TIME BASED ART FESTIVAL 2024 TIME BASED ART FESTIVAL 2024 TIME BASED ART FESTIVAL 2024 TIME BASED ART FESTIVAL 2024
BASED ART FESTIVAL 2024
September 5 – 22, 2024
In some ways it never left. Over the years it has changed forms, shapeshifting in response to the times but remaining steadfast in its support of artists and audiences. In 2003, as we launched the first annual Time-Based Art Festival, we hoped that the name “TBA” could be an expansive container for the kinds of work artists would make in the future, and that artists would shape the Festival, our organization, and our culture in unexpected ways. Now, TBA is known as a time and place where we expect the unexpected as we reconnect with old friends and welcome new artists, audiences, and ideas. We gather for shared experiences that help us make meaning and make meaningful change. 21 years in, we know that there will not be a new normal. We will keep changing. We find ourselves in yet another year where the way forward feels uncertain at best. We can’t say that anything is unimaginable or unspeakable. We have seen it with our own eyes. The truth has been spoken, shouted through megaphones and through tears. We have lost loved ones and are fighting for the lives of others, individually and collectively, locally and globally. We have also seen tides turn, waves of people rising in solidarity.
The artists in TBA:24 call us to gather in the spirit of imagining and working towards better futures—abolishing prisons, shifting the international date line, abandoning the concept of linear time, sharing embodied memories and creating new ones, reconnecting with the land and the stars. TBA is a time for yelling, laughing, dancing, singing, eating and drinking, telling stories, having conversations, and sharing how it feels to be alive.
We are grateful to work with the extraordinary artists, staff, and supporters who make this kind of gathering possible and look forward to being with you this September. Thank you,
Erin Boberg Doughton
Artistic Director & Curator of Performance
Kristan Kennedy
Artistic Director & Curator of Visual Art
PICA acknowledges the Native nations across the Americas upon whose lands we live. Please consider the ways in which you can support Native artists and communities wherever you call home. Seek truth in education, be guided by Native wisdom, and contribute to Native causes, political efforts, and organizations as much as possible.
Box Office open Aug. 5 –
Before the Festival
From August 5 through September 4, the Box Office can be reached via email or phone from 12:00 – 4:00 PM PDT. Closed on weekends and Labor Day.
During the Festival
From September 5 through 22, the Box Office will be open each day of the Festival via email or phone. Box Office staff will be available in-person one hour before each event.
Support PICA and artists by purchasing a pass to TBA:24!
Pass Levels:
Patron Pass (All Access + VIP) - $500
Full Pass - $300
One-Weekend Pass - $100
Pass Levels and Prices:
Patron Pass (All Access + VIP) $500
($250 tax-deductible) Includes priority admission to all performances, a special VIP event, festival concierge service, and full access to TBA:24 exhibitions and programs. Plus, a donation to PICA in support of TBA.
Full Pass $300
Includes admission to all performances, and full access to TBA:24 exhibitions and programs.
One-Weekend Pass $100
Includes access to all performances on either Weekend 1 (Sept. 5 – 8), or Weekend 2 (Sept. 12 – 15), or Weekend 3 (Sept. 19 – 22) of TBA.
Reservations are required for all ticketed programs regardless of pass purchase.
To RVSP for a TBA:24 event, click the Google Form link in your emailed receipt.
Help us raise money for new audience chairs and become a part of PICA history!
As a PICA supporter, you stand with great artists—and this year, there’s no better way to stand with us than to sit! From today to the end of TBA:24, when you give a gift of $100 or more, we will honor your contribution by naming a chair after you. That’s right, for $100, your name can be forever recognized on-site at PICA!
Now, thanks to a matching gift from a generous donor, you can double your impact when you give during TBA:24. That’s twice the awe, twice the inspiration, and twice as many lives that your generosity can touch! Contribute to our Take a Seat campaign today.
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Thank You!
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Follow the Festival!
Stay up to date on all things #tba24 by following PICA on Instagram at @picapdx. Share your TBA:24 experience with friends, relive performances, and commemorate special moments through the Festival’s official hashtag, #tba24. Don’t forget to tag and follow the TBA:24 artists on Instagram:
• The Javaad Alipoor Company,* @javaadalipoor
• Kye Alive, @kyealive
• Morgan Bassichis, @morgankindof
• Olivia Camfield, Celeste Camfield, and Woodrow Hunt, @outeroutlet @egg.t.h.o.t @wo___od
• Elbow Room, @elbow.room.pdx
• JJJJJerome Ellis, @jjjjjeromeellis @heavy_trip
• Sarah Farahat and Alexandria Saleem, @ankh.inkh.studios @zandi_i_i @swanarosepdx
• Sarah Gilbert and Pato Hebert,* @sarahgilbert_la @volandito
• Sam Hamilton,* @sam.tam.ham
• Anthony Hudson/Carla Rossi, @thecarlarossi @queerhorrorpdx
• Timothy Yanick Hunter, @yanickhunter
• Linda K. Johnson in conversation with Chisao Hata, Susan Banyas, Robin Lane, and Joan Findlay, @linda_k.johnson @chisaoart @susangracebanyas @findlay.joan
• Autumn Knight, @autkni
• Marikiscrycrycry, @marikiscrycrycry
• Ahamefule J. Oluo, @ahamefule
• Jess Perlitz,* @jessperlitz
• Videotones,* @video_tones
• Anna Martine Whitehead, @forceanopera @thee_annatomy
• Yelling Choir by Maxx Katz, @yellingchoir @maxxxkatz
• and more!
*These artists are presented with our partners: Boom Arts @boomartspdx; Stephanie Snyder @stephanie.snyder.curator and Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College @cooleygallery; Portland Art Museum @portlandartmuseum; ILY2 @ily2.ily2; and Pacific Northwest College of Art at Willamette University @p_n_c_a.
Festival
Festival Introduction
Three Weekends, One Festival
TBA:24 Opening Day
Videotones
Ahamefule J. Oluo
Sam Hamilton
Anna Martine Whitehead
Morgan Bassichis
Marikiscrycrycry
Jess Perlitz
Sarah Gilbert and Pato Hebert
Timothy Yanick Hunter
JJJJJerome Ellis
Sarah Farahat and Alexandria Saleem
Olivia Camfield, Celeste Camfield, Woodrow Hunt
Autumn Knight
The Javaad Alipoor Company, Co-Produced with Riverside's National Theatre of Parramatta
Elbow Room
Institute
Institute Introduction
Te Moana Meridian Conference
Linda K. Johnson in conversation with Chisao Hata, Susan Banyas, Robin Lane, and Joan Findlay
Javaad Alipoor and Autumn Knight
BEFORE & AFTER
BEFORE & AFTER Introduction
Happy Hours at PICA
Kye Alive Anthony Hudson/Carla Rossi
Yelling Choir by Maxx Katz
Everyone remembers their first time: the first time a performance moved them, the first time they sweat furiously on one of our dance floors, the first time they felt at home in a crowd and truly welcomed in an institutional space.
As TBA enters its 21st year, it’s time again for YOU to come with us. It’s time to meet a new artist over drinks at PICA. It’s time to run into an old friend and embrace. It’s time to encounter the unexpected and experience what you haven’t before.
Join us as we gather with a host of renowned international, national, and regional artists for World Premieres with local partners and at accessible sites and spaces across the city. Get curious about some of the most vital ideas and conversations happening in our world today. Champion artists and art. Come, be part of TBA:24—a festival like no other.
For a deeper dive into each program, visit pica.org/tba.
DATE Sept. 5 – 22, 2024
LOCATION Portland, OR
TBA:24 has been thoughtfully built to span three weeks, allowing audiences to be fully immersed in a wide variety of programs with some breathing room between the busier days. In this format, programming is condensed during the weekend and the schedule is lighter Monday through Wednesday. TBA:24 offers a mix of performances, exhibitions, conversations, happy hours, and afterparties each weekend, as well as Institute programs and gallery hours on weekdays. Below is a brief overview of what to expect from each action-packed weekend.
Weekend One, Sept. 5 – 8
Videotones
Ahamefule J. Oluo
Sam Hamilton
Anna Martine Whitehead
Morgan Bassichis
Kye Alive
Weekend Two, Sept. 12 – 15
Marikiscrycrycry
Jess Perlitz
Sarah Gilbert and Pato Hebert
Anthony Hudson/Carla Rossi
Linda K. Johnson and Guests
Yelling Choir by Maxx Katz
Timothy Yanick Hunter
JJJJJerome Ellis
Sarah Farahat and Alexandria Saleem
Weekend Three, Sept. 19 – 22
Olivia Camfield, Celeste Camfield, and Woodrow Hunt
Autumn Knight
The Javaad Alipoor Company, Co-Produced with Riverside's National Theatre of Parramatta
Linda K. Johnson and Guests
Elbow Room
Three Weekends, One Festival Three Weekends, One Festival Three Weekends, One Festival Three Weekends, One Festival Three Weekends, One Festival Three Weekends, One Festival
DATE Sept. 5
LOCATION Portland, OR
TICKET Free
TIME PROGRAM LOCATION
5:00 PM Videotones Open Access Jam PNCA
5:00 PM Videotones, Outside Inside World 511 Gallery at PNCA
6:00 PM First Thursday Various Locations
The 2024 Time-Based Art Festival opens by honoring the Portland tradition of First Thursday with a come one, come all jam session with Videotones, Elbow Room’s neurodiverse digital media collective. No musical ability required—bring yourself, an instrument,* your voice. Come make a sound or just witness our giant, undulating community band.
At 5:00 PM on September 5, we will meet in front of the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) to usher in TBA:24 with our joyous and discordant noise, then move inside to 511 Gallery for the opening reception of the Videotones exhibition Outside Inside World. After the festivities at PNCA, continue your evening with the many First Thursday events taking place throughout the Pearl District. Our sincere thanks to PNCA for hosting this exuberant group happening!
*If you wish to bring an amplified instrument, the Videotones artists can plug you in! Come a little early to set up. Acoustic instruments are also encouraged, no set up required.
Learn more about Videotones on page 18.
DATE Sept. 5 at 5:00 PM
LOCATION 511 Gallery at PNCA, 511 NW Broadway
TICKET Free
Portland, OR
Outside Inside World
Co-presented with PNCA
Outside Inside World will be on view from August 26 through October 5.
Equal parts survey exhibition and emergent experiment, Outside Inside World activates PNCA’s 511 Gallery as a showcase for works in the Videotones archive as well as a site for making and sharing new work. True to the Videotones ethos, the space takes on multiple roles—film set, recording studio, improv theater, rec room, and exhibition space— which will change unpredictably from day to day. This living exhibition will be augmented by a series of public events, including an open access jam session, workshops, and the premiere of Videotones TV, a DIY variety show made for public access television. Outside Inside World will culminate with Good Dang Weekend, a bingo night and dance party fundraiser to benefit Elbow Room at PICA. See page 46 for details on that event.
Videotones is a neurodiverse digital media collective that employs homegrown, collaborative editing practices, exploits the hidden potential for accessibility in cheap consumer technologies, and adheres to a vision of filmmaking that privileges improvisational experimentation and nonlinear play over predetermined outcomes to make their idiosyncratic brand of music and video art. Since its inception in 2018, the project has yielded three full-length albums of experimental music as well as countless short video works. In the Videotones universe, authorship is dispersed—each project born out of a process of equal participation and nonhierarchical decision making, resulting in work that is discordant, polyvocal, awkward, hilarious, mysterious, fragmented, joyful, and deeply affecting. Videotones is sustained under the auspices of Elbow Room, a 501(c)(3) community art studio and gallery space dedicated to supporting artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Elbow Room provides art materials and mentorship in painting, drawing, creative writing, sewing, digital media, music, hand tool woodworking, ceramics, and many other forms of artmaking.
Access notes: The outdoor jam session accompanying the exhibition opening will feature loud and likely dissonant music. PNCA is an ADA accessible building. The current iteration of Videotones is sustained by Elbow Room.
DATE Sept. 6 & 7 at 6:00 PM, Sept. 8 at 2:00 PM
LOCATION PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street
TICKET Sliding scale $20, $35, $50
RUN TIME 90 min CAPACITY 300
Unceded Twana land, Hood Canal, WA
The Things Around Us is a collection of seemingly unrelated stories and anecdotes that swirl and dance with a live musical score created through electronically looped and effected trumpet, clarinet, and everyday objects. Following their epic stage shows with autobiographical stories and large ensembles, Oluo inverts the formula with stories about other people, other places, and other times set to intimate solo soundscapes that seem to grow out of thin air—a reflection of, and a necessity caused by, the forced isolation of the pandemic. Darkly humorous, uplifting and bleak, deep and silly, this work is about trying and failing to find order in chaos. Ahamefule J. Oluo (they/them) is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, writer, comedian, and creator of live performance. They were a founding member of the award-winning experimental jazz quartet Industrial Revelation and is a Mellon Foundation Creative Research Fellow, a Creative Capital awardee, an Artist Trust Arts Innovator awardee, and a semifinalist in NBC’s Stand Up for Diversity comedy competition. Oluo has premiered two shows at The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival: Now I’m Fine, 2016, and Susan, 2020, both acclaimed by The New York Times. Oluo wrote, scored, and starred in the feature film Thin Skin, which won Best Director at the 2020 Harlem Film Festival. They have appeared on This American Life and produced albums by comedians Hari Kondabolu and Dwayne Kennedy. Oluo has also written for television, including HBO Max’s Santa Inc. with Sarah Silverman and Seth Rogen. Oluo has received support from Under the Radar, On the Boards, PICA, Meany Center, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Seattle Theatre Group, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, MacDowell, Yaddo, and more.
Access notes: This performance features lighting effects, haze, and loud volumes. Earplugs will be available.
Ahamefule
DATE Sept. 6, 7, 9 at 7:00 PM, Sept. 8 at 2:00 PM
LOCATION Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue
TICKET Sliding scale $15, $20, $25, $30, tickets available through portlandartmuseum.org
RUN TIME 75 min CAPACITY 160
Chinook land, Portland, OR
Te Moana Meridian
World Premiere
Co-presented with Boom Arts and Portland Art Museum
Creative Director, Producer, Composer, Author, Choreographer:
Sam Hamilton (he/they), USA / Aotearoa New Zealand
Producer / Manager: Carlee Smith (she/her), USA
Principal Vocalist / Māori: Mere Tokorahi Boynton (she/her), Ngāi Tūhoe, Aotearoa New Zealand
Principal Vocalist / English: Holland Andrews (they/them), USA
Performer/Thinking Finger: sidony o’neal (they/them), USA
Choir Director/Manager/Performer: Crystal Meneses (she/her), USA
Costume Designer: Clara Chon (she/her), USA, Aotearoa New Zealand
Production Manager: Jeff Forbes (he/him), USA
Sound Engineer/Operator: Ash Sturgin (she/her), USA
Te reo Māori Translator: Rhonda Tibble (she/her), Aotearoa New Zealand
International Producing Consultant: Fenn Gordon (she/her), Aotearoa New Zealand
Te Moana Meridian is a new experimental opera based on a geopolitical policy proposal to relocate the prime meridian from Greenwich, England to Te Moananui-ā-Kiwa/the South Pacific Ocean. Dressed as an opera, the project serves as a creative vessel for developing and advancing this speculative United Nations General Assembly Draft Resolution to move the prime meridian and mark an internationally concerted shift away from colonial structures of power.
By inverting how the global population collectively organizes time and space, an oceanic prime meridian would represent a broader refusal of divisiveness. Rather than an antiquated instrument of Western empire, the prime meridian would instead function as a relational axis mundi from which to forge a new and vibrant global commons, ultimately reminding us of humanity’s interconnection.
Sam Hamilton (Sam Tam Ham) is an independent, working class, interdisciplinary artist from Aotearoa New Zealand of Pākehā (English settler colonial) descent, based in Portland, OR.
After 20 years of working independently and professionally across experimental music and sound art, moving and still image, painting, writing, performance, stage, cinema, and curatorial projects, Hamilton's practice today operates more like an ecology than a discipline. A messy but verdant
garden full of old and new growth, hidden places, edible arrangements, toxic weeds, garden parties, frolicking, and most importantly, the lifeaffirming ferment of deep existential entanglement. What physically emerges in any given season through the confluence of this garden depends most simply on what vessel(s) best serve the idea at hand.
The long song
a meandering garden path
Both an entrance and an exit
Access notes: ASL interpretation available upon request.
Produced with support from Creative Capital, Oregon Community Foundation’s Creative Heights initiative, Portland Art Museum, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, PICA, Boom Arts, and the Bodecker Foundation.
DATE Sept. 6 at 8:00 PM, Sept. 7 at 2:00 PM & 8:00 PM
LOCATION Winningstad Theatre, P-5, 1111 SW Broadway
TICKET Sliding scale $20, $35, $50
RUN TIME Approx. 95 min CAPACITY 220
Land of the Council of the Three Fires (Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi), and the Miami, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac, and Fox, Chicago, IL
FORCE! an opera in three acts
Co-composers: Angel Bat Dawid, Ayanna Woods, Anna Martine Whitehead
Music Directors: Ayanna Woods, Teiana Davis
Dancers: Jenn Freeman (Po’Chop), Zachary Nicol, Rahila Coats
Musicians: Eva Supreme, Brittany Brown, Daniella Pruitt, Nexus J, Teiana Davis, Wyatt Wadell, Kai Black
Lighting Artist and Set Designer: Tuçe Yasak
Audio Engineer: Najee-Zaid Searcy
Costume Designer: Sky Cubacub
This is an opera, but what is an opera? If opera means “big work,” what could be blacker? In this big work, characters become fractals for the abundant relationships blooming in the shadows of the state and carceral power. A constellation imagines a strange sisterhood with the power to disintegrate walls.
Since late 2019, FORCE! an opera in three acts has developed as an iterative reimagining of performance practice, constantly centering care, consent, queer divergence, and rest. The FORCE! constellation reimagines rehearsal protocols and lets loose discipline to build an abolitionist feminist theater practice. This project gathers lessons from lichens and other emergent strategies, direct actions, and mutual aid societies, and leverages sound and movement as vectors for processing state violence and racial capitalism. As audiences travel with performers through space, sound, and silence, the borderlines become increasingly less important. Using the prison as a particular prism through which we can bear witness to the ways carceral systems replicate themselves, FORCE! is also an attempt to abolish the prison industrial complex in our heads, hearts, and houses.
Anna Martine Whitehead does performance. Their writing has been published by Art21 Magazine, C Magazine, Frieze, Art Practical, Soberscove Press, and Oxford University Press. Whitehead’s solo and collaborative work has been presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; Renaissance Society, Chicago; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San José Museum of Art, CA; and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. Beginning in 2019, Whitehead has worked with
a constellation of organizers, artists, curators, and educators to create FORCE! an opera in three acts. Since 2021, FORCE! has manifested in mansions, churches, parking lots, prisons, concert halls, and theaters, and has produced two short films as well as an art installation. FORCE! has primarily been developed on the homelands of the Council of the Three Fires; the Miami, Ho-Chunk, Sauk, and Meskwaki; and the Kickapoo, Peoria, and Sioux Nations.
Access notes: This performance includes flashing and bright lights, loud sounds, and heavy haze. Audiences will be directed to their seats after the first 20 minutes of the program, which will not be seated.
Supported in part by Pivot Arts, Arts + Public Life at the University of Chicago, St. Benedict the African Parish, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, 3AP (3Arts Projects), New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Theater Project, the National Performance Network Creation Fund, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Centers at Northwestern University, and House of the Lorde.
Special thanks to:
Danya AbdelHameid, Production Manager
Phillip Armstrong, Vocal Director and Assistant Music Director
Jasmine Mendoza, Performer
DATE Sept. 6 & 7 at 8:00 PM, Sept. 8 at 6:00 PM
LOCATION PICA Annex, 15 NE Hancock Street
TICKET Sliding scale $20, $35, $50
RUN TIME 70 min CAPACITY 115
Brooklyn, NY
Can I Be Frank?
A new performance by Morgan Bassichis
With original material by Frank Maya
Directed by Sam Pinkleton
Instrumental recreations by Natasha Jacobs
Scenic recreation by Eli Woods Harrison
In a desperate attempt to prove they can think about someone other than themself, Morgan Bassichis revisits queer comedian, musician, and performance artist Frank Maya’s 1987 show, Frank Maya Talks. Maya was among the “first out gay comedians on network television” and on the precipice of mainstream success before his death from AIDSrelated complications in 1995. This new “solo” performance humbly attempts to ensure Maya’s legacy is no longer overlooked, while also resolving the bottomless queer search for laughter in times of crisis and for fame and father figures and intense attachment dynamics no matter how fleeting. Morgan Bassichis (they/them) is a comedian and writer who has been described as “fiercely hilarious” by The New Yorker. They are the author of The Odd Years and co-editor with Jay Saper and Rachel Valinsky of Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah, both published by Wendy’s Subway. Recent shows include A Crowded Field (Abrons Arts Center, 2023), Questions to Ask Beforehand (Bridget Donahue, 2022), and Don’t Rain on My Bat Mitzvah (Creative Time, 2021). Morgan’s exhibition, More Little Ditties, was co-presented by the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University and the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Can I Be Frank? was supported in part by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant and residencies at the Church in Sag Harbor, New York and the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas.
Special thanks to Mike & Carlee Productions.
Originally presented by La MaMa.
DATE Sept. 12 & 13 at 7:00 PM
LOCATION PICA Annex, 15 NE Hancock Street
TICKET Sliding scale $20, $35, $50
RUN TIME 55 min CAPACITY 115
London, UK
The Goner is someone who is doomed with no chance of survival—bound to death, a lost and hopeless case.
Goner follows this figure on a sensuous, suspense-filled, and fearsome choreographic journey into the depths of their psychological horror. Lightly touching on topics of abuse, Caribbean migration, alienation, belonging, addiction, and violence, Goner utilizes the formal tools of solo authorship and the aesthetics of horror to create radical visual culture from a marginalized perspective, and to tease out and establish a Black tradition of horror for the live context. How do we look at culturally-specific narratives against a backdrop of thrilling, bloody, and psychological horror? Who knows but there will be blood
Malik Nashad Sharpe (Marikiscrycrycry) is an award-winning choreographer and movement director known for his provocative and formally engaging performance works that address themes of violence, alienation, horror, melancholia, and the horizon. His work has been commissioned and shown across various venues, festivals, and contexts in Europe, the UK, and North America. He is a member of the Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2022, recognized for his contribution to dance in Europe. He is currently an Associate Artist at The Place, London and a guest professor in dance and performance at the Stockholm University of the Arts, Sweden.
Access notes: This performance contains strong language, flashing lights, haze, verbal references to sex, verbal references to murder, loud sounds including gunshots, sensitive themes and topics, partial nudity, and violence.
Age recommendation: 16+
Funded in part by The Yard Theatre, Dansehallerne, Moderna Dansteatern (MDT), Cambridge Junction, and Arts Council England.
Supported in part by Fest en Fest, The Place, PICA, Toronto Dance Community Love-In, My Wild Flag, Sadler’s Wells, Watermans Art Centre, Caldera Arts, New Expressive Works, and Live Art Development Agency.
DATE Sept. 13 at 5:00 PM
LOCATION Eric V. Hauser Memorial Library at Reed College, first floor reading room, 3203 SE Woodstock Boulevard
TICKET Free
Portland, OR
On Sunday, September 15, from 12:00 to 2:00 PM on the lawn outside of the Reed library, there will be music, picnic fare, artist conversations, and exhibition walkthroughs of Perlitz’s Reductions of Mountains, as well as Sarah Gilbert and Pato Hebert’s Tender, both curated by Cooley Director Stephanie Snyder. For more information on this free event, please see page 32.
Sculptor Jess Perlitz has visions of boulders—big ones, large enough to hide behind or stack inside a museum diorama. With wry, anthropological wit, Perlitz offers her sculptures for examination in the context of two large vitrines in an academic reading room in the Reed College library.
Perlitz has entitled her installation Reductions of Mountains, because ostensibly mountains don’t grow inside libraries. Each vitrine is filled with objects that appear weathered and worn over time—like unearthed artifacts, or concrete rubble from something that once was. Perhaps they’re the remains of a megalith—dredged up and put on display to trace human innovation. Maybe they’re the anthropomorphic fragments of an old totemic form, in which the representation of the body is now indiscernible. Perlitz’s boulders remind us that we are always categorizing the objects around us and interpreting our lives in fragments, shifting their scale to our needs and desires. The museum display has become a pickle jar.
Jess Perlitz (b. Toronto, ON) is an artist whose work is informed by our formations of landscape and the body’s place within it, finding points of desire, incongruity, and disruption. She is a graduate of Bard College, received an MFA from Tyler School of Art, and clown training from the Manitoulin Center for Creation and Performance. Perlitz is currently an Associate Professor and Head of Sculpture at Lewis & Clark College, and most recently, the co-leader of Portland’s Monuments & Memorials Project. Perlitz is a 2019 Hallie Ford Fellow, a Joan Shipley awardee, and an award recipient from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has appeared in playgrounds, fields, galleries, and museums, including the Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens; Cambridge Art Galleries, ON; De Fabriek, NL; and aboard the Arctic Circle Residency. Her project Chorus is installed at Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia.
Access notes: As students are studying in the library, installation visitors are asked to be silent or whisper.
DATE Sept. 13 at 5:00 PM
LOCATIONS Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Boulevard
Ditch Projects, 303 S 5th Street #165, Springfield, OR
TICKET Free
Gabrileño/Tongva/Kizh Lands, Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY
On Sunday, September 15, from 12:00 to 2:00 PM, join us on the lawn in front of the Reed library for music, picnic fare, and a conversation with artists Sarah Gilbert, Jess Perlitz, and exhibition curator Stephanie Snyder, facilitated by Kristan Kennedy, Artistic Director & Curator of Visual Art at PICA. There will also be tours of Perlitz’s Reductions of Mountains, as well as the Cooley exhibition Tender (a collaboration with Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR).
Tender opens at Ditch Projects on October 19 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM and will remain on view through December 1.
Tender is the nature of this immersive, dual-sited exhibition by longtime educators and colleagues Sarah Gilbert and Pato Hebert. The wild beauty of the exhibition springs from the artists’ dyadic attunement to and compassion for one another. In partnership with nature, Gilbert and Hebert explore the vulnerability that has reshaped their lives. For Gilbert and Hebert, this is a healing endeavor. Both artists are in the process of negotiating their recovery from debilitating illness, injury, and the tragic loss of those most loved. Hannah Arendt described her philosophical perspective as “. . . a palpating tenderness toward the things of the world.” The presence of nature throughout the two exhibitions speaks to Arendt’s unconditional belief in embodied thought and emotional exposure.
Tender is the inaugural collaboration between the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College, and Ditch Projects in Springfield, OR—two organizations committed to artist-centered experience and expressive freedom.
Sarah Gilbert is an artist and educator based in Los Angeles, CA whose work explores craft and collectivity. Joining a wide range of materials and processes, her interdisciplinary practice often moves between art and science, synthesizing traditional craft techniques with emerging technologies. She has presented recent solo exhibitions at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk; and at the 7th Tallinn Applied Art Triennial, Estonia. She has been a Fellow at the Creative Glass Center of America, Millville; and a Resident Artist at Faro Tláhuac, Mexico City; Glazenhuis, Lommel; and Olustvere Mõis, Estonia. She is currently an Associate Professor of Sculpture and Affiliate Faculty in Gender and Feminist Studies at Pitzer College.
Sarah Gilbert and Pato Hebert
Sarah Gilbert and Pato Hebert
Sarah Gilbert and Pato Hebert
Sarah Gilbert and Pato Hebert
Sarah Gilbert and Pato Hebert
Pato Hebert is an artist, teacher, and organizer. His work probes the challenges and possibilities of interconnectedness. His creative projects have appeared at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito; Beton7, Athens; the Ballarat International Foto Biennale; and the Songzhuang International Photo Biennale. Hebert is a COVID-19 long hauler, living with the ongoing impacts of the coronavirus since March of 2020, and publicly addressing the pandemic through creativity and community building. His solo exhibition about long COVID, Lingering, debuted at Pitzer College in 2022, curated by Ruti Talmor. His writing about COVID has appeared in Lastgaspism: Art and Survival in the Age of Pandemic (eds. Romero, A.,Tucker, D.,Wang, D.), and The Long COVID Survival Guide: How to Take Care of Yourself and What Comes Next (ed: Fiona Lowenstein). Hebert serves as Chair and teaches in the Department of Art & Public Policy at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
Sarah Gilbert and Pato Hebert
DATE Sept. 14 at 6:00 PM
LOCATION PICA Annex, 15 NE Hancock Street
TICKET Sliding scale $10, $20, $50
RUN TIME 60 min CAPACITY 115
Toronto, ON
Granular Synthesis is a reference to the computer music technique of the same name, first suggested by Iannis Xenakis and Curtis Roads. It is based on the production of a high density of small acoustic events called grains, which are less than 50 milliseconds in duration and typically fall within the range of 10-30 milliseconds. These grains can be manipulated in various ways by changing the pitch, duration, or position in the original sample, resulting in unique and complex sounds. In his performance, Timothy Yanick Hunter explores the idea of the grain and the manipulation of samples. Processes of stretching, looping, and rearrangement build a kaleidoscopic narrative that considers the grain as a metaphor for fragmented memory, mortality, and states of immateriality.
Timothy Yanick Hunter (b. 1990, Toronto, ON) is an artist and curator based in Toronto. Hunter’s practice employs strategies of bricolage, archival exploration, reference, and citation, as well as remix and rearrangement as methods of practice. His approach alternates between exploratory and didactic, with a focus on the political, cultural, and social richness of the Black diaspora. Hunter’s work often delves into speculative narratives and the intersections of physical space, digital space, and the intangible.
Hunter received his BA from the University of Toronto and has been an artist in residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, ON; and Black Rock Senegal, Dakar. He was included in the 2022 Toronto Biennial of Art and longlisted for the 2022 Sobey Art Award. He has exhibited nationally and internationally at the Center for Art, Research and Alliances, New York (2023); Cooper Cole, Toronto (2022); Bamako Encounters – The African Biennial of Photography, Mali (2022); Gallery 44, Toronto (2021); and A Space Gallery, Toronto (2020) among others.
Access notes: This performance includes potentially loud volumes. In conjunction with TBA:24, Timothy Yanick Hunter has an exhibition entitled Noise / Grain at ILY2 in the Pearl District, on view September 13 through November 9. In his first solo show on the West Coast, Hunter presents an arrangement of works that contend with diaspora, memory, overlap, and oscillating realities through various experiments in digital repetition and the copy. For more information, visit ily2online.com.
Supported in part by ILY2.
Timothy Yanick Hunter
Timothy Yanick Hunter
Timothy Yanick Hunter
DATE Sept. 14 at 8:00 PM
LOCATION PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street
TICKET Sliding scale $10, $20, $50
RUN TIME 60 min CAPACITY 300
Land and water that have been stewarded by Nansemond, Chesapeake, and other nations, Norfolk, VA
In this performance, artist JJJJJerome Ellis presents portions of their latest project, Aster of Ceremonies. Using piano, saxophone, electronics, and voice, they perform excerpts from Benediction, a devotional song cycle attending to eighteenth and nineteenth century Black runaway slaves who stuttered. This performance is an ongoing attempt to, in the words of critic Hortense Spillers, “hear [slavery’s] stutter more clearly.”
JJJJJerome Ellis (any pronoun) is a disabled Grenadian-JamaicanAmerican artist, surfer, and person who stutters. Through music, performance, writing, video, and photography, the artist asks what stuttering can teach us about justice.
Access notes: Aster of Ceremonies features ASL interpretation, audio description via headphones, and Computer Aided Real-Time Transcription (CART) on a separate screen. The performance will also be recorded and shared via YouTube at a later date. Audience members are encouraged to arrive at the performance scent-free and will have the option to check in without speaking by showing their digital ticket/reservation receipt. Masking and social distancing are strongly recommended. PICA is an ADA accessible venue.
Supported in part by Creative Capital.
DATE Sept. 15 at 6:00 PM
LOCATION PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street
TICKET Sliding scale $10, $20, $50
RUN TIME 2 hrs CAPACITY 300
Unceeded land of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Siletz, and Warm Springs, and specifically the Cowlitz, Chinook, Multnomah, Kalapuya, Tualatin, Clackamas, and many more tribes that call this land home.
Teta’s Tea
Join cultural workers Alexandria Saleem and Sarah Farahat to steep in Teta’s tea. This is an invitation to grieve, nourish, and connect with what has been passed down through love and lineage, while remembering to cultivate new futures. The artists take revolutionary inspiration from orcas and wasps, kite makers and clowns.
This indoor/outdoor event is designed to nourish folks in the SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa) diaspora, as well as highlight fundraising efforts for families from Gaza organized by Flowers for Palestine. Portland-based band Seffarine offers vibrant original music, deeply rooted in Morocco's musical collision between Arabic, Iberian, and West African cultures. Join Mohammed Usrof, Mona Huneidi, and Bint Bandora in traditional Gazan kite making for the traveling exhibition Targeted: 100+ Kites: A Benefit for Gaza. Enjoy regional eats from Yalla Mangia and other local vendors and a selection of visionary SWANA films curated by Sahar al-Sawaf. People of all ages and backgrounds are welcome!
Sarah Farahat is a transdisciplinary Egyptian American* artist, cultural worker, teacher, and abolitionist dreaming of a more collective future for all beings. For the past 16 years, Farahat has monitored the body within the sociopolitical landscape in the US and abroad, intervening with works that explore grief, connection, assimilation, storytelling, and engagement. As a nomadic child of diaspora, Farahat plants portals through taste, smell, and sound while continually attempting to live in reciprocity with the land wherever she creates home.
Alexandria Rema Saleem is a first generation Palestinian American* artist and cultural worker. She works with individuals, communities, and the land to reclaim our right to sacred spaces through land tending, worldbuilding, dance, ritual, risk, and tenderness. Flowers are her deepest ally and main medium, working between the land as a regenerative flower farmer and her community as florist, event designer, and installation artist. She is currently co-stewarding the Black Oregon Land Trust and is the Director of Arts and Culture with the Center for Study and Preservation of Palestine.
*The artists grapple with an appropriate way to name their locations amidst the ongoing legacies of harm to land and people by colonialist projects. Farahat and Saleem are two of the co-founders of the SWANA Rose Culture and Community Center.
DATE Sept. 19, 20, 21 at 6:00 PM
LOCATION PICA Annex, 15 NE Hancock Street
TICKET Sliding scale $20, $35, $50
RUN TIME 30 min performance / Approx. 40 min film CAPACITY 115
Portland, OR
Osten Cetto : Four Snakes
World Premiere
Within Osten Cetto : Four Snakes, Olivia and Celeste Camfield explore the relationships between the body and shapes through tattoos, movement, and Mvskoke symbols. The film’s live noise score and dance utilize the repetition and layered imagery of the choreography and the film to create an immersive viewing experience. By offering movement to ancestors past and future, the sisters navigate how shape is translated between forms, such as sound, body, and film. Throughout the performance, the film acts as a landscape: the place and history that contextualizes this work, creates our stories, and holds our memories. At the center of the piece is the connection between two sisters, which propels forward to examine relations beyond colonial perception. The Alien then appears as a form of relation to the stars. This performance will be accompanied by a film screening programmed in partnership with COUSIN Collective and featuring films from Fox Maxy, Kite, Woodrow Hunt, and Olivia Camfield with their collaborator Celeste Camfield.
Olivia Camfield is a multimedia movement artist of the Muscogee Nation. Their work finds connection to dance as body horror, tattooing as protection spells, and farming as Queer Indigenous Futurism. Their work includes themes of the Alien as kin, time traveling relatives, and Mvskoke lifeways in experimental forms.
Celeste Camfield is a mixed Muscogee artist working in the mediums of movement, film, and food. She creates and performs project-based, experimental, and site-specific dance and film work. She is the co-founder of Preheat Fest, a screendance festival based in Austin, Texas.
Woodrow Hunt is a Klamath, Modoc, and Cherokee artist. His film practice is focused on documentary and experimental forms. His experimental work explores the functions and relationship between digital video and memory.
Access notes: This event has high sound levels. Earplugs will be available.
Olivia Camfield, Celeste Camfield, Woodrow Hunt
Olivia Camfield, Celeste Camfield, Woodrow Hunt
Olivia Camfield, Celeste Camfield, Woodrow Hunt
Camfield, Celeste Camfield, Woodrow Hunt
DATE Sept. 19, 20, 21 at 8:00 PM
LOCATION PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street
TICKET Sliding scale $20, $35, $50
RUN TIME 3 hr CAPACITY 300
New York, NY
NOTHING#15: a bar
Pacific Northwest Premiere
Autumn Knight’s performances create spaces for intimacy between audience and performer. Her series NOTHING#15: a bar, a bed, a bluff is a three part investigation of the Italian concept of “dolce far niente," or “the sweetness of doing nothing.” In its Pacific Northwest premiere, NOTHING#15: a bar is a social experiment that transforms PICA’s warehouse space into a host club, where a multitude of performers take on the task of provoking desire and exchanging acts of care with audience members. Through various modes of interaction, the work explores and initiates transient moments of connection between strangers. The succeeding two works in this suite, NOTHING#15: a bed, and NOTHING#15: a bluff, will premiere at PICA in the fall of 2024.
Autumn Knight (b. Houston, TX) is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist working with performance, installation, video, sound, and text. Drawing from her training in theater, group dynamics, and psychology, Knight makes performances that reshape power structures and upend audience expectations of live experiences. Her performance work has been on view at various institutions, including Human Resources, Los Angeles; Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Shedhalle, Zurich; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, OR; The Kitchen, New York; Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; Museum Ostwall, Dortmund; Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY; Performance Space New York, NY; and REDCAT, Los Angeles. Her performance work, WALL, is the first live performance work acquired to the permanent collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Knight is the recipient of various awards, grants, honors, and fellowships, including an Art Matters Grant, the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, the Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize in Visual Art, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Access notes: This performance may feature flashing lights. A National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project. Co-commissioned by Performance Space New York, REDCAT, PICA, and NPN.
DATE Sept. 20 at 7:00 PM, Sept. 21 at 2:00 PM and 7:00 PM
LOCATION Winningstad Theatre, P-5, 1111 SW Broadway
TICKET Sliding scale $20, $35, $50
RUN TIME 90 min CAPACITY 275
Manchester, UK
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
Co-presented with Boom Arts
An investigation into the nature of investigation, with the unsolved murder of a pop icon at its center…
It’s the 1970s and Fereydoun Farrokhzad’s star is blazing bright. He’s a sex symbol and chart-topping pop singer— imagine an Iranian Tom Jones. A decade on, he’s living in political exile in Germany, though still performing to sold-out audiences across Europe.
On August 7, 1992, he’s found brutally murdered. The neighbors say his dogs had been barking for two nights.
The Javaad Alipoor Company (TJAC) is a contemporary theater company that makes work for a changing world and a global audience. Rooted in experimental and multiplatform practice, their work asks the most pressing questions we all face. With a commitment to internationalism, complexity, diversity, and fun, they make work for the twenty-first century, transforming what people think theater can be and what it can do.
Access notes: This work references violence and murder and features strobe lighting and haze.
Supported by Horizon.
The Javaad Alipoor Company, Co-Produced with Riverside's National Theatre Parramatta
The Javaad Alipoor Company, Co-Produced with Riverside's National Theatre of Parramatta
The Javaad Alipoor Company, Co-Produced with Riverside's National Theatre of Parramatta
The Javaad Alipoor Company, Co-Produced with Riverside's National Theatre of Parramatta
The Javaad Alipoor Company, Co-Produced with Riverside's National Theatre of Parramatta
DATE Sept. 22 at 4:00 PM
LOCATION PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street
TICKET $20
RUN TIME 3 hrs CAPACITY 300
Portland, OR
Good Dang Weekend is a fundraiser for Elbow Room, featuring Kye Alive as your host and bingo caller. Guests are invited to play bingo for fantastic prizes before an inclusive dance party closes TBA:24. Proceeds benefit Elbow Room, a nonprofit community art studio and gallery space dedicated to supporting artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities, cultivating artistic practice, creative voice, collaboration, and agency in the context of community and contemporary art. Come out to celebrate Elbow Room artists and the Videotones digital media collective, whose work is featured in TBA:24 in the experimental survey exhibition Outside Inside World (page 18). Dress to impress! Please wear a mask.
Founded in 2020, Elbow Room is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community art studio and gallery dedicated to supporting artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities. More than 30 participating artists visit Elbow Room’s SE Portland studio (and satellite community art programming) each week to develop their creative practice, experiment with new materials, cultivate their portfolio of finished artwork, and to build community through friendship and collaboration. Elbow Room provides art materials and mentorship in painting, drawing, creative writing, sewing, digital media/video, music, hand tool woodworking, ceramics, and many other forms of artmaking. Participating artists pay no out-of-pocket expenses for materials or studio access, and they have opportunities to show and sell their work through Elbow Room’s gallery and through Elbow Room’s efforts to network with other contemporary art spaces.
Access notes: Masking is encouraged. Complimentary masks will be provided at the door.
Institute is a series of free public events that bridge the gap between artists and audiences through discussions, workshops, and critical discourses.
This year's program highlights include conversations with Linda K. Johnson and Chisao Hata, Susan Banyas, Robin Lane, and Joan Findlay; Sam Hamilton's Te Moana Meridian Conference, and a dialogue featuring Javaad Alipoor and Autumn Knight. Through Institute, artists delve into their creative journeys and shared experiences, illuminating how they interact with the broader social, political, cultural, and aesthetic issues that influence their work.
Please refer to pica.org/tba for specific information about each event, accessibility, and other details.
Note that a few events require pre-registration, with instructions provided on the event’s webpage.
DATE Sept. 7 at 11:00 AM (intermission at 12:30 PM)
LOCATION PICA Annex, 15 NE Hancock Street
TICKET Free
RUN TIME 3 hrs CAPACITY 115
Chinook land, Portland, OR
Te Moana Meridian Conference
Co-presented with Boom Arts Conference participants include Sam Hamilton; Cristina Lara, Confederated Tribes of Grande Ronde; Dr. Lana Lopesi, Assistant Professor of Indigenous Race and Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon; Alyshia Macaysa, Executive Director, Oregon Pacific Islander Coalition; Ataahua Papa, Auckland Arts Festival; Bogosi Sekhukhuni; and Hunter Shobe, Associate Professor of Geography, Portland State University. Moderated by Jason N. Le, Curatorial Fellow, PICA.
Te Moana Meridian Conference is the ongoing public program counterpart to the experimental opera Te Moana Meridian, which centers around a speculative United Nations General Assembly Resolution to formally relocate the international prime meridian from the UK to Te Moananui-ā-Kiwa/the South Pacific Ocean. Te Moana Meridian Conference submits the UN policy proposal to rigorous critical debate by a diverse range of thought leaders across the fields of art, culture, science, politics, history, and advocacy. This event at PICA will be the third such convening, following an inaugural conference held in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2022 with Artspace and Vā Moana Pacific Spaces.
As Te Moana Meridian Conference continues to bring in fresh perspectives to collectively map, consider, and network the vast political, cultural, and technological issues that transect the prime meridian, the project seeks to build the deliberative body necessary to explore the question: How can we construct a means of collectively calibrating time and space that genuinely benefits the global commons?
Sam Hamilton (Sam Tam Ham) is an independent, working class, interdisciplinary artist from Aotearoa New Zealand of Pākehā (English settler colonial) descent, based in Portland, OR.
After 20 years of working independently and professionally across experimental music and sound art, moving and still image, painting, writing, performance, stage, cinema, and curatorial projects, Hamilton's practice today operates more like an ecology than a discipline. A messy but verdant garden full of old and new growth, hidden places, edible arrangements, toxic weeds, garden parties, frolicking, and most importantly, the lifeaffirming ferment of deep existential entanglement.
What physically emerges in any given season through the confluence of this garden depends most simply on what vessel(s) best serve the idea at hand.
The long song a meandering garden path Both an entrance and an exit
Access notes: Live captioning will be available. Funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council.
Ancestral lands of the Indigenous tribal nations of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers, Portland, OR
future
Long-Form Archival Conversations with Portland Dance Artists
TICKETS Free RUN TIME Approx. 110 min, incl. all-level experience
Mycelium Dreams is an ongoing, durational dance cartography and interview project initiated in 2022 by Portland dance and transdisciplinary artist Linda K. Johnson. Archival in nature, the PASTfuture interview component of the project is intent on creating an inclusive, nonhierarchical oral record of the stories of artists in the Portland community who have committed their life’s work to the field of dance.
Linda K. Johnson is an Oregon and Portland native. For over four decades, she has been deeply influential in the maturation of dance in the Northwest region, contributing as a maker, performer, academic, somatic educator, mentor, curator, and arts administrator. Her interdisciplinary choreographic work has been presented by PICA, On the Boards, The Art Gym at Marylhurst University, and ORLO, among many others. Nationally, she is honored to be one of six custodians of Yvonne Rainer's seminal postmodern work, Trio A. Johnson has participated in residencies at Sitka, Yaddo, Caldera Arts, and the Rauschenberg Artist Residency at Captiva, and is one of 12 featured artists in the 2015 monograph by Kristin Timkin The New Explorers, which includes a forward by Lucy R. Lippard.
DATE Sept. 14 at 10:00 AM
LOCATION PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street
CAPACITY 75
This panel exchange is about methods, practices, and perspectives for preserving the history of dance and contemporary performance with PICA Curatorial Fellow Jason N. Le, artist Linda K. Johnson, and guests.
Linda K. Johnson In Conversation with Chisao Hata
DATE Sept. 14 at 11:00 AM
LOCATION PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street
CAPACITY 75
Linda K. Johnson In Conversation with Susan Banyas
DATE Sept. 15 at 11:00 AM
LOCATION Dekum Street Theater, 814 NE Dekum Street
CAPACITY 85
Linda K. Johnson In Conversation with Robin Lane
DATE Sept. 21 at 11:00 AM
LOCATION FLOCK Dance Center, 2516 NW 29th Avenue, #60
CAPACITY 32, Reservations are recommended.
Linda K. Johnson In Conversation with Joan Findlay
DATE Sept. 22 at 11:00 AM
LOCATION Performance Works NorthWest, 4625 SE 67th Avenue
CAPACITY 50
Access notes: All conversation sites are ADA accessible. Supported in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council.
DATE Sept. 21 at 11:00 AM
LOCATION PICA Annex, 15 NE Hancock Street
TICKET Free
RUN TIME 60 min CAPACITY 115
Manchester, UK / New York, NY
On September 21, join TBA:24 artists Javaad Alipoor and Autumn Knight for a free-moving conversation moderated by PICA’s Curatorial Fellow, Jason N. Le.
Though formally very different, Alipoor and Knight’s respective works in the Festival—Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World and NOTHING#15: a bar—similarly draw from their backgrounds in theater, which they use in unconventional and surprising ways to investigate our understanding of truth and the nature of investigation itself. Each artist creates meta-performances with humor, wit, and an expansive vision of what performance can be.
Both TBA and Creative Exchange Lab alumni, Alipoor and Knight will be meeting for the first time at TBA:24.
The Javaad Alipoor Company (TJAC) is a contemporary theater company that makes work for a changing world and a global audience. Rooted in experimental and multiplatform practice, their work asks the most pressing questions we all face. With a commitment to internationalism, complexity, diversity, and fun, they make work for the twenty-first century, transforming what people think theater can be and what it can do.
Autumn Knight (b. Houston, TX) is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist working with performance, installation, video, sound, and text. Drawing from her training in theater, group dynamics, and psychology, Knight makes performances that reshape power structures and upend audience expectations of live experiences. Her performance work has been on view at various institutions, including Human Resources, Los Angeles; Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Shedhalle, Zurich; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, OR; The Kitchen, New York; Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; Museum Ostwall, Dortmund; Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY; Performance Space New York, NY; and REDCAT, Los Angeles. Her performance work, WALL, is the first live performance work acquired to the permanent collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Knight is the recipient of various awards, grants, honors, and fellowships, including an Art Matters Grant, the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, the Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize in Visual Art, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Javaad Alipoor and Autumn Knight
Javaad Alipoor and Autumn Knight
Javaad Alipoor and Autumn Knight
Javaad Alipoor and Autumn Knight
Javaad Alipoor and Autumn Knight
Alipoor and Autumn Knight
BEFORE & AFTER BEFORE & AFTER BEFORE & AFTER BEFORE & AFTER
Part beer garden, part happy hour, and part afterparty, BEFORE & AFTER is an opportunity to come together with the TBA:24 community at PICA.
These dedicated gatherings bookend the Festival experience with a blend of celebration, conversation, and decompression, offering space to grab a drink or a bite before the first performance of the day, or cap off the evening after daily events have wrapped up. With a variety of food and drink options to explore, BEFORE & AFTER is more than a pit stop—it's a time to deepen your connections and extend the magic of TBA.
TICKET Free
DATE TIME
Sept. 6 4:00 PM
Sept. 7 4:00 PM
Sept. 8 4:00 PM
DATE TIME
Sept. 12 5:00 PM
Sept. 13 5:00 PM
Sept. 14* 4:00 PM
DATE TIME
Sept. 19 4:00 PM
Sept. 20 4:00 PM
Sept. 21 4:00 PM
Each Happy Hour features special guests who kick things off with a short toast on a specific theme, offering unique insights and sparking engaging conversations—all relevant to the day's programmatic lineup. Whether you're a longtime festival goer or new to TBA, Happy Hours provide a relaxed and welcoming environment to mingle, discuss, and connect. Join us at PICA for Happy Hour and expand your TBA Festival journey, starting with a toast! LOCATION PICA, 15 NE
Welcome to Happy Hour, the before of TBA's BEFORE & AFTER series! Held prior to the day's first performance, Happy Hours are the perfect prelude to an evening of artistic experiences, centered around tasty drinks, bites, and good conversation.
* The Happy Hour on September 14 will feature a performance by Yelling Choir entitled What will contain us?, directed by Maxx Katz. Learn more about Yelling Choir on page 68.
DATE Sept. 7 at 9:00 PM
LOCATION PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street
TICKET Sliding scale $10, $20, $50
CAPACITY 300
Portland, OR
Club Alive hosted by Kye Alive
Rave meets experimental late-night talk show at Club Alive, a multidisciplinary queer performance party that promises to make you feel A-L-I-V-E. Hosted by Portland performance artist Kye Alive (also known as pop fantasy persona Jennifer Vanilla), Club Alive brings together DJs, musical acts, dance performances, live interviews, dramatic entrances, group experiments, and bizarro house band Special Permission (featuring local musician Wolfgang Black) for an unpredictable celebration of crowd power. Attendees are saying: “I felt comfortable at Club Alive,” “I kissed a stranger at Club Alive,” and "Club Alive is as reliable as Mr. Rogers." Come to the party and find out just how alive you’re willing to be.
Kye Kauffman Grant (Kye Alive) is a Portland-based artist, performer, and voice actor working in experiential and collaborative social art forms. They use their training in theater, voice, dance, and music to devise participatory public events that deepen our relationships to place and to one another. Projects have taken the form of a pedestrian parade with fifth grade school crossing guards, Master Cactus audio cassette magazine, the open invitation dance ensemble Public Acts of Dance Company, a 40-person mall walk in a Portland shopping center, a Queens public access TV show, and the entrepreneurial fantasy vessel Jennifer Vanilla. Their performance work has brought them to MoMA PS1, Queens; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Portland; Apollo Theater, New York; and hundreds of other venues across the US, Europe, and Japan. Grant received an MFA in Art + Social Practice from Portland State University and currently produces Planet Lloyd, a free newspaper about the Lloyd Center Mall. Find them at their monthly performance party, Club Alive
DATE Sept. 13 at 9:00 PM
LOCATION PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street
TICKET Sliding scale $10, $20, $50
RUN TIME Approx. 60 min / Dancing until dead CAPACITY 300
Portland, OR
Carla Rossi’s Queer Horrors
Queer horror isn’t a subgenre; it is the genre. Founded in 2015, Queer Horror is the only LGBTQ+ horror screening and performance series in the country—and now it’s a party! Carla Rossi’s Queer Horrors presents short horror films intercut with live (or undead?) drag performances from Portland’s finest ghouls, all curated and introduced by Carla Rossi via video. Featuring an artist market led by Jason Edward Davis, psychic readings, and culminating in a dance party hosted by Pepper Pepper—complete with a Friday the 13th costume contest—Carla Rossi’s Queer Horrors is guaranteed to be a scream.
Anthony Hudson is a Grand Ronde/Siletz artist and writer also known as Carla Rossi, Portland's premier drag clown. Hudson’s performance work—from his award-winning solo show Looking for Tiger Lily to Queer Horror at the Hollywood Theatre—has earned him national fellowships, international engagements including the US Pavilion’s drag clown in residence at the 2024 Venice Biennale, features in Hyperallergic and Art in America, and sainthood from the Portland Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. A 2023 FSG Writer’s Fellowship finalist and 2024 Tin House resident, Hudson’s writing has appeared in American Theatre, BOMB Magazine, and Arts and International Affairs. Hudson is currently adapting Looking for Tiger Lily into a book.
Access notes: Potential strobing, death and destruction.
Age recommendation: 18+
Queer Horror is a program of the Hollywood Theatre, Portland’s historic movie palace.
DATE Sept. 14 at 4:00 PM
LOCATION PICA, 15 NE Hancock Street
TICKET Free
RUN TIME Approx. 30 min CAPACITY 300
Portland, OR
What will contain us?
Director: Maxx Katz
Choir members: Wolfgang Black, Muffie Delgado Connelly, Diana Marcela Cuartas, Megita Denton, crow lauren jean, Diana Oropeza, Leona, Patricia Vázquez Gómez, and Danielle Ross
Yelling Choir is a performance process that reimagines voice, presence, and power. Created by Maxx Katz, the Choir is a vehicle for experimental relational technology, using play, somatic awareness, and vocal practice to reform the psychosocial basis of community relationships. Performances are collaborative compositions that call for a socially aware aesthetic of listening and seeing, which frames the social relationship as a moving element of the internal composition of the piece. Recent choirs have been composed of women, femme, and nonbinary participants.
Yelling Choir shares the immediate, visceral experience of having a voice, both sonically and creatively. We love to yell— and we also explore other sounds, extended vocal techniques, movement, and improvisation. We explore getting big, taking up space, allowing a full spectrum of emotions—from joy to rage to boredom to delight, and everything in between—in an emotionally regulated and supported way.
Maxx Katz is an artist, composer, and performer based in Portland, OR, whose work draws on vocabulary from performance art, free improvisation, jazz, contemporary classical, and heavy metal. A classically trained flutist with an MA in Music from the University of Virginia, Katz uses flute, electric guitar, voice, and movement as instruments of radical transformation. Katz was a resident at the 2019 Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music with Vijay Iyer and Tyshawn Sorey, and at the Atlantic Center for the Arts with flutist Nicole Mitchell. They compose work for ongoing projects including Yelling Choir and Floom.
Access notes: There will be yelling.
Where is the Box Office?
From August 5 through September 22, the Box Office can be reached by email at boxoffice@pica.org or by phone at (503) 224-PICA (7422). The Box Office will be open every day of the Festival via email or phone. Box Office staff will be available in-person one hour before each event.
How do I buy a TBA:24 pass?
You can buy a TBA:24 pass from our website at pica.org/tba, by emailing the Box Office at boxoffice@pica.org, or by calling (503) 224-PICA.
Do I need a pass to attend TBA:24?
No. You can purchase individual tickets for each event, or you can buy a pass for varying levels of Festival access.
Pass Levels:
Patron Pass (All Access + VIP) - $500
Full Pass - $300
One-Weekend Pass - $100
What does my pass include?
Patron Pass (All Access + VIP) - $500 ($250 tax-deductible)
Includes priority admission to all performances, entry to a special VIP event, festival concierge service, and full access to exhibitions and TBA:24 programs. Plus, a donation to PICA in support of TBA.
Full Pass - $300
Includes admission to all performances and full access to TBA:24 exhibitions and programs. Reservations are required for all ticketed programs. Please email the Box Office at boxoffice@pica.org to make reservations.
One-Weekend Pass - $100
Includes access to all performances either during Weekend 1 (Sept. 5–8), or Weekend 2 (Sept. 12–15), or Weekend 3 (Sept. 19–22) of TBA. Reservations are required for all ticketed programs. Please email the Box Office at boxoffice@pica.org to make reservations.
Do I need reservations if I have a pass?
Reservations are required for all ticketed programs regardless of pass purchase. To RVSP to a TBA:24 event, click the Google Form link in your emailed receipt.
Is anything “Off Pass”?
Yes. Tickets to Elbow Room’s Good Dang Weekend is “off pass” and must be purchased separately. Please see pica.org/tba for details on each event, or contact the TBA Box Office by email at boxoffice@pica.org or call (503) 224-PICA.
What if I arrive late for a show?
As a general rule, there is no late seating. All shows begin promptly and as listed. For performances at PICA, you must check in no later than 15 minutes before curtain to ensure seating, even with a pass reservation.
If I reserve a seat for an in-person performance at PICA does my child get in for free?
Children may attend for free if they can sit on your lap. Otherwise, you will need to reserve an additional seat. Please note while we welcome children and babies, we may have to ask you to wait in the lobby if there is any disturbance to the live performance. Which shows are appropriate for children?
Can I bring my family?
PICA supports freedom of speech for artists and the right of audiences to choose what they see and hear. Due to the immediate nature of live performance, we cannot prescreen all works for content. However, if you have specific concerns or questions, our Box Office staff can suggest guidance on shows. Goner by Marikiscrycrycry is recommended for viewers age 16 and over. Carla Rossi’s Queer Horrors has an age recommendation of 18 and over.
Can you refund or exchange my pass?
All ticket and pass sales are final. There are no refunds or exchanges. In the event that we need to cancel/postpone a show due to unforeseen circumstances, we will still pay our artists and crew as promised. PICA is committed to paying artists and crew for scheduled performances. In the case of a cancellation or postponement, we ask audiences to please consider the cost of their pass as a donation to support fair wages, rather than requesting a refund. That said, if you would prefer to have your pass purchase refunded, you can contact the Box Office at boxoffice@pica.org or call (503) 224-PICA, and a Box Office representative will be happy to assist you.
Are TBA:24 events accessible?
PICA is committed to accessibility as a value, ethic, and opportunity for learning, growth, and change. As we strive to create greater access to our programs and events, including the TBA Festival, we welcome dialogue with audiences and artists about their experiences and suggestions for improvement. To inform TBA staff of access needs, make requests for services, or offer feedback on our approach to access, please contact the TBA Box Office at boxoffice@pica.org or (503) 224-PICA.
PICA strives to remain considerate of our staff, artists, and guests with varying levels of vulnerability, safety, and comfort. In this spirit, masks are recommended for TBA events. Anyone experiencing or exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19, cold, flu, etc., or who has been exposed to illness is kindly asked to stay home.
PICA is located in the Boise-Eliot neighborhood of Northeast Portland. We are close to bus lines 4, 6, 17, and 44. Stops for the A Loop and B Loop Streetcar are approximately 0.3 miles from our building. The nearest MAX station is Rose Quarter Transit Center, which is approximately 0.5 miles away. On-street parking is available. Please be aware that PICA is in a residential area and, therefore, ask that all of our guests, staff, and audience members treat our neighborhood and neighbors, housed and unhoused, with the utmost respect.
Have questions?
We are here to help! Email boxoffice@pica.org or call (503) 224-PICA.
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PICA is the creative economy in action. By becoming a corporate sponsor, you declare your business to be a cultural leader. Your crucial support helps PICA fund artist residences and commissions, subsidize free programs, engage in civic dialogue with the community, and continue to bring leading-edge contemporary art to Portland.
Benefits of sponsorship include: connecting with PICA’s community of vibrant art enthusiasts, who embrace innovation and exploration; unique and memorable experiences with contemporary art for your staff and clients; invitations to exclusive sponsor receptions; acknowledgment listings in printed materials, on donor walls, and on the PICA website; and invitations to year-round visiting and resident artist events.
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art receives support from the Oregon Arts Commission, a state agency funded by the State of Oregon, and the National Endowment for the Arts. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit arts.gov.
Funders and Sponsors
This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Additional funding provided by the Regional Arts & Culture Council, including support from the City of Portland, Multnomah County, and the Arts Education and Access Fund (AEAF).
Jakob Dawahare
Graphic Designer
Erté deGarces
Programs and Facilities Manager
Erin Boberg Doughton
Artistic Director and Curator of Performance
Arminda Gandara
Grant Writer
Molly Gardner
Production Manager
Jeff Hu
Facilities Lead
Kristan Kennedy
Artistic Director and Curator of Visual Art
Samantha Ollstein
Development Manager
Van Pham
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Programs Manager
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Executive Director
Ashley Schmidt Development Consultant
Jamie Townsend
Director of Development
Leslie Vigeant
Director of Marketing and Communications
Many thanks to Roya Amirsoleymani and Victoria Frey
TBA:24 Staff
Ali Gradischer
Social Media
Jason N. Le
Curatorial Fellow
Jake Powell
Bar Manager
Jayne Pugh
Marketing Support and Copy Editor
Crimson Ravarra
Artist Services Coordinator
Emma Wiseman
Graphic Designer
TBA:24 Production Staff
Rory Breshears
John Foster Cartwright
Alan Cline Saibi Khalsa
Al Knight-Blaine
Nathan Norris
Teddy Overalls PICA Board of Directors
Courtney Dailey | Chair
Emily Fusaro | Vice Chair
André Middleton | Secretary
Kevin Washington | Treasurer
Andrew Dickson
Phoebe Ebright
bart fitzgerald
Allie Furlotti
Peter Gronquist
Lynne Bredfeldt Haider
Shelly Kapoor
Shawna Lipton
Cristi Miles
Master Artist Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr.
Norman Armour
Peter Keller
Winnie Z Kennedy
John Montague
Georgiana Pickett
Naomi Pomeroy
Pope.L
Peter Simensky
John Shipley
Special Thanks
Roya Amirsoleymani
Nina Amstutz and David Menschel
Bill Boese
Victoria Frey
Allie Furlotti
Shir Grisanti
Michael Gubitosa
Jeanine Jablonski
Stephanie Snyder
Thank You
Thank you also to Shir Grisanti, Lucinda Carmichael, Mariko Fukuyama
Clark, Britt Howard, Lisa Jarrett, Mira Kaddoura, Kristin Bremer Moore, Jenny Chu, Jill Sherman, and Jeanie Lai for their recent board service. Your support, time, and generosity are greatly appreciated, and your impact is ongoing.
Our sincere thanks to the TBA:24 Box Office Staff and Front of House Staff.
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THURSDAY, SEPT. 5
TIME PROGRAM LOCATION
5:00 PM Opening Night Videotones Outside Inside World 511 Gallery at PNCA
6:00 PM First Thursday Various Locations
FRIDAY, SEPT. 6
TIME PROGRAM LOCATION
4:00 PM Happy Hour PICA
6:00 PM Ahamefule J. Oluo The Things Around Us PICA
7:00 PM Sam Hamilton Te Moana Meridian
Portland Art Museum
8:00 PM Anna Martine Whitehead FORCE! an opera in three acts Winningstad Theatre
8:00 PM Morgan Bassichis Can I Be Frank? PICA Annex
SATURDAY, SEPT. 7
TIME PROGRAM LOCATION
11:00 AM Sam Hamilton Te Moana Meridian Conference PICA Annex
2:00 PM Anna Martine Whitehead FORCE! an opera in three acts Winningstad Theatre
4:00 PM Happy Hour PICA
6:00 PM Ahamefule J. Oluo The Things Around Us PICA
7:00 PM Sam Hamilton Te Moana Meridian
Portland Art Museum
8:00 PM Morgan Bassichis Can I Be Frank? PICA Annex
8:00 PM Anna Martine Whitehead FORCE! an opera in three acts Winningstad Theatre
9:00 PM After Party Kye Alive Club Alive PICA
SUNDAY, SEPT. 8
TIME PROGRAM LOCATION
2:00 PM Sam Hamilton Te Moana Meridian Portland Art Museum
2:00 PM Ahamefule J. Oluo The Things Around Us PICA
4:00 PM Happy Hour PICA
6:00 PM Morgan Bassichis Can I Be Frank? PICA Annex
MONDAY, SEPT. 9
TIME PROGRAM LOCATION
7:00 PM Sam Hamilton Te Moana Meridian Portland Art Museum
THURSDAY, SEPT. 12
TIME PROGRAM LOCATION
5:00 PM Happy Hour PICA
7:00 PM Marikiscrycrycry Goner PICA Annex
FRIDAY, SEPT. 13
TIME PROGRAM LOCATION
5:00 PM Jess Perlitz Reductions of Mountains Eric V. Hauser Memorial Library at Reed College
5:00 PM Sarah Gilbert and Pato Hebert Tender Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College
5:00 PM Happy Hour PICA
7:00 PM Marikiscrycrycry Goner PICA Annex
9:00 PM After Party
Anthony Hudson/Carla Rossi
Carla Rossi’s Queer Horrors PICA
SATURDAY, SEPT. 14
TIME PROGRAM LOCATION
10:00 AM Institute
Linda K. Johnson and Guests Embodied Archiving: Why and How? PICA
11:00 AM Institute
Linda K. Johnson In Conversation with Chisao Hata PICA
4:00 PM Happy Hour
Yelling Choir by Maxx Katz What will contain us? PICA
6:00 PM Timothy Yanik Hunter Granular Synthesis PICA Annex
8:00 PM JJJJJerome Ellis Aster of Ceremonies PICA
SUNDAY, SEPT. 15
TIME PROGRAM LOCATION
11:00 AM Institute
Linda K. Johnson In Conversation with Susan Banyas Dekum Street Theater
12:00 PM Picnic and conversation with Jess Perlitz Eric V. Hauser Memorial Library at Reed College
6:00 PM Sarah Farahat and Alexandria Saleem Teta’s Tea PICA
THURSDAY, SEPT. 19
TIME PROGRAM LOCATION
4:00 PM Happy Hour PICA
6:00 PM Olivia Camfield, Celeste Camfield, and Woodrow Hunt Osten Cetto : Four Snakes PICA Annex
8:00 PM Autumn Knight NOTHING#15: a bar PICA
FRIDAY, SEPT. 20
TIME PROGRAM LOCATION
4:00 PM Happy Hour PICA
6:00 PM Olivia Camfield, Celeste Camfield, and Woodrow Hunt
Osten Cetto : Four Snakes PICA Annex
7:00 PM The Javaad Alipoor Company
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World Winningstad Theatre
8:00 PM Autumn Knight NOTHING#15: a bar PICA
SATURDAY, SEPT. 21
TIME PROGRAM LOCATION
11:00 AM Institute Javaad Alipoor and Autumn Knight PICA Annex
11:00 AM Institute
Linda K. Johnson In Conversation with Robin Lane FLOCK Dance Center
2:00 PM The Javaad Alipoor Company Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World Winningstad Theatre
4:00 PM Happy Hour PICA
6:00 PM Olivia Camfield, Celeste Camfield, and Woodrow Hunt
Osten Cetto : Four Snakes PICA Annex
7:00 PM The Javaad Alipoor Company Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World Winningstad Theatre
8:00 PM Autumn Knight NOTHING#15: a bar PICA
9:00 PM After Party TBA:24 Closing Party PICA
SUNDAY, SEPT. 22
TIME PROGRAM LOCATION
11:00 AM Institute
Linda K. Johnson In Conversation with Joan Findlay Performance Works NorthWest
4:00 PM Elbow Room Good Dang Weekend PICA
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