and chaos alternate as the ensemble
takes on the notion of being blindsided and the
physical impact of being caught off guard. Dancers
sing and musicians dance in this feverishly physical
dissection of cause and effect. zeke Keeble's
electronic soundscape is the environment in which
Amy O'Neal's dance vocabulary of contemporary/
hip-hop dance unfolds.
locust is the performance brainchild of musician
and composer zeke Keeble and performer/
choreographer Amy O’Neal. Since 2000, they have
created Leave me Inside (2001), Left-out (2002),
DEFACE (2004), convenience (TBA 2005), and
mockumentary (2006). locust performs in theaters,
nightclubs, galleries, and streets and has been
presented in Seattle by On the Boards, the Seattle
Art Museum, Experience Music Project, Northwest
Film Forum, Seattle Theater Group, Bumbershoot,
and Velocity Dance Center. Nationally, they have
performed at Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out (MA), The
Myrna Loy Center (MT), Joyce Soho (NYC), SUSHI
Performing Arts (CA), and Bates Dance Festival
(ME). locust has been described as the avant-garde
garage band of the Seattle dance scene.
crushed has received funding and development support from On the
Boards and Creative Capital. This project was made possible by the
National Performance Network's Performance Residency Program.
Major contributors to the NPN include the Doris Duke Charitable
Foundation, Ford Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts (a
federal agency), Altria, and the Nathan Cummings Foundation. www.
npnweb.org.
www.locustsucka.com
THE WORKS at
Washington High School
Mon . Sept 07 . 6:30 pm
Tue . Sept 08 . 6:30 pm
Running time: 60 min
Seating capacity: 600
$15 members / $20 general
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Everytime I See Your Picture I Cry
Curated by Pablo Ocampo and Cinema Project
"It's a performance set in a community that stands at the
gates of hell, which sounds very dark—and it is—but I'm still
in the room to moderate the gloom and darkness."
—Daniel Barrow
Daniel Barrow's animation combines overhead
projection with video, music, and live narration
to tell the story of a garbage man with a vision
to create an independent phone book. In the
late hours of the night, he sifts through garbage,
collecting personal information, tracing a portrait
of each citizen through the windows of their homes
as they sleep. What he doesn't realize is that he is
not alone, and a deranged killer is rendering his
cataloguing efforts obsolete.
Winnipeg-based artist Daniel Barrow uses obsolete
technologies to present written, pictorial, and
cinematic narratives centering on the practices of
drawing and collecting. Since 1993, he has created
and adapted comic book narratives to manual
forms of animation by projecting, layering, and
manipulating drawings on overhead projectors.
Barrow has exhibited widely in Canada and abroad.
He has performed at The Museum of Contemporary
Art (LA), The International Film Festival Rotterdam
(Netherlands), The Contemporary Art Gallery
(Vancouver, BC), and the Gene Siskel Film Center
(Chicago). Barrow is the 2007 winner of the Canada
Council’s Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton award and
the 2008 winner of the Images Festival’s Images
Prize. Barrow is represented by Jessica Bradley Art
+ Projects, Toronto.
www.danielbarrow.com
Northwest Film Center
Whitsell Auditorium at
Portland Art Museum
Mon . Sept 07 . 8:30 pm
Tue . Sept 08 . 8:30 pm
Wed . Sept 09 . 6:30 pm
Running time: 60 min
Seating capacity: 376
$10 members / $15 general
All ages
co-presented with the
northwest Film center
and cinema Project
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BACk to BACk theAtre
small metal objects
“small metal objects turns the notion of theatre and the
everyday inside out. It is a pure, open-hearted, complex,
and breathtaking production and a unique meditation on
human worth.”
—Sydney Morning Herald
Gary and Steve are the kind of men who normally
escape notice; in small metal objects, they play a
pivotal role in the lives of two ambitious executives.
small metal objects unfolds amid pedestrian traffic
against the shifting backdrop of a city. On a
raised seating platform, the audience is wired via
headphones to an intensely personal drama that
unfolds somewhere in the crowd.
Back to Back Theatre comprises an ensemble
of six actors considered to have developmental
or intellectual disabilities. The company explores
how respect is withheld from outsiders—the
disabled or unemployed—who society deems
“unproductive.” Since 1987, the ensemble, based in
the small regional center at Geelong, Australia, has
transformed the theater experience by exploring
prejudices associated with the notion of “other.”
The group’s past performances include Mental
(1999); Dog Farm (2000); and Soft (2002). small
metal objects received a 2008 Bessie Award after
its performance at Under the Radar Festival, and a
2007 zurich Theatre Festival Appreciation Prize for
extraordinary achievement in theater. In 2005, the
ensemble received the Sydney Meyer Performing
Arts Award for their long-standing contribution to
the development of Australian theater.
Initiated through the Victoria Commissions, supported by the Victorian
Government, and through the Community Support Fund and Arts
Victoria. Supported by the Australian Government through the Australia
Council, its arts funding advisory body, and through the Australian
International Cultural Council, an initiative of the Department of Foreign
Affairs and Trade.
www.backtobacktheatre.com
Location TBD, please visit
www.pica.org for details
Wed . Sept 09 . 6:30 pm
Thurs . Sept 10 . 12:30 pm
Thurs . Sept 10 . 6:30 pm
Fri . Sept 11 . 12:30 pm
Fri . Sept 11 . 6:30 pm
Sat . Sept 12 . 12:30 pm
Sat . Sept 12 . 6:30 pm
Running time: 60 min
Seating capacity: 160
$20 members / $25 general
All ages
this performance is not
included with any tBa
Festival Pass. individual
tickets are required.
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PAn PAn theAtre
The Crumb Trail
"More than any other theater troupe I can think of, Pan Pan
finds the soul-muddling angst in the Internet age, when
computers with cameras and microphones instantly serve
up private lives for public consumption."
—Ben Brantley, The New York Times
A deconstructed Hansel and Gretel, this wickedly
funny multimedia theater piece blends the
imaginary, subconscious, and real. The Crumb Trail
takes on everything from parent-child relationships
to Internet predators to the self-aware construction
of our own identities. Replete with existential
uncertainty and musical interludes, the piece is a
sort of detective story, sharp and blunt, playing
with views and illusions, detecting where we are at
—but our conclusions remain in the dark.
Founded in 1991 by Aedin Cosgrove and Gavin
Quinn, Pan Pan Theatre has since produced 22
productions, published a major photographic book,
and produced a film, One. The ensemble has worked
with a host of Irish and international performers
and artists, and both worked and toured extensively
throughout Ireland as well as Australia, Canada,
China, Europe, Korea, and the United States.
Supported by Culture Ireland, Arts Council Ireland, and Dublin City
Council.
www.panpantheatre.com
west coast Premiere
Winningstad Theatre
Portland Center for
the Performing Arts
Wed . Sept 09 . 8:30 pm
Thurs . Sept 10 . 6:30 pm
Fri . Sept 11 . 6:30 pm
Sat . Sept 12 . 6:30 pm
Running time: 75 min
Seating capacity: 250
$20 members / $25 general
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"An astounding dancer, Amy O'Neal, so creatively magnetic
on her feet..."
—The New York Times
too follows the fragmented and dreamlike events of
two dancers (Amy O’Neal and Ellie Sandstrom) who
encounter 50 people in a series of meetings but
manage to miss each other while environments and
people constantly change. The duo's interaction
with these strangers, friends, acquaintances, and
family creates a cut-and-paste dance of physical
extremes that draws inspiration from the rural vs.
urban divide, America, karaoke, and Japanese love
hotels.
too ruminates on the increasing challenges of
human-to-human contact in a fractured and
complex technological age. The product of two
and a half years of filming duets across the US
and Japan, too includes on-screen performances
by Reggie Watts, Tommy Smith, Melanie Kloetzel,
Kathleen Hermesdorf, David Dorfman, Shamou,
Sarah Gamblin, Corrie Befort, and many more.
Amy O’Neal and Ellie Sandstrom have danced
together in other people’s productions and in
O’Neal’s own choreographic work for 10 years.
O’Neal is a performer, choreographer, dance
educator, the creator of Amyo/tinyrage, and the
co-director of locust (music/dance/video) with
musician/composer zeke Keeble.
This work is made possible in part by a grant from the National
Performance Network's Performance Residency Program. Major
contributors to the NPN include the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation,
Ford Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts (a federal
agency), Altria, and the Nathan Cummings Foundation. www.npnweb.
org. Comissioned by NW Film Forum, Seattle.
www.tinyrage.com
world Premiere
THE WORKS at
Washington High School
Thurs . Sept 10 . 6:30 pm
Fri . Sept 11 . 6:30 pm
Sat . Sept 12 . 6:30 pm
Running time: 60 min
Seating capacity: 600
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erIk FrIedlAnder
Block Ice & Propane
"Friedlander’s music is as tough-minded and original as it
is elegiac."
—Jon Garelick, Boston Phoenix
Block Ice & Propane is a highly personal multimedia
work with Friedlander's solo cello compositions at the
core. Based on recollections of childhood family car
vacations, the piece evokes truck stops, long, lonely
highways, and stark panoramas. Lyric, plainspoken,
and emotional, Friedlander's stories and music are
accompanied by projection of photographs taken
by his father, famed photographer Lee Friedlander.
Loose and meditative, the work is both valedictory
and authoritative.
Musician Erik Friedlander is widely considered
a master avant-garde jazz and classical cellist.
Friedlander has released nine solo albums and
three albums as a member of the John zorn-led
avant-jazz group Bar Kokhba. In high demand as
a session musician, he has played with a wide
range of artists, from pop stars Kelly Clarkson and
Courtney Love, to indie folk stars Dar Williams
and Paula Cole, to fellow vanguard artists Ikue
Mori (TBA:07) and Laurie Anderson (TBA:06).
Friedlander’s father, Lee Friedlander, has been a
MacArthur Fellow whose photographs of street
scenes and jazz greats have been widely shown at
galleries across the world, including the Museum
of Modern Art.
Development support for Block Ice & Propane provided by The Hopkins
Center, Dartmouth College; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
(PICA); Walker Art Center; and Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio
State University.
www.erikfriedlander.com
Winningstad Theatre
Portland Center for
the Performing Arts
Thurs . Sept 10 . 8:30 pm
Fri . Sept 11 . 8:30 pm
Sat . Sept 12 . 8:30 pm
Running time: 60 min
Seating capacity: 250
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rAImund hoghe
Boléro Variations
"[Hoghe] opens up spaces between things, words, and songs
for personal reminiscences and affective moments. They
are moments for reflection but also for laughter."
—Gerald Siegmund
Raimund Hoghe first encountered Ravel’s Bolero
when figure skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher
Dean gave a legendary ice dance performance at
the Olympic Games in Sarajevo in 1984. Hoghe’s
Variations pieces together different performances
of the bolero (a genre of Spanish music created in
the 18th century) from Eydie Gormé to Maria Callas,
Benny Goodman to Tchaikovsky. Performed by six
dancers, the piece highlights each body’s unique
physicality with minimalist precision.
Inspired to perform by Pier Paolo Pasolini’s
injunction to "Throw your body into the fight,"
Hoghe was born in Wuppertal, Germany, and began
his career as a writer. Until 1990, he worked
as dramaturge for Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater
Wuppertal. In 1994, he produced his first solo
for himself, Meinwärts, which together with the
subsequent Chambre séparée (1997) and Another
Dream (2000) made up a trilogy on the 20th
century. Since 2002, Hoghe has choreographed
group productions or duos that reinterpret classic
dance pieces, including Swan Lake, 4 Acts (2005);
Sacre — The Rite of the Spring (2004), with Lorenzo
De Brabandere; Boléro Variations (2007) and
L'Après-midi with Emmanuel Eggermont (2008) .
Boléro Variations’ US tour is presented with the support of the Federal
Foreign Office and the Goethe-Institut New York. With thanks to the
French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF). Produced by Cie Raimund
Hoghe. Co-produced by Les Spectacles vivants, Centre Pompidou Paris
(France), Festival d’Automne à Paris (France), Tanzquartier Wien (Austria)
and Centre Chorégraphique National de Franche-Comté à Belfort
(France). With the support of CULTURESFRANCE / Conseil Régional de
Franche-Comté / DRAC Franche-Comté. With the financial support of
Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf (Germany).
www.raimundhoghe.com
usa Premiere
Newmark Theater
Portland Center for
the Performing Arts
Fri . Sept 11 . 8:30 pm
Sat . Sept 12 . 8:30 pm
Running time: 140 min
(including intermission)
Seating capacity: 880
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tBa on screen is time-based media projects informed by visual art
and performance practices. Admission is included in the Flex, Immersion,
and Patron passes. Individual tickets are $6 for PICA members and $7
general admission.
tBa on screen is co-presented with Northwest Film Center, with
special thanks to Bill Foster. www.nwfilm.org
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CROCk: THE MOTION PICTuRE VIDEO STILL
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CroCk: the motIon PICture
Luke Cage and Prescott Sheng
"Crock means well, but bad taste, amateurism, [and] idea
ripoffs hurt it."
—The Oregonian, 1996
Chaotic, challenging, and absent of marketable
aesthetic, Crock premiered in 1996 and promptly
sank into obscurity. Filmed with Hi-8 cameras and
edited at Portland Cable Access, this feature-length
video stars artists and musicians from Portland’s
90s indie scene. Inspired by the French Foreign
Legion comic strip of the same name, Crock is a
messy and doomed counterpoint to the boosterism
and cosmopolitan ethos that eventually altered the
city’s character.
Somewhere in North Africa, revolutionary Pretty
Boy enlists the aid of Legionnaire Maggot to steal
the iron fist of Commandant Vermin P. Crock.
Meanwhile, Pretty Boy’s sister Flossie plots her own
overthrow of the colonial regime with the help of
her all-womyn militia.
The movie shares characteristics with a genre of
no-budget, underground films, and gestures toward
conceptual art as initiated by artists including Hans
Haake and Raymond Pettibon. Over a decade later,
the film continues to vex audiences with its weirdly
puritan perversity and disregard for cinematic
conventions. Celebrating the film’s thirteenth
anniversary, PICA brings together the filmmakers
and cast members for another look at this odyssey
of insurrectionary filmmaking.
Special Event : Jon Raymond and James Yu record live commentary with
interjections from cast members and special guests on September 5th.
Northwest Film Center
Whitsell Auditorium at
Portland Art Museum
Screening with Directors'
Live Commentary
Sat . Sept 05 . 4:30 pm
Sun . Sept 06 . 6:30 pm
Sat . Sept 12 . 4:30 pm
Running time: 80 min
Seating capacity: 376
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KALUP LINzY THAT'S WASSuP (2007) VIDEO STILL
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kAluP lInzy
Churen Trading Mess: Conversations Wit De Churen Episodes I - VII
Kalup Linzy has been creating episodes of
Conversations Wit De Churen since 2003 as
part of a multidisciplinary practice that includes
videos, performances, and music. Linzy's satirical
narratives are inspired by television soap operas,
telenovelas, and Hollywood melodramas. They
are intentionally irreverent and ripe with wry
commentary on race, gender, sexuality, and familial
relations. At once comic, raunchy, and poignant,
Linzy's unique narrative videos fuse dramatic
intensity and irony. Rarely seen outside of gallery
walls, this screening features all current episodes
in their entirety, spliced with special clips of the
artist's music videos.
Linzy has been hailed as one of the most innovative
of a new generation of queer artists, drawing
comparisons to John Waters, Jack Smith, and
RuPaul. Writing in The New York Times, Holland
Cotter observed of Linzy, "A star is born." Born in
1977 in Stuckey, Florida, he received an MFA from
the University of South Florida in Tampa.
Linzy has performed and screened work at The
Museum of Modern Art, New York; The London
Lesbian and Gay Film Festival; British Film Institute,
London; and Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium.
Linzy's work was included in Prospect.1 New
Orleans and was recently featured in a major
solo exhibition at the Studio Museum of Harlem,
comprised of more than twenty videos and several
suites of drawings. He is represented by Taxter &
Spengemann in New York.
www.taxterandspengemann.com
www.kaluplinzy.net
Northwest Film Center
Whitsell Auditorium at
Portland Art Museum
Sat . Sept 05 . 6:30 pm
Fri . Sept 11 . 6:30 pm
Sat . Sept 12 . 2:30 pm
Running time: 90 min
Seating capacity: 376
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JOHN HEY WINDMILLS OF YOuR MIND VIDEO STILL
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CIrCles And sPInnIng wheels &
IF I Could Crowd All my souls Into
thAt mountAIn
Curated by Melody Owen
The artist Melody Owen has spent the last few years
traveling in Paris, Quebec, Iceland, and the foothills
of the Allegheny Mountains. As she roamed, she
collected video works from artists she met along
the way. Owen has organized these works into two
distinct screenings. The first, circles and spinning
wheels, is a compilation of animations, minidocumentaries,
music videos, and experimental
films that feature the curves and planes of circles.
This simple shape of Euclidean geometry remains
constant despite the artists' different styles and
methodologies. The second, if i could crowd all my
souls into that mountain, features videos by an
international cast of characters who have stepped
from behind the camera and transformed into both
subject and performer as they document their
actions in the world.
Artists featured include Boris Achour, Guler Ates,
Barak Bar-am, Jean Charles Blanc, E*rock, Ben
Fino-Radin, Liz Haley, John Hey, Gretchen Hogue,
Cassandra C. Jones, Alexandra Lakin, Chris Lael
Larson, zak Margolis, Alicia McDaid, Ma Qiusha,
Daragh Reeves, Michael Shamberg, Sigtryggur
Sigmarsson, Catarina Simoes, Matt Underwood,
and Ola Vasiljeva. Melody Owen is an artist and
curator, and is represented by Elizabeth Leach
Gallery in Portland, Oregon.
www.thistlepress.net
Northwest Film Center
Whitsell Auditorium at
Portland Art Museum
Sun . Sept 06 . 2:30 pm
Thurs . Sept 10 . 6:30 pm
Sat . Sept 12 . 6:30 pm
Sun . Sept 13 . 2:30 pm
Running time: 80 min
Seating capacity: 376
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FILM STILL COURTESY OF CARTER AND YVON LAMBERT
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Erased James Franco
"This is my favorite performance of any I have ever done."
—James Franco
Recalling the intellectual gamesmanship of Robert
Rauschenberg's 1953 drawing Erased de kooning,
from which it derives its title, Erased James Franco
is simultaneously a study of the craft of acting and
of the fracturing—and reconstitution—of narrative
and identity. While filmmakers in recent years have
attempted shot-for-shot remakes of existing films—
most notably Gus Van Sant with Alfred Hitchcock's
Psycho and Michael Haneke with his own Funny
Games—the emphasis here is on a single actor,
alone on stage, recreating iconic film performances
that have been stripped of their original context.
In addition to re-enacting scenes from several of his
own past film roles, Franco also reinterprets a pair
of haunting portrayals of psychic disintegration
and renewal: Julianne Moore's role in Todd Haynes'
Safe and Rock Hudson's in John Frankenheimer's
Seconds. Denied the charged interplay with other
actors, Franco adopts a strangely flat affect, imbuing
the film with a quality that Carter describes as "like
bloodletting or a kind of cleansing…a building up
and tearing down, simultaneously."
Courtesy Carter and Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris.
www.carteroffice.com
Northwest Film Center
Whitsell Auditorium at
Portland Art Museum
Sun . Sept 06 . 4:30 pm
Thurs . Sept 10 . 8:30 pm
Sun . Sept 13 . 4:30 pm
Running time: 65 min
Seating capacity: 376
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no such Place is a phrase that might be written on a banner or
flag hung high on the building that these exhibits inhabit. Or it could
be a stamp on a map of a suspicious landmass. It is sometimes a loose
translation of the word utopia. Right now it is a title for a series of
projects about an amorphous time: one reflected by artists in numerous
ways, one that poses more questions than it answers.
When I set out to program this constellation of projects, I was thinking
about the art world's recent obsession with utopian visions and how
collectively we seemed to be searching for meaning. Then as our country
faced a stunning and glorious regime change, it felt as if a giant balloon
had been popped. All of the air went rushing out—there was a great relief,
there was talk of hope, there was great celebration. Still we were at war,
and even worse we could not hide from the mistakes we made: we could
no longer blame our leader; we had to blame ourselves. In this moment
everything looked different, including art. People started asking, "What
does it mean to be here in this place? In this time? What will define us/it?"
Artists are always future forecasting, and the artists included in this
program are no different. The ways they describe, question, and predict
are varied and unexpected. They document and reinterpret memories
and melodramas, they set up stages for you to direct the action, they
remove information or distort it, they create soundscapes, dream states,
altered states. They possess hope, but they also are not afraid to hint at
our anxious reality. They talk as much about loss as they do about love.
They are mining the now, the then, and the soon to be. They are making
a new world, one that does not yet have a name, one not yet defined. One
called, for now anyway, No Such Place.
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TBA on sighT
tBa on sight is a collection of installations, exhibitions, projections,
and gatherings by visual artists, curated and organized by Kristan
Kennedy, Visual Art Program Director, PICA. ON SIGHT projects are FREE
and open to the public from September 03 — October 18, 2009.
ON SIGHT Opening at THE WORKS at Washington High School
Thurs . Sept 03 . 8 pm, FREE
Residencies funded in part by the Kristy Edmunds Fund for New Work
and National Performance Network's Visual Artists Network. Supported
in part by Andersen Construction and the Prints for PICA artists
with special thanks to TODAYART Studios. tBa on sight projects
supported in part by:
—kristan kennedy, Visual art Program Director tBA InstItute
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CONSPIRACY THEORY INSTALLATION VIEW
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Conspiracy Theory
Robert Boyd is an interdisciplinary artist working
in the areas of video installation, photography,
and sculpture. His two-channel video installation
Conspiracy Theory, the first part of his forthcoming
project, TOMORROW PEOPLE, addresses issues
of social paranoia and civil distrust in an era
of questionable politics. The video covers
topics including government involvement in the
September 11 attacks, government cover-up of
aliens at Area 51, world domination by the "high
priests of globalization" known as the Bilderberg,
human invention of the HIV/AIDS virus, and the
bizarre "reptilian agenda." Incorporating audio
and video excerpts from syndicated radio talk
show hosts, international conspiracists, amateur
documentary filmmakers, and the mysterious
Commander X, Conspiracy Theory addresses some
of today's leading conspiracies relayed by their
most evocative proponents. 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?
Boyd's work has been exhibited at venues such
as the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
(2009); P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NY (2008);
Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT (2008);
Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev (2008); Peabody Essex
Museum, Salem, MA (2008); The Indianapolis
Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis (2007);
303 Gallery, NY (2007); PKM Gallery, Beijing (2006);
Kunst-Werke, Berlin (2006); and Participant Inc,
NY (2006). His work is included in several public
collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum in New York and the Fondation Louis
Vuitton pour la Création in Paris.
www.robertboyd.info
Pacific Northwest
College of Art (PNCA)
Feldman Gallery
Opening Reception
Thurs . Sept 03 . 6 - 9 pm
Aug 31 - Oct 24
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AntoIne CAtAlA
TV
In this series of works, Antoine Catala uses complex
technology and simple physical transformation
to alter television images in real time. By altering
mundane day-to-day television and displaying it in a
quasi-cinematic way, Catala instigates a new, nearpsychedelic
experience of the familiar medium.
TV is treated here as a continuous, unfiltered
flow, regardless of its content. Catala brings a
physical dimension to video, in what he calls
“video scuptures,” to develop a new psychological
relationship between the viewer and the medium.
Catala's practice, aside from making video, includes
performance-based works and curating as a
medium. A New York-based French artist, Catala
holds a BA in mathematics and was schooled in sonic
and fine arts at Middlesex and London Guildhall
Universities in London. His work has been exhibited
internationally at le Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville
de Paris; Galerie Christine Mayer (Munich); GAM
(Mexico); The Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh); and
numerous venues in Bordeaux, Berlin, London, Los
Angeles, Mexico, New York, Munich, Paris, Toulouse,
and Saint-Etienne.
www.aaaaaaa.org
THE WORKS at
Washington High School
Opening Reception
Thurs . Sept 03
8 - 10:30 pm
Gallery Hours
Sept 04 - Sept 13
every day, 12 - 6:30 pm
Sept 17 - Oct 18
Thurs - Fri . 12 - 6:30 pm
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Peter CoFFIn
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Peter Coffin was born in Berkeley, California in
1972. He has had solo exhibitions at Herald St,
London; Andrew Kreps Gallery (NY); The Wrong
Gallery (NY); the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Michael
Benevento, Los Angeles (CA); Galerie Emmanuel
Perrotin, Miami (FL); The Horticultural Society of
New York (NY); and le Confort Moderne, Poitier,
France; as well as recent group exhibitions at the
Tate Modern, London, and P.S.1 Contemporary Art
Center in NY. He is represented by Andrew Kreps
Gallery.
www.andrewkreps.com
THE WORKS at
Washington High School
Opening Reception
Thurs . Sept 03
8 - 10:30 pm
Gallery Hours
Sept 04 - Sept 13
every day, 12 - 6:30 pm
Sept 17 - Oct 18
Thurs - Fri . 12 - 6:30 pm
Sat - Sun . 12 - 4 pm
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WITHOuT SuN VIDEO STILL
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Brody Condon
Without Sun
Named after the classic Chris Marker video
Sans Soleil, Condon’s Without Sun is an edited
compilation of “found performances” of individuals
on a psychedelic substance. Images and sounds
from the various clips collected from the Internet
overlap and combine into one seamless experience,
creating a 15-minute pseudo-narrative focused on
the exterior surface of their "projection of self"
into visionary worlds. Condon’s global players in
Without Sun have this time recorded themselves
looking at the camera. Taking up where Marker left
off, these (inner) travelogues question memory,
perception, and the effects of current participatory
media and technology on culture.
Condon’s work is notable for its influence on
the repurposing of existing computer and live
games to create sculpture, performance, and
software installations. Examples include Youth of
the Apocalypse, a series of self-playing game
modifications based on Late Medieval Northern
European religious paintings, and the recent
Twentyfivefold Manifestation, a ritualistic
performative event with 80 players from the live
action role-playing subculture held at the Sonsbeek
2008 International Public Sculpture Exhibition.
Condon was born in Mexico and received his MFA
from the University of California, San Diego in 2002.
He attended residencies at the Rijksakademie van
Beeldende Kunsten in 2004 and Skowhegan 2001.
Past exhibitions include 2004 Whitney Biennial,
Pace Wildenstein Gallery and New Museum of
Contemporary Art in New York; the Yerba Buena
Center for the Arts, Santa Monica Museum of Art
and Machine Project in California; the Mattress
Factory in Pittsburgh; Kunst-werke in Berlin; and
the Stedelijk Museum Post CS in the Netherlands.
www.tmpspace.com
THE WORKS at
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Opening Reception
Thurs . Sept 03
8 - 10:30 pm
Gallery Hours
Sept 04 - Sept 13
every day, 12 - 6:30 pm
Sept 17 - Oct 18
Thurs - Fri . 12 - 6:30 pm
Sat - Sun . 12 - 4 pm
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FOREVER NOW AND THEN AGAIN
Whether it’s with painted toothpicks that
participants stab into an amorphous armature
or, as is the case with FOREVER NOW AND THEN
AGAIN, with several hundred painted, stackable
boxes presented for our collaboration, Jesse
Hayward creates installations that are intended for
direct audience manipulation. Utilizing repetition
and ritual, he builds and paints objects in his studio
that are then reimagined through a collaborative
installation practice, articulating a space wherein
boundaries are blurred. The sculptural commingles
with the painterly, the coactive with the drawn.
His work exists in diminished hybridization, with
multiple genres collapsing parasitically one upon
the other. Rhythms of color and form soften
and obscure their own structural underpinning,
foreshadowing the instability and immateriality of
all future outcomes.
Jesse Hayward received his MFA from California
College of Art in 2002. His work has been exhibited
at PDX Contemporary Art Window Project in
Portland, OR; Southern Exposure and Eleanor
Harwood Gallery in San Francisco, CA; and at The
Affair at The Jupiter Art Fair. In 2006, Hayward’s
work was included in the Oregon Biennial at the
Portland Art Museum. His work has been reviewed
in The Oregonian, PORT, PDX Magazine, Willamette
Week, and The Portland Mercury. Most recently,
Hayward was shortlisted for the Portland Art
Museum’s Contemporary Northwest Art Award.
The commission and exhibition of this piece is supported in part by the
Kristy Edmunds Fund for New Work.
www.jessehayward.com
THE WORKS at
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Opening Reception
Thurs . Sept 03
8 - 10:30 pm
Gallery Hours
Sept 04 - Sept 13
every day, 12 - 6:30 pm
Sept 17 - Oct 18
Thurs - Fri . 12 - 6:30 pm
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THE WALLS OF MY HALL INSTALLATION VIEW
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johAnnA ketolA
The Walls Of My Hall, in collaboration with Jan Wolski
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. The work happens in "selected reality"
as bodies are at rest and in calculated motion. The
surroundings they inhabit and the furniture they
sit upon are radically removed. Stark black, empty
spaces still reflect what was once there and what
has been erased. An audio soundtrack of live radio
broadcast is pumped into the spaces by small
radios, an echo of the present world colliding with
these suspended people. Although dark and eerie,
the piece also reflects a certain sense of humor, a
moment of hope that we carry on even when we
are represented in real or fictionalized space that
is void of support.
Working in video and photography, Finnish artist
Johanna Ketola reconstructs narrative that is built
upon her quotidian observations of life. This results
in both fictional and autobiographical characters
and stories, which often reflect her state of
being as affected by a kind of sweet and absurd
hopelessness about the human condition. Her
work has been exhibited at Kiasma Contemporary
Art Museum in Helsinki, Finland; in Holden Gallery
in Manchester, UK; in Espace Croix-Baragnon in
Toulouse, France; in Amos Anderson Art Museum in
Helsinki, Finland; in the following Finnish museums:
Jyväskylä, Rauma, Oulu, and Mikkeli; and in Gallery
Jangva in Helsinki, Finland, among others.
www.johannaketola.com
THE WORKS at
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Opening Reception
Thurs . Sept 03
8 - 10:30 pm
Gallery Hours
Sept 04 - Sept 13
every day, 12 - 6:30 pm
Sept 17 - Oct 18
Thurs - Fri . 12 - 6:30 pm
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NATIONAL PARk PHOTO: FAWN KRIEGER
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National Park
During her residency at PICA, Krieger will construct
a stage set as national park. The structure takes
its cues from Lewis & Clark, museum dioramas,
Superstudio, and the U.S.’s post-war middle-class
tourism pastime, the roadtrip. Inspired by the
artist’s own family cross-country trip in 1984,
she creates an inside-out, indoor landscape and
a meditation on mobility. The sprawling plateau
of faded and fleshy territories includes plush,
upholstered hills, craggy cement valleys, and cliffs
of fragmented cabinetry, while exploring notions of
the untouched and preserved.
Fawn Krieger is a New York-based artist whose
multigenre works reimagine everyday sites like
the shop and home. Her “stages” are inhabitable
sculptures that transform spectators into
participants and examine the politics of ownership
and exchange. Krieger’s Flintstonian tactility and
penchant for scale compressions reveal an unlikely
collision of private and public space, where intimate
moments also serve as social ruptures. She received
her BFA from Parsons School of Design, and her
MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate
School of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited
at The Kitchen (NY), Nice & Fit Gallery (Berlin),
The Moore Space (Miami), the Rose Art Museum
(Boston), and Neon>fdv (Milan). Krieger is the
recipient of grants from Art Matters Foundation
(2008) and the Jerome Foundation (2007).
This project is made possible in part by a grant from the National
Performance Network's Visual Artists Network. Major contributors
are the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, the Joan Mitchell
Foundation, and the Nathan Cummings Foundation. www.npnweb.org.
The commission and exhibition of this piece is supported in part by the
Kristy Edmunds Fund for New Work.
www.fawnkrieger.com
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Opening Reception
Thurs . Sept 03
8 - 10:30 pm
Gallery Hours
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CONVERSATION WIT DE CHuREN VII : LIL' MYRON'S TRADE VIDEO STILL
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Conversation Wit de Churen VII : Lil' Myron's Trade
Linzy continues his episodic soap-opera series
Conversation Wit de Churen with Episode VII, in
which Linzy portrays the melodramatic life of a
fictional family. This storyline follows Katonya and
several other characters through misguided love
affairs punctuated with dreams and distraction. The
artist serves as writer, director, cinematographer,
editor, and actor—and, in a distinctive strategy,
also voices and overdubs the dialogue of multiple
characters. Episode VII combines live action with
animated dream sequences which were developed
in residency at PICA and in collaboration with
LAIKA/house. From his original take on the soap
opera and family drama to his foul-mouthed
music videos and filmic shorts, Linzy's work is an
exploration of the emotional realities of aspiration,
disappointment, sexuality, and belonging.
Kalup Linzy was born in 1977 in Stuckey, Florida.
He received an MFA in 2003 from the University
of South Florida in Tampa. He has received awards
from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation,
Creative Capital Foundation, and the Jerome
Foundation. Linzy's work was recently featured in
a major solo exhibition at the Studio Museum of
Harlem. He has had solo exhibitions in The Moore
Space, Miami, (FL); Taxter & Spengemann, New
York, (NY); and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center,
Long Island City, (NY). Linzy's work was included
in Prospect.1 New Orleans, (LA) in November 2008.
Linzy lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, (NY).
This project is made possible in part by a grant from the National
Performance Network's Visual Artists Network. Major contributors
are the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, the Joan Mitchell
Foundation, and the Nathan Cummings Foundation. www.npnweb.org.
The commission and exhibition of this piece is supported in part by the
Kristy Edmunds Fund for New Work.
www.kaluplinzy.net
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Gallery Hours
Sept 04 - Sept 13
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Sept 17 - Oct 18
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BrIAn lund
Curated by Mack McFarland
Brian Lund works primarily in the medium of drawing.
His recent series of works on paper combine the
visual vocabularies of two cinematic sources: Oliver
Stone’s Wall Street (1987) and Busby Berkeley’s
choreographed dance sequences from Depressionera
Hollywood musicals. Every character and/or
action in every edit of Wall Street and the Berkeley
dance numbers has been graphically translated to a
series of marks. These marks cluster and expand to
form a map-like surface. Through an interweaving
of these diagrammatic forms, Lund interprets a
complex and layered multimedia experience.
Lund’s work has been exhibited at numerous
venues including Smith-Stewart Gallery, New York
(2009); Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York (2009);
Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ (2008); Real Art
Ways, Hartford, CT (2008); b42 Gallery, Oakville,
Ontario, Canada (2008); Moti Hasson Gallery, New
York (2008); Josèe Bienvenu Gallery, New York
(2008); The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
(2008); The Drawing Center, New York (2008); and
chashama, New York (2006). His work has been
reviewed in several publications including The New
York Times, Time Out New York, Art Review, and
The Journal News. Lund is represented by Smith-
Stewart, NYC.
Courtesy of the artist and Smith-Stewart.
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College of Art (PNCA)
Project Space
Opening Reception
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Aug 31 - Oct 24
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FROM NO.4 PINGYuANLI TO NO.4 TIANqIAOBEILI VIDEO STILL
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From No.4 Pingyuanli to No.4 Tianqiaobeili
Ma Qiusha presents her diaristic video No.4
Pingyuanli to No.4 Tianqiaobeili, a simple
confessional that explores the artist's conflict with
personal, parental, and societal pressures to be
successful. Holding a razorblade on her tongue,
the artist tells short stories about her life as a
young artist. She describes being compelled to
strive for perfection and she talks about a search
for meaning and understanding. She wonders
about her parents' approval and worries about
her value to society as an artist and a daughter.
Her speech is muddled and stunted by the cutting
blade. The video is both psychological portrait and
performance document.
Ma Qiusha was born in 1982 and currently lives
and works in Beijing, China. Her work was recently
featured in Personal Space, 24HR Contemporary
Art Center, Australia; Landscape Topology, Magee
Gallery, Beijing, China; Madrid, Spain; Anything
is Possible, CCRN Luxembourg; and REFRESH:
Emerging Chinese Artists at the zendai Moma,
Shanghai, China. Group exhibitions include the 35th
International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
(2006); Rumor Décor, ddmwarehouse, Shanghai,
China (2005); Beijing Documenta—Producing HIGH,
Beijing, China (2005); 920 Kilograms, Shanghai
Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
(2005); Archaeology of the Future: the Second
Triennial of Chinese Art, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing,
China (2005); 2004 Automat Contemporary
Art Exhibition, Suzhou Art & Design Technology
Institute, Suzhou, China (2004); and SCARIFY—
China Present Independent Video Exhibition,
Beijing, China (2004). Ma Qiusha is represented by
Beijing Commune in Beijing, China.
www.beijingcommune.com
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Opening Reception
Thurs . Sept 03
8 - 10:30 pm
Gallery Hours
Sept 04 - Sept 13
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Sept 17 - Oct 18
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PHOTO: A.L. STEINER
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robbinschilds + A.l. steIner
C.L.u.E. (color location ultimate experience)
with AJ Blandford and kinski
Inhabiting the intersection of human movement and
architecture, 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. Each sequence features
robbinschilds in monochromatic outfits, acting in
contrast and communion with their surroundings.
The artists traverse through desolate desert
landscapes, darkened parking lots, and geological
formations, responding to the environment through
choreographed duets. In a style that is obsessive,
persistent, and often humorous, robbinschilds
reveals their observations of the human imprint
on the world.
robbinschilds (Layla Childs and Sonya Robbins)
have presented choreographed and video works
since 2003 in venues including P.S. 122, Marfa
Ballroom, and The New Museum. robbinschilds has
created original choreography for David Byrne's
2009 world tour and recently premiered their
newest evening-length work, Sonya and Layla Go
Camping, at The Kitchen (NY). a.l. steiner uses
constructions of photography, video, installation,
performance, and curatorial work as seductive
tropes channeled through the sensibility of a
cynical queer eco-feminist androgyne. She is a
collective member of Chicks on Speed and a
founding member of the activist group Working
Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.). Steiner
is based in Brooklyn, NY, and is represented by
Taxter & Spengemann. aJ Blandford is an artist
and constructor. She works with individuals,
architects, artists, and organizations to help create
and build environments, sets, and artwork. kinski is
a four-piece rock band from Seattle.
www.robbinschilds.com
www.kinski.net
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Opening Reception
Thurs . Sept 03
8 - 10:30 pm
Gallery Hours
Sept 04 - Sept 13
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PHOTO: ERIC FISHER
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ethAn rose
Movements
Movements, Portland-based artist Ethan Rose's
latest sound installation, consists of over one
hundred altered music boxes, carefully timed and
methodically displayed across the gallery walls.
The tinkering creates a sensation of a shifting
texture, housed in a visually stimulating acoustic
environment. Rose uniquely blends electronic
devices with instruments of the past, including
player pianos and carillons, creating sounds and
compositions of new sonic possibility, rather
than musical preservation. Antiquated acoustic
instruments remain a consistent element to Rose's
work, with the 1924 Wurlitzer organ housed at the
Oaks Park Roller Rink providing the music for his
most recent album, Oaks, released in January.
Over the past ten years, Rose has released
recordings, created sound installations, scored films,
and performed internationally. He has worked with
a number of artists and organizations including Gus
Van Sant, Molo Design, and Portland Institute for
Contemporary Art. His work was recently featured
in a project curated by Tilt Export at Gallery
Homeland (OR). Upcoming exhibitions and projects
include an original score for the feature film
Nothing Personal and a collaborative installation
with glass artist Andy Paiko at the Museum of
Contemporary Craft. Rose was recently awarded
an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon
Arts Commission.
Movements was originally commissioned by and presented at Ambach
& Rice (WA).
www.ethanrosemusic.com
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Opening Reception
Thurs . Sept 03
8 - 10:30 pm
Gallery Hours
Sept 04 - Sept 13
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stePhen slAPPe
We Are Legion
Stephen Slappe creates a never-ending army of
costumed youth in a web project that mines your
photo albums for evidence of what the artist
calls “contemporary cultural indoctrination." For
TBA, Slappe will set up stations, online and in
person, in order to collect images of you and
yours in Halloween garb. He will string these
images together into a scrolling defense line of
masked society. We Are Legion addresses personal
history and pop culture nostalgia, and plays with
the technological innovations that allow for rapid
sharing of personal images. Slappe's work blends
humor, absurdity, and anxiety in order to reflect
upon notions of home, transience, and physical and
psychological escape.
Stephen Slappe is an artist and curator whose work
has been exhibited nationally and internationally at
the South Carolina State Museum; The Centre for
Contemporary Art in Glasgow; The Sarai Media Lab
in Delhi; Artists’ Television Access in San Francisco;
and The Art Gym at Marylhurst University in
Portland, OR. Slappe was the recipient of a Couture
award from the New American Art Union in Portland
for his 2009 exhibition entitled Shelter in Place.
www.stephenslappe.com
Submit your images
online at www.
welcometothelegion.org
Submit your images
in person at
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8 - 10:30 pm
Gallery Hours
Sept 04 - Sept 13
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Sept 17 - Oct 18
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CHRIS BURDEN TV HIJACk, 1972
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Curated by Irene Hoffman
Broadcast explores the ways in which artists
since the late 1960s have engaged with, critiqued,
and inserted themselves into official channels of
broadcast television and radio. By co-opting the
sounds, images, and presentation strategies of our
culture’s dominant forms of mass media, the artists
reveal the mechanisms and power structures of
broadcasting systems and challenge their authority
and influence.
The exhibition spans four decades of work by an
international group of artists. It begins with Nam
June Paik’s manipulated news footage from the
late 1960s and moves on to Chris Burden’s infamous
1971 hostage-taking of a TV host at knifepoint; and
TVTV’s iconoclastic broadcast from the floor of the
1972 Republican convention. The exhibition ends
with a 1980 work made by Doug Hall, Chip Lord,
and Jody Procter as artists-in-residence at a Texas
news station.
Recent works in the exhibition include the pirate
FM radio-station installation that Gregory Green
initiated in the basement of his New York gallery in
1995, neuroTransmitter’s live radio transmissions,
and Siebren Versteeg’s manipulations of cable
news.
Broadcast is a traveling exhibition co-organized by the Contemporary
Museum, Baltimore, and iCI (independent Curators International), New
York; circulated by iCI.
www.lclark.edu/dept/gallery
The Ronna and Eric
Hoffman Gallery of
Contemporary Art
Lewis & Clark College
Opening Reception
Tue . Sept 08 . 5 - 7 pm
On View
Sept 08 - Dec 13
Tue - Sun . 11 am - 4 pm
FREE
Parking on campus is free on
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CHARLES LE BRUN, MAN CLINGING TO A ROCk. © CROCKER ART MUSEUM, SACRAMENTO, CA.
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PsyChedelIC soul
Contemporary Reflections on the Masters
Curated by kristan kennedy and Stephanie Snyder
In conjunction with the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial
Art Gallery's exhibition, The Language of the Nude:
Four Centuries of Drawing the Human Body, PICA
and the Cooley have organized Psychedelic Soul,
two unique projects that fold past and present
into a vivid dream of the future. Psychedelic Soul
includes a video installation by French artist Antoine
Catala and a live performance by Brody Condon.
Both Catala and Condon explore the human body
as an ecstatic, revelatory organism, synthesizing
the corporeal and the technological. Catala and
Condon perform and manipulate the body’s
gestures and mannerisms in extremis, creating
visionary explorations of the body in the throes of
psychoactive and transformative experiences.
Brody Condon:
Without Sun Modification
Condon’s new performance with one actor and
one dancer, Without Sun Modification, will be a live
re-creation of his 15-minute compilation of online
videos of individuals on a psychedelic substance
concurrently installed at THE WORKS (see page
060 for details).
Antoine Catala:
Video Portraits for Vertical Televisions
About the glory of painting, this exhibit includes
TVs made from digital compression artifacts that
become containers for a commentary on the
Internet while presenting new ways of transmitting
information. On view throughout the exhibition.
The Language of the Nude: Four Centuries of Drawing the Human
Body, Old Master Drawings, from the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento,
California, was curated by William Breazeale, Associate Curator of Art at
the Crocker Art Museum.
www.reed.edu/gallery
Douglas F. Cooley
Memorial Art Gallery
Reed College
Without Sun Modification
Sun . Sept 06 . 6:30 pm
Calling all Souls: Gallery
Talk w/ kristan kennedy
and Stephanie Snyder
Mon . Nov 2 . 6:30 pm
Gallery Hours
Sept 01 - Dec 05
Tue - Sun, 12 - 6 pm
FREE
Located in Reed’s library
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TBA ouTside
tBa outsiDe brings the TBA Festival to Portland's public spaces, parks,
and natural niches. TBA:09 inhabits an abandoned lot with a sustainable
food feast; offers a series of silent building-side haiku slideshows; turns
inward and maps acoustic interiors; and creates site-specific innovative,
responsive performances to architecture and landscape. tBa outside
breaks boundaries, transcends spatial constraints, and creates moments of
beauty in the urban landscape. tBa outsiDe is sponsored by:
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PHOTO: HITOSHI TOYODA
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hItoshI toyodA
NAzuNA and spoonfulriver
Curated by Cinema Project
Hitoshi Toyoda is a self-taught photographer who
has worked exclusively in the medium of slideshows
for the past ten years. These silent slideshows
consist of images taken in the course of his daily
life. While the material is taken from the past, the
presentation of one image after another, appearing
and disappearing, places emphasis on the weight
and value of the present moment. His silent
slideshows have been compared to haiku because
of the way they encompass both the minutiae of
daily life and larger, unknowable forces that govern
that life. Toyoda only exhibits his work in live
contexts, clicking though the slides manually.
Hitoshi Toyoda was born in New York City and grew
up in Tokyo. He returned to the United States in
1990 on a grant from Neo Vision Co. For several
years, Toyoda traveled throughout the U.S. taking
photographs, before settling in New York in 1993. He
has presented his work in public spaces, galleries,
museums and film festivals such as Ann Arbor Film
Festival (MI), Images Festival (Toronto), Museum Of
Contemporary Art (Tokyo), Setagaya Art Museum
(Tokyo), Taka Ishii Gallery (Tokyo), Anthology Film
Archives (NY), and graf media gm (Osaka).
www.hitoshitoyoda.com
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NAzuNA
Fri . Sept 04 . 8:30 pm
Running time: 90 min
spoonfulriver
Sat . Sept 05 . 8:30 pm
Running time: 80 min
FREE
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younger
Ethan Rose, Laura Gibson, and Ryan Jeffery
For this performance, singer/songwriter Laura
Gibson, musician/sound artist Ethan Rose, and
filmmaker Ryan Jeffery seal themselves inside the
glass box of PDX Contemporary Art. The interior
of the space will acoustically and visually contain
a collaborative and improvisational performance.
Both the lyrical and musical content generated
by Rose and Gibson will be created on-site as
a reaction to Jeffery's projected images, which
in turn respond to the resulting sounds. This
recycling of material will help to guide the artists'
interaction while exposing the creative practice that
they develop together. They will create haunting
visual and aural landscapes that weave together
their distinctive styles. Audiences are invited to
experience the artists' live mixing from outside,
where sound will spill out and projections will fill
the gallery's windows.
This performance draws from studio recordings
that Rose and Gibson have been working on over
the course of the past year. Their work has centered
around stream-of-consciousness improvisations:
roughly formed sketches that are subsequently
rearranged, juxtaposed, and repurposed to create
new compositions. For this performance, they will
be joined by Ryan Jeffery, who will project images
that he has gathered as a response to their
recorded material.
This installation is made possible in part through the support of Jane
Beebe and PDX Contemporary Art.
www.myspace.com/lauragibson
www.pdxcontemporaryart.com
www.ethanrosemusic.com
www.wrongturn.org/ryan.html
PDX Contemporary Art
Sun . Sept 06 . 6:30 pm
Running time: 210 min
FREE
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PHOTO: PATRICK LEONARD
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PlAnted!
A Labor Day Picnic with Slow Food Portland
Show off your organics!
FREE!
Bring your own food!
Food carts!
Bread Friend Map!
ungames!
On Labor Day, bring your neighborhood picnic
to TBA. With a flurry of planting, harvesting, and
cooking, Slow Food Portland will take over the
TBA:09 lawn to stage a sprawling picnic that
reframes an abandoned lot within an urban grid of
neighborhoods and gardens. Planted in the heart
of a busy city, the picnic will blend conversation,
art, civic activism, and an agri-utopian vision. Bring
a meal you've prepared yourself, grown in your
garden, or foraged from local farmers. Share in the
making of community and the making of a feast.
Join artist Wayne Bund in a series of "ungames" on
the lawn; break bread with Tricia Martin, who has
curated a participatory project by Alexandre Bettler
called The Bread Friend Map; sample delicacies
from local street vendors; and make sure to bring
your lawn chairs!
Slow Food Portland seeks to reconnect people with
the food they eat and the cultures, community,
and production behind it. As one of more than
200 local chapters of Slow Food USA, SFPDX
carries out a grassroots mission at a regional
level, while participating in a global movement for
real food. Through lectures, tours, demonstrations,
and volunteer action, SFPDX works to create a
community in which every individual has access to
good, clean, and fair food in their daily life.
www.slowfoodportland.com
www.slowfoodusa.org
www.eatingisart.com
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Mon . Sept 7 . 12:30-4 pm
FREE
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PHOTO: KEVIN DOHN
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robbinschilds
C.L.u.E. (color location ultimate experience)
"The performance as a whole is a kind of choreographed
rainbow, with each band dancing its own dance. And they
are wonderful dances."
-Holland Cotter, The New York Times
robbinschilds performs a series of original
performances and interactions in, on, and around
the Washington High School grounds. They surge
and ripple through architecture and landscape.
A living collective organ, molten, expanding
and contracting as it responds to its immediate
environment. Curious and open. Red, orange,
yellow, forest, aqua, royal, majestic and purple.
Finds intrigue not only in the beauty of rock, ash
and earth, lake and sea, moss, leaf and open sky,
but in the whine of debris, lyric of cement, sorrow
of mall and hum of highway. Fluid as water or lava
or blood or air, moves through tiny gullies and
grooves, tastes to know but leaves behind only
what was already there.
robbinschilds (Layla Childs and Sonya Robbins)
have presented choreographed and video works
since 2003, in venues including P.S. 122, Marfa
Ballroom, The New Museum, and Autumn Skatebowl.
Most recently, robbinschilds was commissioned
to create original choreography for David Byrne
and premiered a new work, Sonya and Layla Go
Camping, at The Kitchen.
In November 2009, robbinschilds journeys
to ChristChurch, New zealand to complete a
monthlong residency at the Physics Room, where
the duo begins work on a new film and performance
project, ¡Bottoms up!
www.robbinschilds.com
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Mon . Sept 07 . 2 pm
Tues . Sept 08 . 8 pm
Wed . Sept 09 . 1 pm
Running TIme: 120 min
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PHOTO: MEGAN HOLMES
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tyler wAllACe & nICole dIll
Between us
Between us is a mobile performance-based
outdoor video installation that examines the lines
between private and public spaces, confidentiality
and disclosure, voyeurism and exhibitionism. Set
in a car, the artists have a "private" conversation.
The car is equipped with video cameras and
microphones that transmit live video and audio
feeds from inside the car. The transmission is
shown via the Internet for the entire duration of
the performance. Additionally, in the last hour of
the performance, the car is parked and the videos
are projected larger-than-life onto a nearby wall,
and the audio is amplified. The setup resembles
that of a drive-in theater. Unlike a traditional drivein,
however, the car in Between us faces away from
the projected image, converting the car into an
imagined stage.
Tyler Wallace is a Portland-based artist working in
video, installation, and performance to investigate
concepts of identity and personal history. Nicole Dill
is a Portland-based artist whose work interrogates
the function of celebrity culture in contemporary
society through photography, performance, audio,
sculpture, and installation. Both Wallace and Dill
recently defended their theses at the Pacific
Northwest College of Art, and received their BFAs
in May 2009.
Webcast 1 - 9 pm
Live 9 - 10 pm
This piece will be webcast
in real time. At the end
of the piece, at 9 pm,
the car will stop at THE
WORKS at Washington
High School for an on-site
performance. Visit www.
pica.org for more details.
Mon . Sept 07 . 9 pm
Wed . Sept 09 . 9 pm
Running time: 60 min
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PHOTO: DRAMAS (FILM STILL)
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FAwn krIeger
Dramas
This series of TV-commercial-length video vignettes,
called Dramas, features narratives constructed with
fake-real objects. As the objects are activated, roles
of subject and object flip, asking us to consider who
or what is really the prop in our position as consumer.
The brief exchanges focus on initial tactile contact,
often transforming trivial moments into intimate
reflection, and affirming a collision between those
encounters we remember and construct. Dramas
will be screened on cable television in Oregon and
Washington as part of PICA’s TBA:09.
Fawn Krieger is a New York-based artist whose
multigenre works reimagine everyday sites like
the shop and home. Her “stages” are inhabitable
sculptures that transform spectators into
participants and examine the politics of ownership
and exchange. Krieger’s Flintstonian tactility and
penchant for scale compressions reveal an unlikely
collision of private and public space, where intimate
moments also serve as social ruptures. She received
her BFA from Parsons School of Design, and her
MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate
School of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited
at The Kitchen (NY), Nice & Fit Gallery (Berlin),
The Moore Space (Miami), the Rose Art Museum
(Boston), and Neon>fdv (Milan). Krieger is the
recipient of grants from Art Matters Foundation
(2008) and the Jerome Foundation (2007).
www.fawnkrieger.com
On a TV near you,
randomly broadcast.
Sept 03 - Sept 13
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The woRks
the works rounds out the festival with nightly performances, an outdoor
beer garden, cafe, spinning DJs, theater, video, and art installations. THE
WORKS invites you to steer your TBA experience toward midnight. THE
WORKS is an ALL AGES venue except for tiny tba, which welcomes
YOUNG AUDIENCES free with a paying adult. Admission is included in
all levels of TBA passes. THE WORKS Pass: $50 members/$75 general.
Individual tickets are $8 for PICA members and $10 general admission.
Beer Garden opens at 10 pm, shows start at 10:30 pm.
the works is sponsored by Andersen Constructon, The Art Institute of
Portland, and BOORA Architects. the works Bar sponsored by Full Sail
Brewing and Bulleit Bourbon.
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wAshIngton hIgh sChool
531 SE 14th Ave Portland, OR
THE WORKS at Washington High School is in a mixed-use neighborhood.
Please be courteous to residents by keeping voices down outdoors and
parking in business areas rather than in front of houses. Better yet, walk,
bike, or bus! Check www.pica.org for more parking tips.
Built in 1912 on the site originally occupied by East Portland High School,
Washington High School is now a beautiful architectural reminder of a
design era long past. The halls, lockers, and built-in trophy cases still echo
with the activities of generations of students, while the classrooms hold
the wisdom of hundreds of teachers like Phyllis Finnegan, famous for
instructing her English class that "a split infinitive is no longer considered a
major grammatical sin." In the 1950s, WHS was one of only two high schools
in the US to offer Russian, and the school was known for placing students in
top engineering schools like MIT. One notable alumnus of WHS was scientist,
engineer, activist, educator, and two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling.
In a strange administrative twist, Pauling received his diploma in 1962, fortyfive
years after leaving WHS, because he was not allowed to take a required
course in order to graduate early.
When Portland Public Schools, faced with declining enrollment, targeted
Cleveland H.S. for closure, a parents' committee discovered that Clinton
Kelly, an early Portland settler and minister, had donated the property
specifically and solely for use as a public school. Faced with a hard choice,
PPS decided to close Washington High School and keep Cleveland H.S. open.
But the school's spirit stays alive, with an active alumni association and
yearly class reunions. Join PICA's community as we reinvigorate the toolong
silent halls of Washington High School with this year's TBA Festival.
www.wahicols.com
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gAng gAng dAnCe
Thurs . Sept 03 . 10:30 pm, All Ages
FREE Opening Night Performance
"There are those who make 'noise,' and then there are elegant, shadowy troupes
cobbling ghost languages and fractured dub into undulating biospheres. Gang Gang
Dance [creates] music for brightly lit graffiti-scoured parks."
—Pitchfork Media
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 New
York scene, with members who played or worked with The Cranium, Actress,
Russia, SSAB Songs, and Jackie-O Motherfucker. The genesis of the band
was collaborative in nature, with Brian Degraw, Tim Dewit, Lizzie Bougatsos,
Nathan Maddox, and Josh Diamond experimenting in tiny practice spaces.
Tragically, in 2002 Maddox was struck by lightning and killed while watching
a storm on the roof of his apartment building.
By 2003, the band had refined the tribal-futurism sound to its purest
form. GGD samples and processes beats and melodies, looping them into
pulsating rhythms that pull from ancient traditions but deliver a modern
sound. Exploring dance, performance art, theatre, DJing, film, and visual art
as well as music, the group regularly performs in galleries, museums, and
art fairs and was included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial.
Gang Gang Dance has toured with Sonic Youth, TV on the Radio, and Animal
Collective; played venues and festivals worldwide; and released four albums:
Revival Of The Shittest (2004), God’s Money (2008), RAWWAR (2004),
and Saint Dymphna (2004), as well as the DVD Retina Riddim (2007), a
multimedia project consisting of a 33-minute art film and a 20-minute audio
collage, both of which were drawn from the band’s archives and authored by
band member Brian Degraw.
www.ganggangdance.com
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exPlode Into Colors
jAnet PAnts
ChrIs hACkett (los moustAChIos)
Fri . Sept 04 . 10:30 pm, All Ages
“...ghostly drone funk that seems to come from far away, a subterranean punk struggle
with a slow dance...”
—Willamette Week
Explode into Colors teams up with fellow Portland locals, experimental
dancer/musician Janet Pants and the all-boy video wizard Chris Hackett
(Los Moustachios). They will build a performance of sound, movement, and
live video that will bring back the conversations you had while you were
dreaming and turn them into a ringing in your ears.
Explode into Colors is a band from Portland that won’t do it unless it’s fun.
Heather Treadway, Claudia Meza, and Lisa Schonberg play heavy rhythms,
pulsing bass, and melodic echo that has been described as “gritty dancepunk,”
“the late-night love child of Fela Kuti and ESG,” and “completely
unclassifiable.” Whether performing in basements, living rooms, galleries, or
stages, their intention is to positively affect their audience with music that
will make them dance. They are fond of celebrations and collaborations with
talented local artists that have inspired them. They are also known to make
clothes, videos, pictures of all kinds, and studies of insects.
Jane Paik began producing works under the name Janet Pants in 1997 and
founded the Janet Pants Dans Theeatre (later Leg and Pants Dans Theeatre)
in 2001. Often hailed as a pioneer in bringing experimental modern dance to
the underground music scene—in a style that has been described as "punk
rock in dance form"—she continues to mash together her take on dance/
film/music in various performances, videos, and sounds.
www.myspace.com/explodeintocolors
www.paperdollfashion.com
www.janetpants.com
http://losmoustachios.com
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HOT LITTLE HANDS DIDACTIC IDENTITY AS PART OF TEN TINY DANCES AT TBA:08 PHOTO: WAYNE BUND
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ten tIny dAnCes
Sat . Sept 05 . 10:30 pm, All Ages
"...you mustn't be afraid of Ten Tiny Dances. These are professionals, not 'Gong Show'
contestants."
—The Oregonian
A TBA audience favorite, Ten Tiny Dances (TTD) is back. An experiment
in confined space, TTD is a performance series dedicated to fostering
inventive dance/performance art and providing an accessible and exciting
performance experience for a diverse audience—all on a 4x4-foot stage.
Since 2002, the small stage of TTD has been the crucible for an everexpanding
catalogue of creation and performance: 135 new dance works, 88
emerging as well as established artists, 13 engaging and accessible venues,
and 3 cities. What began as a playful and simple idea has become one of the
Northwest's most popular performance series.
Produced by Portland choreographer Mike Barber, TTD challenges artists to
collapse known vocabulary as well as to make new material that responds to
the possibilities of the space. Choreographers create work that stays on the
stage—performing without stepping off the stage for more than 15 seconds
at a time and not farther than one foot away. Freed from the pressure of
infinite possibility though the constraint of the stage, the artists of TTD
continue to rise to the challenge and opportunity of 16 square feet.
The 18th edition of Ten Tiny Dances features a festive program of new work
by artists including Janet Pants, Wade Mansen, Fever Theatre, POV, Linda K.
Johnson, Cydney Wilkes, Hot Little Hands, and other special guests.
www.tentinydances.org
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KINSKI PHOTO: DAVID BELISLE
ROBBINSCHILDS PHOTO: A.L. STEINER
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kInskI / C.l.u.e. lIve
With robbinschilds in collaboration with A.L. Steiner and AJ Blandford
Sun . Sept 06 . 10:30 pm, All Ages
"In terms of sheer grandeur, kinski already intimates genius."
—The Stranger
C.L.u.E. Live is a psychedelic dance/rock/video/installation experience. An
original score is performed live by Seattle-based band Kinski, with dualscreen
projected video made in collaboration with A.L. Steiner, and set
installation created with AJ Blandford. Amidst an explosive sonic journey,
performance duo robbinschilds utilize their inventive, quirky movement
style to traverse through inanimate, human, and extra-pedestrian states.
Kinski bears comparison to Acid Mothers Temple, Oneida, and Tool, and
it just so happens that Kinski has toured with all three of these prog-rock
juggernauts. Comprising Chris Martin (guitar), Lucy Atkinson (bass), Barrett
Wilke (drums), and Matthew Reid Schwartz (guitar, keyboards, flute), the
band has released six full-length albums, four on the seminal Seattle label
Sub Pop.
robbinschilds, formed in 2003 by Sonya Robbins and Layla Childs, explores
the intersection of architecture, both constructed and natural, with the
body. The duo has collaborated with a wide array of musicans, artists,
activists, choreographers, dancers, and avant-gardeners, and has performed
or exhibited at The Ballroom, Marfa (TX); The Kitchen (NY); Dance Space
Project (NY); and the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain. In collaboration
with the pop-punk band Japanther, robbinschilds debuted a rock opera at
Performa 07 (NY).
A.L. Steiner uses constructions of photography, video, installation,
performance, and curatorial work as seductive tropes channeled through
the sensibility of a cynical queer eco-feminist androgyne. She is a collective
member of Chicks on Speed and a founding member of the activist group
Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.). Steiner is based in
Brooklyn, NY, and is represented by Taxter & Spengemann.
AJ Blandford is an artist and constructor. She works with individuals,
architects, artists, and organizations to help create and build environments,
sets, and artwork.
www.kinski.net
www.robbinschilds.com
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tiny tba wIth greAsy kId stuFF
Mon . Sept 07 . 10:30 am, Young Audiences
kids get in FREE with paying adult.
A day at THE WORKS that puts 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. Hosted by DJs Belinda Miller and Hova Najarian
of Greasy Kid Stuff, the event features excerpts of TBA Festival projects as
well as a family dance party. Staff from the Children’s Healing Art Project
will lead hands-on art activities, and the fine folks from indiekidfilms will
partner with Portland’s Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) to
lead a new interactive family arts project, “Diorama-Rama,” where kids can
print, fold, and cut their imaginary worlds into a real place.
Greasy Kid Stuff began in 1995 on freeform radio legend WFMU and
relocated to Portland in 2004. Hailed as “the best kid’s radio program of
all time” by Alternadad Neal Pollack, the show strikes a chord with punkinspired
parents looking for alternatives to mass-market kiddie culture.
http://greasykidstuff.vox.com
Children's Healing Art Project (CHAP) brings the healing power of art to
children in crisis and their families with a mobile team of teaching artists
working in Portland's children's hospitals. CHAP has created art classes
tailored to the needs of the children they serve in their partner facilities:
Doernbecher Children's Hospital and the Shriners Hospital for Children. In
2009, CHAP will work with over 10,000 children and their families.
www.chap.name
indiekidfilms presents films, by and for children and families, that screen
at film festivals around the world. indiekidfilms creates a global exchange
where every child's opinion is valued and creative work celebrated.
www.indiekidfilms.com
The Independent Publishing Resource Center facilitates creative expression
and identity by providing individual access to the resources and tools for
the creation of independently published media and art. Since its inception
in 1998, the center has been dedicated to encouraging the growth of a
visual and literary publishing community by offering a space to gather and
exchange information and ideas, as well as to produce work.
www.iprc.org
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AFroBeAt trIBute to mIChAel jACkson
COMMOTION with DJ Santo
Mon . Sept 07 . 10:30 pm, All Ages
"Do not forget about Portland's jazz scene. And if you do, God save you, let Darwish
teach you a lesson."
—Willamette Week
Calling all P.Y.T.s! Put on your dancing shoes for an Afrobeat concert
inspired by Michael Jackson's music. Innovative Portland-based composer
Ben Darwish will lead a nine-piece band interpret Jackson's songs using
Afrobeat techniques popularized by Fela Kuti. Featuring members of
Commotion, with Tahirah Memory and Gretchen Mitchell on vocals, and
master African drummer Neindow Mashud, who frequently performs with
Obo Addy. Don't stop till you get enough!
Ben Darwish is a pianist and composer who has been playing music since
the age of six. He attended University of Oregon and received a Bachelor
of Music in Jazz Studies. Upon graduation, he was awarded "Outstanding
Undergraduate Performer in Jazz Studies." Darwish has played with many
artists, including Kevin Mohagany, Rich Perry, Ron Miles, Devin Phillips,
Esperanza Spalding, Alan Jones, Reggie Watts, Bill Summers (of The
Headhunters), Stephanie Schneiderman, Ohmega Watts, and Ryan Dolliver.
In 2009, he was nominated for “Outstanding Achievement In Jazz” by the
2009 Portland Music Awards and recently released his second album Ode
To Consumerism with his band, the Ben Darwish Trio.
http://www.bendarwish.com
http://www.myspace.com/commotionband
http://somethingdifferentwithdjsanto.blogspot.com/
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sweetBerry sAmPled And leFtovA
kalup Linzy with Ben Darwish, Sam Howard, and kevin van Geem
Tues . Sept 08 . 10:30 pm, Mature Audiences
In SweetBerry Sonnet (2008), Linzy performs a variety of characters,
including Taiwan, Labisha, Katonya, Nucuavia, and Jada. With titles such as
"Dirty Trade" and "Edge of My Couch," the songs—all written and performed
with sublime theatricality by Linzy—trace a melodramatic arc of desire and
loss. Linzy created a music video for each R&B-inspired song on the album.
Linzy's sophomore album Sampled and LeftOva will be released in the fall
of 2009.
Linzy will peform songs from SweetBerry Sonnet, interwoven with video
segments produced as a result of an April PICA residency, along with local
jazz and rock rising stars Ben Darwish, Sam Howard, and Kevin van Geem.
Singer/performance artist Jamie Lee Christiana and singer Saqualla Allen
perform as Linzy's soulful backup for this special performance.
Kalup Linzy is an American video and performance artist currently living
and working in Brooklyn. In 2007, he was named a Guggenheim fellow;
in 2008 he received a Creative Capital Grant and a fellowship from the
Jerome Foundation. Ben Darwish is a pianist and composer. He was recently
nominated for “Outstanding Achievement In Jazz” by the 2009 Portland
Music Awards and released his second album with his band, the Ben
Darwish Trio. Sam Howard is a bass player and composer. He began playing
classical double bass and electric bass at the age of 12. He leads The Sam
Howard Band, plays and sings with singer/songwriter Kabir Green, and is a
member of the funk collaborative Commotion. Kevin Van Geem is a jazz/
rock drummer and composer who performs in several bands, including The
Rainy States and A Cautionary Tale.
See Linzy's video work Conversation Wit de Churen VII : Lil' Myron's Trade in TBA:09 ON SIGHT. This project
is made possible in part by a grant from the National Performance Network's Visual Artists Network. Major
contributors are the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and the Nathan
Cummings Foundation. www.npnweb.org.
www.kaluplinzy.net
www.bendarwish.com
www.samhowardmusic.com
www.therainystates.com
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dj BeyondA
I've Got a Hole in My Soul
Tues . Sept 08 . 11 pm, All Ages
"...the hotshit dance destination, where Beyonda's deep catalog of beloved/lost/forgotten
soul recordings sets the mood for the most dance positive of environments."
—The Portland Mercury
What do you need to get a dance party started in Portland? You need DJ
Beyonda. Born and raised in Memphis, Casey Minatrea—aka Beyonda—will
bring the deep soulful jams that dig deep into early 60s soul, ranging from
the sweet southern to the storming northern sound, rare Stax, and swinging
gritty late 50s RnB, all on original 45rpm records.
The 45, designed in 1945 by RCA Records, eliminated 78s in the late 50s and
rose to its peak in the mid-60s. After near extinction in the 1990s, the 45 is
experiencing a resurgence in interest. Revered for its design aesthetic and
superior sound, the 45 is a true gem of classic artistic expression.
For the last two years, beautifully ecstatic bodies have been packing local
speakeasy Rotture for DJ Beyonda's floor-stomping, rafter-swinging soul
nights. Do not miss the chance to join them on the dance floor.
www.stylus503.com
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neAl medlyn
...HER'S A quEEN
Wed . Sept 09 . 10:30 pm, Mature Audiences
"Mr. Medlyn is a chameleon, knowingly slipping on one outré pop persona after the next;
he also remains irreducibly himself: the ultimate outsider, nose pressed unabashedly to
the window of celebrity and fame… The split is just one duality in a rich welter of identity
games, yet the strange power his art possesses depends on it."
—The New York Times
…HER’S A quEEN is Neal Medlyn’s fifth pop-star opus and the first
installment in a two-part Britney Spears/Hannah Montana extravaganza,
built around the idea and music of Britney Spears, purity, and nonsexual
touch. Additional items involved include overlapping stories and bears and
abstinence and unwashed hair and dance moves and knives and snakes and
laptops and cuddle parties and babies.
The show is being presented in an early form at TBA. It features Carmine
Covelli and musical contributions from Farris Craddock and is being written
in consultation and under the supervision of Kenny Mellman.
…HER’S A quEEN is commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop’s Commissioning and Creative Residency
Program with support from the Jerome Foundation, The Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the
Arts (a federal agency) the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural
Affairs, and the Jerome Robbins Foundation.
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mIguel gutIerrez
Death Electric Emo Protest Aerobics aka DEEP Aerobics
Wed . Sept 09 . 11 pm, All Ages
“There are people who are born to make art, to make us think, to make us quesion what
we do, and Miguel is one of those people.”
—The Brooklyn Rail
DEEP Aerobics is a workout form invented and shamelessly disseminated
by Miguel Gutierrez, who hopes to soon destroy the technique, because
it’s just too hard to teach, and really the world is going to hell in a hand
basket anyway. It is one hour plus of the communal/political/conceptual/
imaginational workout experience you always wanted but never could
embarrass yourself enough to find or do in public. It is for anyone who
has ever had any interest in combining the joie de vivre that is the
vigorous bouncing of one’s anatomical/spiritual/energetic molecules with
the existential absurdity that is living in a world/country/economic system of
injustice, war-mongering, and cultural ineptitude. Come in a costume of your
own devising, whatever that means to you. Taste the sweat.
See Gutierrez's collaboration with Neal Medlyn as part of TBA ON STAGE in Last Meadow page 024.
www.miguelgutierrez.org
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wInnIPeg BABysItter
Daniel Barrow's Community Access TV Tapes
Co-presented and curated with Cinema Project
Thurs . Sept 10 . 10:30 pm, All Ages
"[Winnipeg Babysitter] affirms the importance of unpredictable individual creativity
and applauds the efforts of ordinary folks who routinely faced down 30 minutes of
potentially empty airtime armed only with grit, imagination, and sometimes a script..."
—Alison Gilmor, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Daniel Barrow's video presentation event draws on his years researching,
compiling, and archiving a history of independently produced television in
Winnipeg, Manitoba. In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, Winnipeg
experienced a "golden age" of public access television due to a brief glitch
in broadcasting history when Winnipeg cable companies were mandated to
provide public access as a condition of their broadcasting license. Anyone
with a dream, concept, or exhibitionist politic would be endowed with
airtime and professional production services. A precedent was set in the
late 1970s when the infamous Winnipeg performance artist Glen Meadmore
sat in front of a television camera and silently picked at his acne for 30
minutes each week.
Winnipeg Babysitter traces this and other unique vignettes that brought
the dream of television closer to everyday reality. Barrow will be present
to provide a magic lantern commentary, tracing the history of public
access television in Manitoba and describing the various and outrageous
biographies of cult classics that subsequently become urban legends when
the Winnipeg public access paradigm was axed in the 1990s.
See Daniel Barrow's Everytime I See Your Picture I Cry as part of TBA ON STAGE page 030.
www.danielbarrow.com
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rush-n-dIsCo
Thurs . Sept 10 . 11 pm, All Ages
The original YouTube cover band, Portland-based Rush-N-Disco
reappropriates found media into an absurdly entertaining assault on
the senses. Like a postmodern Elaine May and Mike Nichols, Greg Arden
and Alicia McDaid commit fully to their invocations of failed pop stars,
celebutante breakdowns, amateur pet videos, and exercise gurus. Acting
as oral historians of our information-overloaded age, they flow each
vignette into the next, creating an arc that takes the audience through
an incantation, a birthing, a love story, a descent into betrayal and death,
resurrection, therapy, insanity, religious zealotry, and finally, redemption—
depending on the show.
Though material is mostly inspired by YouTube, Arden and McDaid create
characters and situations that stand alone, regardless of one's familiarity
with the 'Tube. While some audiences might recognize everything from
"Talking Cats" to "Britney On Drugs," those who have not seen any of
the source material are still consistently engaged and drawn into the
performances. From the brink of cable access stardom to the edge of sanity,
Rush-N-Disco are the carnies of this hilarious yet poignant roller coaster
ride of song, dance, and stairway-to-stardom castaways.
www.rushndisco.tv
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oregon PAIntIng soCIety
Fri . Sept 11 . 10:30 pm, All Ages
"We listened to music of great expanses and found the places they emanate from led into
one another. Themes from western movies fell into alignment with the oceanic spirit of
surf rock, the Wall of Sound behind The Ronnettes gave way to the eerie machine babble
of science fiction. We went looking for a path to lead us through these places within
places and found a hole in an evergreen tree. Placing our ears to the tree, we heard the
ocean singing, "Be my, be my baby now..."
—Oregon Painting Society
The Oregon Painting Society is an art collective from Portland, Oregon,
formed in 2007. They have exhibited and performed at Fontanelle Gallery
(PDX) and Reed College (PDX). In collaboration with Dragging an Ox
Through Water, The Slaves, Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner, and Kent
Richardson, they will use home-crafted objects and sounds to take you
deeper into the mystery.
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heAlth / PICturePlAne
Fri . Sept 11 . 11 pm, All Ages
"...artfully crafted noise and raw synth, haunting monotone vocals, and drum skills that
are borderline insane."
—Rock Insider
HEALTH is an LA-based band. HEALTH is Benjamin Jared Miller, Jake
Duzsik, John Famiglietti, and Jupiter Keyes. HEALTH is noise, music, disco,
and fashion—and their shows mix, recombine, and reorient the senses. On
their self-titled debut album, recorded at their favorite club, LA's The Smell,
HEALTH shoots through 11 songs in 30 minutes, stretching the aural confines
of post-punk rock and roll. They have been compared to Deerhoof, Black
Dice, the Liars, and have opened for Nine Inch Nails on part of the Lights
in the Sky tour in the fall of 2008. Part of the band's unique sound comes
from the use of the zoothorn, a permutation of microphone and guitar
pedal. HEALTH says that you will love each other. HEALTH's discography
includes HEALTH (2007), HEALTH//DISCO (2008), and the forthcoming Get
Color (2009).
Pictureplane is Travis Egedy. Having cut his teeth on killer remixes for
Crystal Castles, HEALTH, Thieves Like Us, and worked with Beirut's
zach Condon, Pictureplane debuts with the anthemic and otherworldly
"Trance Doll" 7-inch. Grimy synths, broken beats, and bucolic vocals collide
somewhere between early 90s house music and the gnarly soundscapes of
Black Dice to forge a sound wholly unique and endlessly exciting. It begins
here: Pictureplane is going to destroy dance-floors in 2009.
www.healthnoise.com
http://www.myspace.com/pictureplane
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quAsI
Sat . Sept 12 . 10:30 pm, All Ages
"[quasi] comes to the party packing heat, heaviness, and wicked riffs."
—The Portland Mercury
Quasi was formed in Portland, Oregon, in 1993 by Sam Coomes & Janet
Weiss. They have toured or recorded with, either individually or collectively,
Sleater-Kinney, Elliott Smith, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Built to Spill,
Bright Eyes, Heatmiser, the Go Betweens, Pink Mountain, Blues Goblins,
The Takeovers, Jandek, and numerous other less recognizable but just
as seminal bands. Prior to Quasi, Coomes was in the San Francisco band
Donner Party (c. 1983-1988) and both were in the Portland power trio
Motorgoat (c. 1990-1992). Joanna Bolme (Jicks, The Minders, Calamity Jane)
joined the band in 2006. Quasi still lives in the new, gentrified Portland and
will release a new album in the fall of 2009.
Selected Discography: quasi (self-released, 1993); Split Single 7" (w/
Bugskull) (Red Rover, 1994); R&B Transmogrification (Up, 1997); Featuring
"Birds" (Up, 1998); Field Studies (Up, 1999); The Sword of God (Touch & Go,
2001); Hot Shit! (Touch & Go, 2003); When the Going Gets Dark (Touch &
Go, 2006).
www.theequasi.com
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Bugskull
Sat . Sept 12 . 11 pm, All Ages
"Bugskull breathe ingenuity like the rest of us mortals inhale oxygen."
—Alternative Press
In Portland's hallowed history of rock, Bugskull is a shadowy influence. Born
in 1991 as the bedroom four-track project of Sean Byrne, by the mid-90s
the band had evolved into a three-piece rock ensemble—Byrne on guitar
and vocals, Brendan Bell on bass, and James Yu on drums—weaving a spacy
spell for the lucky attendees of their live shows, and releasing a handful
of utterly unique albums incorporating elements of electronic music, raga,
and alternately plaintive and poppy vocal work. 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.
After landing its first album-length cassette Subversives in the Midst
(Shrimper, 1992), Bugskull produced a slew of self-released cassettes and
then a 10-inch self-titled EP (Quixotic, 1993). The band continued to redefine
lo-fi experimentalism with Phantasies and Senseitions (Road Cone, 1994),
Crock: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Pop Secret, 1995), and
Snakland (Scratch, 1995). Byrne continued producing work after the band's
dissolution in 1996, including Distracted Snowflake Volume One (Pop Secret,
1997), Distracted Snowflake Volume Two (Scratch, 1997), and Bugskull vs.
The Big White Cloud (Scratch, 2002). Communication (Digitalis Recordings)
will be released Fall 2009.
The performance is accompanied by a live mix of projected images by
Portland filmmaker Steve Doughton's collection of original and found films.
http://trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=bugskull
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tBA sundAy hAngover hAngout
Pancake Brunch, Mimosas and Memories
"Sunday morning, praise the dawning..."
—The Velvet underground
Come together on the last day of the festival and
celebrate the past ten days of contemporary art.
You were up late last night celebrating; in fact, we
have been up late every night celebrating. This
is the day to relax, to reminisce, to let our minds
linger over visions of what came before and what
will be.
Let us gather together, eat fresh blueberry pancakes
hot off the griddle, lie in the grass and stare at the
sky. Let us raise our mugs of coffee, clink our
glasses of O.J. and sparkling champagne, and toast
the performances, happenings, installations, films,
chats, lectures, and parties that were.
www.pica.org for details.
THE WORKS at
Washington High School
Buy your ticket in
advance at www.pica.org
or at TBA Central!
Sun . Sept 13 . 12:30 pm
Running time: 60 min
$5 per plate, not included in
TBA Festival Passes
All ages
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tBa institute Go behind the scenes to find out how and why
artists do what they do. Through a daily program of chats, workshops,
and lectures, TBA INSTITUTE provides a platform for connection and
exchange between festival artists and audiences.
Admission is included in the Flex, Immersion, and Patron passes.
Individual Ticket Prices are as follows: Chats: Free to PICA members
and $5 general admission; Workshops: $10 members and $15 general
admission; Lectures: $5 members and $8 general admission. See
individual pages for details.
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dAnIelle goldmAn leCture
Close Encounters: Contemporary Dance and Theories of Intimacy
Danielle Goldman, professor at the New School
in New York City, will pay particular attention
to the choreographers presenting work in the
TBA:09 Festival who explore connections between
contemporary dance and theories of intimacy in
philosophy, literature, and histories of photography.
What happens when bodies, sensually complex and
laden with history, encounter one another at close
range?
Danielle Goldman has taught in the Dance
Department at Barnard College, the Performance
Studies Department at New York University, and
the Arts Department at The New School, where she
is currently Assistant Professor of Dance History
and Theory. She recently edited a special issue
of Women & Performance, exploring gendered
relations between music and dance, and was guest
co-editor for the Movement Research Performance
Journal #33. She has published articles in Dance
Research, Dance Research Journal, Etcetera, and
TDR: The Drama Review. Her book, I Want to be
Ready: Improvised Dance as a Practice of Freedom,
will be published by the University of Michigan
Press in December 2009. She is also a dancer who
has worked with choreographers Rachel Bernsen,
Judith Sanchez Ruiz, Anna Sperber, and most
recently, DD Dorvillier and Beth Gill.
www.newschool.edu/lang/faculty
Pacific Northwest
College of Art (PNCA)
Sat . Sept 05 . 2:30 pm
Running time: 60 min
Seating capacity: 200
$5 members / $8 general
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w.A.g.e. leCture wIth A.l. steIner
Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.)
"We demand payment for making the world more
interesting."
—W.A.G.E.
A.L. Steiner speaks about the work of W.A.G.E.
(Working Artists and the Greater Economy), a
New York-based activist and consciousness-raising
group formed in 2008. W.A.G.E. advocates that fair
payment practices be established for the visual
artists, performers, and independent curators with
whom U.S. art institutions choose to work.
A.L. Steiner is a co-organizer of W.A.G.E., along with
A.K. Burns and K8 Hardy. Steiner is a Brooklynbased
artist, writer, curator, and performer, and is
an instructor at the School of Visual Arts.
This lecture is free and open to the public. Artists,
performers, curators, arts administrators, politicans,
collectors, gallerists, and other interested/
implicated parties are encouraged to attend.
www.wageforwork.com
Pacific Northwest
College of Art (PNCA)
Sun . Sept 06 . 2:30 pm
Running time: 60 min
Seating capacity: 200
FREE
All ages
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tArek hAlABy leCture/PerFormAnCe
An attempt to understand my socio-political disposition through artistic
research on personal identity in relationship to the Palestinian-Israeli
conflict, Part One
"Halaby wants to stand up for the Palestinian cause, but
every attempt to confront the audience with flash lights or
a megaphone fails due to his own lack of commitment. This
failure, full of personal vulnerability, has seldom been this
clever and funny."
—De Morgen
An attempt... is the result of a research process in
which Halaby looks into the varying and matching
points between collective and personal stories
inside the choreographic creative processes. By
presenting this piece as a "product" in process,
to finish or resolve, Tarek relates the work to the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and he questions and
explores the ironies and paradoxes of art works
with a deliberate political content.
Co-produced by P.A.R.T.S.
www.parts.be
Winningstad Theatre
Portland Center for
the Performing Arts
Sat . Sept 12 . 2:30 pm
Running time: 40 min
Seating capacity: 200
$5 members / $8 general
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Peter kreIder leCture
The China Syndrome
"Truth is stranger than fiction..."
—Mark Twain
In conjunction with the release of a catalogue on
his work, co-published by PICA and Reed's Cooley
Gallery (where he exhibited his work during TBA:07)
and designed by makelike, Peter Kreider returns to
TBA for a chronicling of his participation in two
Chinese art exhibitions. 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 entitled The Blank Show in
Shanghai. The talk takes us on a wild ride from
concept to completion. Through correspondence
with the curator, work-in-progress documentation,
and musings on the state of contemporary art
in China, Kreider weaves a tale of cross-cultural
calamity and eventual understanding.
Peter Kreider received his BFA from New York State
College of Ceramics at Alfred University, 1995,
and his MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple
University, 2004. Kreider’s recent exhibitions
include The Ghosts of Coleridge (NY) 2009;
Material Afterlife, Grand Rapids (MI) 2009; The
Blank Show in Shanghai, China, 2007; Up as if
Down, Cuchifritos (NY) 2007; Tropical Punch, Jack
the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn (NY) 2007; and
Material World, Public Art Fund, Metrotech Plaza,
Brooklyn (NY) 2005. Kreider is the recipient of
an Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Socrates
Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY. Kreider is
included in the White Columns Curated Artist
Registry. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
THE WORKS at
Washington High School
Sat . Sept 12 . 4:30 pm
Running time: 60 min
Seating capacity: 600
$5 members / $8 general
$20 includes catalogue
All ages
sponsor:
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noontIme ChAts
A series of casual discussions with artists, creative thinkers, and TBA
audiences. Chats are included in the Flex, Immersion and Patron Passes
and are free for PICA members and the PNCA community; otherwise $5
general admission at the door. All chats take place from 12:30-2 pm at Pacific
Northwest College of Art (PNCA), unless otherwise noted.
tBa in a nutshell
Fri . Sept 04 . 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.
unpacking the shiPment
Sat . Sept 05 . 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.
working together
Sun . Sept 06 . 12:30 pm
Artistic partners Layla Childs and Sonya Robbins (robbinschilds), AJ Blanford,
and A.L. Steiner compare notes on the collaborative process, with special
attention to the integration of performance and visual media. Moderated by
Cathy Edwards.
labor Day
Mon . Sept 07 . 12:30-4 pm
Take a day off from school and come over to The WORKS at Washington High
School (page 090) for a day of fun celebrating local food and labor.
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tune in: Media saturation and Manipulation
Tues . Sept 08 . 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.
real time: Film and Performative action
Wed . Sept 09 . 12:30 pm
Images Festival Artistic Director Pablo Ocampo and Autumn Campbell of
Cinema Project interview artists Daniel Barrow, Nicole Dill, and Tyler Wallace
about strategies for creating work through real-time manipulation of images
and performance.
constructing identity
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.
inside/outside: Back to Back theatre
Fri . Sept 11 . 12:30 pm
Erin Boberg Doughton interviews Back to Back Theatre about their sitespecific
work, which addresses dynamics of insider/outsider, viewer/voyeur,
and public/private.
theme and Variation: raimund hoghe
Sat . Sept 12 . 12:30 pm
Cathy Edwards speaks with Raimund Hoghe and his company members about
their performance Boléro Variations, a dance theater work that reinterprets
both the traditional bolero form and classical notions of beauty.
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on sIght sAlons
A series of informal talks and receptions with TBA:09 Visual Artists and PICA
Visual Art Program Director kristan kennedy. All ON SIGHT Salons are free
and open to the public.
on sight opening
Thurs . Sept 03 . 8 pm, THE WORKS at Washington High School
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.
Fawn krieger
Sun . Sept 06 . 3 pm, THE WORKS at Washington High School
PICA Artist in Residence Fawn Krieger and PICA's Visual Art Program Director
Kristan Kennedy invite you to join them in Krieger's installation, National
Park, for conversation and exploration.
antoine catala
Mon . Sept 07 . 4:30 pm, THE WORKS at Washington High School
Visit with PICA Artist in Residence Antoine Catala and PICA's Visual Art
Program Director Kristan Kennedy as they discuss Catala's installation, TV,
and field questions from gallery visitors.
last chance walk through
Sun . Oct 18 . 3 pm, THE WORKS at Washington High School
Kristan Kennedy takes us on a walking tour of the visual art projects. Roam
room to room, ask all of the questions you were afraid to ask, and take your
last look at this year's installations.
calling all souls
Mon . Nov 02 . 6:30 pm, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College
Join curators Kristan Kennedy (PICA) and Stephanie Snyder (Reed) for a
discussion of Antoine Catala's installation and Psychedelic Soul: Contemporary
Reflections on the Masters (page 082).
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gettIng teChnICAl: workshoPs
Advance registration is required for all workshops—please call TBA Central Box
Office at 503.224.PICA. Workshops are included in the Flex, Immersion, and Patron
Passes. Otherwise $10 for members, $15 general. Visit www.pica.org for detailed
information on individual workshops. Space generously provided by Conduit
Dance, a nonprofit that supports contemporary dance through a dedicated
space for training, creative, and performance resources. www.conduit-pdx.org.
Meg stuart: improvisation as strategy
Sat . Sept 05 . 10 am, Conduit
Meg Stuart is known for her collaborative works with artists from varied
disciplines. In this master class, participants will explore techniques and
strategies for developing material through improvisation. 120 minutes.
Intermediate/Advanced Performers.
Michelle Boulé: contemporary Dance technique
Sun . Sept 06 . 10 am, Conduit
Michelle Boulé (Brooklyn, NY) is a dance artist, teacher, and BodyTalk
practitioner who has worked with Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People
(since 2001), John Jasperse, Deborah Hay, and Donna Uchizono, among
others. Her class includes guided improvisation, sounding, and phrase
material, with influences from performance, body-mind centering, The
Alexander Technique, BodyTalk, and Fitzmaurice voice work. 120 minutes.
Intermediate/Advanced Performers.
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Zeke keeble: Mouth Music
Wed . Sept 09 . 10 am, Conduit
locust co-director zeke Keeble leads a workshop on beatboxing, looping, and
real-time composition techniques. 120 minutes. All Levels.
Pan Pan theatre: Performance as an autonomous aesthetic activity
Thurs . Sept 10 . 10 am, Conduit
Gavin Quinn and members of Pan Pan invite interdisciplinary performance
makers, collaborators, and artists to this hands-on workshop about new,
unknown, and impossible practices of artistic expression born from new and
leading ideas. 120 minutes. Intermediate/Advanced Performers.
amy o’neal: hip-hop/contemporary technique
Fri . Sept 11 . 10 am, Conduit
Amy O’Neal will lead a workshop focused on a blend of contemporary and hiphop
technique. 120 minutes. Intermediate/Advanced Performers.
erik Friedlander: cello Master class
Sat . Sept 12 . 10 am, Conduit
Erik Friedlander offers a master class for cellists exploring traditional and
experimental forms. Bring your instrument, and a short piece to share with
the group, and wood block stands to protect the floor. Intermediate/Advanced
Musicians. 120 minutes.
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tBA on AIr, onlIne, on the shelF
TBA Radio/TV, the PICA Blog, and TBA Reading List
tBa radio/tV
This year Portland Radio Authority and WKRadio/TV join forces to broadcast
TBA Institute offerings, interviews with TBA Artists, late-night concerts at
THE WORKS, and other audible treats.
The Portland Radio Authority is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio
station. As a free-form community media source, they are committed to
bringing independent artistry and marginalized viewpoints into regional
and international view.
www.praradio.org
WKRadio and WKTV are the auditory and visual extensions of
Wieden+Kennedy. Both exist to inspire creativity through provocative
conversations, interviews, and artistic expression relating to the arts,
culture, music, and media.
www.wk.com/radio
tBa Press corps and Pica Blog
The TBA Press Corps comprises a group of volunteer artists, writers, and
photographers who document all the festival happenings. Their up-tothe-minute
musings can be found on the PICA Blog. Leave comments and
further expand this daily dialogue! The TBA Blog is hosted by the online
collaborative URBANHONKING.
www.urbanhonking.com/pica
Public library reading list
Broaden your knowledge of TBA:09 art and artists by checking out
Multnomah County Library’s online TBA:09 Reference Reading List. TBA:09
Artists shared the titles of the influential books, music, and films that
inspired them—and these selections have been complemented by the
crack reference wizards at the Library, who provided additional contextual
materials. Look for the TBA:09 Reference Reading List online and dive deep
into what makes time-based art tick. Get your library card ready!
www.multcolib.org
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FAqs
why is there a service charge on individual tickets?
PICA’s nominal $1 per ticket fee helps us offset box office staffing and administrative
fees so more of your ticket purchase can go toward supporting TBA programming
and artists. Please be aware when ordering online that there is a standard service
charge of $1 plus 5%.
can i share my festival pass?
Passes are non-transferable. Your name will be written on your pass and you will be
required to show ID with your pass upon entering each venue.
what if i am late to the show?
As a general rule, there is no late seating. All shows will start promptly as listed.
You must check in no later than 15 minutes before curtain to ensure seating, even if
you have a pass or a pre-purchased individual ticket. At 15 minutes prior to curtain,
any unclaimed seats reserved for pass holders will be opened up for individual
ticket sales.
what if i forget my pass?
You must purchase a single ticket at the door.
what if i lose my pass?
Contact PICA immediately and we will assist you in reissuing your pass.
can i bring my family? what does “all ages” really mean?
A note on our audience designations: PICA supports artists’ freedom of speech
and audiences’ right to choose what to see and hear. Due to the nature of live
performance, we cannot pre-screen all works for content. Performances are coded
to help parents decide which shows are appropriate for their children.
Young audiences = Created for all ages. Come one, come all.
all ages = Created for adult audiences.
Young people welcome at parent’s discretion.
Mature audiences = Created for adult audiences.
Content may be challenging and/or inappropriate for some viewers.
21+ = Admission with valid 21+ ID only. In accordance with OLCC regulations.
if i buy a ticket, does my kid get in for free?
Sure, if they can sit on your lap. Otherwise you will need to purchase an additional
ticket. Additionally, while we welcome children and babies, please note that if there
is any disturbance to the live performance, we may have to ask you to please wait
in the lobby.
is there a lost and found?
Lost and found items from all venues will be collected and brought to the TBA
Central Box Office. Please call 503.224.PICA to inquire about your item.
are venues accessible?
All venues are wheelchair-accessible. Please contact PICA in advance to arrange
use of elevator/ramp at Conduit.
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trAvelIng to PortlAnd?
Be our guest
Out-of-town TBA Festival attendees receive PICA member price on TBA
Pass purchase simply by showing out-of-state ID or an international
passport. Visiting arts professionals save even more. Find out how by
contacting PICA at 503.242.1419 x221.
traVel PortlanD
For Portland travel deals and discounts on dining, shopping, and
the arts, please visit the official tourism and TBA travel site www.
travelportland.com or call toll-free 1.87.PortlanD. For group travel
as well as special Time-Based Art Festival packages and incentives, visit
www.thejacobsgroup.net/portland or call toll free (866) 362-1039.
tBa:09 non-stoP
Get there fast! Direct flights to Portland are currently available from
over 50 cities, including Amsterdam, Boston, Chicago, Frankfurt, Los
Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Tokyo, and Vancouver, BC.
Direct train routes to Portland on Amtrak Cascades include Vancouver,
BC, Bellingham, Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, Salem, Eugene, and more!
Visit www.amtrakcascades.com for additional information, including
a complete list of cities and train schedules.
PortlanD art Focus
The world is coming to Portland. You should too. Experience international
artists, adventurous curators, and cutting-edge performances.
Learn more at www.portlandartfocus.com.
tBa travel Partners:
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Pica staFF
cathy edwards
Artistic Director
erin Boberg Doughton
Performing Arts Program Director
kristan kennedy
Visual Art Program Director
Victoria Frey
Executive Director
Jessica Burton
Development Associate
luisa adrianzen guyer
Director of Development
Philip iosca
Director of Marketing & Design
Jörg Jakoby
Program Services
& Technical Support
scott Mceachern
Development Associate
cynthia williams
Finance Manager
Pica interns
andrew Billing
Performing Arts Program
Derek Franklin
Visual Art Program
tBa FestiVal staFF
lindsay hogland
THE WORKS Coordinator
sarah Farrell
Volunteer Coordinator
russ gage
Box Office Manager
rob kodadek
Production Manager
andrea raijer
ON SIGHT Gallery Director
kent richardson
ON SIGHT Preparator
amy scott
Bar Manager
noelle stiles
Artist Services Coordinator
tBa technical staFF
Bill Boese
Jeff Forbes
Chris Herring
Jason Hildner
Lyndsay Hogland
Bobby Jones
Dug Martell
Meghan McNeal
Demitri Pavalatos
Kayla Scrivner
TC Smith
Jean Margaret Thomas
BoarD oF trustees
Michael Tingley, Chair
Nancy Barrows, Treasurer
Sally Lawrence, Secretary
Jana Bauman
Amery Calvelli
Bruce Carey
Kelly Coller
David Hopkins
Deborah Horrell
Kirk Kelley
Stephanie Kjar
Kelly Levandowski
Betsy Miller
Laura Othman
Eric Philps
Evan Reynolds
Michael Shea
Jack Walsh, Immediate Past Chair
Amy Williams
leaDershiP council
Howard Shapiro, Founding Chair
Gene d’Autremont
Leslie B. Durst
Pat Harrington
Peter Koehler, Jr.
Julie Mancini
Ethan Seltzer
Joan Shipley
Kathleen Stephenson-Kuhn
Jack Walsh
national aDVisorY BoarD
Edward Albee
Linda Brumbach
Ann Carlson
Kristy Edmunds, Founder/Artistic
Advisor for International Projects
Carol Hepper
Philip Glass
Melissa Schiff Soros
Robert Soros
Rebecca Stewart
Sally M. Stillman
Elizabeth Streb
John S. Weber
Dan Wieden
Paul zumwalt
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joshuA westhAver
In Memoriam
"Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest."
—Horatio, Hamlet
Joshua Westhaver, a beloved member of the Portland arts community,
passed away on December 11, 2008. He worked as a technical director
for the TBA Festival as well as performing and working with many
local organizations and artists, including City Repair Project, Conduit Dance,
Hollywood Lights, Jesuit High School, Miracle Theatre, Multnomah Arts
Center, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Oregon Bus Project, Portland Center Stage,
Performance Works NW, The Really Big Dance Company, tEEth, Ten Tiny
Dances, Third Rail Repertory Theatre, Tygres Heart Shakespeare Company,
University of Portland, the Village Building Convergence, and Young
People's Theatre Project. We miss you, Josh.
http://memoriesofjoshuawesthaver.blogspot.com
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tBA sPonsors
TBA:09 is also made possible by our valiant volunteers and committed members. We thank
every single one of them! If you would like to join the team, call us at 503.242.1419 or email
volunteer@pica.org.
Major sponsors
Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
Andersen Construction
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
James F. Miller and Marion L. Miller Foundation
Oregon Arts Commission
Oregon Cultural Trust
Media sponsors
Comcast
KINK.FM 101.9
OregonLive.com
The Portland Mercury
Sagacity
TriMet
underwriting sponsors
Arts Victoria
Australia Council for the Arts
Australian Government, Department of Foreign
Affairs and Trade
The Heathman Hotel
LAIKA/house
The Kinsman Foundation
The Mark Spencer Hotel
OTAK
Laura & Nawzad Othman
Prints for PICA Artists
The Standard
Charlie & Darci Swindells
Travel Portland
Twenty Four Seven
champion sponsors
Art Institute of Portland
Auswärtiges Amt
Columbia Sportswear Company
Leslie B. Durst
Kristy Edmunds Fund for New Work
Goethe Institut
Lufthansa German Airlines
makelike design
Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA)
Portland Center Stage (PCS)
Portland Center for the Performing Arts (PCPA)
TC Smith & Production Services Northwest
Travel Oregon
Work for Art,
including contributions from hundreds of
employees at companies throughout the
Portland Metropolitan Area
Patron sponsors
Arts Council of Ireland
BOORA Architects
Cinema Project
Culture Ireland/Cultur Eirann
Dublin City Council
Dunn Carney Allen Higgins &Tongue LLP
Gamblin Artist Colors
Half Drop Repeats
Philip J. Iosca of Hanna Andersson
Kirk Kelley
Lewis & Clark College
Northwest Film Center
Oregon Council for Humanities
Parrilli Renison
Bobbie Parisi
Bonnie Serkin & Will Emery
Joan & John Shipley
Reed College
Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust
Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF)
zipcar
supporting sponsors
Art Work Fine Art Services, Inc.
Jana Bauman & John Baker
Brad Cloepfil
Rick & Salle Hadle
Susan Hoffman & Fred Trullinger
Deborah Horrell & Kit Gillem
Linda Hutchins & John Montague
Philip J. Iosca
Dorothy Lemelson
Julie Mancini & Dennis Bromka
PDX Contemporary
Sandbox Design
Karen & John Spencer
Jeff Stuhr & Peter Kallen
Todayart Studios
Wieden+Kennedy
advocate sponsors
Stephanie Kjar & Adam Roth
Thomas M. Lauderdale & Philip Iosca
Carter & Jenny Macnichol
Betsy & Jeff Miller
North Star Foundation
Nate Overmeyer
Michael Tingley & Ellen Fortin
Damion & Heather Triplett
Paul Weiss & Jessica Scarborough
enthusiast sponsors
Topher Sinkinson & Nic Petersen
OFFICE PDX
contributing sponsors
Sherry & Rich Bader
Bill Bullick & Carol McIntosh
Carolyn Burleigh
Conduit
Annette Cragg & Cliff Torng
Morgan Ehlen
Barb & Dean Freeman
Mary Elliot & Mark Friedman
Trisha Guido
MK Guth & Greg Landry
Twink Hinds & Graeme Harrison
Margaret & Roger Hinshaw
Salle Humphrey & David Hyman
Robe Imbriano & Helena Huang
Michelle Kantor
Kimberly Krull & Harry Jones
Joahna Kuiper
Janet & Ron Lunde
Frances Maher & Kacey Baxter
The Jane Marcher Foundation
Adam Milne & Old Town Pizza
Jung Oh
Justin Oswald
Tifani & Paolo Parrilli
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Eric Philps
Steve Purcell
Sally Retecki
Brian Rupp
Luwayne Sammons
Lori & Dick Singer
Brandon Sprague & CJ Gabbe
Sara Swangard
Sharon Urry & J. Scott Soutter
Greg & Sharon Ware
Wendy Wells Jackson
Mark & Angelina Woolley
zilpha Yost & Lance Limbocker
with additional support From
Kimberly Barta & Jeffrey Wallin
Jen Brothers
Amery & John Calvelli
Joan Hayward
Eric Hinson & Kim Fetko
Burk Jackson
Gesine Kratzner
Ademar Matinian
Jeff Miller & Will Carter
David Oates
Mark Sotta
Michael Wellins
Dan Young
tBa Public Partners
Mayor Sam Adams,
City of Portland
Chris D'Arcy,
Oregon Arts Commission/Oregon Cultural Trust
John Carroll,
Portland Streetcar, Inc.
Eloise Damrosch,
Regional Arts & Culture Council
Todd Davidson,
Oregon Tourism Commission
Karen Goddin,
Oregon Economic & Community Development
Department
Fred Hansen,
Trimet
Anne Mangan,
Portland Development Commission
Jeff Miller,
Travel Portland
Vailey Oehlke,
Multnomah County Library
Virginia Willard,
Northwest Business for Culture and the Arts
(list from 06.11.08 - 05.04.09)
PICA's 2009 tBA Festival is also supported in part by grants from:
Become a tBA Festival sponsor!
TBA Festival sponsors receive special benefits designed to enhance the TBA
experience, including VIP access, invitations to previews, tickets to festival
performances and events, and sponsorship recognition at certain levels. For
information on becoming a TBA Sponsor, contact PICA’s Development Office
at 503.242.1419 x225 or email pica@pica.org.
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PICA suPPorters
Presenting
Leslie B. Durst
Major
The Collins Foundation
Diana & Bob Gerding
Regional Arts & Culture Council
underwriting
Nordstrom
McGraw Family Foundation
Dan Wieden
Wieden + Kennedy
champion
Ace Hotel Portland
Chelsea Cain & Marc Mohan
Linda Hutchins & John Montague
Kirk Kelley
Anne K. Millis Fund of the Oregon Community
Foundation
Pop*Art
Howard & Manya Shapiro of the Oregon
Community Foundation
Al Solheim
Michael Tingley & Ellen Fortin
Travel Oregon
Dorie & Larry Vollum
Homer Williams
Patron
Jana Bauman & John Baker
Beam Development
Annie Bellman & Michael Woods
Dennis Uniform
Full Sail Brewing Company
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Stephanie Kjar & Adam Roth
Peter Koehler & Noel Hanlon
M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust Employee
Matching Gift Program
New Deal Vodka
Jim Sampson & Geoff Beasley
Joan & John Shipley
Rebecca & Alexander Stewart
supporting
Louisa Brown
Steven Cantor & Jessie Jonas
Daniel Deutsch
Nora Diver and Clifford P. Diver Jr.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Victoria Frey & Peter Leitner
MK Guth & Greg Landry
LAIKA/house Employee Matching Gift Program
Le Happy
Pat & Kelley Harrington
David Hopkins & Rick Younge
Deborah Horrell & Kit Gillem
The Jackson Foundation
Dennis Johnson
Anna Kuang
Sally & John Lawrence
Julie Mancini & Dennis Bromka
supporting cont'd
Betsy & Jeff Miller
Casey Mills & Carmen Calzacorta
Steven Neighorn
Larry Richards, Jez Foundation
Mark Russell & Jennifer Goodale
Ethan Seltzer & Melanie Plaut
Michael Shea & Kelly Tweeden
Jack Walsh & Denise Turner Walsh
Amy L. Williams
Cynthia Williams & Tripp Somerville
advocate
Cynthia & Steven Addams
Luisa Adrianzen Guyer & Leigh Guyer
Anonymous
Nancy & John Barrows
Amery & John Calvelli
Philip Cole
Kathleen Lewis
Luxco, Pearl Vodka
Barry Pelzner & Deborah Pollack
Portland Mercury
St. Cupcake
Lawrence zicklin
enthusiast
Twink Hinds & Graeme Harrison
Joan Hoffman
Kim Thomas & John Morrison
contributing
Jamin Aasum
Carole Alexander
Paula Amato & Eve Golden
Anonymous
Patricia Barnes
Kathleen & John Bayer
Doug Beebe & Tom Cotter
Christine Bourdette & Ricardo Lovett
Jessica Burton & Matt Rhoads
Kim Carlson & Larry Shatuck
Philip & Melinda Conti
Michael Corrigan & Susan Otter
Matthew Cross
Elizabeth Anne & Jim Crumpacker
Lenore Davis
Gun Denhart
Carol & Byron Ferris
Greg & Debbie Flinders
Gina Franzosa
Wendy Fuller
Kameron Gates
Ellen George & Jerry Mayer
Michael Griggs
Adam Guggenheim
Bill Hart
contributing cont'd
Jonathan Hart & Patrick Long
John & Meredith Hines
Anselm Hook
Sarah Hoopes & Patrick Sullivan
Julie Huffaker & Leslie Bevan
Cecelia & Robert Huntington
IBM International Foundation Matching Gifts
Program
Intel Volunteer Grant Program
Erica Johnson
Mary & Tim Johnson
Heather Jones
Jim Kalvelage & Barbara LaMack
Peggy Kendellen & Doug Prior
David Kennedy
Drieke Leenknegt & Tom Schutyser
John Light & Patricia Barnes
Thomas Mack & Archie Curtis
Jennifer Maxwell-Muir
Robert Melchior
Merrill Lynch Matching Gifts Program
Michael & Sherry Mills
Jeffrey Morgan
Alise Munson
Scott Murray & Nancy Winters
Abby & Conrad Myers
Kathryn Nagy
Madeline Nelson & Jim Lafky
Nike Employee Match Program
John Nolan
Phyllis & Warren Oster
Melissa Owens & Tom Clark
Erik Palmer & Kathryn Holland
Eric Philps
Steven Pinger & Katharine Sammons
Sandy Polishuk
Foy Renfro
Karl Richter
Laura & Steve Russell
Florence Schauffler
James Scott & Elaine Robin
Abigail Spring
Melissa Stauffer
Allan Steele
Colin Thacher
Ellen Thomas & Fred Cann
Nancy & George Thorn
Barry Tonkin
Josh Tonnesen
Frederick & Maureen Wearn
Sarah Wiebeson
Sarah Wolf-Newlands & Donald Newlands
zilpha Yost & Lance Limbocker
(list from 06.11.08 - 05.04.09)
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NAzuNA PHOTO: HITOSHI TOYODA
venues
Transit Tracker: 503.238.7433 or www.trimet.org
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Conduit
918 SW Yamhill, Suite 401 / Stop ID # 8333(E), 8384(W)
douglas F. Cooley memorial Art gallery, reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, in Reed's library / Stop ID # 7360(N), 7358(S) Bus 19 Woodstock
the ronna and eric hoffman gallery of Art at lewis & Clark College
397 SW Palatine Hill Rd / Stop ID # 12732 Bus 39 Lewis & Clark
memorial Coliseum
1401 N Wheeler Ave / Rose Quarter Transit Center
newmark theatre: Portland Center for the Performing Arts
1111 SW Broadway (at Main) / Stop ID # 7593(S), 12767(N)
northwest Film Center whitsell Auditorium at Portland Art museum
1219 SW Park / Stop ID # 3049(W), 1108(E)
Pdx Contemporary Art
925 NW Flanders / Stop ID # 10772(N), 2007(W)
PnCA (Pacific northwest College of Art)
1241 NW Johnson / Stop ID # 10752(E), 2030(W)
Portland Center stage: gerding theater at the Armory main stage
128 NW 11th Ave / Stop ID # 10791(W), 1607(E)
PICA/tBA CentrAl Box oFFICe
224 NW 13th Ave (between Davis & Everett) / Stop ID # 1608(E), 11032(W)
the works @ washington high school
531 SE 14th Ave / Stop ID # 627(W), 6009(S) Bus 15 Belmont, Bus 70
winningstad theatre: Portland Center for the Performing Arts
1111 SW Broadway (at Main) / Stop ID # 7593(S), 12767(N)
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to sAlem/eugene
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lewis & Clark College
397 Palatine Hill Rd.
FAreless squAre
The light grey area indicates
Fareless Square, a 330-block area
in which all rides on TriMet buses,
Max Light Rail trains, and Portland
Streetcars are always free.
Max light rail
light rail stop
Portland streetcar
streetcar stop
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5
to oCeAn BeAChes
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Cooley gallery at reed College
Morrison Bridge to 99East/MLK
Exit Eastmorland/Reed
Right onto SE Bybee
End SE 28th Avenue/SE Woodstock
the works at
washington high school
531 SE 14th Ave.
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1401 N Wheeler Ave.
north
to seAttle
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sChedule : overvIew
on stAge
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Event
Staycation!
Stuart/Gehmacher
Young Jean Lee's Theater Co.
Miguel Gutierrez Powerful People
Pink Martini
locust
Daniel Barrow
Back to Back Theatre
Back to Back Theatre
Pan Pan Theatre
AMYO / tinyrage
Erik Friedlander
Raimund Hoghe
on sCreen
Page
044
046
048
050
Venue
WORKS
Newmark
Gerding
Winningstad
Coliseum
WORKS
Whitsell
TBD
TBD
Winningstad
WORKS
Winningstad
Newmark
the works At wAshIngton hIgh sChool
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Event
Crock: The Motion Picture
Kalup Linzy
circles & wheels/crowd all my...
Carter
Event
Free Opening Night: Gang Gang
Explode/Janet Pants/Moustachios
Ten Tiny Dances
Kinski/robbinschilds
tiny tba with Greasy Kid Stuff
Afrobeat Tribute to Jackson
Kalup Linzy SweetBerry
DJ Beyonda
Neal Medlyn
Miguel Gutierrez
Winnipeg Babysitter
Rush-N-Disco
Oregon Painting Society
HEALTH/Pictureplane
Quasi
Bugskull
Sunday Hangover Hangout
Venue
Whitsell
Whitsell
Whitsell
Whitsell
Minutes
210
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120
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140
Minutes
80
90
80
65
Thurs 03 Fri 04
8:30 pm
6:30 pm
6:30 pm
Sat 05
8:30 pm
12:00 pm
6:30 pm
TBD
Thurs 03 Fri 04 Sat 05
4:30 pm
6:30 pm
on sIght: Visual Art Projects are FREE and open to the public. See page 052 for
more information. the works at washington high school: Sept 4 - Sept 13, every
day, 12 - 6:30 pm; Sept 17 - Oct 18, Thurs - Fri, 12 - 6:30 pm and Sat - Sun, 12 - 4 pm.
Pacific northwest college of art (Pnca): Aug 31 - Oct 24, every day, 10 am - 7 pm.
the ronna and eric hoffman gallery of contemporary art lewis & clark college:
Sept 08 - Dec 13, Tue - Sun, 11 am - 4 pm. Douglas F. cooley Memorial art gallery,
reed college: Sept 01 - Dec 05, Tue - Sun, 12 - 6 pm.
Sun 06
8:30 pm
6:30 pm
Sun 06
6:30 pm
2:30 pm
4:30 pm
Mon 07
12:30 pm
8:30 pm
6:30 pm
8:30 pm
Tues 08
6:30 pm
8:30 pm
Wed 09
6:30 pm
6:30 pm
8:30 pm
Thurs 10
12:30 pm
6:30 pm
6:30 pm
6:30 pm
8:30 pm
Mon 07 Tues 08 Wed 09 Thurs 10
6:30 pm
8:30 pm
Fri 11
12:30 pm
6:30 pm
6:30 pm
6:30 pm
8:30 pm
8:30 pm
Sat 12
12:30 pm
6:30 pm
6:30 pm
6:30 pm
8:30 pm
8:30 pm
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Audience Thurs 03 Fri 04 Sat 05
Sun 06 Mon 07 Tues 08 Wed 09 Thurs 10 Fri 11 Sat 12 Sun 13
All Ages
10:30 pm
All Ages
10:30 pm
All Ages
10:30 pm
All Ages
10:30 pm
Young Audiences
10:30 am
All Ages
10:30 pm
Mature Audiences
10:30 pm
All Ages
11:00 pm
Mature Audiences
10:30 pm
All Ages
11:00 pm
All Ages
10:30 pm
All Ages
11:00 pm
All Ages
10:30 pm
All Ages
11:00 pm
All Ages
10:30 pm
All Ages
11:00 pm
All Ages
12:30 pm
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Fri 11
6:30 pm
Sat 12
4:30 pm
2:30 pm
6:30 pm
Sun 13
Sun 13
2:30 pm
4:30 pm
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094
leCtures
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ChAts
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sAlons
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Event
TBA In A Nutshell
unpacking THE SHIPMENT
Working Together
Tune In
Real Time
Constructing Identity
Inside/Outside
Raimund Hogue
workshoPs
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150
150
Event
Brody Condon Without Sun
Hitoshi Toyoda NAzuNA
Hitoshi Toyoda spoonfulriver
Rose/Gibson/Jeffery
Labor Day Picnic
robbinschilds
Tyler Wallace & Nicole Dill (Live)
Event
Danielle Goldman
W.A.G.E. Lecture with A.L. Steiner
Tarek Halaby
Peter Kreider
Event
ON SIGHT Opening
Fawn Krieger
Antoine Catala
Last Chance Walk Through
Calling All Souls
Event
Meg Stuart
Michelle Boulé
zeke Keeble
Pan Pan Theatre
Amy O'Neal
Erik Friedlander
Venue
Cooley Gallery
WORKS
WORKS
PDX
WORKS
WORKS
WORKS
Venue
PNCA
PNCA
Winningstad
WORKS
Venue
PNCA
PNCA
PNCA
PNCA
PNCA
PNCA
PNCA
PNCA
Venue
WORKS
WORKS
WORKS
WORKS
Cooley
Venue
Conduit
Conduit
Conduit
Conduit
Conduit
Conduit
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Minutes
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60
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60
Minutes
90
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90
Minutes
120
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Minutes
120
120
120
120
120
120
Thurs 03 Fri 04
8:30 pm
Thurs 03 Fri 04
12:30 pm
Sat 05
8:30 pm
Thurs 03 Fri 04 Sat 05
2:30 pm
Thurs 03
8:00 pm
Sat 05
12:30 pm
Sun 06
6:30 pm
6:30 pm
Sun 06
2:30 pm
Sun 06
12:30 pm
Fri 04 Sat 05 Sun 06
Thurs 03 Fri 04 Sat 05
10:00 am
3:00 pm
Sun 06
10:00 am
Mon 07
12:30 pm
2:00 pm
9:00 pm
Tues 08
8:00 pm
Mon 07 Tues 08
12:30 pm
Wed 09
1:00 pm
9:00 pm
Wed 09
12:30 pm
Thurs 10 Fri 11 Sat 12 Sun 13
Mon 07 Tues 08 Wed 09 Thurs 10 Fri 11 Sat 12
Mon 07
4:30 pm
Thurs 10
12:30 pm
Fri 11
12:30 pm
2:30 pm
4:30 pm
Sat 12
12:30 pm
Sun 13
Sun 13
Tues 08 Wed 09 Thurs 10 Fri 11 Sat 12 Sun 13
Mon 07 Tues 08 Wed 09
10:00 am
Thurs 10
10:00 am
Fri 11
10:00 am
Sat 12
10:00 am
Sun 13
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tBA dAy By dAy : thurs . sePt 3
8:00 pm
ON SIGHT Opening, THE WORKS at WHS (148)
10:30 pm
Free Opening Night: Gang Gang Dance, THE WORKS at WHS (102)
tBA dAy By dAy : FrI . sePt 4
12:00 pm
ON SIGHT Galleries Open, THE WORKS at WHS (052)
12:30 pm
TBA in a Nutshell Chat, PNCA (146)
6:30 pm
Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, Gerding Theater at the Armory (022)
Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People, the Winningstad Theatre (024)
8:30 pm
Meg Stuart & Philipp Gehmacher, the Newmark Theatre (020)
Hitoshi Toyoda NAzuNA, THE WORKS at WHS (086)
10:30 pm
Explode into Colors, Janet Pants, Mr. Moustachios, THE WORKS at WHS (104)
tBA dAy By dAy : sAt . sePt 5
10:00 am
Meg Stuart Workshop, Conduit (150)
12:00 pm
ON SIGHT Galleries Open, THE WORKS at WHS (052)
Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, Gerding Theater at the Armory (022)
12:30 pm
Unpacking THE SHIPMENT Chat, PNCA (146)
2:30 pm
Danielle Goldman Lecture, PNCA (138)
4:30 pm
Crock: The Motion Picture, NWFC Whitsell Auditorium (044)
6:30 pm
Kalup Linzy Film, NWFC Whitsell Auditorium (046)
Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People, the Winningstad Theatre (024)
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8:30 pm
Meg Stuart & Philipp Gehmacher, the Newmark Theatre (020)
Hitoshi Toyoda spoonfulriver, THE WORKS at WHS (086)
10:30 pm
Ten Tiny Dances, THE WORKS at WHS (106)
tBA dAy By dAy : sun . sePt 6
10:00 am
Michelle Boulé Workshop, Conduit (150)
12:00 pm
ON SIGHT Galleries Open, THE WORKS at WHS (052)
12:30 pm
Working Together Chat, PNCA (146)
2:30 pm
W.A.G.E. Lecture with A.L. Steiner, PNCA (140)
circles and spinning wheels, NWFC Whitsell Auditorium (048)
3:00 pm
Fawn Krieger Salon, THE WORKS at WHS (148)
4:30 pm
Carter, NWFC Whitsell Auditorium (050)
6:30 pm
Crock: The Motion Picture, NWFC Whitsell Auditorium (044)
Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People, the Winningstad Theatre (024)
Brody Condon Without Sun Modification, Colley Gallery (082)
Ethan Rose, Laura Gibson, and Ryan Jeffery, PDX Contemporary Gallery (088)
8:30 pm
Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, Gerding Theater at the Armory (022)
10:30 pm
Kinski/robbinschilds, THE WORKS at WHS (108)
tBA dAy By dAy : mon . sePt 7
10:30 am
tiny tba with Greasy Kid Stuff, THE WORKS at WHS (110)
12:00 pm
ON SIGHT Galleries Open, THE WORKS at WHS (052)
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12:30 pm
Staycation!, THE WORKS at WHS (016)
Labor Day Picnic, THE WORKS at WHS (090)
2:00 pm
robbinschilds Outside, THE WORKS at WHS (092)
4:30 pm
Antoine Catala Salon, THE WORKS at WHS (148)
6:30 pm
locust, THE WORKS at WHS (028)
8:30 pm
Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People, the Winningstad Theatre (024)
Daniel Barrow, NWFC Whitsell Auditorium (030)
9:00 pm
Tyler Wallace and Nicole Dill (Live), Works (094)
10:30 pm
Afrobeat Tribute to Michael Jackson, THE WORKS at WHS (112)
tBA dAy By dAy : tues . sePt 8
12:00 pm
ON SIGHT Galleries Open, THE WORKS at WHS (052)
12:30 pm
Tune In Chat, PNCA (146)
6:30 pm
locust, THE WORKS at WHS (028)
8:00 pm
robbinschilds Outside, THE WORKS at WHS (092)
8:30 pm
Daniel Barrow, NWFC Whitsell Auditorium (030)
10:30 pm
Kalup Linzy and Friends, THE WORKS at WHS (114)
11:00 pm
DJ Beyonda, THE WORKS at WHS (116)
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tBA dAy By dAy : wed . sePt 9
10:00 am
zeke Keeble Workshop, Conduit (150)
12:00 pm
ON SIGHT Galleries Open, THE WORKS at WHS (052)
12:30 pm
Real Time Chat, PNCA (146)
1:00 pm
robbinschilds Outside, THE WORKS at WHS (092)
6:30 pm
Daniel Barrow, NWFC Whitsell Auditorium (030)
Back to Back Theatre, TBD (032)
8:30 pm
Pan Pan Theatre, the Winningstad Theatre (034)
9:00 pm
Tyler Wallace & Nicole Dill (Live), THE WORKS at WHS (094)
10:30 pm
Neal Medlyn, THE WORKS at WHS (118)
11:00 pm
Miguel Gutierrez, THE WORKS at WHS (120)
tBA dAy By dAy : thurs . sePt 10
10:00 am
Pan Pan Theatre Workshop, Conduit (150)
12:00 pm
ON SIGHT Galleries Open, THE WORKS at WHS (052)
12:30 pm
Constructing Identity Chat, PNCA, (146)
Back to Back Theatre, TBD (032)
6:30 pm
Back to Back Theatre, TBD (032)
Pan Pan Theatre, the Winningstad Theatre (034)
AMYO/ tinyrage, THE WORKS at WHS (036)
circles and spinning wheels, NWFC Whitsell Auditorium (048)
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8:30 pm
Erik Friedlander, the Winningstad Theatre (038)
Carter, NWFC Whitsell Auditorium (050)
10:30 pm
Winnipeg Babysitter, THE WORKS at WHS (122)
11:00 pm
Rush-N-Disco, THE WORKS at WHS (124)
tBA dAy By dAy : FrI . sePt 11
10:00 am
Amy O’Neal Workshop, Conduit (150)
12:00 pm
ON SIGHT Galleries Open, THE WORKS at WHS (052)
12:30 pm
Inside/Outside Chat, PNCA (146)
Back to Back Theatre, TBD (032)
6:30 pm
Back to Back Theatre, TBD (032)
Pan Pan Theatre, the Winningstad Theatre (034)
AMYO/tinyrage, THE WORKS at WHS (036)
Kalup Linzy Film, NWFC Whitsell Auditorium (046)
8:30 pm
Erik Friedlander, the Winningstad Theatre (038)
Raimund Hoghe, the Newmark Theatre (040)
10:30 pm
Oregon Painting Society, THE WORKS at WHS (126)
11:00 pm
HEALTH/Pictureplane, THE WORKS at WHS (128)
tBA dAy By dAy : sAt . sePt 12
10:00 am
Erik Friedlander Workshop, Conduit (150)
12:00 pm
ON SIGHT Galleries Open, THE WORKS at WHS (052)
12:30 pm
Raimund Hoghe Chat, PNCA (146)
Back to Back Theatre, TBD (032)
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2:30 pm
Kalup Linzy Film, NWFC Whitsell Auditorium (046)
Tarek Halaby Lecture/Performance, Winningstad Theatre (142)
4:30 pm
Crock: The Motion Picture, NWFC Whitsell Auditorium (044)
Peter Kreider Lecture, THE WORKS at WHS (144)
6:30 pm
Back to Back Theatre, TBD (032)
Pan Pan Theatre, the Winningstad Theatre (034)
AMYO/ tinyrage, THE WORKS at WHS (036)
circles and spinning wheels, NWFC Whitsell Auditorium (048)
8:30 pm
Erik Friedlander, the Winningstad Theatre (038)
Raimund Hoghe, the Newmark Theatre (040)
10:30 pm
Quasi, THE WORKS at WHS (130)
11:00 pm
Bugskull, THE WORKS at WHS (132)
tBA dAy By dAy : sun . sePt 13
12:00 pm
ON SIGHT Galleries Open, THE WORKS at WHS (052)
12:30 pm
Sunday Hangover Hangout, THE WORKS at WHS (134)
2:30 pm
circles and spinning wheels, NWFC Whitsell Auditorium (048)
4:30 pm
Carter, NWFC Whitsell Auditorium (050)
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Advance pass purchase is recommended as quantities are limited, and PICA
Members receive a generous discount.
note: Festival Passes are non-transferable. iD required at the door.
the works Pass
$50 PICA members/$75 general
Access to all late-night programming at THE WORKS (excludes special events
and performances). Discounts on all TBA:09 performances, films, lectures and
workshops. Discounts on PICA and TBA merchandise.
Flex Pass
$100 PICA Members/$150 General
Access to your choice of 6 Mainstage performances or films. Unlimited access
to chats, lectures, and workshops. Free admission to THE WORKS. Discounts
on PICA merchandise. *Note: does not include admission to Back to Back
Theatre's small metal objects.
Immersion Pass
$200 PICA Members/$250 General
Unlimited access to all TBA:09 performances. Unlimited access to all films.
Unlimited access to all lectures, chats, and workshops. Free admission to THE
WORKS. Discounts on PICA merchandise. *Note: does not include admission
to Back to Back Theatre's small metal objects.
Patron Pass
$500 ($275 tax-deductible)
Unlimited access to all TBA:09 performances, including one complimentary
ticket to Back to Back theatre's small metal objects. Unlimited access
to all films. Unlimited access to all lectures, chats, and workshops. Free
admission to THE WORKS. Discounts on PICA merchandise. Invitations to VIP
events. Listing in TBA Performance Program as a TBA:09 Supporter (pending
print deadlines).
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tBA:09 order Form
There are four ways to order TBA Festival tickets and passes.
1. Stop by our Box Office at 224 NW 13th Ave. Portland 97209
August 4 - August 28, Open Tuesday - Friday, 12 - 6 pm
August 29 - September 13, Open Daily, 12 - 6 pm
2. Visit www.PICA.org.
3. Call 503.224.PICA (7422).
4. Mail this order form to PICA before September 1, 2009.
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THE WORKS Pass $50 member / $75 general
Flex Pass $100 member/$150 general (6 performances or films)
Immersion Pass $200 member/$250 general
Patron Pass $500 ($275 tax-deductible)
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PICA membership
Become a member of PICA and receive discounts on TBA passes, tickets, and
PICA merchandise. Visit PICA.org for a full list of benefits or to join online.
$25 Artist/Student
$35 Individual
$50 Dual (includes additional membership for partner or guest)
$100 Contributor (above + listing in printed materials)
$350 Enthusiast (above + invitations to member-only events)
$500 Advocate (above + invitations to visiting-artist events)
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Artist / Student $25
Individual $35
Dual $50
Contributor $100
Enthusiast $350
Advocate $500
Sponsor $1000
Other $
methods of Payment
Credit Card: Visa/Mastercard/American Express
Check: Please make checks payable to Pica when ordering by mail.
Cash: In person at Pica tBa central Box Office.
Name:
Address:
City: State: zip:
Phone: Email:
Payment Method: check enclosed Visa/Mastercard/AmEx
Account #:
Expiration Date:
Signature:
Please make checks payable to Pica and send completed order form by September 1 to
Portland institute for contemporary art : 224 nw 13th ave #305 Portland, or 97209
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