TBA:19 Catalogue

PICA.ORG/TBA

TIME BASED ART FESTIVAL 2019

SEPTEMBER 05–15, 2019

TIME BASED ART FESTIVAL 2019

TIM BAS ART FES 2019

Cover—Photo: William Johnston

AN INVITATION TO BE PRESENT

IN THE MOMENT WHEN ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN

CALL 503–224–PICA OR VISIT PICA.ORG/TBA

TBA:18 The Beautiful Street—Photo: Amy Conway

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The Time-Based Art Festival (TBA) has a triple meaning— an invitation to celebrate the artists of our time, a kind of art that calls us to gather together in real time, and of course, TBA as in “to be announced”—inspiring us to venture into the unknown, to be curious and excited about an artist or idea we may not have heard of before, to anticipate a surprise. As we embark on the 17th Annual TBA Festival, we think of all that has gone into the making of the artists’ work—designing, composing, writing, planning, adapting, rehearsing, collaborating—in preparation for just an hour or so of time together with us, the audience. TBA invites us to be present in the moment when anything could happen—when the lights go down, voices hush, and we wait to be taken somewhere new. What a time it is to be making the art of our time. The artists of TBA:19 are responding to and reflecting on the state of the world and our place in it. Some use melodrama, spectacle, and absurdity as a kind of funhouse mirror held up to society and pop culture. Others propose alternate experiences of reality through transcendent and exquisite beauty. Some share a story that is both personal and universal, about what it means to be an individual, a person connected with or disconnected from family, ancestors, and land, or in relationship with the living and the dead. Some ask us to take over the streets, the city square, or the dance floor, to gather in solidarity, in protest, in laughter and joy. One thing they all have in common is you—as works of live performance, they are never truly complete until you are there with them. While TBA projects take place across the city, the festival hub is PICA’s home, a place we hope feels like home for you, too. With hot food, cold drinks, and plenty of room to recharge, we invite you to find your people—art friends, party friends, chosen family, community. PICA is a home for creation, experimentation, dialogue, and exchange, both during TBA, and throughout our year-round program of exhibitions, performances, residencies, public engagement, and community events. Whether you are a regular or a first-timer, we welcome you to PICA for this year’s TBA and for all that we do in the many years to come. Thank you for being with us. See you at the festival! Roya Amirsoleymani Artistic Director & Curator of Public Engagement Erin Boberg Doughton Artistic Director & Curator of Performance

FOR TICKETS, Kristan Kennedy PASSES, Artistic Director & Curator of Visual Art AND INFORMATION:

PICA acknowledges that the land now known as Portland rests on the traditional village sites of the Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla and many other Tribes who made their homes along the Columbia (Wimahl) and Willamette (Whilamut) rivers.

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Today, our region's diverse and vibrant Native communities are 70,000 strong, descended from more than 380 Tribes, both local and distant.

Before the Festival Thursdays and Fridays 12:00–6:00 PM (starting August 15, 2019)

We recognize those Native communities in our region today, extend our deepest gratitude to those who have stewarded this land, and offer our respect to their elders past, present, and future.

Saturdays 12:00–4:00 PM Closed on Labor Day, Sept. 2 Open Sept. 3–4 12:00–6:00 PM

PASS LEVELS AND PRICES LATE-NIGHT PASS: $48 Member/$60 General All-Access to Late Night shows ENTHUSIAST PASS: $120 Member/$150 General Includes tickets to 6 main stage performances of your choice, plus All-Access to exhibitions, Institute programs, and Late Night.*

Box Office Open Aug. 15–Sept. 15 15 NE Hancock Street, Portland 503-224-PICA (7422) During the Festival Every day 12:00–late

IMMERSION PASS: $200 Member/$250 General Priority admission to performances, and unlimited access to exhibitions, Institute programs, and Late Night. PATRON PASS: $500 ($250 tax deductible) Priority admission to all performances, festival concierge service, and unlimited access to exhibitions, Institute programs, and Late Night.

*Reservations are strongly recommended to guarantee seating for all performances, including those that are free. Please see pica.org/tba for more details or contact the TBA Box Office at 503-224-PICA (7422).

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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FESTIVAL TBA:19 Opening Day Cannupa Hanska Luger Eiko Otake Exhibition Block Party BBQ Like a Villain (Holland Andrews) Mia Habib Productions Ligia Lewis Laura Ortman Miguel Gutierrez Kara-Lis Coverdale Eiko Otake Film Roland Dahwen Leilah Weintraub San Cha Dante Buu, Raluca Croitoru, Adela Demetja, Emily Henderson, Adrian McBride, Selma Selman Anthony Hudson / Carla Rossi Eiko Otake Ahamefule J. Oluo Adam Linder Takashi Makino Asher Hartman & Gawdafful National Theater Nivhek + Guests

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INFORMATION Day-by-Day Map FAQs PICA Supporters PICA Sponsors PICA Membership PICA / TBA Staff

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LATE NIGHT Fin De Cinema The Back to School Kiki Ball Myles de Bastion / CymaSpace JUDY YGB

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(left) Adam Linder—Photo: Courtesy of artist (right) January Hunt—Photo: Courtesy of artist

Since 1995, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art has championed the practice of contemporary artists from around the world, driving vital conversations about the art and issues of today. This year, artists will be presenting works that are both awe-inspiring and moving, critical and musical, ground-breaking and eyeopening. For everyone already in the PICA community, and for those attending TBA for the very first time, this year’s festival creates space for the audience to learn, grow, witness, and engage. With international, national, and regional artists; World and West Coast Premieres; and local partners and accessible venues across the city, TBA:19 invites you to become part of the festival. For venue addresses, see pg. 77 or visit pica.org.

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Date Sept. 5 Location Portland, OR Free

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Cannupa Hanska Luger C3:INITIATIVE Opening Reception Performance and Installation Eiko Otake PNCA Opening Reception Performance and Installation First Thursday VARIOUS LOCATIONS Opening Receptions Block Party BBQ PICA Like a Villain (Holland Andrews) PICA Hello, I'll See You Later

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(top) Holland Andrews Photo: Emily Krause (bottom) Photo: Wayne Bund

The 2019 Time-Based Art Festival opens with an exhibition of new work featuring video and prints by Eiko Otake at Pacific Northwest College of Art’s Center for Contemporary Art & Culture. Eiko first performed with PICA in the inaugural TBA Festival in 2003, and we are thrilled to welcome her back! In addition to the new work being premiered at the reception, Eiko will also perform in the gallery. Don’t miss this special opportunity to see Eiko perform for free! Honoring the tradition that is First Thursday, our public partner c3:initiative celebrates the opening of their new space with a performance and installation by Cannupa Hanska Luger. Take in these progressive performances, and the many First Thursday openings happening throughout the day and evening, and then head over to PICA for our inaugural Block Party BBQ and performance by Like a Villain (Holland Andrews) which will launch the festival into full swing!

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Date Sept. 5, Durational Performance, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM Location c3:initiative, 412 NW 8th Avenue Exhibit Sept. 5—Oct. 18 Public Hours Wed—Sat, 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM Free Run Time Ongoing Capacity 425

TBA:19 OPENING DAY CANNUPA HANSKA LUGER

(new mexico)

A Frayed Knot, AFRAID NOT partner program

CANNUPA HANSKA LUGER

Exhibition: A Frayed Knot There is a line, that spans across time in a continuum. This line is the record of our existence and is woven into the very fabric of being. But this line, through tension or abrasion or brute force, has been cut. The edge of this line is broken and unravelling. In order to connect to our past, we must take that line in both hands and tie it to our present so it can guide us into the future. Our stories are a long worn line, and the effort to maintain them has left an artifact of that care in the form of A Frayed Knot.

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Performance: AFRAID NOT (Site specific performance) AFRAID NOT performative action by artist Cannupa Hanska Luger will tie a physical line from the tools of ar-ti-fa-ct to their task.

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Cannupa Hanska Luger is a New Mexico-based, multi-disciplinary artist. Raised on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, he is of Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, Austrian, and Norwegian descent. Using social collaboration, and in response to timely and site-specific issues, Luger produces multi-pronged projects that take many forms. Through monumental installations that incorporate ceramics, video, sound, fiber, steel, and cut-paper, Luger interweaves performance and political action to communicate stories about twenty-first century Indigeneity. This work provokes diverse publics to engage with Indigenous peoples and values apart from the lens of colonial social structuring, and oftentimes presents a 04 call to action to protect land from capitalist exploits.

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Date Sept. 5 at 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Location Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at PNCA, 511 NW Broadway Free Exhibit Sept. 5—Oct. 24, Mon—Sat 10:00AM to 6:00 PM

TBA:19 OPENING DAY EIKO OTAKE , (new york ny)

A Body in Places

curated by kristan kennedy and joseph scheer co - presented with the center for contemporary art & culture , pnca , and the institute for electronic arts , nyscc

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This project is a NPN/VAN Partner of the National Performance Network/Visual Artists Network (NPN/VAN). This project is made possible in part by support from the NPN/VAN Artist Engagement Fund. Major contributors include the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information visit www.npnweb.org. This project received support from Oregon Arts Commission, WESTAF (the Western States Arts Federation), and the National Endowment for the Arts. Sponsored by National Dance Project. Sponsored in part by the Deborah Horrell Fund.

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Photos: Joseph Scheer, IEA at NYSCC

A Body in Places is the omnibus title of Eiko’s first solo project, which started with her revisiting post-nuclear disaster Fukushima and her twelve hour performance at Philadelphia Station in 2014. Its scale and modes of presentation vary radically and incorporate both performative and non-performative elements. For this incarnation at PNCA’s Center for Contemporary Art & Culture, the artist presents a series of new prints and video works made in residency and in partnership with Joseph Scheer, Aodi Liang, and Rebekah Palov, at the Institute for Electronic Arts at NYSCC (IEA) at NYCC. The exhibition also features a screening of A Body in Fukushima comprised of photos by William Johnston and edited by Eiko (p22). The artist's investigation of the various sites of disaster and abundance of nature feel urgent as we contemplate what it means to live in the contemporary changing world, and the fragility and power contained in all of our lives. At PNCA, we present Eiko performing in, on, and with epic landscapes along with her 'collaborators,' irradiated Fukushima, a nighttime swarm of moths in the Kanakadea Forrest, her recently deceased mother at her funeral, and in the changing city of Hong Kong soon after the 2014 Umbrella Revolution. On the occasion of the opening, Eiko will perform a solo in and around the gallery. Across town at PICA, we present a new, three channel video of Eiko performing with the spring waters and deserts of California. Shot by Alexis Moh and produced at the IEA, the video will be on view during her TBA performances of The Duet Project: Distance is Malleable. Using her body as a conduit, and seeing the world as movements, Eiko explores and reflects on time. She willfully partners with the particularities of places and the viewers’ gazes.

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Date Sept. 5 at 7:00 PM — 9:00 PM Location 15 NE Hancock Street Ticket $15 - one plate $30 - one plate + sponsor an artist $50 - one plate + artist + donation to PICA Capacity 300

TBA:19 OPENING NIGHT BLOCK PARTY BBQ

food by po'shines cafe de la soul

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(top) TBA:18 Opening Night—Photo: Wayne Bund (bottom) Photo: Pille-Riin Priske

A convocation for all! Our inaugural and first-ever TBA Block Party BBQ is a chance for artists, audiences, neighbors, and staff to kick off the festival over a casual, celebratory meal, featuring legendary barbecue from Po'Shines. In years past, the Opening Night Dinner was a lovely but exclusive affair. Now celebrating the third year in our home on NE Hancock St., the Block Party BBQ is open to all, an accessible and welcoming shared meal—all are invited! Come hear what others are excited about, share your schedules, and toast our TBA artists from around the world whose projects, performances, and parties will bring us together for the next ten days. While casual, this gathering around food remains critical. Get fed and feed culture! After attending Eiko Otake’s TBA exhibition and performance opening at PNCA, along with other First Thursday events downtown, head over the Broadway Bridge to PICA! We’ll have a plate waiting for you. Drop-in style dinner service begins at 7:00 PM and will continue into our first Late Night performance featuring Like a Villain (Holland Andrews) and guest DJs! Plates are available on a sliding scale of $15-$50 and a la carte options will be available during the Late Night shows. Anything you contribute over the base cost will allow us to invite and host a TBA artist at the meal. Vegan, Vegetarian, and Gluten Free options will be available. Drinks can be purchased separately. Reservations are not required, but we recommend buying a plate in advance!

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Date Sept. 5 at 9:00 pm Location 15 NE Hancock Street Free Run Time 45 min Capacity 500

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(portland, or)

Hello, I'll See You Later

12 Like a Villain (Holland Andrews) will be performing a night of expansive, ceremonial, extended-technique vocal compositions to draw in the opening of this year's TBA Festival.

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Photo: Emily Krause

Holland Andrews (AKA Like a Villain) is an American composer, performance artist, and visual artist whose work is based on emotionality in its many forms. In their composition work, Andrews focuses on the abstraction of operatic and extended-technique voice to build soundscapes encompassing both catharsis and dissonance. Frequently highlighting themes surrounding vulnerability and healing, Andrews arranges music with voice and clarinet, harnessing the innate qualities of the instruments’ power and elegance. As a musician, their dynamic influences include contemporary opera, musical theater, as well as ambient and noise music. In addition to creating solo work, Andrews develops and performs the soundscapes for dance, theater, and film artists, and their 10 work is toured nationally and internationally.

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outdoor performance

Date Sept. 6 at 6:30 PM Location Director Park, 815 SW Park Avenue Free Run Time 60 min Capacity No limit

indoor performance

Date Sept. 7 at 3:30 PM Location PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street Ticket $16 Member/$20 General Run Time 180 min Capacity 500

for information on being part of the performances , please email performers @ pica . org

MIA HABIB PRODUCTIONS ALL - a physical poem of protest

(oslo, norway)

choreographed by mia habib all - a physical poem of protest will be facilitated in collaboration with visiting artists shantelle courvoisier jackson (new york) and tommy noonan (north carolina ) as well as a collective of local artists and organizers . original light design : ingeborg olerud

ALL - a physical poem of protest investigates the individual and shared agency of choreography in social, political, and artistic spaces. An epic, durational, community performance, it considers the force of the protesting body and human mass through the meditative action of walking and running in circles.

Mia Habib makes work that speaks to the major concerns of our time. She engages broad audiences and local communities across social, political, and artistic spheres and in private, domestic, and public spaces. Over the last 15 years, her practice has taken her to dance houses, opera stages, galleries, public spaces, private houses, religious buildings, squats, and sites of protest and conflict around the world, including an installation on the border fence between the US and Mexico, a solo in the mountains of Iraq, a healing dance in someone’s living room, and a large-scale work for 68 people on an opera stage. 12 Mia Habib Productions are supported by Arts Council Norway and Danse-og teatersentrum

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12 MIA HABIB PRODUCTIONS (top) Photo: Yaniv Cohen (bottom) Photo: M. Korgel

"Political marches begin with footsteps, with repeated and multiplied rhythms of sound and social bonding. As the most primal form of human locomotion on land, walking is a spatial method by which people make their opinions on the dominant political order into a public event.” -Tali Hatuka, “Choreography of Protest,” written for Mia Habib

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On View Sept. 6, 7, 8 at 6:30 pm Location Winningstad Theatre, P-5, 1111 SW Broadway Ticket $20 Member/$25 General Run Time 65 min Capacity 275

LIGIA LEWIS

GREGG BORDOWITZ 2018

Water Will (in Melody) is a devised choreographic work for four performers, using melodrama as a point of departure. Wrestling with language and notions of 'the will,' this dystopian fantasy becomes a space for negotiating desire, imagination, and feelings of an encroaching end. Unfolding with playful inventiveness, a wet and cavernous landscape becomes host to a fiction that invites instability, recreation, and catastrophe. Lewis initiates this world in which voice, gesture, touch, and movement flow like waves—both gentle and turbulent. Through the language of mimesis, four performers engage with the porousness of the theater by producing a fantastical materiality translucent to its metaphoric and symbolic weight. Surrendering to the possibilities of the haptic, sense gets un-done to get re-done, paving the way for an 'othered' organization of sight and touch. Through this process of alienation, exteriorization, and materialization, this melodrama touches the borders of its own making, giving life to both the emotional landscape of its protagonists as well as to the theater itself. Water Will (in Melody) completes Lewis’s trilogy, preceded by minor matter in red and Sorrow Swag in blue. Ligia Lewis works as a choreographer and dancer. She has worked in multiple contexts, including the theatre and museum. Engaging with affect, empathy, and the sensate, her choreography considers the social inscriptions of the body while evoking its potentiality. Her work can be described as experientially rich and complex. Within her practice, Lewis continues to provoke the nuances of embodiment. In 2017, Lewis was awarded a Bessie for Outstanding Production for her stage work, ‘minor matter,’ and in 2018, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award in the field of dance. She is currently managed and produced by HAU Hebbel am Ufer Theater Berlin. In the Fall of 2019, Lewis finished the last part of her trilogy BLUE RED WHITE with the stage work, Water Will (in Melody) (2019). All three parts of this trilogy, including minor matter (2016) and Sorrow Swag (2014), are currently touring internationally. Production: Ligia Lewis / HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Co-production: Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2018 / Centre D’Art Contemporain (Geneva), tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf), Arsenic Centre d'art scénique contemporain (Lausanne), donaufestival (Krems), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Münchner Kammerspiele. This project received support from Oregon Arts Commission, WESTAF (the Western States Arts Federation), and the National Endowment for the Arts. Supported by Baryshnikov Arts Center

14 (NYC). Funded by Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe. Thanks to Jarrett Gregory.

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(dominican republic / germany)

Water Will (in Melody)

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On View Sept. 6, 7 at 8:30 pm Location PSU Lincoln Hall, 1620 SW Park Avenue Ticket $20 Member/$25 General Run Time 90 min Capacity 465

LAURA ORTMAN

In Concert

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(white mountain apache/brooklyn , ny)

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Photo: Filip Wolak

With varied natural and urban instrumentation, including violin, Apache violin, piano, electric guitar, keyboards, and pedal steel guitar, Laura Ortman showcases the wide range of her practice as a composer and visual artist. Ortman is joined on both nights by Portland musician and interdisciplinary artist Marcus Fischer, and for one night only, on Sept. 7, by Raven Chacon, a composer, performer, and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. Marcus Fischer is a first generation American musician and interdisciplinary artist based in Portland, Oregon. His work typically centers around memory, geography, and the manipulation of physical audio recording. Slowly unfolding melodies and warm tape saturated drones have become a trademark of his recordings and live performances alike. Raven Chacon (Navajo Nation) is a composer of chamber music, a performer of experimental noise music, and an installation artist. He performs regularly as a solo artist as well as with numerous ensembles in the Southwest and beyond, and was a long-time member of the Indigenous art collective Postcommodity. Chacon’s work explores sounds of acoustic handmade instruments overdriven through electric systems and the direct and indirect audio feedback responses from their interactions.

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Date Sept. 7 at 8:30 PM; Sept. 8 at 4:00 PM and 8:30 PM Location PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street Ticket $16 Member/$20 General Run Time 90 min Capacity 165

MIGUEL GUTIERREZ

(new york , ny)

This Bridge Called My Ass west coast premiere

7 In This Bridge Called My Ass, six Latinx performers—Alvaro Gonzalez, John Gutierrez, Miguel Gutierrez, Xandra Ibarra, nibia pastrana santiago, and Evelyn Sanchez Narvaez—map an elusive choreography of obsessive and perverse action within an unstable terrain of bodies, materials, and sound. A formal logic binds the group, and propels them to create an ever-transforming world where they are at once autonomous and connected, complicating the idea of identity. LatinAmerican songs and the form of the telenovela are exploited to show how familiar structures contain absurdity that reveal and celebrate difference. The title is a play on This Bridge Called My Back (eds. Cherrie Morága and Gloria Anzaldua), a 1981 anthology of Third Wave feminist essays that explores identity and critiques White feminism. Its calls for intersectional awareness and political resistance eerily resonate in our current time, and also reveal the limitations of discourse to imagine new ways of being together. Miguel Gutierrez lives in Brooklyn, NY. He creates dance-based performances, music, and poetry that focus on desire, identity, and the search for meaning. He is a 2016 Doris Duke Artist. His work has been presented in venues such as Centre National de Danse, Centre Pompidou, ImPulsTanz, Fringe Arts, Walker Art Center, TBA/PICA, MCA Chicago, New York Live Arts, Live Arts Bard, and the 2014 Whitney Biennial. He has received support from Creative Capital, MAP, National Dance Project, and Jerome Foundation, and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, United States Artists, New York Foundation for the Arts, Tides Foundation, as well as a Foundation for Contemporary Art award and four NY Dance and Performance Bessies. He currently performs a music project called SADONNA, where he turns Madonna’s upbeat songs into sad anthems. He runs LANDING, an educational initiative at Gibney, and his book When You Rise Up is available from 53rd State Press. www.miguelgutierrez.org

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The NPN Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). Additional support comes from individual donors. The piece has been developed through Gibney’s Dance in Process (DiP) Residency program with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Freehand Fellowship x Bard Residency, and residencies at The Chocolate Factory and the Centre National de la Danse, Pantin.

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Photos: Ian Douglas

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Date Sept. 8 at 6:30 PM Location First Presbyterian Church, 1200 SW Alder Street Ticket $20 Member/$25 General Run Time 90 min Capacity 650

KARA-LIS COVERDALE

(montreal, canada)

"DIAPASON" for Pipe Organ co - presented with variform

Kara-Lis Coverdale works in both acoustic and electronic media to create works that transcend reality. Driven by a patient devotion to sonic afterlife, memory, and material curiosity, Coverdale’s world-building work occupies new planes built upon a borderless understanding of electronic music rooted in the interlocking pathways of musical systems and languages. For TBA, Coverdale will perform a solo acoustic concert of a new composition written for the Jaeckel organ at the First Presbyterian Church, following recent new works framed by oceanic change, spectral focus, and liminal dynamism. Described by The New York Times as "elevated, disembodied contemplation, patiently celestial." Hand built by Dan Jaeckel from 1997–99, the mechanical inner workings of the Jaeckel pipe organ were constructed with seventeenth century designs using red cedar to connect each key to various pipes. This adds to Kara-Lis’ growing list of compositions such as “Marjamaa Laulud,” a commission for dance at the Vanemuine Theater in Tartu, Estonia; and “VoxU,” a pipe organ piece centered around the Vox Humana organ stop which is considered the first form of vocal synthesis dating back to the fifteenth century.

Born in Burlington, Canada, Kara-Lis Coverdale began studying with the Royal Conservatory of Music from age 5. Coverdale has worked as organist and music director at several churches across Canada since age 13. Previous releases include Aftertouches (2015, Sacred Phrases), a distinct exploration of holographic sonics, named a top album of the year by The Wire and NPR. Coverdale has collaborated with Philadelphia noise artist David Sutton (LXV) and Tim Hecker (Love Streams, Virgins) among many others. In 2016 and 2017, Coverdale performed over eighty shows in Europe, North America, and Australia. More recently, she presented new large scale works "Marjamaa Laulud," a unique commission for dance with the Estonian Vanemuine Theatre; and "VoxU," a pipe organ commission for Mutek Montreal (CALQ) that is centered around the unique sonics of the 20 Vox Humana organ stop.

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Date Sept. 9 at 7:00 PM Location Northwest Film Center's Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Ave Ticket $10 general/$8 student, senior, PAM or PICA member Free for TBA passholders and NWFC Silver Screen Club members Run Time 80 min Capacity 366

EIKO OTAKE

(new york , ny)

A Body in Fukushima: Reflections on the Nuclear in Everyday Life co - presented with northwest film center

Eiko Otake and William Johnston have co-taught courses on nuclear and environmental issues at Wesleyan University focused on ideas of 'the body,' both human and environmental, as a foundation for inquiry. A Body in Fukushima is a testament to their empathy for the environment and remorse on the dangers of human heedlessness in the natural world. The full version of A Body in Fukashima is on view as a part of A Body in Places at the Center for Art & Culture at PNCA from September 5 through October 24. 22 Sponsored in part by the Deborah Horrell Fund

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Eiko Otake presents a screening of a specially edited version of A Body in Fukushima, a film created by the artist to be shown either with or without a photo exhibition and/or Eiko's live performance. The film was crafted from thousands of photographs, taken by William Johnston, of Eiko grappling with the irradiated landscapes of post-nuclear meltdown Fukushima, Japan. Eiko will be present at the screening and will introduce and lead a conversation after the viewing. Eiko traveled five times to this evacuated, desolate region since the triple disaster—earthquake, tsunami, nuclear meltdown—of 2011. From her second trip forward, she was accompanied by photographer Johnston (also a professor of Japanese history and public health). The images are accompanied by an original soundtrack and text. Throughout the film, Eiko is in constant dialogue with a post-apocalyptic environment, a changing terrain—seas rage, one-ton bags of contaminated soil stand still, and more lately, an irradiated ancient burial ground and shrines become the only places of visual memory amidst “recovery.” The series of costumes add a distinctive color palate to the environment. A large swath of red cloth, sewn from the lining of her grandmother’s kimono, accompanies her on her trek and becomes tattered. Superficial attempts at decontamination and normalization are made by workers lacking appropriate protective gear.

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Date Sept. 10 at 6:30 PM Location Mekong Bistro, 8200 NE Siskiyou Street Free Reservations required through pica.org Run Time 120 min Capacity 100 Refreshments included

ROLAND DAHWEN

(portland, or)

The Overseas Banquet

Roland Dahwen’s experimental and documentary films and installations have been shown widely at institutions including: the California Institute of the Arts; the Portland Art Museum; the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Time-Based Art Festival; Northwest Film Center; and galleries and film festivals in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States. In 2018, Dahwen received an Oregon Media Arts Fellowship, and was an artist-in-residence in the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's Creative Exchange Lab. In 2013, Dahwen founded Patuá Films, a studio and production house based in Portland that creates films, installations, and music videos in collaboration with a wide range of interdisciplinary artists, musicians, and writers. Dahwen is based in Portland, OR. The Overseas Banquet is commissioned by the Cooley Gallery, Reed College for the exhibition The Autopoets, a collaboration between the Cooley and Converge 45, co-curated by C45 Artistic

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8mm film and mixed media

Overseas (film still), 2019

In Roland Dahwen’s film-based installations, sound, image, and texture weave a self-poetics in which memory, social ritual, and political history migrate time and space. The installations spill into choreographed and spontaneous performances that are polyvocal, literary, and digested through food and touch. The Overseas Banquet is one such occasion: an unpredictable 'banquet' that celebrates the intimacy and awkwardness of living hybridity in migration’s unendingly in-between psyche. The evening includes food, music, readings, and screenings of Dahwen’s 8mm films. The Overseas Banquet is an extension of Dahwen’s installation Overseas, in the exhibition The Autopoets, on view at the Cooley Gallery from August 10 through October 6, 2019. Overseas also includes a commissioned text by Black studies teacher and scholar, d.a. carter.

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Photo: Roland Dahwen

organized by roland dahwen and stephanie snyder

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Date Sept. 10 at 7:00 PM Location Northwest Film Center's Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Ave Ticket $10 general, $8 student, senior, PAM or PICA member Free for TBA passholders and NWFC Silver Screen Club members Run Time 82 min Capacity 366

LEILAH WEINTRAUB

(new york , ny)

SHAKEDOWN

co - presented with northwest film center and judy writer & director leilah weinraub

producers leilah weinraub , pilar wiley, michael hekmat, drake burnette , riel roch - decter editor matt hollis music tim dewit

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Born in Los Angeles, USA in 1979, Leillah Weintraub currently lives in New York. She is an artist and director and also CEO of the Hood By Air fashion label. Her work focuses on the themes of race, class, and gender with a 26 particular interest in queer communities and people of color.

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SHAKEDOWN is the story of Los Angeles’ black lesbian strip club scene and its genesis. Owned and operated by women, underground and illegal in nature, the club Shakedown is the darker, faster, younger iteration of this dance culture. The film is a window into this world. Shakedown emerged from a post-RIOTS, post-OJ, postintegration but still very racially divided Los Angeles. In this divided city, Shakedown is an independent, all black, and all female cash economy. SHAKEDOWN chronicles the explicit performances and personal relationships of the party’s dancers and organizers including Ronnie-Ron, Shakedown Productions’ creator and emcee; Mahogany, the legendary 'mother' of the community; Egypt, their star performer; and Jazmine, the 'Queen' of Shakedown.

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Date Sept. 11 at 7:00 PM, Doors at 6:30 PM Location lumber room, 419 Northwest 9 th Avenue Free Run Time 60 min Capacity Limited seating, No reservations

SAN CHA

(los angeles , ca)

Live Performance partner program

presented by lumber room

curated by libby werbel in conjunction with their exhibition : kate newby, a puzzling light and moving . fridays & saturday from 12:00 – 6:00 pm and by appointment at www. lumberroom . com

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Don't miss a one night only performance by San Cha, presented by lumber room. San Cha is a singer-songwriter, based in the City of Angels, increasingly known for her visceral and explosive live performances. Her name, derived from the Spanish word 'sancha,' which translates to ‘mistress,’ is a mischievous reference to the title of ‘San,’ given to male saints in the Catholic tradition. Fans of cumbia, punk, bolero, and electro flock to see San Cha’s emotional renditions of traditional Mexican rancheras and original songs that queer conventions of identity, power, and love. Her striking stage presence is accompanied by the one-of-a-kind garments she adorns, aesthetic reflections of the years spent performing in drag and club scenes in the Bay. San Cha was most recently the headlining act at the kickoff of the 2019 Red Bull Music Festival, with upcoming performances at the Levitt Pavilion, Getty Museum, and Santa Monica Pier.

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Date Sept. 12, 13 at 6:30 PM Location PNCA, Mediatheque, 511 NW Broadway Ticket $0–$10 Sliding Scale Run Time 50 min Capacity 160

DANTE BUU RALUCA CROITORU ADELA DEMETJA EMILY HENDERSON ADRIAN McBRIDE SELMA SELMAN

NEXUS 1

conceived and curated by adela demetja (tirana , albania )

ADELA DEMETJA (b. 1984 in Tirana, Albania) Master’s Degree in Curatorial and Critical Studies from Goethe University and Städelschule, Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Author and Curator. Founding director of Tirana Art Lab – Center for Contemporary Art. DANTE BUU (b. 1987 in Montenegro), now in Vienna, Rožaje, and Berlin. His work addresses the brutal, sociocultural environment and omnipresent alienation in society. RALUCA CROITORU (b. 1989 in Romania), now in Bucharest and Amsterdam. Her interests in systems of exchange, social choreographies, and knowledge hierarchies find translation through performances, videos, and text. EMILY HENDERSON is an art historian, writer, and curator from Portland, Oregon, USA. ADRIAN McBRIDE (b. 1982 in St.Louis. Missouri, USA) is a musician and sound artist based in Portland, Oregon, USA. SELMA SELMAN (b.1991) comes from Bosnia and Herzegovina and is of Romani origin. Her work embodies the struggles of her own life as well as her community, employing a plethora of media such as performance, painting, photography, and video installations.

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(top) Selma Selman—Photo: Courtesy of artist (bottom) Raluca Croitoru, performing the IIRRE, Photo: Aad Hoogedoorn

Inspired by the Latin word 'nexus' meaning ‘a binding together,’ NEXUS 1 is an experimental exhibition format that aims at linking and merging the works of four European and two US artists, creating a visual-poetical experience in time and space. NEXUS 1 is a collaborative project exploring sensitive issues relevant to the participants: the social groups they belong to, and the current socio-political situation in Europe and the US. Merging different mediums including performance, film, music, installation, and poetry in a single work, this collaborative international exchange will be developed during a residency at PICA and PNCA, and exhibited for the first time during the TBA Festival. Curated by Adela Demetja (Tirana / Frankfurt a.M.) with Dante Buu (Rožaje), Raluca Croitoru (Bucharest / Rotterdam) Emily Henderson (Portland), Adrian McBride (Portland), and Selma Selman (Bihac / NYC).

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On view Sept. 12, 13, 14 at 6:30 PM Location PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street Ticket $16 Member/$20 General Run Time 55 min Capacity 165

ANTHONY HUDSON/ CARLA ROSSI ,

(portland or)

Looking for Tiger Lily (Solo) co-presented with risk/reward

the performance on sept 13 will be asl interpreted

ANTHONY HUDSON/ CARLA ROSSI

ANTHONY HUDSON (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, performer, and filmmaker perhaps best known as Portland’s premier drag clown, CARLA ROSSI, an immortal trickster whose attempts at realness almost always result in fantastic failure. Together they host and program the bimonthly Queer Horror— the only exclusively LGBTQ horror screening series in the country—at the historic Hollywood Theatre. In 2018, Anthony was named a National Artist Fellow by the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, a Native Launchpad artist by the Western Arts Alliance, and an Individual Artist Fellow by the Oregon Arts Commission in 2019. Anthony’s first solo as Carla Rossi since 2014, Clown Down: Failed to Mount, will premiere at PNCA this November, and Anthony’s first professionallyproduced theatrical play—a multi-actor version of Looking for Tiger Lily commissioned by Artists Repertory Theatre—will make its world premiere in May 2020. www.TheCarlaRossi.com Sponsored by Ronni Lacroute, Bluebird Real Estate, The Kinsman Foundation, NEA, Oregon Arts

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Starring Anthony Hudson—the human vessel for Portland’s premiere drag clown Carla Rossi—Looking for Tiger Lily (Solo) utilizes song, dance, drag, and video to put a queer spin on the ancestral tradition of storytelling. Asking what it means for a queer, mixed Native person to experience their heritage through white normative culture as they recount growing up watching the 1960 production of Peter Pan featuring Sondra Lee’s blonde, blue-eyed, 'Indian Princess' Tiger Lily, Anthony (and Carla) draws from a songbook stretching across Disney’s Pocahontas to Cher’s "HalfBreed." Not just autobiography, Looking for Tiger Lily (Solo) is a coming-of-age story that's more than cowboys versus Indians.

Photos: Gia Goodrich

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Date Sept. 12, 13, 14 at 8:30 PM Location PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street Ticket $16 Member/$20 General Run Time approximately 60 min Capacity 165

EIKO OTAKE

(new york , ny)

The Duet Project: Distance is Malleable

Born and raised in Japan and a resident of New York since 1976, Eiko Otake is a movement-based, interdisciplinary artist. After working for more than forty years as Eiko & Koma, she began performing her own solo project A Body in Places in 2014. In 2017 she launched the multiyear Duet Project that she directs and performs with a diverse range of artists.

This project is a NPN/VAN Partner of the National Performance Network/Visual Artists Network (NPN/VAN). This project is made possible in part by support from the NPN/VAN Artist Engagement Fund. Major contributors include the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information visit www.npnweb.org. This project received support from Oregon Arts Commission, WESTAF (the Western States Arts Federation), and the National Endowment for the Arts. Sponsored by National 34 Dance Project. Sponsored in part by the Deborah Horrell Fund.

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Eiko returns to Portland for the first time since Eiko & Koma performed Offering at the inaugural TBA Festival in 2003. For this engagement, Eiko collaborates with artists of diverse backgrounds and disciplines, both living and dead. Through interdisciplinary performances of her Duet Project: Distance is Malleable at PICA, and complementary installation of A Body in Places at PNCA, the artist explores the different ways individuals encounter and converse. Her presentation revolves around four themes: how we grapple with cross-generational provocation; environmental and nuclear disaster; the malleability of distances between locations, individuals, and events; and what the dead left us. Performing live with Eiko are choreographer Ishmael Houston-Jones; poet and performing artist Mark McCloughan; and filmmaker and environmental activist Alexis Moh.

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Dates Sept. 13, 14 at 6:30 PM Location Winningstad Theatre, P-5, 1111 SW Broadway Ticket $20 Member/$25 General Run Time 60 min Capacity 275

AHAMEFULE J. OLUO

(seattle , wa)

SUSAN

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Ahamefule J. Oluo is a Seattle-based musician, composer, writer, and stand-up comedian. Oluo is a founding member and trumpet player in the StrangerGenius Award-winning jazz-punk quartet Industrial Revelation, and was featured in C ity Arts Magazine’s 2013 Future List as one of Seattle’s most promising artists. Oluo has collaborated with such diverse acts as Das Racist, Macklemore, Hey Marseilles, and TacocaT. In 2015 he appeared on This American Life and received a Creative Capital Award. In 2016 Oluo was awarded Artist Trusts’ Arts Innovator Award, and the performance of his autobiographical musical Now I’m Fineat the Public Theater in New York City was called “dizzying,” “engaging,” and “grand” by The New York Times. In 2018, production wrapped on T hin Skin, a feature film adaptation of Now I’m Fine, co-written by Oluo, Charles Mudede, and Lindy West. Oluo both stars in and scored the film which will premiere in 2019.

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SUSAN, Ahamefule J. Oluo’s darkly comic, musical portrait of his mother, builds one story out of many: a journey from Section 8 housing in 1980's Seattle, to the mangrove swamps of the Niger Delta, to the Clallam Bay Correctional Facility. With stunning new compositions combined with soul-baring, stand-up interludes, Oluo explores two intertwining narratives: his mother’s life as the white, Midwestern wife of a Nigerian chief, and later a destitute single mother; and his own journey to Nigeria as an adult, to visit his late father’s village and discover a family on the other side of the world. SUSAN, the follow-up to Oluo’s acclaimed musical Now I’m Fine, is a story about the failings of men and the endurance of women. It is a crystalline slice of American life; a collision of class, race, bodies, love, and men with bad intentions; a tragedy about the most comically optimistic person on earth. SUSAN is an ongoing work-in-progress, giving TBA:19 audiences an insider view of an evolving piece.

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Date Sept. 13, 14 at 8:30 PM Location PSU Lincoln Hall, 1620 SW Park Avenue Ticket $20 Member/$25 General Run Time 90 min Capacity 465

ADAM LINDER

(los angeles/berlin)

The WANT”

west coast premiere

Bernard-Marie Koltès described his 1985 work In the Solitude of the Cotton Fields as an encounter between a bluesman and a punk. More than an exploration of mercantile activity or the transaction of late-night cruising, it is a speculation on one’s capacity to know another. Adam Linder’s new creation, scored by Ethan Braun and staged by Shahryar Nashat, is an opera inspired by Koltès’ preoccupation with ‘the deal.’ The WANT”’s libretto is littered with interjections from Derrida to Missy Elliott, the business of language as the Self’s gateway drug between rational thought and rhapsodic expression. Singers, actors, and dancers Jess Gadani, Justin F. Kennedy, Jasmine Orpilla, and Roger Sala Reyner are ‘Offerors’ and ‘Offerees,’ enrobed as archetypes of mercantile Europe, embodying a constant trade between reflexive mind and sensuous being. Evolving from Act 1 to Act 2, they surrender to the grandest of theatrical desires: the contract between performer and audience.

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Production Adam Linder. Coproduction HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance, Los Angeles, Kampnagel Hamburg. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds. With support from the Center for the Art of Performance, UCLA.

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Adam Linder (b. 1983, Sydney) lives and works in Los Angeles and Berlin. He makes stage works, provides choreographic services and creates costume. The survey exhibition FULL SERVICE (Services No. 1 - 5) was presented by CCA Wattis Institute (San Francisco, 2018) and Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (2019). Linder also recently created She Clockwork, a commission from the VAC Foundation, which was presented in Venice, Italy. His upcoming projects include an exhibition of new work at MoMA New York in 2020. Recent solo or two person shows include South London Gallery; Kunsthalle, Basel; Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin; and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. More generally, Linder's works have been commissioned, presented, or hired by HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin; Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; Kampnagel, Hamburg; Sadler’s Wells, London; American Realness, NYC; MoCA, Los Angeles; 356 Mission, LA; Frieze LIVE, London; and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Linder participated in the 20th Biennale of Sydney, Liverpool Biennial, and Made in LA at the Hammer Museum. He has performed with the Michael Clark Company, Meg Stuart’s Damaged Goods, and The Royal Ballet London.

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Performance One Sept. 14 at 4:30 PM Screening of Memento Stella, with original soundtrack by Reiner van Houdt Performance Two Sept. 15 at 4:30 PM Screening of Memento Stella, with score by Takashi Makino Location OMSI, 1945 SE Water Avenue Ticket $8 for PICA, Cinema Project, and OMSI Members/$10 General Run Time 60 min Capacity 300

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(TOKYO, japan)

Remember the Star: Takashi Makino's "Memento Stella"

co - presented with cinema project west coast premiere

8 "Memento Stella is an original phrase I coined to remind me to 'remember the stars' and 'never forget that we too reside among the stars,' as well as the title of a project I started from winter of 2016. For several years I've traveled the world, screening my work. And throughout this dark, sad world, amid war and terrorism, countless lives lost to natural cataclysms caused by [humans], and there hasn't been a single day that death hasn't been in my thoughts. At the same time, I do realize that it is not only death that binds us. We are also born and raised and living on this little planet, among the stars. I pursue my work with the idea that if each day, we might be conscious of this truth for even a moment, then maybe perhaps somewhere deep in our hearts, we might find shared artistic expressions, keys to a place beyond the religions, politics, borders, languages, and personal desires [that] tear us apart." —Takashi Makino

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Takashi Makino (b. 1978 ) is a Tokyo-based experimental filmmaker widely considered to be one of the most influential Japanese moving-image artists of his generation. After graduating from the cinema department at Nihon 14 University College of Art, he spent time honing his skills in the Londonbased studio of the Quay Brothers before moving back to Japan. His unique working process usually involves capturing representational footage of humans, nature, and urban life in various formats and then transforming these images radically during the editing stage. Through a process of 15 layering, superimposition, and other formal manipulations, these concrete images blend together into pulsating visual fields of organic abstraction in his finished works. Makino regularly presents installations, screenings, and audio-visual performances of his work internationally, having appeared in over 120 cities 40 to date.

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Premiere Performance Sept. 14 at 8:00 PM Performance Sept. 15 at 8:00 PM Location Yale Union, 800 SE 10 th Avenue Public Viewing Sept. 14—Oct. 20; visit yaleunion.org for full schedule Free Run Time 120 min Capacity 500

ASHER HARTMAN & GAWDAFFUL NATIONAL THEATER , (los angeles ca)

The Dope Elf

partner program curated by dena beard and hope svenson

8 On Sept. 14, Yale Union will premiere The Dope Elf, a comedic play and performance environment about housing, power, and magic. Commissioned by LA-based playwright Asher Hartman, the project will transform YU into a makeshift mobile home park inhabited for five weeks by Hartman’s company, Gawdafful National Theater. In the play, an aging, transman psychopomp fears losing his power as his life and the lives of his community teeter against the demands of urban life, which are increasingly stark. The play’s structure includes a meta-play (the actors living in the gallery space performing as townspeople); a fourteenpart scripted play to be performed during the run of the exhibition; and a live-streamed variety show populated by the Elf and the townspeople. Through online and IRL involvement in performances and live-streams, the program will catalyze individual and collective agency by creating interactive opportunities for audiences to change the theater piece during the course of its production.

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(Playwright and Director) Asher Hartman is an interdisciplinary artist and writer whose work centers on the exploration of self through Western histories and ideologies. He is the founder and chief beneficiary 14 of Gawdafful National Theater, a group of artist-actors for whom he has written since 2010. He is also one half of the performative duo Krystal Krunch (with Haruko Tanaka), who teach intuition-building to artists, activists, and interested others. Recent theatrical works include Lost Privilege Company, in “Archive Fever: Lost Words, Buried Voices,” as 15 part of USC’s Visions and Voices series and Pieter Performance Space (2018); Sorry, Atlantis, Or Eden’s Achin’ Organ Seeks Revenge, at Machine Project, LA (2017); Mr. Akita, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, (2017) and at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2017); and the Tang Museum, New York (2015); and The Silver, the Black, the Wicked Dance, 42 LACMA (2016).

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Date Sept. 15 at 6:30 PM Location PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street Ticket $16 Member/$20 General Run Time 90 min Capacity 500

NIVHEK + GUESTS

(oregon coast)

Requiem

west coast premiere

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Nivhek is a recording and performing project by Liz Harris. She lives and works on the Oregon Coast. Dicky Bahto lives in Los Angeles. He has exhibited work utilizing still and motion picture photography, sound, and performance at a variety of museums, galleries, microcinemas, film festivals, conferences, alternative 15 spaces, and scenic locations spanning the Northern Hemisphere. January Hunt is a Brooklyn based musician and artist exploring the malleability of body and technology as a resistance to/refuge from the dominant culture through rearranging her skin suit, manipulating biology, and re-shaping electricity. She performs under her own name and as New 44 Castrati, among other aliases.

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(top) Dicky Bahto (bottom) Nivhek—Photos : Courtesy of the artists

Nivhek's 2019 album, After its own death/Walking in a spiral towards the house, has been described by the artist as “a requiem, a ritual to unlock and release feelings;” a sense of shadowy masses, moving backwards, in spirals; massive doorways opening chaotic forces; “a toxic concentrated reduction of something much darker bubbling beneath.” On the final night of this year's TBA Festival, Nivhek and artists January Hunt (NYC) and Dicky Bahto (Los Angeles) present Requiem, an immersive evening of ethereal performance, film, and sound, with textures of reflection dipped in impressions of deconstruction and decay. A live performance by Nivhek and Hunt will be accompanied by Bahto’s Notes on the ruins for visitors, a collection of works in moving and still images reclaiming and remaking Mesopotamian antiquities through portraiture of Assyrians in the diaspora and appropriated images from books, museum websites, and ISIS propaganda videos.

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Soak it in and dance it out at Late Night where PICA becomes the hotspot for artists and appreciators. Late Night is an all-ages, open to all celebration, where artists come to socialize and people gather over food, film, and energetic dance parties! With garage doors rolled up and The Patio open, pop over to PICA to enjoy local bites, DJ sets, screenings, performances, community and more! 7

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Date Sept. 6 at 10:00 PM Location PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street Ticket $5–$15 Sliding Scale Run Time 120 min Capacity 500

FIN DE CINEMA

(portland, or)

Marcel Camus' Black Orpheus co - presented with holocene

Fin de Cinema is a recurring live film score series curated by Gina Altamura of Portland music venue and nightclub, Holocene. This series, established in 2009, allows local pop and experimental musicians to reinterpret the soundtracks to classic art films. Fin de Cinema returns to TBA for the third year in a row, and is celebrating the 10 year 48 anniversary of the series.

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Holocene presents Fin de Cinema's new live score of Marcel Camus’ 1959 film Black Orpheus, composed and performed by local musicians. “Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreignlanguage film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its eye-popping photography and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, Black Orpheus was an international cultural event, and it kicked off the bossa nova craze that set hi-fis across America spinning.”—Criterion Live score by visionary local musicians Amenta Abioto, POPgoji, and Akila Fields with Noah Bernstein.

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Date Sept. 7 at 10:30 PM Location PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street Ticket $5–$15 Sliding Scale Run Time 180 min Capacity 500

THE BACK TO SCHOOL KIKI BALL

Brandon Harrison / PDXBall (portland, or)

10 PDXBall presents The Back to School Kiki Ball, a thrilling competition that shows a glimpse of Portland's dynamic Kiki ballroom community. The Kiki ballroom scene is a subculture of the mainstream ballroom world and was created to practice walking or competing in the many ‘categories’ of the international ballroom arena. The theme 'Back to School' will influence the decor, competitive categories, and attire of the participants. Spectators and first-time ball attendees are welcome to join in the fun by dressing to the theme. If it is your first time at a ball, you are encouraged to cheer on the competitors who have trained for each category. Join us in celebrating a powerful and inspiring community that uplifts and centers queer and trans, black, indigenous, and POC communities.

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Photos: Jay Buezo

Brandon Harrison is the founder of the PDXBall. He is also the founder and father of the Kiki House of Flora. Over the past few years, Brandon has helped grow the ballroom scene in Portland, Oregon. He also helps mentor the growing Kiki ballroom scenes in Boise, Denver, and Salt Lake City, where he is known as their Fairy Godfather. Brandon performs in drag as Hydrangea Strangea, and also goes by Hydrangea 007 in the mainstream ballroom scenes around the world. A former member of the Legendary House of Mizrahi, his new 007 title means he is not currently 50 in a major house but is up for grabs!

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Date Sept. 12 at 10:30 PM Location PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street Ticket $5-$15 Sliding Scale Run Time 180 mins Capacity 500

MYLES DE BASTION / CYMASPACE ,

(portland or)

this event will have asl interpreters and open captioning

Myles de Bastion develops technology and art installations that enable sound to be experienced as light and vibration. His work has appeared in the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry, Portland Art Museum, and on the Jimmy Kimmel Live! Show. He has built large format installations for music festivals and Grammy-award winning jazz artist Esperanza Spalding. Myles is the founder of CymaSpace, a non-profit that facilitates cultural events inclusive of the Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing; and Audiolux Devices, which produces products featuring light and sound synergy. 2018 Director of the first Northwest Deaf Arts Festival. Myles mentors Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing youth, has developed curriculum, and taught workshops in music and sound for Deaf schools, camps, and communities. A current project, The Ikigai Machine, is a multimedia visual narrative with interactive installations and live performances that he is developing into a feature-length, touring production for disability hubs and art institutions. Myles has received support from Regional Arts & Culture Council, Oregon Arts Commission, Oregon Cultural Trust, Oregon 52 Cultural Foundation, and Randall Charitable Trust.

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Leading Deaf musician, artist, and advocate Myles de Bastion and the CymaSpace collaboratively curate a night of experimental music and sound that centers Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing artists and audiences. Through visual, vibrational, light-based, and other immersive and multi-sensory interpretations and displays of sound, this night of performances will create multiple modes and nodes of access for Deaf and Hearing audiences alike, expanding our notions and perceptions of artistic and experiential possibilities for music and sound art. ASL interpretation, captioning, and other forms of accessibility and accommodation will be provided. Audiences are encouraged to contact the TBA Box Office in advance to request any additional access or accommodation needs. Discounts or complimentary tickets can also be arranged via our Box Office for members of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community. Box Office: 503.224.PICA (7422) or BoxOffice@pica.org

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Date Sept. 13 at 10:30 PM Location PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street Ticket $5–$15 Sliding Scale Capacity 500

JUDY

(portland, or) Kayla Oh, Ana Briseño, and Megan Holmes

JUDY is the collaboration of DJs, artists, and friends Kayla Oh (Sham Sisqo), Ana Briseño (Casual Aztec), and Megan Holmes (Troubled Youth). Originally created in response to the void of queer femme DJs in dance spaces, its creators wanted to sweat, make out, scream, and throw their shirts off to music, to feel the confirmation of sexual freedom while also seeing the visibility and work of incredible artists. JUDY is dedicated to supporting Queer community through nightlife. SHOUT OUT TO ALL 54 JUDYS, JUDES, AND COOL ASS FREAKS.

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Heavy Pleasure drawn by Ana Briseño

JUDY is a queer party that materializes every last Saturday night of the month at a dive bar in Portland, Oregon. Run by queer women and exclusively featuring female identified, trans, and non-binary DJs, JUDY was started in 2014. Each month, JUDY features hand-drawn flyers of community members, party people, and over-thetop queens, with the ritual of crowning of a new “Judy” at every party.

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Date Sept. 14 at 10:30 PM Location PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street Ticket $5–$15 Sliding Scale Capacity 500

YGB

(portland, or)

Feeling of Home

YGB Portland formed in 2015 to provide healing space for Black and Brown people in Portland. It has since grown from parties at Killingsworth Dynasty to create more community-based activations. YGB alongside DUG (Deep Under Ground), Gentrification is Weird, and Friends of Noise made sure displaced artists got paid through the “Art Saved My Life” residency. YGB also collaborated with Deep Under Ground to run Young Gifted Artists, which brings art education to youth during the summertime free lunch program at McCoy Park. YGB curates the entertainment for My People’s Market, which has been happening in 56 different parts of Portland since 2017.

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Feeling of Home will reconstruct what home and healing can feel like for local, intergenerational, Black and Brown artists and communities. In this space we will focus on home and what it feels like for the individual, but also what home feels like when we come together as a community. There will be several chances to hang out and heal with us including workshops and a late night event. This late night event will feature art installations from those born and raised in Portland. With video projections, DJs, live performances and lounges, it’ll be equal parts grandmother's kitchen on Sunday morning AND your uncle's basements on Friday night. We're letting loose but with people who love you deeply.

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Each year, the TBA Festival connects audiences to renowned and radical artists and thinkers of our time. The Institute is an immersive home for rigorous public programs that highlight the social relevance, political urgency, personal investigations, cultural contexts, and aesthetic inquiries driving this year’s TBA artists and projects. Daily conversations, panels, presentations, workshops, and more provide space and opportunity to participate in the festival on a deeper level. For venue addresses, see pg. 77 or visit pica.org.

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CONVERSATIONS TBA Conversations are an opportunity to hear directly from festival artists about their practices, processes, and the ideas behind their work through presentations, panel discussions, and dialogues with guest artists, curators, and scholars. All TBA Conversations are FREE of charge and take place on the PICA Patio unless otherwise noted. TBA:FOOD service will be available, including grab-and-go lunch, snacks, and drinks. Please note that some conversations will be ASL interpreted. The PICA Patio is ADA accessible. For any other access needs or requests, please contact the TBA Box Office at boxoffice@pica.org or 503-224-PICA.

LIGIA LEWIS

with bart fitzgerald (Independant Scholar)

Sunday, Sept. 8 12:30 PM — 1:30 PM at PICA Choreographer Ligia Lewis discusses the many layers and references in her TBA performance, Water Will (in melody), with Portland-based scholar bart fitzgerald.

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Meet the Artists: Round 1 Friday, Sept. 6 4:00 PM — 5:30 PM at N.E.W.

HOSPITALITY: ON FOOD, FESTIVALS, AND ART

Join PICA’s Creative Exchange Lab artists in residence for brief presentations about their current projects and practices over happy hour drinks! See page 64 for more details.

with Spencer Byrne-Seres (PICA Exhibitions Director) and PICA Artistic Directors Sunday, Sept. 8 2:00 PM — 3:00 PM at PICA

MIGUEL GUTIERREZ AND SAN CHA

Studies & Critical Gender Studies, UC San Diego)

Saturday, Sept. 7 12:30 PM — 1:30 PM at PICA

Miguel Gutierrez and San Cha discuss how queer Latinx experience informs their respective experimental practices in dance and music, including discursive debates around aesthetics, abstraction, and cultural identity in performance making.

with Roya Amirsoleymani (PICA Artistic Director & Curator of Public Engagement)

Friday, Sept. 6 12:30 PM — 1:30 PM at PICA

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Choreographer Mia Habib has created a 50-person, community performance that examines and reflects the physical embodiment and witnessing of protest, demonstration, and critical mass. In conversation with Roya Amirsoleymani, PICA’s Artistic Director & Curator of Public Engagement, the artist discusses the development of the indoor and outdoor Portland iterations of this emergent, participatory, public intervention through its political, conceptual, and 60 choreographic lenses.

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with Reuben Roqueñi

(Director of National Artist Fellowships, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation)

A panel discussion with PICA’s Artistic Directors and other curators and arts administrators to consider how art institutions host, celebrate, and make people feel welcome in their spaces. Moderated by Spencer Byrne-Series, PICA's Exhibitions Director, and curator of TBA:FOOD.

THE AUTOPOETS: ROLAND DAHWEN AND TUESDAY SMILLIE with Stephanie Snyder (Curator &

In conversation with Reuben Tomás Roqueñi (Yaqui, Mayo, Chicanx), experimental musician, composer, and visual artist Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache) shares more about her practice, including TBA performance collaborations with Marcus Fischer and Raven Chacon.

Visiting curator Adela Demetja is joined by Portland-based writer, curator, and artist Lucy Cotter, and collaborating artists from Europe and the U.S. In dialogue, they’ll share more about their residency time in Portland, the contexts and landscapes in which they each live and make work, and their collaborative TBA performance project.

ANTHONY HUDSON (Assoc. Professor of Theatre, Reed College)

Wednesday, Sept. 11 12:30 PM — 1:30 PM at PICA

Curators Stephanie Snyder and Lisa Dent discuss the interdisciplinary exhibition and performance project, The Autopoets, with featured artists Roland Dahwen (Portland, OR) and Tuesday Smillie (NYC). A partnership between Reed College’s Cooley Gallery, Converge 45, and the TBA Festival, The Autopoets is on view at the Cooley Gallery through October 6, 2019.

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Tueday, Sept. 10 12:30 PM — 1:30 PM at PICA

with Kate Bredeson

Director, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College) and Lisa Dent (Artistic Director, Converge 45)

Monday, Sept. 9 12:30 PM — 1:30 PM at PICA

Saturday, Sept. 7 2:00 PM — 3:00 PM at PICA

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In conversation with Kate Bredeson, Reed College theatre professor, Anthony Hudson / Carla Rossi (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde) shares insights into the TBA performance Looking for Tiger Lily (Solo), including how the performance serves to queer acenstral storytelling practices, artistic and pop cultural references, and stereotypes of Native identities. * This conversation will be ASL interpretated 61

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with Linda K. Johnson (Artist, Choreographer, & Somatic Educator)

and Kristan Kennedy (PICA Artistic Director & Curator of Visual Art)

Friday, Sept. 13 12:30 PM — 1:30 PM at PICA

Renowned dance, performance, and visual artist Eiko Otake discusses her expansive TBA performance and exhibition projects with esteemed Portland-based artist and choreographer, Linda K. Johnson and PICA’s Artistic Director & Curator of Visual Art, Kristan Kennedy.

with Darrell Grant (Professor of Jazz

Saturday, Sept. 14 12:30 PM — 1:30 PM at PICA

Musician, composer, writer, and comedian Ahamefule J. Oluo shares insights into his interdisciplinary artistic practice and the development and stories behind SUSAN, his TBA work-in-progress performance that explores “the failings of men, and the endurance of women.” * This conversation will be ASL interpretated

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with Mark Burford (Assoc. Professor of Music, Reed College)

Meet the Artists: Round 2 Friday, Sept. 13 4:00 PM — 5:30 PM at N.E.W.

Saturday, Sept. 14 2:00 PM — 3:00 PM at PICA

Join PICA’s Creative Exchange Lab artists in residence for brief presentations about their current projects and practices over happy hour drinks! See page 64 for 62 more details.

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AHAMEFULE J. OLUO

Studies, Assoc. Director of School of Music & Theatre, Portland State University) and Erin Boberg Doughton (PICA Artistic Director & Curator of Performance)

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Facilitated by both visiting and local artists, TBA Workshops are opportunities for collective participation, learning, and engagement with an artist's practice, and in a small-group setting. Workshops are open to all levels of experience and range from movement- and performancefocused, to conversation, discussion, and collaborative projects.

An all-levels voguing workshop facilitated by members of Portland’s PDXBall. Come learn and have fun, or practice in preparation for PDXBall’s TBA Late Night kiki ball competition!

Workshops take place at New Expressive Works, 810 SE Belmont St. Space is limited to 25 participants per workshop unless otherwise noted. Workshops are $5-$15 sliding scale, or included with Enthusiast, Immersion, and Patron Passes. Most workshops are two hours unless otherwise noted.

with Myles de Bastion and Guests Thursday, Sept. 12 12:30 PM — 1:30 PM at PICA TBA artist Myles de Bastion—an artistic director, musician, creative altruist, and advocate for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing communities—is joined by others working for greater access and inclusion for Disabled artists and audiences. This conversation will be ASL interpretated

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Choreographer Adam Linder discusses his TBA project, The WANT, an experimental dance, musical score, and opera created in collaboration with composer Ethan Braun and visual artist and designer Shahryar Nashat.

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Due to limited capacity, preregistration is required on a firstcome, first-served basis, including for pass holders. Walk-ups are welcome if space permits. A wait list will be taken beginning 60 minutes before start time. The workshop venue is ADA accessible, with all-gender restrooms. Please contact the TBA Box Office at boxoffice@pica.org or 503-224-PICA for requests about any other access or accommodation needs.

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With Tommy Noonan, guest artist of Mia Habib. Sunday, Sept. 8 10:00AM — 12:00 PM at N.E.W.

Using mindfulness, somatic, and improvisation-based exercises, this workshop will focus on how embodied practice can be an artistic technology to sharpen and hone our use of attention, both in performance practice and process, and for how we show up in relationships, in communities, and in the world.

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With YGB Collective Friday, Sept. 13 10:00AM — 12:00 PM at N.E.W. Members and guest artists of YGB Portland will facilitate a workshop focused on collective healing experiences for intergenerational Black and Brown communities. *Open to BlPOC+ participants only

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VOCAL WORKSHOP With Holland Andrews / Like a Villain Friday, Sept. 6 10:00AM — 12:00 PM at N.E.W.

In this workshop with TBA Opening Night artist Holland Andrews— whose experimental artistic practice spans composition, visual art, and performance using operatic and extended vocal technique— participants will explore guided meditation, vocal embodiment practice, performance, and collaboration.

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with PDXBall Saturday, Sept. 7 10:30AM — 12:00 PM at N.E.W.

With Larissa Kaul, Grant Miller, Jonathan Paradox Lee, and Dare Sohei Saturday, Sept. 14 10:00AM — 12:00 PM at N.E.W. Let’s cultivate a theater of the in-between, where we ask audiences and performers to take on the added responsibility of staying present with our bodies in this specific time and location. Through centering, collective care, slowing down, 63 reflecting, and finding kinesthetic joy, we will attempt to cross a threshold into the unknown. What will we make together?

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Creative Exchange Lab artists in residence are collaboratively selected by PICA’s Artistic Directors, who seek to invite a diverse, intergenerational cohort of emerging and established artists from a spectrum of disciplines, perspectives, and geographies. Reflecting a need for in-depth, cross-disciplinary research opportunities for artists, CXL offers time for experimentation, collaboration, and interaction among participating local, national, and international artists. The Fall 2019 CXL artists will be in residence during TBA:19. You’ll see them at festival performances, hanging out on The Patio, and around Portland.

womxn and non-binary sound collective, and Art is Action, a UK-based social practice research group.

Anna Martine Whitehead (Chicago, IL) makes performances. She has been presented by venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, San José Museum of Art, Velocity Dance Center, Chicago Cultural Center, Links Hall, AUNTS, Pieter, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and CounterPULSE. She has developed her craft working closely with Onye Ozuzu, Jefferson Pinder, taisha paggett, Every house has a door, Keith Hennessy, BodyCartography Project, Julien Prévieux, Jesse Hewit, and the The Creative Exchange Lab has Prison + Neighborhood Art Project, been established with lead support among others. She is the recipient from The Andrew W. Mellon of a 2019 Graham Foundation Foundation and received pilot Award, 2018 3Arts Award, 2018 support in 2015 through the Oregon Chicago Dancemakers Forum Community Foundation’s Creative Lab Artist Award, and a 2017 Heights initiative. Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant. Martine has written about blackness, queerness, and bodies in action for Art21 Magazine, C Magazine, Frieze, Art Practical, and contributed Meet the Artists chapters to a range of publications, including most recently Queer Friday, Sept. 6 Round 1 Dance: Meanings and Makings 4:00 PM at New Expressive Works (Oxford, 2017), Organize Your Friday, Sept. 13 Round 2 Own: The Politics and Poetics of 4:00 PM at New Expressive Works Self-Determination Movements Run Time 60 min (Sobsercove, 2016), Platforms: Ten Years of Chances Dances (2016), and Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism (NYU, 2009). Martine is the author of TREASURE | My Black Rupture Phoebe Davies (London) is a Welsh (Thread Makes Blanket, 2016). artist and researcher based at Somerset House Studios. Working Ilana Harris-Babou's (New York, NY) across video, sound, performance, work is interdisciplinary, spanning and print, her practice investigates sculpture and installation, but how people perceive their social grounded in video. She speaks the framework, often working with— aspirational language of consumer and in response to—individuals, culture, mimicking cooking shows, and communities, generating work music videos, and home improvement through collaboration, collective television, among others. She has action, and DIT (Do It Together) exhibited work throughout the US strategies. She currently coand Europe. She holds an MFA in facilitates two research groups, Visual Art from Columbia University, and a BA in Art from Yale University. 64 Synaptic Island, a London-based,

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Ralph Pugay (Portland, OR) was born in the Philippines and is a Portland-based artist who creates paintings, drawings, animations, and socially engaged projects that collapse cultural norms to humorous effect. His works often evoke the clunky, absurd, and dissonant experiences of assimilation. Pugay holds a BA and MFA in Contemporary Art 66 Practice from Portland State

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S.J Norman (Melbourne, Australia) is a cross-disciplinary artist and writer. Their career has thus far spanned 15 years and has embraced a diversity of disciplines and formal outcomes, including solo and ensemble performance, installation, sculpture, text, video, and sound. They are a non-binary, transmasculine person, and a diasporic Koori, born on Gadigal land. Their practice is routed through the volatile interstices of the social and the corporeal. Working extensively with durational and spatial practices, as well as intimate/one-to-one frameworks, Norman's primary medium is the body. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

DB Amorin (Honolulu, Hawai’i) is a media-based artist currently living and working in Portland, OR. His work has been supported with awards from the Oregon Arts Commission, the Ford Family Foundation, Regional Arts & Culture Council, and PICA’s Precipice Fund grant funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Calligram Foundation. He was selected for the 2019 Honolulu Biennial, and his visual art and curatorial programming has been exhibited nationally.

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Jaamil Olawale Kosoko (Detroit / Philadelphia / NYC / LA) is a Nigerian American choreographer, performance artist, poet, and curator originally from Detroit, MI. He is a 2017-19 Princeton Arts Fellow, 2019 Red Bull Writing Fellow, 2018 NEFA NDP Production Grant recipient, and a 2017 Cave Canem Poetry Fellow. His creative practice draws from Black study and queer theories of the body, weaving together visual performance, lecture, ritual, and spiritual practice. His most recent works, Séancers (2017) and Bessie nominated #negrophobia (2015), have toured internationally appearing in major festivals including: Tanz im August (Berlin), Moving in November (Finland), Within Practice (Sweden),TakeMeSomewhere (UK), Brighton Festival (UK), Oslo Teaterfestival (Norway), and Zürich MOVES! (Switzerland) among others. He is the author of two chapbooks and his poems and essays have been included in The American Poetry Review, The Dunes Review, and The Broad Street Review, among others. Visit jaamil.com for more information.

University and is a residency graduate from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Other residencies include the Rauschenberg Foundation at Captiva Island and the Joan Mitchell Foundation in New Orleans. Pugay’s awards include a Betty Bowen Award from the Seattle Art Museum and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Award. Notable solo exhibitions were held at the Seattle Art Museum, Upfor, Vox Populi, FAB Gallery (Richmond, VA), and King School Museum of Contemporary Art among others. His work is represented by Upfor Gallery in Portland, OR.

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as sites for basic needs. On our busiest Late Nights, we will also be joined by some of our favorite tba: food and corner store are curated by spencer byrne- seres , Portland pop-ups. pica exhibitions director TBA:FOOD will also host a panel discussion with PICA’s This year, TBA:FOOD launches Artistic Directors, along with Corner Store, a pop-up several other curators and convenience store open day arts administrators to look at and night, stocked with local, how institutions host, and how grab-and-go drinks, food, and they make people feel welcome merchandise for festival goers. in art spaces. Through public Think deli foods, snacks, chips, conversations, interviews, and groceries, toiletries, and other meals, Corner Store asks how PICA necessities an artist, traveler, or neighbor might need. Corner Store can support these efforts in our own neighborhood. asks, “How can institutions be sources of nourishment for artists, Public Hours audiences, and their surrounding communities?” By going beyond Corner Store will be open from typical festival or museum concessions, Corner Store recasts 12:00-4:00 PM and 6:00 PM -Late each day of the festival. how art institutions can serve

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Pancake Breakfast

Hospitality: A Discussion. In this panel, we will talk with PICA’s Artistic Directors, along with several other curators and arts administrators to look at how institutions host, and how they make people feel welcome within spaces.

We start the festival with a BBQ and end with a breakfast! For our final daytime event, wind things down with a brunch time extravaganza of pancakes, bacon, vegan sausages, mimosas, and PICA Executive Director Victoria Frey’s famous Bloody Marys! Our curators will be hard at work flipping pancakes and serving sides. Take this moment to reflect on the festival with old friends and new. This year’s Pancake Breakfast is also a chance to thank and appreciate the many artists and generous volunteers who make this festival possible.

Sunday, Sept. 8 2:00 PM — 3:00 PM at PICA Free See pg. 61 for more details. TBA:FOOD Publication: Look for free copies of the second edition of the TBA:FOOD publication, which explores the intersection of food, festivals, community, and socially engaged art through essays and interviews.

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Sunday, Sept. 15 11:00AM — 1:00 PM at PICA Free Capacity 100

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Vocal Workshop N.E.W. with Holland Andrews / Like a Villain Artist Conversation: Mia Habib PICA with Roya Amirsoleymani Creative Exchange Lab NEW Meet the Artists, Round 1 Mia Habib Productions DIRECTOR PARK ALL - a physical poem of protest (Outdoor Performance) Ligia Lewis WINNINGSTAD THEATRE Water Will (in Melody) Laura Ortman PSU LINCOLN HALL In Concert Fin de Cinema pica Black Orpheus

Workshop: Moving / Attention N.E.W. with Tommy Noonan 12:30 PM Artist Conversation: Ligia Lewis PICA with bart fitzgerald 2:00 PM Hospitality: On Food, Festivals, and Art PICA with Spencer Byrne-Seres and Guests 4:00 PM Miguel Gutierrez PICA This Bridge Called My Ass 6:30 PM Kara-Lis Coverdale FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH "DIAPASON" for Pipe Organ 6:30 PM Ligia Lewis WINNINGSTAD THEATRE Water Will (in Melody) 8:30 PM Miguel Gutierrez PICA This Bridge Called My Ass

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Workshop: Vogue N.E.W. with PDXBall TUESDAY Artist Conversation: Miguel Gutierrez PICA 12:30 pm and San Cha with Roy Pérez Artist Conversation: Laura Ortman PICA 6:30 pm with Reuben Tomás Roqueñi Mia Habib Productions PICA 7:00 pm ALL - a physical poem of protest Ligia Lewis WINNINGSTAD THEATRE Water Will (in Melody) Miguel Gutierrez PICA WEDNESDAY This Bridge Called My Ass 12:30 pm Laura Ortman PSU In Concert 7:00 PM

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Brandon Harrison / PDXBall The Back to School Kiki Ball

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Artist Conversation: pica Roland Dahwen and Tuesday Smillie with Stephanie Snyder and Lisa Dent Eiko Otake whitsell auditorium A Body in Fukushima: Reflections on the Nuclear in Everyday Life

Artist Conversation: Adela Demetja pica and Collaborators with Lucy Cotter Roland Dahwen mekong bistro The Overseas Banquet Leillah Weintraub whitsell auditorium SHAKEDOWN

Artist Conversation: Anthony Hudson pica with Kate Bredeson San Cha LUMBER ROOM

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Panel: Art & Disability pica with Myles de Bastion and Guests Dante Buu, Raluca Croitoru, PNCA Adela Demetja, Emily Henderson Adrian McBride, Selma Selman NEXUS 1 Anthony Hudson / PICA Carla Rossi Looking for Tiger Lily (Solo) Eiko Otake PICA The Duet Project: Distance is Malleable Myles de Bastion / CymaSpace pica

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Workshop: Feeling of Home with YGB Collective 12:30 PM Artist Conversation: Eiko Otake with Linda K. Johnson and

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Kristan Kennedy Creative Exchange Lab N.E.W. Meet the Artists, Round 2 Dante Buu, Raluca Croitoru, PNCA Adela Demetja, Emily Henderson Adrian Mcbride, Selma Selman NEXUS 1 Anthony Hudson / PICA Carla Rossi Looking for Tiger Lily (Solo) Ahamefule J. Oluo WINNINGSTAD THEATRE SUSAN Eiko Otake PICA The Duet Project: Distance is Malleable Adam Linder PSU LINCOLN HALL The WANT JUDY pica

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Workshop: Threshold Practice N.E.W. with Grotto World (Larissa Kaul, Grant Miller, Johnathan Paradox Lee, and Dare Sohei) Artist Conversation: Ahamefule J. Oluo PICA with Darrell Grant and Erin Boberg Dougton Artist Conversation: Adam Linder PICA with Mark Burford Takashi Makino OMSI Remember the Star: Takashi Makino's "Memento Stella" Anthony Hudson / PICA Carla Rossi Looking for Tiger Lily (Solo) Ahamefule J. Oluo WINNINGSTAD THEATRE SUSAN Asher Hartman and YALE UNION Gawdafful National Theatre The Dope Elf Eiko Otake PICA The Duet Project: Distance is Malleable Adam Linder PSU LINCOLN HALL The WANT YGB pica Feeling of Home

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1 PICA 15 NE Hancock Street 2 Yale Union (YU) 800 SE 10th Avenue 3 New Expressive Works (N.E.W.) 810 SE Belmont Street 4 OMSI 1945 SE Water Avenue 5 PSU: Lincoln Hall 1620 SW Park Avenue 6 Portland'5: Winningstad Theatre 1111 SW Broadway 7 Northwest Film Center's Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park Avenue 8 Director Park 815 SW Park Avenue 9 First Presbyterian Church 1200 SW Alder Street 10 c3:initiative 412 NW 8th Avenue 11 lumber room 419 NW 9th Avenue 12 PNCA 511 NW Broadway 13 Mekong Bistro 8200 NE Siskiyou Street

*All TBA:19 festival sites are accessible to people with mobility aids. If you have questions about the accessibility of a specific venue/location, including questions about parking, please contact the Box Office for information at 503-224-PICA (7422).

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WHERE IS THE BOX OFFICE? The TBA Box Office is located at PICA in Northeast Portland at 15 NE Hancock. IS THERE A SERVICE CHARGE ON TICKETS AND PASSES? A $3 transaction fee applies to all orders whether processed online by phone, or in-person. All payment methods, credit card, cash, and checks are subject to this fee. CAN I SHARE MY PASS? No. Passes are non-transferable. Your name will be marked on your pass and you will be required to show ID with your pass at each venue. WHAT IF I FORGET MY PASS? You must purchase a ticket at the door. WHAT IF I LOSE MY PASS? Contact the Box Office immediately and we will help reissue a new pass. WHAT IF I ARRIVE LATE FOR A SHOW? As a general rule, there is no late seating. All shows begin promptly as listed. You must check in no later than 15 minutes before curtain to ensure seating, even with a pass reservation or pre-purchased individual ticket. At 15 minutes prior to curtain, any unclaimed seats will be opened up for individual ticket sales at the door. IF I BUY A TICKET, DOES MY CHILD GET IN FOR FREE? Yes, your child may attend for free if they can sit on your lap. Otherwise, you will need to purchase an additional ticket. Please note, while we welcome children and babies, we may have to ask you to wait in the lobby if there is any disturbance to the live performance.

WHICH SHOWS ARE APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN? CAN I BRING MY FAMILY? PICA supports freedom of speech for artists and the audiences’ right to choose what to see and hear. Due to the nature of live performance, we cannot prescreen all works for content. However, if you have specific concerns or questions, our Box Office staff can offer suggestions on shows. Young people are welcome at all shows that are not 21+ at their parents’ discretion. CAN YOU REFUND OR EXCHANGE MY TICKET? All ticket and pass sales are final. There are no refunds or exchanges. DO I HAVE TO MAKE A RESERVATION IF I HAVE A PASS? Yes, reservations are required for most performances at every pass level. You will make your reservations when purchasing your pass. Some performances are housed in limited-capacity venues. To ensure the best experience possible, reservations help us better anticipate audiences for each performance. For more information, visit pica.org or contact the Box Office.

SUPPORTERS Superhero The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Calligram Foundation and Allie Furlotti The Collins Foundation James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation Sarah Miller Meigs Presenting The Jane Schiffauer Fund Linda Hutchins and John Montague Meyer Memorial Trust Maybelle Clark MacDonald Fund National Endowment for the Arts Regional Arts and Culture Council Major Leslie B. Durst National Performance Network Oregon Cultural Trust Dan Wieden and Priscilla Bernard Wieden Underwriter Zach Augustine Ed Caduro Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation Courtney Dailey and Michael Hyde Ford Family Foundation French American Cultural Exchange Gerding Edlen Timothy Gibbs Kit Gillem Kinsman Foundation Lehman Foundation McGraw Family Foundation New England Foundation for the Arts Nike Oregon Community Foundation Oregon Arts Commission Travel Portland John Shipley Al Solheim Charles and Darci Swindells The Zephyr Charitable Foundation

ARE EVENTS ADA ACCESSIBLE? All TBA:19 festival sites are accessible to people with mobility aids. If you have questions about the accessibility of a specific venue/location, including questions about parking, please contact the Box Office for information at 503-224-PICA (7422).

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Benefits of sponsorship include: connecting with PICA’s community of vibrant and educated art enthusiasts, who embrace innovation and exploration; unique and memorable experiences with contemporary art for your staff and clients; invitations to exclusive sponsor receptions; acknowledgment listings in printed materials, on donor walls, and on the PICA website; invitations to year-round visiting and resident artist events; and employee ticket packages.

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The Regional Arts & Culture Council, including support from the City of Portland, Multnomah County and the Arts Education & Access Fund This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov

Major Sponsors LESLIE B. DURST

Dan Wieden & Priscilla Bernard Wieden

Underwriter Sponsors Courtney Daily & Michael Hyde Ed Cauduro Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation

McGraw Family Foundation

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JOHN SHIPLEY

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Easy Monthly Donations Spread your giving through the year with a recurring monthly gift. Visit pica.org to make your monthly donation—monthly donations are an easy way to become a PICA member for as little as $3 per month. More Ways To Show Your Support What we do takes more than money— it takes commitment. Volunteer your time or energy. Donate in-kind services, such as construction, design, or printing. Donate materials and goods such as lumber, computers, frequent flyer miles, vehicles, or audio-visual equipment. Paula O'Neil PDX Wines Performing Arts Interpreting Alliance Pickathon Pink Martini Pixie Retreat Portland Art Museum Portland Beverage Portland Fashion Institute Portland Garment Factory Portland Mercury Portland Monthly Portland State University Portland'5 Center for the Arts Pour les Femmes Proud Mary Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College Reverend Nat's Hard Cider Robin Wright SakéOne Topher Sinkinson Sizzle Pie Stephanie Snyder Storm Large Stumptown The Goodface The Hoxton, Portland The Mark Spencer Hotel

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LEVELS OF SUPPORT UNDERWRITER $10,000 All CHAMPION benefits and: Access to exclusive concierge service during TBA Festival CHAMPION $5,000 All PATRON benefits and: Two additional PICA Memberships and all of the general benefits included (Four Total) Two TBA Immersion Passes PATRON $2,500 All SUPPORTER benefits and: One TBA Immersion Pass SUPPORTER $1,000 All ADVOCATE benefits and: Invitations to private exhibition tours with curatorial staff ADVOCATE $500 All ENTHUSIAST benefits and: Invitations to private sponsor receptions Acknowledgment listed in printed materials, on donor walls, and on PICA website

ENTHUSIAST $250 All CONTRIBUTER benefits and: Invitations to exclusive artist receptions and events Acknowledgment listed on donor walls CONTRIBUTOR $100 All GENERAL benefits and: Acknowledgment listed in printed materials GENERAL $50 ARTIST/STUDENT $35 Two annual memberships for either two named patrons , or one named patron + one guest 20% discount on TBA Festival passes, tickets, year-round performances, events, merchandise, and publications Advance sales on programs and events Invitation to members-only events and previews Subscription to email newsletters for the latest PICA updates

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PICA Board of Directors

Time-Based Art Festival Staff

Executive Director Victoria Frey

Jill Sherman Board Chair Courtney Dailey Vice Chair C. Alex Miller Treasurer Steve Galloway Secretary Jason Bell Kristin Bremer Moore Kavin Buck Lucinda Carmichael Jenny Chu Andrew Dickson Allie Furlotti Shir Grisanti Peter Gronquist Britt Howard Lisa Jarrett Mira Kaddoura Jeanie Lai André Middleton Holcombe Waller

Technical Directors + Production Staff Bill Boese Jeff Forbes Molly Gardner Maggie Heath Mat Larimer Janessa Raabe Kayla Scrivner Festival Graphic Design Joel Ruffier Mallary Wilson

Curatorial Interns Ellena Basada Index Marcus Theo Snyder

Artistic Director + Curator of Performance Erin Boberg Doughton Artistic Director + Curator of Visual Art Kristan Kennedy Marketing and Communications Manager Leslie Vigeant Development Manager Kim Crosby Development Advisor Luisa Adrianzen Guyer Event and Earned Income Manager Sophie May Hook Accounting and Finance Manager Shaun Keylock Grant Writer Van Pham Production Manager Chris Balo Exhibitions Director Spencer Byrne-Seres Head Preparator Maggie Heath Curatorial Assistant Kevin Holden Public Engagement Coordinator Jodie Cavalier Performance Programs Coordinator Mami Takahashi

Leadership Council Howard Shapiro Founding Chair Gene d’Autremont Leslie B. Durst Pat Harrington Kirk Kelley Peter Koehler, Jr. Julie Mancini Ethan Seltzer Kathleen Stephenson-Kuhn Michael Tingley In Memoriam Deborah Horrell Sally Lawrence Joan Shipley National Advisory Board Linda Brumbach Ann Carlson Kristy Edmunds Cathy Edwards Carol Hepper Philip Glass Ralph Lemon Mark Russell Melissa Schiff Soros Robert Soros Rebecca Stewart Sally M. Stillman Elizabeth Streb Dan Wieden Paul Zumwalt

Festival Copyeditor Lex Knight TBA:FOOD Curator Spencer Byrne-Series F+B Coordinator Alley Frey Volunteer Coordinator Ella Ray Front Of House Manager Noelle Suzanne Barce

Artist Services Intern Perry Doane Documentation Intern Taz Coffey

Design Intern Oskar Radon-Kimball

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Special Thanks Sean Schumacher Alex Novie Nicholas Raethke Jason Buehrer Molly Johnson Spektrix

Front of House Supervisors Cassie Adams-Harford Trev DeTal Jeanne Fries Urks Kurth Lusi Lukova Ella Marra-Ketelaar Benni Maxon Arabella Mayrer Janessa Narciso Box Office Assistants Bett Daniel Charles Grant Kayla Kelly Abbey Labrum Tamera Lynn Erin Merrill Rachel Miller-Howard Maren Salomon Facilities Crew Jared Berrien Em Young Institute Coordinator Kevin Holden Creative Exchange Lab Assistant Hannon Welch

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Artistic Director + Curator of Public Engagement Roya Amirsoleymani

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