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FOR TICKETS, PASSES, AND INFORMATION: CALL 503-224-PICA OR VISIT PICA.ORG/TBA
Welcome to TBA 2018! For our first festival as PICA’s Artistic Directors, we are excited to share the work of international, national, and local artists across disciplines who offer new perspectives, reflect and respond to the times, and propose alternate possibilities, visions, and futures. We believe gathering in shared time and space—in pleasure or anger, conversation or celebration, party or protest—has the potential to be radical and healing, and that art is all of those things and more. As a curatorial team, we strive for collaboration versus consensus, we challenge ourselves and each other, and we follow artists’ leads. For TBA:18, we are thinking about what it means to be an artist, an arts worker, an audience member, an activist, a citizen, a human in relationship to society, and how—as individuals and as communities—we can stand together and create the world we want to live in, even if only for a few moments or days. We look to our elders and our youth, and to those on the margins, to help us find our way. This year’s TBA artists are responding to our social, political, and cultural moment with humor, ferocity and joy. They redefine beauty, reclaim place, and share untold stories. Using time, space, bodies, and minimal materials, they build temporary utopias and dystopias and construct ephemeral worlds with a generosity of spirit and economy of means. The work comes alive only with you there to experience it. It needs your spirit. TBA itself is a weird and wonderful experience that asks us to embody and disembody, critique our conditions, question our existence, examine our role, expand our community, and merge art and life for a long week in late summer. From performances and exhibitions, to lectures and meals, to processionals and parties, we encourage you to immerse yourself in infinite possibilities—bring your people, find your people, look and listen, scream and whisper, walk the talk, wake up early, stay up late, push your limits, broaden your perceptions, open up. As you dive into the pages ahead, we hope you will be inspired not only by the artists in the festival but by our new design which reflects the ongoing evolution of our organization. TBA is for all of us, and PICA is for the people—artists, audiences, volunteers, staff, crew, supporters, partners, and friends. We encourage a culture of YES, and invite you to be part of it. We welcome conversation. We welcome feedback. We welcome you and yours.
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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.
Before the Festival Thursdays through Saturdays
During the Festival Every day 12:00–late
Sept. 4–5 12:00–6:00 PM
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15 NE Hancock Street, Portland 503-224-PICA (7422)
12:00–6:00 PM (starting August 9, 2018)
Today, our region's diverse and vibrant Native communities are 70,000 strong, descended from more than 380 Tribes, both local and distant. 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.
Box office open Aug. 9–Sept. 16
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.*
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 for more details or contact the TBA Box Office at 503-224-PICA (7422).
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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. PICA presents artists from a wide variety of practices and embraces those who exist at the borders of genres and ideas. PICA develops exhibitions and residencies, commissions new work, stimulates conversation, and encourages the pursuit of new ideas. To learn more, visit: pica.org
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Opening Night Dinner The Beautiful Street
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New Expressive Works
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Centennial Mills
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PNCA Mediatheque
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Workshop: Big Body Conversation: Karen Sherman habitus Happy Hour Lecture: C. Riley Snorton Some Styles of Masculinity pt.1 ANTHEM JACK & Let 'im Move You Series Selections S1
Workshop: Hip Hop & Popping Conversation: Kaneza Schaal & Cornell Alston Panel: Artist Residencies and Programs at Columbia River Correctional Institution habitus Some Styles of Masculinity pt.2 ANTHEM JACK & Unexploded Ordnances Let 'im Move You Series Selections Soft Goods NXT LVL
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Winningstad Theatre
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Shout House
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Centennial Mills
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Reed College
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Winningstad Theatre
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Artists Rep
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Lincoln Hall, PSU
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Workshop: Practice Practice 086 Conversation: jumatatu m. poe and 086 Jermone Donte Beacham Longtable: Queer Politics and 086 Performance Practices habitus 024 Pushit! 030 Workshop: Experimental Sound 086 Collage with CDJs Some Styles of Masculinity pt.3 022 Post Show Conversation: 087 Gregg Bordowitz with Stephanie Snyder ANTHEM 016 JACK & 020 Unexploded Ordnances 026 Let 'im Move You Series Selections 018 Soft Goods 028 LEGENDARY "FESTIVAL" 070
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Conversation: NIC Kay ANTHEM Vinyl Equations Unexploded Ordnances self—karaoke Fin de Cinema
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PNCA Mediatheque
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Winningstad Theatre
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Conversation: Robin Deacon Pushit! Vinyl Equations Unexploded Ordnances self-karaoke AN INFECTED SUNSET
Lecture: Meet the Creative Exchange Lab Artists Vinyl Equations Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo Unexploded Ordnances self-karaoke Prince Romeo and the Crow
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AFTER Dykes Wanted
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Workshop: See, Hear, Here
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New Expressive Works
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518 SE 76th Ave
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Centennial Mills
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Chicken Coop
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Brunish Theatre
FÓOT SÒN STÍCKY GRÒUND Utopian Visions Art Fair Panel: Food, Festivals and Social Justice Conversation: Andrew Schneider and Raquel André habitus 脚儿粘地
FÓOT SÒN STÍCKY GRÒUND Tender Table Pelléas & Mélisande Collection of Lovers La Nuit, La Traversée, Sur Le Fil Awaiting Oblivion ... ALBUM AFTER The Last Artful, Dodgr
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518 SE 76th Ave
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Chicken Coop
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Portland Art Museum
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Sept. 16 Workshop: Release-Receive-Become Conversation: Sarah Hennies Sanity TV Collection of Lovers Contralto ALBUM Sonnet/Matsumoto, Suzuki/Krausbauer
Conversation: Autumn Knight, Tim Smith-Stewart, Mariana Valencia Ji Yang Pelléas & Mélisande habitus Happy Hour Lecture: Andrew J Brown/Sister James and Shawna Lipton Utopian Visions Art Fair Collection of Lovers Sanity TV La Nuit, La Traversée, Sur Le Fil Contralto Awaiting Oblivion ... ALBUM
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FÓOT SÒN STÍCKY GRÒUND Utopian Visions Art Fair Curators' Pancake Special + Vic's Bloody Mary Bar
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FÓOT SÒN STÍCKY GRÒUND habitus Awaiting Oblivion ... Pelléas & Mélisande La Nuit, La Traversée, Sur Le Fil
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Date Sept. 6 at 6:00 PM Location PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street Ticket $100 per person Capacity 200
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Join friends and artists in toasting the first night of TBA:18 at the festival’s Opening Night Dinner! Chefs Matt Howard and Jeremy Larter (Field Day Feasts and Gatherings) will cook a spectacular family-style meal that embodies the farm-to-table movement that has shaped Portland’s culinary landscape for the past decade. These talented chefs created a plentiful menu, featuring Baharat-spiced chicken with smoked Japanese eggplant, mild habañero, hen egg bottarga; charred cauliflower with oil-poached ceci bean, mustard greens, roasted Interlaken grapes and sesame dukkah—with gluten-free/vegan options and much more. Immediately following dinner, head into our TBA Late Night hub to dance the night away with The Beautiful Street.
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Date Sept. 6 at 8:00 PM Location PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street Free Capacity 500
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To kick off the 16th Annual TBA Festival, step into the thriving Pacific Northwest street-and-club dance community and experience a 7-to-smoke freestyle dance battle. The Beautiful Street is where dancers will compete, round for round, in the styles of breakdance, hip-hop, house, locking, popping, vogue, waacking, and more. Celebrating individuality, creativity, and technique, freestyle dancers are fueled by the music, each other, and the crowd. This engaging and inspring battle will be followed by an epic dance party!
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Katie Janovec is a freestyle dancer, popper, performer, teacher and event producer. She created The Beautiful Street to connect, support, and promote the Northwest street and club dance community. Katie continues to dive deeper into street and club dance culture through traveling, battling, learning from teachers who share the history, and creating community events. She is currently the Fundraising Coordinator at The Aspire Project. Brandon Harrison is the founder and father of the kiki House of Flora. He is also the founder of the #PDXBall, an inclusive QTPOC-centered event that involves voguing, runway, and other competitive categories. In the major ballroom scene outside of Portland, Brandon is a part of the legendary House of Mizrahi. He is part of a small group working to build Portland's kiki ballroom scene. Jesus Rodales is a Hillsboro native. He started his dance career as a freestyler, specializing in Tutting and Popping. He is co-founder of Find A Way Threads, a lifestyle brand dedicated to its self-explanatory purpose. Through 012 Find A Way, they hope to help create opportunities for their community!
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swallow is a multi-channel video installation of visual gestures from contemporary television and film exploring parts of black femme existence considered less desirable for consumption. what resistance sits wet and warm in the offal? swallow considers the different imperatives around consumption that exist for black bodies and what it feels like to hunger for things that catch in your throat. how do we read black femme queerness into, underneath and behind these visual spaces? how does it look, feel, and sound, to open things up so that we can fit inside? ariella tai is a video artist, film scholar, and independent programmer from queens, new york. they are interested in the materiality of black bodies and black performance as vernaculars which subvert, interrupt or defy the diegetic cohesiveness of narrative. they currently re-appropriate, glitch and video process existing media in attempts to rupture and reconstruct some of the messier emotional realities of black femme existence. they are one half of “the first and the last,” a fellowship, workshop and screening series supporting and celebrating the work of black women and femmes in film, video and new media art.
Nat Turner Project (NTP) functions as a radical space seeking to fill a void in Portland, Oregon, one of the least diverse metropolitan cities in America. NTP allows artists of color to go beyond the usual expositions inherent in presenting the art of marginalized perspectives to a dominant culture; allowing them the freedom to create or express their own language within and without the parameters of racial commodification or designation. NTP creates an environment of inclusivity—a communal harbor for artists previously silenced by institutional constraints—and actively provides them spatial priority. Nat Turner Project is made up of Melanie Stevens and maximiliano. Melanie has a background in Political Science, drawing, and sequential art. maximiliano does performance, installation, and poetry. They each bring a variety of skill sets to the project, ranging from curatorial and 014 organizational experience to social practice and public relations.
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Date Sept. 7, 8, 9, 10 at 6:30 PM Location PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street Ticket $16 Member/$20 General Run Time 60 min Capacity 160
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Questioning contemporary dance’s predisposition towards neutrality, authenticity, and the desexualization of the female body, ANTHEM embraces theatricality, virtuosity, and sass. The work weaves together vernacular dance styles to explore labor, play, and feminine posturing. Four women execute a repetitive, complex set of movements that evolve as each rotates hypnotically within the confines of a square. Over time, the meditative rigor of their steps dissolves into a tangle of commotion, blurring the distinction between the mundane and the glamorous. Milka Djordjevich is a choreographer, performer, and teacher based in Los Angeles, CA. Her work has been shown at many venues, including the Kitchen, the Chocolate Factory Theater, the Whitney Museum, the American Realness Festival, and Danspace Project in New York; REDCAT, Grand Performances, Pieter, the Hammer Museum, Machine Project, Showbox LA/Bootleg Theater, and HomeLA in Los Angeles; Counterpulse and the Berkeley Art Museum in Northern California; and internationally in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, and the UK. Djordjevich was a 2006-2007 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence and a 2008/2010 danceWEB Europe Scholar, and she is currently a 20172018 Princeton University Hodder Fellow. Her other projects include serving as guest editor for Movement Research’s Critical Correspondence and initiating the Monday Morning Class series at Pieter. Djordjevich has co-authored works with composer Chris Peck, choreographer Dragana Bulut, designer Samuel Yang, and artist Marcos Lutyens; and has performed for Heather Kravas, Jennifer Monson, Elizabeth Ward, Sam Kim, Saša Asentić and Ana Vujanović, among others. She has twice served as Visiting Assistant Professor in the UC Riverside Dance Department and has taught at UC Irvine, AMDA, Pomona College, Movement Research, and PICA’s TBA:15 Festival. In 2016, Djordjevich established STANA, an organization cultivating Los Angeles, national and international dance connections. www.thisismilka.com
ANTHEM premiered October 2017 at the Los Angeles Exchange (LAX) Festival and is commissioned by the Chocolate Factory Theater and Los Angeles Performance Practice. ANTHEM was made possible in part by the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, a Pennington Dance Group SPACE 016 GRANT @ ARC Pasadena and the Z. Clark Branson Foundation.
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Date Sept. 7, 8, 9 at 8:30 PM Location PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street Ticket $16 Member/$20 General Run Time 80 min Capacity 165
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Let ‘im Move You is a series of works choreographed by jumatatu m. poe & Jermone Donte Beacham that stem from the artists’ seven-year research into J-Sette performance—the performance of joy and the conundrum of Black joy. The series currently consists of three live performance works and an installation. A Study uses J-Sette movement and performance structures as jumping-off points for experimentation with the role of strategy in collaborative creation and presentation. Rhythm, pattern, and attention become mechanisms for the artists to situate themselves in play, and to frame a movement conversation with primarily White audiences. This Is a Success explores J-Sette in relation to notions of AfricanAmerican exceptionalism as expressed through middle-class, Black American values reiterated within the J-Sette form. The work continues the artists’ research of rhythm as a vehicle into subversion and satisfaction.
jumatatu m. poe is a choreographer, performer, and educator based between Philadelphia and New York City who grew up dancing around the living room and at parties with his siblings and cousins. His early exposure to concert dance was through African dance and capoeira performances on California college campuses, but he did not start formal dance training until college with Umfundalai, Kariamu Welsh’s contemporary African dance technique. His work continues to be influenced by various sources, including his foundations in those living rooms and parties, early technical training in contemporary African dance, continued study of contemporary dance and performance, and recent sociological research of and technical training in J-Setting with Jermone Donte Beacham. He produces dance and performance work with idiosynCrazy productions, a company he founded in 2008 and now co-directs with Shannon Murphy. Jermone Donte Beacham started taking dancing seriously while he was in high school and was introduced to the world of J-Sette by women. J-Sette historically refers to Jackson State University’s female drill team that began in the 1970s. They “created” the dance style, and thus far have made it a distinctive form of dance. Donte became seriously interested in this type of dance when he saw a group of males performing it. Currently, he has his own J-Sette line, Mystic Force. Previously, he served as co-captain of Dallas’ Texas Teasers. He has participated and competed in several events and competitions, including two SetteItOff video challenges, Atlanta Pride 2010, Tennessee Classics 2009, and Memphis Pride 2008. In 2015, he was named New Legendary by the Meet Me on the Dance Floor J-Sette council, and has 018 gained many titles since then, such as "Best Dancer" and "Most Entertaining."
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A Study was first developed in a residency through Kultursekretariat’s Tanzrecherche NRW program at Kulturforum Alte Post in Neuss, Germany. Both performance works have been made possible through a residency at the 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica with support from Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
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Date Sept. 7 at 8:30 PM ; Sept. 8, 9 at 6:30 PM Location Winningstad Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway Ticket $20 Member/$25 General Run Time 75 min Capacity 275
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JACK & is a stand-up routine turned sitcom baking fiasco that mingles cakes and kitchen disasters, recipes and remedies, jokes and goldfish to paint the portrait of a dream interrupted and resumed. The comedy of errors is structured on social codes and training, from prison reentry programs to debutante balls. The performance considers rentery to society after prison, focusing not the time one has served but the measure of one’s dreaming that is given to the state. “Jack” works the night shift at an industrial bakery. He returns home to bake a cake for his wife “Jill”; “Jack” ends up whirling through a dance—part dream, part ritual—re-entering his own internal life. The performance draws on aspirational class stories like those in The Honeymooners and Amos & Andy; the paintings of Agnes Martin, Ellen Gallagher and Ruth Asawa; tigers in Harlem; real and imagined entering society ceremonies like Cotillion balls; and markers of transition from John Canoe traditions, to the mirroring and mimicry found in African American dance pageantry of the late nineteenth century. Directed by Kaneza Schaal and starring Cornell Alston, the performance explores markers of transition and transformation and the liminal spaces that bridge worlds. Sept. 8 performance is ASL interpreted Kaneza Schaal is a New York City based theater artist. Her recent work GO FORTH premiered at PS122 and then showed at the Genocide Memorial Amphitheater in Kigali, Rwanda; LMCC’s River-to-River Festival; Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans; Cairo International Contemporary Theater Festival in Egypt; and at her alma mater Wesleyan University, CT. Schaal received a 2018 Ford Foundation Art For Justice Bearing Witness award, 2017 MAP Fund award, 2016 Creative Capital Award, and is an Aetna New Voices Fellow at Hartford Stage. JACK & was co-commissioned by PICA, Walker Art Center, REDCAT, On The Boards, and Center for Contemporary Art Cincinnati and will show at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and Brooklyn Academy of Music. Her new work in development, CARTOGRAPHY, was workshopped through New Victory Theater Lab, NYU Abu Dhabi, and The Kennedy Center’s New Vision New Voices. kanezaschaal.com
JACK & is a project of Creative Capital, the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Theater Project, and The Map Fund, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by the Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati) in partnership with On The Boards (Seattle), Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), REDCAT (Los Angeles), and NPN; a commission by Hartford Stage through the Aetna New Voices Fellowship; and with support from BRIClab, 020 the Baryshnikov Arts Center, and THE LUMBERYARD.
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Part 1: Rock Star Sept. 7 at 6:30 PM Part 2: Rabbi Sept. 8 at 4:30 PM Part 3: Comedian Sept. 9 at 4:30 PM Location Reed College Performing Arts Building, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd. Free Reservations Required Capacity 90
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SOME STYLES OF MASCULINITY Gregg Bordowitz (New York, New York)
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Some Styles of Masculinity is a monologic journey that unfolds in three interconnected chapters over three consecutive evenings entitled: Rock Star, Rabbi, and Comedian. Under the guise of The Benjamin Zev Show—equal parts television variety show, Catskill stand-up, bar mitzvah midrash, and punk-rock listening session—Bordowitz adroitly improvises each performance’s preoccupations into a humorous and heartfelt examination of his queer masculinity and life as an artist, writer, professor, and cultural observer. Some Styles of Masculinity was originally commissioned for "Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon" at the New Museum, New York (September 27, 2017—January 21, 2018), curated by Johanna Burton with Sara O’Keeffe and Natalie Bell. The work is produced for TBA by the Reed College Theatre Department and the Cooley Gallery. Creative consultant: Morgan Bassichis. Gregg Bordowitz is an award-winning artist, writer, and activist. His films have shown internationally in screenings and exhibitions at museums including: The New Museum, NY; Artist Space, NY; TATE Modern, UK; and MoMA, NY. Bordowitz is the author of many books, including: The AIDS Crisis is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986–2003. He was a member of the groundbreaking AIDS activist group ACT UP, and a founding member of the 1980s film collective Testing the Limits. He is the recipient of a Rockefeller Intercultural Arts Fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. Bordowitz is the Director of the Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He comes to Reed College as a Stephen E. Ostrow Distinguished 022 Visitor in the Arts.
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Gregg Bordowitz, Some Styles of Masculinity, 2018. Performance view, New Museum, New York, January 19, 2018. Photo: Chloe Foussianes
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Converge 45 presents Ann Hamilton’s habitus, at Centennial Mills Pavilion on the waterfront of the Willamette river in Portland, Oregon. Inspired by one of the earliest human technologies, cloth making, the title, habitus refers to clothing, customs of dress, social patterns, and what Hamilton calls “the commonness of cloth.” A field of suspended curtains are turned by rope and pulley or animated by air’s movements. Wind might dwarf the mechanical action of a hand pulling and releasing the ropes at one moment. At another, human effort coaxes the static drag of cloth’s weight to circle and surround. Part cause and effect, part nature and culture, part individual and collective, this landscape invites social interactions and reciprocity. As cloth swaddles us at birth and covers us in sleep; as a folded blanket can tell a story of trade; as a flag carries the symbol of a nation, Hamilton’s multi-venue exhibition invites us to touch and be touched by the fabric of human experience. Originally commissioned by The Fabric Workshop and Museum in 2016 for the historic waterfront at Pier 9 in Philadelphia, Ann Hamilton re-sites elements of habitus in relation to Portland’s civic history and places a model of the city built in the 1970s at the center of the work. Created at a moment of urban renewal, this architectural representation is flanked by long shelves of literary excerpts related to dwelling, shelter and sanctuary. These commonplace pages were contributed by the public through an open call for submissions which continues throughout the run of the exhibition via habitus-a-commonplace.tumblr.com.
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habitus is the landscape made from letting go and holding on, from reelings and turnings, unravelings and gatherings, spinning and scrolling, continuous and discontinuous threads, in circles and in lines. — Ann Hamilton
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Dates Sept. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 at 7:30 PM Location Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 SW Morrison Street Ticket $25 Member/$35 General Run Time 85 min Capacity 220
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UNEXPLODED ORDNANCES (UXO) Split Britches (New York, New York)
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Combining a Dr. Strangelove-inspired performance with a daring forum for public conversation, Unexploded Ordnances (UXO) explores aging, anxiety, hidden desires, and how to look forward when the future is uncertain. Adopting the characters of a bombastic general and an ineffectual president, Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver of the performance troupe Split Britches lace this interactive piece with playful urgency and lethargy, to encourage discussion about the political landscape. In the “Situation Room,� twelve audience members are invited to become a Council of Elders to discuss the global issues of the day, as the company weaves in satirical insights and humor. The two pioneering theatre-makers see undisturbed ordnances as a metaphor for the disregarded potential in elders, and hope to uncover buried resources in us all.
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Supported by Arts Council England, Wellcome Trust, Barbican Centre, University of Sussex, Joy Tomchin, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, University of Richmond, and Queen Mary University of 026 London.
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Sept. 12 performance is ASL interpreted Founded in New York in 1980 with Deb Margolin, Split Britches continues with the duo and solo work of Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw which spans satirical, gender-bending performance, methods for public engagement, videography, digital and print media, explorations of aging and well-being, and iconic lesbian-feminist theatre.
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Date Sept. 8, 9 at 8:30 PM Location PSU Lincoln Hall, 1620 SW Park Avenue Ticket $20 Member/$25 General Run Time 70 min Capacity 425
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Soft Goods is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by Walker Art Center in partnership with P.S. 122, Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, and NPN. Presentation, production, and production residency support provided by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Soft Goods was supported by a grant from the Jerome Foundation, the McKnight Foundation Fellowship Program, as well as by The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital, primarily supported by the 028 Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Karen Sherman makes performances that incorporate her background in dance, writing, theater, music, and the handyman arts. Her work has been presented nationally by P.S. 122, Walker Art Center, PICA’s TBA Festival, Fusebox Festival, The Chocolate Factory Theater, American Realness, The Southern Theater, Dance Place, Diverseworks, Movement Research, ODC, Red Eye Theater, and many others. A freelance stage technician for over 20 years, she was Technical Director and Production Manager of NYC’s legendary Judson Church (1994-2004), was Technical Director of both Movement Research (1994-1998) and Circus Amok (1995-1997), and has been an overhire stage technician at Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) since 2005. She is currently working on an interdisciplinary project about blood, astronomy, and animals. Part One, a solo visual art show, opened at Hair + Nails Gallery in Minneapolis in March 2018. Part Two, a dance, premieres in 2019, with Part Three, a book, to follow.
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Date Sept. 9 at 3:30 PM ; Sept. 11 at 5:30 PM Location Piedmont Neighborhood, Portland, Oregon Ticket $0-$15 Sliding Scale Run Time 120 min
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PUSHIT! [EXERCISE 1 IN GETTING WELL SOON] NIC Kay (New York, New York)
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NIC Kay is from the Bronx, currently occupying several liminal spaces. They are a person who makes performances and creates/organizes performative spaces. They are obsessed with the act and process of moving the change of place, production of space, position, and the clarity/ meaning gleaned from the shifting of perspective. NIC’s current transdisciplinary projects explore movement as a place of reclamation of the body, history, and spirituality. NIC has shown work, spoken on panels, and hosted workshops at numerous venues throughout the United States and internationally. In 2016, they developed a web series called the Bronx Cunt Tour around their debut solo performance lil BLK for Open TV, which premiered in April 2016. NIC Kay was a 2017 Movement Research Artistin-Residence Van Lier Fellow in New York City.
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Performance on Sept. 9: in Piedmont Neighborhood along N Williams Ave. Performance on Sept. 11: in Piedmont Neighborhood along NE MLK Jr. Blvd. Exact addresses to be announced 24 hours in advance. Mobility Note: Full performance viewing requires walking for approximately 3 miles/2 hours. Please contact PICA’s box office at 503-224-PICA 030 with any access or accommodation questions or concerns.
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Date Sept. 10, 11, 12 at 6:30 PM Location Winningstad Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway Ticket $16 Member/$20 General Run Time 50 min Capacity 275
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Syd Barrett and Nina Simone. Curtis Mayfield and Richard Nixon. These are some of the radically differing voices juxtaposed within Vinyl Equations, a performance that presents a series of vinyl records in unusual combinations to generate the beginnings of an alternative, non-linear, non-genre based history of recorded music, in strictly analog terms. Accompanied by a single record turntable, artist and writer Robin Deacon will share a collection of stories, lectures, and possible dance routines that aim to uncover strange echoes and oblique similarities between the records he has chosen for analysis. From describing his childhood fear of Joy Division album covers to the contemporary search for an obscure record of Caribbean folk songs featuring the voice of his mother, Vinyl Equations shifts between the realms of direct autobiographical account and fictional speculation in an approach that has come to characterize Deacon’s work.
Robin Deacon (born 1973, Eastbourne, England) is a British artist, writer and filmmaker currently based in the USA. Active from the 1990s, his work explores questions of memory, absence and fiction in performance, through a constant reconfiguration of his role as an artist—as journalist and biographer, operator and technician, imposter and stooge. His recent research projects have explored histories of video documentation and outmoded media formats, and the practice and ethics of performance re-enactment. His live- and screen-based work has been commissioned and programmed throughout Europe, the US, and Asia. A MacDowell Fellow, he has been a recipient of a variety of awards and fellowships from organizations such as the Delfina Foundation, British Arts Council, Live Art Development 032 Agency, and Franklin Furnace, Inc.
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Date Sept. 10, 11, 12 at 8:30 PM Location PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street Tickets $16 Member/$20 General Run Time 90 min Capacity 165
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WAK is a post-colonial conceptual karaoke band comprised of artists Mariah Carrie Mae Seems (Sharita Towne), Yoko Bono (Erin Charpentier), Jasper John Lennon (Travis Neel), and Joseph Beuys II Men (Zachary Gough). WAK projects have been featured in the Agitprop! exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York; the Out of Sight Survey of Northwest Art in Seattle, Washington; the Writ Large festival at The Great Wall of Oakland, California; the Auto Body exhibition in Miami, Florida; the Faena Art Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Shine a Light at the Portland Art Museum, the POW Film Fest, the Converge 45 art fair, and the 034 Hollywood Theatre in Portland, Oregon.
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Date Sept. 12 at 6:30 PM Location PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street Ticket $0-$15 Sliding Scale Run Time 90 min Capacity 500 Co-presented with Adams and Ollman and PNCA MFA Visual Studies
SASSAFRAS, CYPRESS & INDIGO— BLACK IMAGES AND THE (E)MOTIVE NOTION OF FREAKINESS Vaginal Davis (Germany)
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Davis’ performances are giddy, satirical stabs at the old-world order, levelling criticism at white privilege and the patriarchy with nuanced wit and game-show-style camp. The Vaginal Davis persona is a complex mixture of queercore punk antics and MGM studio glamour, reflecting Davis’ socially engaged and aesthetically consistent interests. — art21magazine
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Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo—Black Screen Images and the (e)motive Notion of Freakiness is a lecture performance by Vaginal Davis, the internationally-revered, intersexed doyenne of intermedia arts and sciences. She takes public discourse to Dementia 13 levels as she spells out the queer and blatino experience in her own inimitable fashion, creating new words out of thin air and crashing, bull-in-a-Madame-Mau-china-shop style, over notions of propriety and reality. In short, her work can be described as disheveled, humorous, and rebellious. This lecture is held on the occasion of Vaginal Davis’s solo exhibition An Invitation to the Dance at Adams and Ollman Gallery on view through October 20, 2018. Vaginal Davis also has work in BETWEEN.. Please see page 060 for more information.
Ms. Davis hosted and curated Rising Stars, Falling Stars for over ten years and is now overseeing the regular performative film event Contemporary Vinegar Syndrome at Arsenal. She has taught her spiky brand of performance art as a guest professor at Lund UniversityMalmo Art Academy, Sweden, Justus Liebig Universität Gießen, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Harvard, and NYU. Originally from Los Angeles, California, where she never learned to drive a car, she has been living in 036 stylish exile in Berlin since 2005.
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Date Sept. 13, 14, 15 at 6:30 PM Location Brunish Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, 4th Floor Ticket $16 Member/$20 General Capacity 150
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COLLECTION OF LOVERS Raquel André (Portugal)
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Raquel André was born in Caneças, Portugal in 1986. Her first performance was created through her discovery of a box full of handwritten letters from the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s. André has since cultivated an interest in collecting—particularly in the performing arts—and in 2016, she completed her master’s thesis at University Federal of Rio de Janeiro on the subject. André studied in the Theater and Film School of Lisbon, and worked with several Portuguese artists from different artistic practices. Her work has been shown on television, and in Portugal, Spain, Poland, Cuba, Argentina, and Brazil.
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Between Lisbon, Ponta Delgada, Rio de Janeiro, Loulé, Minde, Paredes de Coura, Sever do Vouga, Ovar, Manaus, Barreiro, Bergen, Stavanger, Oslo, and Warsaw, Raquel André has collected 167 lovers (as of July 2018) . People of all nationalities, genders and ages agree to meet her in an unfamiliar apartment to build a fictional intimacy within the span of an hour. Throughout each city she travels, the collection grows. These encounters are documented by photograph, to serve as content for an ever-evolving performance. Collection of Lovers serves as a seemingly infinite archive. Throughout this peculiar body of work, André falls into a new abyss each time the door opens to a new lover, and fiction and reality become irresistibly entwined.
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Date Sept. 13, 14 at 7:30 PM Location PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street Ticket $28 Member/$35 General; see thirdangle.org for other discounts Run Time 60 min Capacity 500
THIRD ANGLE NEW MUSIC/ SARAH HENNIES 2018
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Third Angle New Music/Sarah Hennies (Portland, Oregon/Ithaca, New York)
...imaginative, resourceful, witty, defiant...haven't been so deeply moved by a new piece in ages. — National Sawdust Contralto is a work for video, strings, and percussion featuring a cast of transgender women who speak, sing, and perform vocal exercises, accompanied by a dense and varied musical score that includes conventional and "non-musical" approaches to sound-making. It is not widely known that trans women's voices are unaffected by higher levels of estrogen. Being a woman with a "male voice" can create a variety of difficult situations for trans women, including prolonged and intensified dysphoria, plus a higher risk of harassment and violence. "Contralto"—defined in musical terms as "the lowest female singing voice"—uses the sound of trans women's voices to explore transfeminine identity from the inside, and examines the intimate, peculiar relationship between gender and sound.
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Third Angle New Music performs and records the masterworks of the twenty-first century while commissioning new works from regional and nationally recognized composers. Focusing on creating a soundtrack for our time, Third Angle has presented more than 125 programs of contemporary music, commissioned more than 66 new works, and released 13 recordings to critical acclaim. Sarah Hennies is a composer and percussionist based in Ithaca, NY. Her work utilizes an often grueling, endurance-based performance practice in a subversive examination of psychoacoustics, queer identity, and performance art. She has presented her work in a variety of contexts including Café Oto (London), cave12 (Geneva), Ende Tymes (NYC), Festival Cable (Nantes), the Johns Hopkins Digital Media Center, O’ Art Space (Milan), and Second Edition (Stockholm). Hennies is currently a member of improvised music group Meridian with Greg Stuart and Tim Feeney, a duo with sound/performance artist Jason Zeh, and the Queer Percussion Research Group with Jerry Pergolesi, Bill Solomon, and Jennifer Torrence. Hennies founded the record label Weighter Recordings, releasing works by artists working at the fringes of contemporary music. This concert is sponsored by Altabira City Tavern with additional generous support from George
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Date Sept. 13, 14, 15 at 8:30 PM Location PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street Ticket $16 Member/$20 General Run Time 55 min Capacity 165
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Mariana Valencia (New York, New York)
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ALBUM is a solo performance that unites text, song, and dance inside of the content of an album—a picture album, a song album, an autobiographical album, a herstorical album—and the work finds ways to be an archive, or altar, for Valencia’s body. Through factual, humorous, and grave observations, a frame of self-identification is established and charged with the task to preserve and perform a self herstory as an album in image and song. Valencia’s relationship to urbanity, vampires, love, and marginality arise with equal importance as she orbits the primary curiosity: Who will write herstory? ALBUM starts this process—so the author of Valencia’s herstory can have good notes.
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Mariana Valencia (creator/performer) has held residencies at Chez Bushwick (2013), New York Live Arts Studio Series (2013-14), ISSUE Project Room (2015) and Brooklyn Arts Exchange (2016-18). Nationally, she has held residencies at Showbox LA and Pieter Pasd (2014) in Los Angeles and was part of PICA’s Spring Creative Exchange Lab (2018). Valencia is a Bessie Award recipient for Outstanding Breakthrough Choreographer (2018), a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award to Artists grant recipient (2018), a Jerome Travel and Study Grant fellow (2014-15), a Yellow House Fund of the Tides Foundation grant recipient (2010-13) and a Movement Research GPS/Global Practice Sharing artist (2016/17). Her ethnographic research has taken her to Belize, Mexico, and the Balkans, and she has performed in works by Jules Gimbrone, Elizabeth Orr, Kate Brandt, AK Burns, Em Rooney, robbinschilds, Kim Brandt, Fia Backström and MPA. Valencia is a founding member of the No Total reading group (2012-15) and has been the co-editor of Movement Research’s Critical Correspondence (2016-17). She holds a BA from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA (2006).
ALBUM was made possible through the Artist in Residence Program at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Jerome Robbins Foundation and the Jerome Foundation. Additional support was made possible through the GPS/Global Practice Sharing 042 program of Movement Research with funding from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.
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Date Sept. 13, 14 at 6:30 PM Location PNCA, 511 NW Broadway Ticket $0-$15 Sliding Scale Run Time 60 min Capacity 160
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Sanity TV investigates the flexible boundaries of identity and psyche through a fictional talk show wherein there is no distinction between sanity or insanity. The interviews begin routinely, then slowly unravel toward something unrecognizable. The “guest” ultimately surrenders a position of authority, even if that authority is beyond their own ideas of self, if only for the duration of the interview.
Autumn Knight is an interdisciplinary artist working with performance, installation and text. Her performance work has been exhibited at various institutions in the United States, including DiverseWorks (TX), Crystal Bridges Museum (AR), The New Museum (NY), The Contemporary Art Museum Houston (TX), Institute of Contemporary Art at VCU and a solo exhibition at Krannert Art Museum (IL). Knight has been Artist in Residence with In-Situ (Brierfield, UK), Galveston Artist Residency (TX), YICA (Yamaguchi, Japan), Artpace (TX), The Studio Museum in Harlem (New York City, USA) and PICA's Creative Exchange Lab. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and holds an MA in 044 Drama Therapy from New York University.
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On View Aug. 30–Oct. 21, 2018 Location Reed College, Cooley Gallery Open Tues, Weds, Fri, Sat, Sun from 12-5:00 PM and Thurs from 12-8:00 PM Open until 6:15 PM before events on campus.
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I Wanna Be Well is the first retrospective of the work of renowned American artist, activist, writer, and educator Gregg Bordowitz. The exhibition features Bordowitz’s seminal films and activist materials; rarely-seen sculptures and drawings; books, essays, and poetry; personal ephemera; and recent performance films. The title of the exhibition pays homage to the infamous punk band The Ramones, and to their 1977 album Rocket To Russia. Born in Brooklyn in 1964 and raised in Long Island, Queens, Bordowitz moved to Manhattan’s East Village when he was eighteen and came of age during America’s last great analog era. Over the last thirty years, Bordowitz has marshaled his prodigious intellect and artistic vision to analyze and confront oppression, shame, prejudice, and death— working across interrelated forms including film, essays, poetry, lectures, plays, and live performance. These investigations have allowed Bordowitz to assume different subject positions while addressing illness, existence, and love with profound intimacy and introspection. Bordowitz’s films, writings, and performances share a concern with pedagogies of healing and learning, while embracing doubt and vulnerability. Gregg Bordowitz is an award-winning artist, writer, and activist. His films have shown internationally in screenings and exhibitions at museums including: The New Museum, NY; Artists Space, NY; TATE Modern, UK; and MoMA, NY. Bordowitz is the author of many books, including The AIDS Crisis is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986–2003. He was a member of the groundbreaking AIDS activist group ACT UP, and a founding member of the 1980s film collective Testing the Limits. He is the recipient of a Rockefeller Intercultural Arts Fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. Bordowitz is the Director of the Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He comes to Reed College as a Stephen E. Ostrow Distinguished Visitor in the Arts. POETRY READING Date Sept. 13 at 6:30 PM Location Reed College Chapel, Eliot Hall Sponsored by the Visiting Writer Series, Reed College English Department. Followed by a public reception for I Wanna Be Well at the Cooley Gallery
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Date Sept. 14 from 5:00–8:00 PM ; Sept. 15 and 16 from 11:00 AM–4:00 PM Location 518 SE 76th Avenue Free Initiated by Srijon Chowdhury
UTOPIAN VISIONS ART FAIR Portland, Oregon
Utopian Visions Art Fair (UVAF) is a platform for artists, gallerists, and curators to present projects that are speculative and working towards possible futures. Art fairs allow transparency for conversations around the art world’s reliance on capitalist systems—how do we free art from a system that both gives art its value but also makes it powerless? These are the types of dialogues that UVAF will explore, while presenting dozens of artists' projects in an intimate setting. UVAF is a project that centers accessibility and community at its heart—all are encouraged to attend, think, and learn together.
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Et Al Chicken Coop Contemporary The OrchardsConduit Williamson Knight 2727 California Street The Outlet Victor Maldonado Nicolo Gentile & Sam Williams Lundgren Gallery Showing Christopher Richmond OV Project Space Garden LA Keith J Varadi INCA Derek Franklin Emma Cook Midori Hirose & Mia Ferm
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John Riepenhoff Experience Carmen Winant Alice Könitz Institute for Interspecies Art and Relations — Aidan Koch — Shawn Creeden — Lisa Schonberg — Mixed Needs Institute for Queer Ecology Private Places Arnar Asgeirsson manuel arturo abreu
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Blurring the lines between fiction and reality, Awaiting Oblivion—Temporary Solutions for surviving the dystopian future we find ourselves within at present follows the story of AO, an anonymous street artist who has tasked artists Tim Smith-Stewart and Jeffrey Azevedo to create a performance that will share AO’s “temporary solutions” for existing within the brutality of our neoliberal empire. Inspired by creative processes developed by the '60s Fluxus art movement, each “temporary solution” is a poem contained in a Flux-kit (a cigar box collaged with stenciled imagery and typewritten letters). We follow Tim, Jeffrey, and AO in a radical flurry of street art, secret messages, and performance scores in a poetic fight for survival.
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Tim Smith-Stewart | Jeffrey Azevedo is a Seattle based artist duo creating contemporary art at the intersection of performance and installation. They are currently artists in residence at On the Boards, where they are developing their latest project Salvage Rituals. Tim was recently a resident artist in PICA's Spring 2018 Creative Exchange Lab. Tim and Jeffrey premiered Awaiting Oblivion... at On the Boards in February 2017 and The Perpetual Insurrection of Claude Cahun at the Henry Art Gallery in October 2017. They have also presented performances at: On The Boards NW New Works Festival (SEA), Risk/Reward Festival (PDX), and Fresh Oysters Performance Research (MSP), and installations at New Tomorrow, Erasure curated by the Lion’s Main Art Collective, and the Velocity Dance Center and the Lofi Arts Festival. From 2011-2013 Tim and Jeffrey co-created The Eternal Glow Project—a four-part performance/installation which premiered work at The Seattle Center Next50 (The Eternal Glow of Electric Hearts), On the Boards NorthWest New Works Festival 2013 (Ω<1), and Lofi Arts Festival at Smoke Farm 2013 (Less than red, more than violet). Collaborators: Estee Clifford, Alexander Harding, Lauren HesterHughes, Alice Gosti, Alyza DelPan-Monley, Tristan Roberson, Daniel Salo, and Skylar Tatro.
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LA NUIT, LA TRAVERSÉE, SUR LE FIL Compagnie Nacera Belaza (France)
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In her minimal work, Ms. Belaza has revealed nothing and everything in a captivating swoop. — The New York Times
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La Nuit, La Traversée and Sur le fil were produced by Compagnie Nacera Belaza and co-produced by Festival d'Avignon, Biennale de la danse de Lyon, and Festival Montpellier Danse respectively. The US tour—including presentations at PICA—are supported by FUSED (French U.S. Exchange in Dance), a program developed by FACE Foundation and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States with support from the Florence Gould Foundation, Institut Français-Paris, the French Ministry of Culture and private donors. Additional support for women artists has been provided 052 by Fondation CHANEL.
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With spare aesthetics and focused intensity, choreographer Nacera Belaza invites the audience into an immersive experience through her vision and artistic process. Compagnie Nacera Belaza takes us on a journey through a trio of introspective, meditative and transcendent dance works, (whose titles translate as as The Night, The Crossing, and The Wire), revealing the evolution of her work as one would experience three different paintings by a single artist in a gallery. Born in Algeria, Nacera Belaza has been living in France since the age of five. Following her studies in modern literature at the Université de Reims, Belaza created her own dance company in 1989. In January, 2015 she was appointed Knight of the order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture. She enters dance as a self-taught interpreter, and develops a choreography that originates in an inner progress—a sensory awareness of the body, of space and of the emptiness inside herself. Her path resembles a quest, and tends towards the enhancement of the direct bond between the dancer and the spectator, open to the sense of the infinite of the stage. Each element of her pieces—light, space, time, body—responds to each other on stage to develop their own designs. With the repetition of the gesture, its infinite slowness, the stretching out of time, Belaza’s pieces all explore movement as one would explore a calm, a profound and continuous breath. Belaza’s desire to share and pass on has become focused on the relationship between the audiences and their territories.
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Date Sept. 14, 15 at 8:30 PM Location PSU Lincoln Hall, 1620 SW Park Avenue Ticket $20 Member/$25 General Run Time 80 min Capacity 425
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Hallucinatory. Psychotropic. Miraculous. A show like Andrew Schneider’s After invites baroque descriptors. But I should probably just tell you that for most of the show, I thought the stage was floating. The stage was not floating. — The New York Times
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Andrew Schneider and his team follow up their revolutionary, OBIE award-winning tech-theater masterpiece YOUARENOWHERE, with a mind-bending examination of what constitutes a single life, and the endless possible outcomes at the precise moment of death. Collaborators Kedian Keohan, Bobby McElver, Peter Musante, and Alicia ayo Ohs join Schneider to continue their characteristic exploration of hyper-precise design. They command thrilling light and sound effects with skilled physical performance, beset by a rapidfire flow of text that blends pathos and humor. From the spellbinding chaos of digital machinations and pulsating sensory extremes emerges a poignant show that urges a shared consciousness about where we are, how we got here, and what comes AFTER.
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AFTER is a co-commission of EMPAC/Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Performance Space 122 with support from the Jerome Foundation and Rockefeller Brothers Fund. AFTER was developed in residence at EMPAC Rensselaer as well as during a residency at Baryshnikov Arts Center, and as part of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Process Space program. Wave Field Synthesis courtesy of EMPAC Rensselaer. AFTER is supported in part by Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation initiative. This project received support from Oregon Arts Commission, WESTAF (the Western States Arts
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Andrew Schneider is an OBIE award-winning, Drama Desk nominated performer, writer, and interactive-electronics artist who creates original works for theater, video, and installation since 2003. Schneider creates and performs original performance works, builds interactive electronic art works and installations, and was a Wooster Group company member (video/performer) from 2007-2014. Rooted at the intersection of performance and technology, Schneider’s work critically investigates our over-dependence on being perpetually connected in an always-on world. Andrew’s original performance work in NYC includes AFTER (2018 Under the Radar Festival), YOUARENOWHERE (2015 OBIE award –The Invisible Dog, 2016 Drama Desk nom – 3LD); DANCE/FIELD (2014 – Dance Roulette), TIDAL (2013 – River to River festival); and WOW+FLUTTER (2010 –The Chocolate Factory Theater) among others.
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Meg Whiteford writes books and makes theater. Her writing on visual art and performance has appeared in Artforum, Aperture, and X-TRA. She is the author of The Shapes We Make With Our Bodies (Plays Inverse, 2015), the Curator's Choice for the 2017 BAM Next Wave Festival Reading Room, and Callbacks (&Now and Northwestern U. Press, 2018), recipient of the 2016 Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writers Prize. She has performed at Pieter, PAM, REDCAT, Machine Project, Coaxial, and Project Utopia. She is currently the managing editor of the Art Book Review and teaches dance and performance theory and history. Her ballet, Overture, a response to the drawings of artist Beau Rhee, will be published with Gravel Projects this fall. She is interested in creating wild rides.
Tim Reid makes theater, writes, teaches, and performs. He takes analytic thought to absurd ends, looking for rupture and frames. The work is about love and trouble. He has made and directed pieces at PAM Residencies, Machine Project, and Highways, and performed at Pieter, REDCAT, Night Gallery, USC Visions and Voices, the Hammer Museum, and Links Hall, among others. He is a co-curator at PAM Residencies, a co-editor at Riting.org, was an ensemble member of The Neo-Futurists in Chicago and an original member of Wet The Hippo in Los Angeles. Most recently, he has researched and written on both melodrama and clown. He has a BA from 056 the University of Chicago and an MFA from CalArts in Critical Studies.
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This performance takes the form of a slow walk through a section of the city. All are welcome to participate. Audience will be asked to remove their shoes during parts of this performance. Please contact the TBA Box Office for any questions about or requests for mobility or accessibility accommodation.
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On View Jul. 20–Oct. 14 Location Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue Ticket Free admission for pass holders, all other admission through Portland Art Museum
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BETWEEN. highlights artists working within the queer and trans diaspora, and the unique voices coming from between or beyond the binary. This exhibition aims to queer the curatorial process, taking into account current visibility politics and presenting the work of LGBTQIA2S+ artists in ways that challenge normative art world conventions. Chris E. Vargas and The Museum of Trans Hirstory & Art (MOTHA) present the fourth installment of his ongoing project Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects: Transvideo Store, a selection of contemporary short art films made by trans (or trans-adjacent) artists to examine a variety of ways trans stories and experiences have been represented on screen, both from outside and within their community. Accompanying these media works will be an exhibition of work by visual artists— selected through a dialogue-based, research-and-sourcing process that touched a wide network of queer artists and writers—with the intention to broaden curatorial authorship and directly serve the community whose historically significant cultural contributions have driven the arts and shaped contemporary thought. The exhibiting artists explore narratives of identity, ranging from personal observation and portraiture to performative spaces of transformation and fantasy. Featuring artwork from Vaginal Davis, MOTHA, Zanele Muholi, Christina Quarles, Jordan Reznick, Jacolby Satterwhite, and Vivek Shraya. Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects: Transvideo Store featuring films by: Malic Amalya, eduardo restrepo castaño, Erica Cho, Cary Cronenwett, Zackary Drucker & Rhys Ernst, Xena Ellison, Reina Gossett, Josef Kraska, Sierra Tucker.
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When the sun goes down, head to PICA for LATE NIGHT. This year, LATE NIGHT welcomes guest curated evenings, dance parties, poetry readings, reimagined film scores, and more. Come for a bite to eat on The Patio, grab a drink at the bar, and revel in the feelings of the festival. Every night at LATE NIGHT is all-ages and open to all. Date
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TBA Food brings together chefs, cooks, and artists who make space for community and inquiry through their creative practices. This year, featured vendors will offer snacks and meals through our late night pop-up restaurant at PICA. This space forms the backdrop for The Patio—a space where artists and audiences gather throughout the day and night to relax, connect, eat, and drink. TBA Food includes a panel discussion on the intersection of art, food, and community, and a special edition of Portland’s beloved Tender Table. TBA Food embodies PICA’s commitment to social justice and local economy. We support immigrant-owned businesses and creative projects that offer a platform for underrepresented voices in the art and food industries, and invite Festival audiences to experience Portland’s culinary landscape from new perspectives. This program was organized by Spencer Byrne-Seres.
The Big Elephant Kitchen Many years back, Fiji was a British colony where Indians were brought to farm sugarcane. Having lived most of their lives in Fiji, these farmers decided to stay there when their contracts were up. Because of this, the cultures of the Native Polynesian Fijians and those of the Indian immigrants eventually began to commingle, giving us Indian curry variants, with an islander twist. The Big Elephant Kitchen happily brings their home-cooked Fijian/ Indian food to Portland. Their chef, also the owner’s mother, cooks each dish using her homemade masala; they use all fresh ingredients, cut and ground right there in the restaurant. Platano Rising Platano Rising is a small AfroCaribbean food company in Portland, Oregon. Chef Arlyn Frank is from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, a vibrant and active city in the Caribbean. She recreates meals from her family dinners, to tell the story of the experience of the African diaspora in America. Since opening in February of 2018, Platano Rising
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has been a welcome addition to the thriving Portland food community. They cater community-centered events like the first and last Black Femme series, Ori Gallery art exhibitions, fundraisers like Queer Soup Night and Brown Girl Rising, and non-profits like Forward Together. With its tropical flavors, colorful ingredients, and family recipes, Platano Rising is a delicious piece of the Caribbean in the Northwest. Mis Tacones Mis Tacones is a contemporary taqueria that serves vegan tacos, tortas, and aguas frescas similar to taquerias that are popular in Baja, California, Mexico, or in working class communities in East Los Angeles. Creators Carlos Reynoso and Abram Bañuelos work to preserve the traditions of their Mexican heritage. Their passion is to share their love of Mexican street food, making Mis Tacones a sustainable popup that also functions as a safe space for queer and POC communities within Portland, Oregon. Mis Tacones allows individuals to experience a traditional Mexican taqueria with authentic flavors that are cruelty free.
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a dish connected to their story. The audience is invited to listen generously and sample the food. Presenters will include Salimatu Amabebe, Tenzin “Kyikyi” Yeshi-Men, and Laura Tran. Stacey Tran is a writer from Portland, OR currently based in Providence, RI. She is the creator of Tender Table. Her writing can be found in BOMB Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and diaCRITICS. She is the author of Soap for the Dogs (Gramma, 2018).
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Date Sept. 7 at 10:00 PM Location PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street Ticket $5-$15 Sliding Scale Capacity 500
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Since S1 opened in Portland four years ago, the volunteer-run space has become a home for experimental art and music. Join them for past and present artists in residence bringing sounds from across the country. The Creatrix (San Francisco, CA), Isabella (Boston, MA), and Decorum (Portland, OR) will all perform live sets with S1 DJs rounding out the night.
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S1 is an art space in Portland, OR that began in 2014. Sometimes hard to pin down, S1 operates as DIY space, art institution, media lab, and education resource center. S1 has hosted hundreds of artists from around the world for residencies, performances, dance parties, exhibitions, workshops, and other artist projects. S1 encourages artists and visitors alike to explore, experiment, and engage in many ways—with the space itself, with S1’s resources including the Synth Library, S1’s staff and volunteers, and 066 most importantly Portland’s diverse art and music community.
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S1 at TBA is especially poignant given the 2016 Ghost Ship fire in Oakland, California, which resulted in new laws and regulations that have impacted artist-run spaces and artist communities around the country. Organizations and groups of artists are being forced to relocate, shift their programming, or shutter entirely. No exception to these pressures, S1 is considering the future of how to share and experience art together. Bringing the spirit of their programming to TBA is just the beginning.
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The NXT LVL x She Shreds J20 Party at PICA was the place to be Saturday night. The 10,000-square foot performance space was full of booths selling raffle tickets and merch, with projections on every wall and hundreds of attendees who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t shy away from bringing looks. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Portland Mercury
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NXT LVL is back at PICA with another epic party for social justice! NXT LVL is a collective that has created a social justice platform to incite change by galvanizing people to action through parties, events, and social connection. Each NXT LVL event is carefully curated to center and amplify WOC/POC/QTPOC/LGBTQIA2S+ voices and causes.
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NXT LVL will bring the same energy and enthusiasm they ignited at J20 in January when they brought some of the West Coast's most exciting musicians together for an allnight dance party, raising money and awareness along the way. Their surprise lineup at TBA is one you won't want to miss!
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From start to finish, NXT LVL involves the communities that they are working to benefit as integral collaborators in the process. They prioritize creating safer and more inclusive spaces for all those who attend their events. They strive to provide fair compensation for folks who contribute their skills, time, and energy to make these events possible. NXT LVL recognizes and celebrates the opportunity and ability to shine light on and uplift communities, while fostering a supported vision for social activism 068 fundraising.
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Famed for fashion-forward Black and Brown queer dance parties like Legendary Mondays, CAKE, and Decadence, bart fitzgerald is throwing a festival extravaganza. It’s LEGENDARY on a Sunday night. Wear your festival clothes. Make bad choices. bart fitzgerald’s work explores black sociality, religion, and queerness through a lens of liberation theology—as base ideology for radical living. They make work as a visual artist, writer, lecturer, and curator of vibrant life for black folks in Portland, OR. Their work has been presented at Reed College, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland African American Leadership Forum, Black Lives Matter: Portland, and Portland Institute 070 for Contemporary Art (PICA).
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Date Sept. 10 at 10:00 PM Location PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street Ticket $5-$15 Sliding Scale Capacity 500
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Jean Cocteau’s sublime adaptation of Mme. Leprince de Beaumont’s fairy-tale masterpiece—in which the pure love of a beautiful girl melts the heart of a feral but gentle beast—is a landmark of motion picture fantasy, with unforgettably romantic performances by Jean Marais and Josette Day. The spectacular visions of enchantment, desire, and death in Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête) have become timeless icons of cinematic wonder. — Criterion Collection
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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 second year in a row, with a reprise performance of their reimagined score to Cocteau’s Beauty and The Beast (originally performed at Holocene in January 2018). This year’s show will be composed and performed by Like A Villain, Patricia Wolf, John Niekrasz, Jonathan Sielaff, Amenta Abioto, and Noah Bernstein. For bios, photos, videos, and more about these visionary musicians, please visit pica.org/tba.
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Date Sept. 11 at 10:00 PM Location PICA, 15 NE Hancock Ticket $5-$15 Sliding Scale Capacity 500
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Demian DinéYazhi' (b. 1983) is a Portland-based Diné transdisciplinary artist born to the clans Naasht’ézhí Tábąąhá (Zuni Clan Water’s Edge) & Tódích’íí’nii (Bitter Water). Broaching topics adjacent to Decolonization, Survivance, & Queerness in written and visual language, Demian is caught in a narrative informed by romanticized notions of belonging & the alienation experienced through centuries of forced assimilation to White Supremacist Capitalist Heteropatriarchal Colonization. Their practice is rooted in Radical Indigenous Queer Feminist ideology, landscape representation, memory formation, HIV/AIDS-related art & activism, poetry, and curatorial inquiry. Demian is the founder & director of the artist/activist initiative, R.I.S.E.: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment, dedicated to education, perseverance, & evolution of Indigenous art & culture, and is co-director of Locusts: A Post-Queer Nation Zine. DinéYazhi' has been awarded numerous residencies, grants, and exhibitions. Holland Andrews is an extended technique vocalist, composer, and performer based in Portland, Oregon who combines delicate vocal layerings to create dissonant and cinematic soundscapes. Andrews is a musician whose influences include contemporary opera, musical theater, as well as experimental genres such as ambient and noise music. Andrews performs under the stage name, 074 Like a Villain.
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AN INFECTED SUNSET is an ekphrastic long-form prose poem first conceived in August, 2016, in the wake of the Orlando nightclub shooting, police killings of unarmed Black men, and in the midst of the Standing Rock #NODAPL Resistance. During the writing of the poem, the settler colonial nation-state elected the 45th president of this colonized country, which revealed a sudden revival of extreme white supremacist nationalism. As the social landscape evolved, the Liberated Poem emerged as an offering to Indigenous communities and landscapes that strive for a decolonial and sovereign future, emancipated from white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchal settler colonial trauma drama. This performance poem is a reflection on queer sex, survival and death politics, indigenous identity, settler and heteronormative romanticism, environmental injustice, and the importance of honoring community.
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S.E.C.R.E.T.S. presents Prince Romeo the Crow, their new album in the form of a theatrical performance. Part experiment, part live music video, Prince Romeo the Crow interprets the band's dark pop ballads in an attempt to make visible the overwhelming, contradictory forces that shape our feelingsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;dealing in particular with issues of love, fear, courage, fate, agency and the possible presence of extra dimensional beings.
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Silent Ending Caught in Rapture Emblems Truth and Secrets (S.E.C.R.E.T.S.) is a performance-based surrealist musical project from Portland, OR, and is comprised of musician Aaron Chapman (of Nurses), and visual artists/dancers Andrea Glaser and Rose Dickson.
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This event will be hosted by guest DJ duo 2TABS (Gran Ritmos) who play pan-American dance music, from cumbia to acid house. It will also include a DJ set from Spoiler Room, a performance by Snake Oil, and live video mixing by Matt Henderson (Xhurch/Portland Immersive Media Group).
Spoiler Room is an artist run audio-visual media collective from Portland, Oregon, that organizes free social "episodes" and dance parties. The events are shot to analog video on low-fi portable TV studio, edited in real-time, presented as video documents on Portland cable access, and archived online. Each documented episode is an hour long, shot in a variety of settings, and 076 revolves around a guest DJ or artist.
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Sounds et al presents an electroacoustic collaboration from duos Caspar Sonnet/Kozue Matsumoto, and Kaori Suzuki/ John Krausbauer. Guitarist Caspar Sonnet (Los Angeles) and kotoist Kozue Matsumoto (Tokyo) bring their individual instrumentation together to perform the experimental and emotive collaborative work from their forthcoming collection, Versus. Husband and wife duo Kaori Suzuki and John Krausbauer (Oakland, CA) create rich acoustic intricacies. Continuing their 2018 tour (Japan, U.S., Canada, Mexico), they perform hypnotizing soundscapes with voice, bell, percussion, electronics, and amplified strings.
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Date Sept. 14 at 10:00 PM Location PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street Ticket $5-$15 Sliding Scale Capacity 500
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JUDY is the collaboration of DJs, artists, and friends Kayla Oh (Sham Sisqo), Ana Briseño (Casual Aztec), and Megan Holmes (Troubled Youth), with help from Jordan Davis (QPOC Shakur) and SJ Durkee (Hypedyke!). Originally created in response to the void of women and non-binary DJs in dance spaces and on music bills, 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. 080 SHOUT OUT TO ALL THE JUDYS, JUDES AND COOL ASS FREAKS.
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JUDY is a queer, femme, and non-binary-centered 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 handdrawn flyers of community members, party people, and overthe-top queens, with the ritual of crowning a new “Judy” at every party.
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Date Sept. 15 at 10:00 PM Location PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street Ticket $5-$15 Sliding Scale Capacity 500
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...it’s hard not to hear echoes of the L.A. rap landscape in Dodgr's music: Kendrick’s melodic moments, Vince Staples’ barbed delivery, the sing-songy cadence of Boogie. Still, Dodgr’s voice is a distinctive instrument, a sharp, nasal sound that she bends into a variety of shapes. More so than with her peers, it’s hard to draw a line between her rapping and singing—in her hands, everything feels guided by a strong sense of melody. — Pitchfork
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One of the brightest voices on the Portland hip-hop scene is Alana Chenevert, aka The Last Artful, Dodgr. Her name is a nod to her hometown of Los Angeles, a pun on its baseball team, a reference to Oliver Twist, and it illustrates a life spent dodging bullets. Since arriving in Portland in 2013, she’s made the city her own and has quickly become a rising star. Press and fans have compared her to Chance the Rapper, Missy Elliott, and Dizzee Rascal with lyrics inspired by Sufjan Stevens. While we’re always sad to see the festival end, brilliant hip-hop delivered by a queer black woman is the perfect way to say ‘until next year.’ Born and raised in L.A. but based in Portland, Alana Chenevert became left-field rapper/singer The Last Artful, Dodgr when she moved up the Left Coast. Chenevert grew up in the middle of Los Angeles, with one of her earliest memories being a drive-by shooting that left her brother bleeding on the porch. She was only three years old, and her brother survived, but this kind of crime drove the young MC indoors, where she recorded her debut mixtape, 199NVRLND (2013). That same year, she moved to Portland, where her tape caught the ear of the local Fresh Selects. In 2015, Dodgr released the Fractures EP with production from Neill Von Tally. A year later, she partnered with Australian beatmaker DJ WNTD for the single "Squadron" and released the collaborative EP Rare Treat with Myke Bogan. Preceded by the lead single "Oofda," Chenevert and Von Tally released the collaborative LP Bone Music in early 2017 via Eyrst. Her single "Win Is Enough" was released in July 2018 on her own 082 PARTySIZE imprint.
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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 context, and aesthetic inquiries driving this year’s TBA artists and projects. Daily conversations, happy hours, workshops, and more provide space and opportunity for all to participate in the festival on a deeper level. For venue addresses, see pg. 099 or visit pica.org.
Workshop BIG BODY, WITH JUMATATU M. POE 10:00 AM-12:00 PM at New Expressive Works $5-$15 sliding scale J-Sette, also known as Bucking, is a performance style popular in the southern United States, practiced widely among majorettes and drill teams at historically Black colleges and universities, and also among teams of primarily queer men who compete in gay clubs and pride festivals. The workshop focuses on bombastic performance energy, complex relationships to rhythm and music, movement precision, group dynamics, and discovering joy in flesh and community. We will explore how the performance of J-Sette creates expectations around attention and accountability to a community, and how it positions leadership. All bodies are encouraged to participate, regardless of previous training or ability. ALL LEVELS. CAPACITY: 30 Conversation KAREN SHERMAN
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Sept. 8 Saturday Workshop HIP HOP & POPPING WITH KATIE JANOVEC AND JESUS RODALES 10:00 AM-12:00 PM at Shout House $5-$15 sliding scale Join dance artists and curators from TBA’s Opening Night event The Beautiful Street for a workshop in Hip Hop Grooves & Popping Technique. We will explore how to integrate these moves into both choreography and improv/ freestyle dance. Open to anyone who enjoys moving and having fun! ALL LEVELS. CAPACITY: 40
TBA artist Karen Sherman joins Erin Boberg Doughton, PICA's Artistic Director & Curator of Performance, for a conversation about Sherman's performance Soft Goods and its thematic connections to one of the Festival’s major through-lines—the visible, invisible and precarious “work” of being an artist, arts worker, and citizen in the context of performing arts, cultural industry, creative economy, and our political moment. Happy Hour Lecture C. RILEY SNORTON 4:00 PM at PNCA Mediatheque FREE TBA Guest Scholar C. Riley Snorton (Professor of English and
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Conversation KANEZA SCHAAL + CORNELL ALSTON 12:30-1:30 PM at PICA FREE Kaneza Schaal and Cornell Alston join TBA Guest Scholar C. Riley Snorton to discuss their collaborative TBA performance, JACK &, sharing insights into the multidisciplinary project’s range of influences and references to social codes, from prison re-entry, to mid-century sitcoms, to feminist painters, to Black debutante balls. With C. Riley Snorton, TBA Guest Scholar, Professor of English and Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Chicago.
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In connection with some of the broader themes in Kaneza Schaal’s JACK &, this discussion highlights local contemporary art practices that directly engage issues and experiences of incarceration, re-entry, and prison abolition and reform. Artists, participants, and facilitators from Portland State University’s Art & Social Practice Program and the Columbia River Correctional Institution (CRCI) discuss the art programs they have been organizing both inside and outside of CRCI, a minimum security state prison within Portland city limits. Created in collaboration with current and formerly imprisoned artists, writers, and musicians, these programs focus on conceptual art, Social Practice, comedy, and photography.
Sept. 9 Sunday Workshop PRACTICE PRACTICE WITH MILKA DJORDJEVICH 10:00 AM-12:00 PM at New Expressive Works $5-$15 sliding scale Let’s practice creating dances. By using sensorial, perceptual, anatomical, spatial, formal, behavioral, verbal and imaginative pathways, we will transform our individual movement patterning; play with technical structures, improvisational concepts, and choreographic frameworks; and groove to some sweet jams. We will attempt to abandon ‘neutrality’ and uncover our bodies’ ingrained knowledge and history. 086
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12:30-1:30 PM at PICA FREE TBA artists jumatatu m. poe and Jermone Donte Beacham share insights and influences from their TBA project and larger performance series, Let ‘im Move You, including explorations of J-Sette dance that originated in Historically Black Colleges and Universities, other Black queer dance vocabularies, and the limits, imaginations, and tensions of performance contextualized by both White aesthetics and institutions as well as the sites and spaces of predominantly Black neighborhoods. With Andrew J. Brown/Sister James, TBA Guest Scholar and Asst. Professor of Performance Art, Fairhaven College Western Washington University.
2:00-3:00 PM at PICA FREE Beginning with a core group of invited Festival artists and scholars, this longtable format inspired by Split Britches’ TBA performance invites anyone from the audience to take a seat at the table and join the conversation. Discussion topics will consider what constitutes queer art and performance today, the ways in which artists are engaging queer identities and experiences across forms and disciplines, and how queer politics show up in performance and in life.
Workshop EXPERIMENTAL SOUND COLLAGE WITH CDJS TAUGHT BY S1 SYNTH LIBRARY 4:00-6:00 PM at S1 $5-$15 sliding scale
Conversation JUMATATU M. POE AND JERMONE Portland artist-run space and TBA DONTE BEACHAM late-night artists/curators S1 will
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This workshop does not accept TBA passes or vouchers. Preregistration and payment required via www.s1portland.com. Post-Show Conversation GREGG BORDOWITZ WITH STEPHANIE SNYDER
Following his final performance of Some Styles of Masculinity (Part 3: “Comedian”), Gregg Bordowitz will be in conversation with Stephanie Snyder (Anne and John Hauberg Curator and Director, The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College), curator of Bordowitz’s retrospective, I Wanna Be Well. A Q&A moderated by Roya Amirsoleymani, PICA's Artistic Director and Curator of Public Engagement, will follow. Attendance at this evening’s performance is not required in order to take part in the Post-Show Conversation.
Sept. 10 Monday Conversation NIC KAY 12:30 - 1:30 PM at PNCA Mediatheque FREE NIC Kay discusses the TBA edition of Pushit!, a series of iterative “exercises” that question the limits and (im)possibilities of choreography and freedom, and engage the politics of resistance and reparation in
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Sept. 11 Tuesday 12:30-1:30 PM at PNCA Mediatheque FREE TBA artist Robin Deacon (Chair of Performance, School of the Art Institute of Chicago) shares insights into his TBA solo performance, Vinyl Equations, drawing on personal and political histories of music, family, and Afro-Caribbean diaspora.
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Moderated by Shawna Lipton, TBA Guest Scholar and Chair, MA Critical Studies, Pacific NW College of Art.
facilitate a workshop on sound collage and layering with multiple DJ set-ups, taught by members of the internationally recognized S1 Synth Library. Explore basic concepts of using CDJS and how to create soundscapes and unexpected layers and rhythms from field recordings, samples, and more. No expertise or experience necessary.
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12:30-2:30 PM at PNCA Mediatheque PICA’s current cohort of Creative Exchange Lab artists in residence will make brief presentations about their current projects and broader artistic practice. Fall 2018 Lab artists include: Gordon Hall (NYC); Victoria Hunt (Australia); C. Davida Ingram (Seattle, WA); Tiona Nekkia McClodden (Philadelphia, PA); Roza Moshtaghi (Norway/Iran); Pepper Pepper (Portland, OR); and ariella tai (Portland, OR). A Q&A moderated by Roya Amirsoleymani, PICA’s Artistic Director & Curator of Public Engagement, will follow. See page 091 for more information about the Creative Exchange Lab program and this season’s artists in residence.
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Sept. 13 Thursday Workshop RELEASE - RECEIVE - BECOME WITH NACERA BELAZA 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM at New Expressive Works $5-$15 sliding scale Release-Receive-Become....You are an envelope which contains space. Not just a space, but an empty space. First, you try to receive all the sounds when freeing your head and the rest of your body. When you learn to receive, you will learn to become the embodiment of every sound that you hear. ALL LEVELS. CAPACITY: 40 Conversation SARAH HENNIES 12:30-1:30 PM at PICA FREE Experimental composer and percussionist Sarah Hennies shares insights and influences on her TBA project Contralto, including how it reflects her broader artistic practice that subversively examines psychoacoustics, queer and trans identities, and performance art. With musician and writer Sarah Dougher, Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Portland State University.
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Conversation AUTUMN KNIGHT, TIM SMITH-STEWART, MARIANA VALENCIA, JI YANG 12:30-1:30 PM at PNCA Mediatheque FREE
Kitchen, Platano Rising, and Mis Tacones discuss the intersecting economies and politics of contemporary art, immigration, identity, and local food culture. Moderated by Jodie Cavalier, PICA's Public Engagement Coordinator. Part of our refreshed TBA Food Program curated by Spencer Byrne-Seres. Lunch from local vendors will be for sale—come hungry! (See pg. 064 for more TBA Food info.)
Happy Hour Lecture ANDREW J. BROWN/SISTER JAMES AND SHAWNA LIPTON 4:00 PM at PICA FREE TBA Guest Scholars Andrew J. Brown/Sister James (Asst. Professor, Performance Art, Fairhaven College/Western Washington University) and Shawna Lipton (Chair, MA Critical Studies, Pacific NW College of Art) present 30-minute back-to back lectures on their current research, thinking, and reflections on TBA projects, performances, and experiences. Drinks and refreshments will be served.
Sept. 15 Saturday Workshop SEE, HEAR, HERE WITH MARIANA VALENCIA 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM at New Expressive Works $5-$15 sliding scale This workshop brings together different modes of making into our practices. Whether you're a movement-based artist, playwright, poet, or painter, we will look into our writing/journal/notetaking practices and stretch them beyond the studio, canvas, page, and stage, processing our creative forms via movement improvisation, conversation and embodied listening activities. ALL LEVELS. CAPACITY: 30
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Panel FOOD, FESTIVALS, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE 12:30-1:30 PM at PICA FREE TBA Food vendors Big Elephant
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Sept. 16 Sunday Breakfast at Lunchtime CURATORS’ PANCAKE SPECIAL + VIC’S BLOODY MARY BAR 12:30-1:30 PM at PICA Join PICA’s Artistic Directors, Roya Amirsoleymani, Erin Boberg Doughton, and Kristan Kennedy for a final TBA:18 farewell. There will be a pancake brunch, Vic’s infamous Bloody Mary bar, and plenty of time for conversation and reflections about the past 10 days. Let’s bask in the last festival moments together.
2:00-3:00 PM at PICA FREE TBA artists Andrew Schneider and Raquel André employ contrasting styles of theatre performance but are equally interested in unanswerable questions about the human condition and our relationships to self, others, and modern culture. In radically different ways, both artists have also worked with local artists and non-artists to develop and perform their TBA pieces. This conversation will explore the artists’ distinct projects and processes as well as the overlaps in their practices. With Kate Bredeson and Peter Ksander, Reed College Theatre Faculty. TENDER TABLE CURATED BY STACEY TRAN, ORGANIZED BY SPENCER BYRNE-SERES 5:00 PM at PICA $0-$15 Capacity: 50
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Tender Table is a series of stories about food, family, and identity told by femmes of color and nonbinary people of color. For each event, storytellers prepare a dish connected to the experiences they’ve shared. Audiences are invited to listen generously, spend time communally, and sample the food. (See pg. 065 for more Tender Table info.)
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MEET THE ARTISTS: CREATIVE EXCHANGE LAB
Andrew J. Brown/Sister James received their Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and is Assistant Professor of Performance Art at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Western Washington University. They are currently working on a book project titled Staging Statelessness: Queer African Refugees and the Limits of Belonging. The book draws on seven years of in-depth performance collaboration with queer asylum seekers in South Africa and argues for quotidian aesthetic performances as strategic practices of unbelonging that propose alternative configurations of citizenship, subjectivity, and community. Their work has been published in Women and Performance,Theatre Survey, Performing Arts Resources, and Theatre Research International. As a research-based performance artist, their practice ranges from ethnographic, socially engaged ensemble work to conceptual solo performance— in orderto question and disrupt conventional expectations of what is human, animate, natural, or valuable. @sisterjames
Sept. 12 12:30–2:30 PM at PNCA Run Time 120 min FREE Creative Exchange Lab artists are collaboratively selected by PICA’s Artistic Directors. PICA seeks to invite a diverse intergenerational cohort of artists, emerging and established, from a spectrum of disciplines and perspectives. Reflecting a need for in-depth cross-disciplinary research opportunities for artists, the labs offer time for experimentation, collaboration, and interaction between the participating local, national, and international artists. The Fall 2018 Creative Exchange Lab artists will be in residence during TBA:18. You’ll see them at performances, hanging out on The Patio, and around Portland. Be sure to attend their conversation about their work on Sept. 12 The Creative Exchange Lab has been established with lead support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and received pilot support in 2015 through Oregon Community Foundation’s Creative Heights initiative.
C. Riley Snorton is a scholar, author, and activist whose work focuses on historical perspectives of gender, sexuality, and race. His publications include Nobody is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low (U Minn Press, 2014) and Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (U Minn Press, 2017). Snorton is Professor of English and Gender and Sexuality Studies at the 090 University of Chicago.
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Shawna Lipton is Chair of the MA in Critical Studies Program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA). She received her Ph.D. in Literature and Cultural Theory from the University of WisconsinMilwaukee. She is a literary scholar whose work is fundamentally informed by interdisciplinary gender and sexuality studies.
Gordon Hall (New York, NY) is an artist based in New York who has exhibited and performed at SculptureCenter, The Renaissance Society, Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Movement Research, EMPAC, Art in General, Temple Contemporary, Hessel Museum, White Columns, Wysing Arts Centre, Abrons Arts Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, and the MIT List Center for Visual Arts, among others. Hall’s writings and interviews have been featured in a variety of publications including Artforum, Randy, Bomb, Title Magazine, Walker Art Center's Artist Op-Ed Series, What About Power? Inquiries into Contemporary Sculpture (published by SculptureCenter, 2015), Documents of Contemporary Art: Queer (published by Whitechapel and MIT Press, 2016), and Theorizing Visual Studies (Routledge, 2012). Hall holds an MFA and an MA in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Victoria L. Hunt (Australia) is an Australian-born Maori performance artist. Her ancestral affiliations are to Te Arawa, Rongowhakaata, Kahungunu, Irish, English and Finnish. She works to reinstate the power of Indigenous creativity and knowledge into contemporary staging, exploring liminal spaces through provocative interdisciplinary and intercultural collaboration. Victoria has a BA (Photography, Griffith University 1996) and First Class Honours in Performance Studies (UNSW 2016). Since 1999 she has trained and worked with BodyWeather pioneer Tess de Quincey as a founding member of De Quincey Co, performing in over 40 productions. Her work has been presented at Liveworks Festival (Syd); Dance Massive (Melb); Origins Festival of First Nations (Lon/UK); Ecocentrix: Indigenous Arts, Sustainable Acts (UK); In Between Time Festival (Bristol/UK); IMPACT 15 (On/CA); Scène Contemporaine Autochtone, Festival TransAmériques Arts Centre (Montreal/CA); Biennale of Sydney; Ngiyagina Festival (Wagga); Gathering Ground (Syd); and Peats Ridge (Syd) among others. victoriahunt.com.au https:// newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/ students/coming-home C Davida Ingram (Seattle, WA) is an award-winning artist who is passionate about beauty and social justice. Her primary subjects are race, gender, and social relationships. Ingram’s impulse is to imagine tactics to get free—not further prescribing Otherness. With this in mind, she uses unorthodox mediums—Craigslist ads, hypnosis, drones, cell phone videos among other things to reshape what is possible in her own identification with being a black queer woman. Her art has been shown at the Frye Art Museum, Northwest African American Museum, Evergreen College, Bridge Productions, Intiman Theater, Town Hall and more. Her writings have been included in Monday, Arcade, Ms blog, James Franco Review and The Stranger. Ingram received the 2014 091 Stranger Genius Award in Visual Arts. She is a 2016 Neddy art award finalist. She is a former 2016 Kennedy
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Center Citizen Artist fellow and was recently voted both one of the “20 Most Talented and Most Influential People in Seattle” by Seattle Magazine. She is a recent Jacob Lawrence fellow at the University of Washington and the winner of the Museum of the Northwest Luminary Award in Innovative Media. Tiona Nekkia McClodden (Philadelphia, PA) is a visual artist, filmmaker, and curator whose practice explores and critiques issues at the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality. McClodden has exhibited and screened her work at many institutions and galleries, including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and more recently, Performance Space New York. The recipient of many awards and fellowships, she was most recently awarded the 20182019 Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism and won the 2017 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. McClodden also curated the exhibitions A Recollection.+ Predicated. featured within Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental, presented in collaboration with Bowerbird in Philadelphia in 2017 and The Kitchen in New York earlier this year.
Kaj-anne Pepper aka "Pepper Pepper" (Portland, OR) is a multidisciplinary performance artist, drag entertainer, and dance maker. Their work explores vulnerability, artifice and identity. Pepper uses improv, play, and theatricality as a way to turn tragic into magic and trauma into drama. They have presented their work regionally, nationally and internationally at spaces like PICA's TBA Festival, Risk/Reward, OFF! Biennale Budapest, The Lucky Penny Atlanta, Pelican Bomb New Orleans, SPACE Gallery Maine and once did a special appearance at a national ceramics convention called NCECA. ariella tai (Portland, OR) is a video artist, film scholar, and independent programmer from queens, new york. they are interested in the materiality of black bodies and black performance as vernaculars which subvert, interrupt or defy the diegetic cohesiveness of narrative. they currently re-appropriate, glitch and video process existing media in attempts to rupture and reconstruct some of the messier emotional realities of black femme existence. they are one half of “the first and the last,” a fellowship, workshop and screening series supporting and celebrating the work of black women and femmes in film, video and new media art.
Roza Moshtaghi (Norway/Iran) lives and works in Oslo. Her works are situated within the performing arts field as a choreographer and performer. Questions of how she, buildings, streets, nature, events, bodies, and objects in general react or adapt to structures have been crucial to most of her work. Roza holds an MA in Choreography from Oslo National Academy of the Arts. She presents her works internationally and continues to develop projects with other artists, both as a collaborator and as a performer. Her most recent 092 projects are ONLY FOREVER (2018), FLINCH (2017), THE SMELL OF ITS SHIRT (2016), and WATER GRAFFITI (2016). INSTITUTE
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New Deal Distillery New Expressive Works New Seasons Nightwood Society Nike Nostrana On The Boards One Wub Soundsystem OPB Open Signal Oregon College of Art and Craft Pabst Blue Ribbon Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) Paige Powell Pamela Baker Miller Paris Fashion Week PDX Wines Pickathon Ponzi's Vineyard Portland Art Museum Portland Beverage Portland Garment Factory Portland Mercury Portland Monthly Portland Skin Therapy Portland State University Portland'5 Center for the Arts Pro Photo Supply Q6 Models Reed College Reverend Nat's Hard Cider Rose Mackey S1 The Salt Empire Scapegoat Tattoo
Dôen Dogwood Distillery Donna & Toots Feast Field Day FingerBang Four Roses Bourbon Frances May Free Public Friends with You Gia Goodrich GiveSmart Golden Hour Gus Van Sant Heart Coffee Hollywood's Original Shirley Temple Soda Pop Holocene Holst Architecture Hopworks Brewing IDL Worldwide Jacobsen Salt Co. Kate Bingaman-Burt and Outlet PDX Lagunitas Brewing Company Leather Storrs Lisa Congdon Lunchbox Wax Marmoset Marquam Auction Agency Mckenna Johnson Merit Badge Co Mignonne Gavigan Mink Boutique Missionary Chocolates Mississippi Studios Mitchell Wines Monqui Music Millennium
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. She Bop Sizzle Pie Something Borrowed Portland Spartan Shop Stumptown The Mark Spencer Hotel Thomas & Sons Distillery Thunderpants Tommy Thayer Townshend's Tea Company TWIST Portland University Place Hotel and Conference Center Woodblock Chocolate Woonwinkel World Foods Xiola PDX XRAY FM
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BECOME A PICA MEMBER Experience PICA’s groundbreaking work alongside artists and enthusiasts like you with an annual PICA membership. Your membership supports each and every PICA program including residencies, commissions, performances, education and engagement programs, and TBA!
Time-Based Art Festival Staff
Members receive discounts on TBA prices, tickets to year-round events, and PICA merchandise. Memberships begin at $35 per year. See pica.org/ join for more details.
Champion $5,000 Two dual PICA Memberships Two TBA Immersion Passes Invitations to exclusive artist receptions and events Invitations to receptions and private visual art exhibition tours with curatorial staff Acknowledgement listed in printed materials, on donor walls, and on PICA website
Public Engagement Interns Maria Saldaña Miles Cohen Charlotte Strange Lene Stockton
Festival Production Graphic Designer Stefan Perkins
Development Intern Alexandria McMahan
Accounting Assistant Crystal Sasaki
LEVELS OF SUPPORT Underwriter $10,000 Two dual PICA Memberships Two TBA Patron Passes Invitations to exclusive artist receptions and events Invitations to receptions and private visual art exhibition tours with curatorial staff Acknowledgement listed in printed materials, on donor walls, and on PICA website
Technical Directors + Production Staff James Mapes Molly Gardner Maggie Heath Kayla Scrivner Bill Boese Jeff Forbes Janessa Raabe
Supporter $1,000 One dual PICA Membership Invitations to exclusive artist receptions and events Invitations to receptions and private visual art exhibition tours with curatorial staff Acknowledgement listed in printed materials, on donor walls, and on PICA website Advocate $500 One dual PICA Membership Invitations to exclusive artist receptions and events Acknowledgement listed in printed materials, on donor walls, and on PICA website Enthusiast $250 One dual PICA Membership Invitations to exclusive artist receptions and events Acknowledgement listed on PICA website
Patron $2,500 One dual PICA Membership One TBA Immersion Pass Contributor $100 Invitations to exclusive artist One dual PICA Membership and all receptions and events of the benefits included Invitations to receptions and private Acknowledgement listed in printed visual art exhibition tours with materials, on donor walls, and on curatorial staff PICA website Acknowledgement listed in printed materials, on donor walls, and on PICA website
Late Night Coordinator Weston Smith Late Night Buildout Lead Kasey Shun Artist Services Coordinator Roz Crews Artist Project Assistant Hannon Welch Volunteer Coordinator Ella Ray Box Office Manager Jason Buehrer Front Of House Manager Noelle Suzanne Barce
Visual Art Intern James Knowlton
Special Thanks Sean Schumacher Alex Novie Jamie Edwards Paul Arensmeyer Lymay Iwasaki
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
PICA Board of Directors
Executive Director Victoria Frey
Jill Sherman Board Chair C. Alex Miller Treasurer Steve Galloway Secretary Jason Bell Kristin Bremer Moore Kavin Buck Lucinda Carmichael Jenny Chu Courtney Dailey Andrew Dickson Allie Furlotti Steve Galloway Peter Gronquist Britt Howard Lisa Jarrett Mira Kaddoura Jonathan Malsin André Middleton Holcombe Waller
Artistic Director + Curator of Public Engagement Roya Amirsoleymani Artistic Director + Curator of Performance Erin Boberg Doughton Artistic Director + Curator of Visual Art Kristan Kennedy Director of Communications Kirsten Saladow Graphic Designer Dante Carlos Development Manager Kim Crosby Development Associate Van Pham Special Events and Earned Income Manager Sophie May Hook Accounting and Finance Manager Shaun Keylock Production Manager Chris Balo
Festival Copyeditor Paul Maziar
Exhibitions Director Spencer Byrne-Seres
Institute Coordinators Felisha Ledesma Kevin Holden
Head Preparator Maggie Heath
Interns Performance Program Interns Taz Coffey Claire Lyman Marketing Interns Morgan Marshall Andrea Maldonado Erica Meier Brigitte d'Autremont
Curatorial Assistant Kevin Holden Marketing Operations Coordinator Julia Walters Public Engagement Coordinator Jodie Cavalier Performance Programs Coordinator Mami Takahashi Creative Exchange Lab Assistant Alley Frey
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