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A Note from ANGELA MATTOX,
PICA artistic director
Welcome to the 11th edition of PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival! We invite you to
join us for this unique moment in time, this annual community ritual of discovery and exchange. Our intent is to build an immersive platform that celebrates
creativity and imagination, where artistic risk-taking and new experiences
are embraced.
TBA foregrounds artists who illuminate our current moment, who challenge
artistic and cultural assumptions and expand our perspectives. This year’s
projects take a personal approach and examine the intersections of art and real
life. What does it mean to stage truth? We sought out disarmingly honest works,
from Lola Arias’ documentary theater look at recent Chilean history, to lighting
designer Itai Erdal’s generous, stripped-down story of loss and acceptance.
Curating this year’s Festival has been an extraordinary journey that spanned
global travels and explored the diverse creativity right here in Portland. But it’s
not just a matter of bringing artists from Morocco, Algeria, Sweden, Argentina,
and across the US—we want for you to meet them and engage with their work.
This Festival includes more opportunities for intimacy and connection, ranging
from performances that envelop the senses, to an expanded Institute program
of workshops, discussions, screenings, and guided “flights” exploring subjects
like the legacy of Judson or contemporary choreography from Africa.
Whether this is your first experience at TBA or you’ve been with us since 2003,
we thank you for your curiosity. While the Festival only lasts for a finite moment,
we hope that these experiences create rich, enduring memories and provoke
lingering questions. TBA is not a moment to shy away from taking risks; it is a
chance to embrace the unknown. The Festival is a place for disrupting the norm,
for openings and new possibilities. It’s a meeting point of diverse cultures and
perspectives, where artists and audiences converge from around the world.
How can we be changed through these artistic experiences? The artists at TBA
offer one way forward, guiding us to a more open culture, where multiplicity and
opposing viewpoints can flourish.
2013 TIME-BASED ART FESTIVAL
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art presents the 11th annual Time-Based
Art Festival, September 12–22, 2013, featuring dozens of emerging talents and
legacy artists from around the world. Visual installations and live performances
fill out theaters, temporary galleries, and unexpected spaces on both sides of
the river, activating the city of Portland with art and energy. The Festival
champions the explorations and experiments of artists working across and
outside traditional boundaries and encourages the curiosity of our audiences.
From morning workshops, to afternoon salons and talks, to evening shows and
late-night happenings, TBA is an all-hours forum for new ideas and experiences.
PORTLAND
INSTITUTE FOR
CONTEMPORARY
ART
Since 1995, PICA 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 visual and performing art backgrounds and embraces
those individuals who exist at the borders of mediums and ideas. Through artist
residencies and exhibitions, lectures and workshops, and the annual TBA Festival,
PICA constructs a broad platform for contemporary art.
TBA:12 AUDIENCES OUTSIDE OF THE BOX OFFICE. PHOTO: WAYNE BUND
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THREE WAYS
TO GET PASSES
& TICKETS
1. GO TO WWW.PICA.ORG/PROGRAMS/TBA
Or click the “Buy Tickets” button on each performance page.
2. Call us at 503.224.PICA (7422)
Beginning August 20, 2013.
Box office hours apply.
3. Visit the TBA Box Office
TBA Central Box Office is located at 415 SW 10th Ave.
(yellow trailer on street)
Box office hours:
Aug 20–Sept 6, Tuesday–Friday, 12–6:00 p.m.
September 10–22, Daily, 12–6:00 p.m.
Take note: Day-of-show tickets are only available at each venue’s
box office 60 minutes before showtime. All purchases are
subject to service charges.
EXPERIENCE TBA WITH A FESTIVAL PASS
TBA passes offer the freedom and flexibility to see everything that’s happening,
while providing savings off individual ticket prices. Advance pass purchase is
recommended, as quantities are limited.
PATRON $500 ($250 tax-deductible)
Unlimited access to TBA, including one ticket each to Third Angle New Music
Ensemble and Meow Meow & Thomas Lauderdale with the Oregon Symphony,
and listing as a sponsor in our TBA:13 performance program.
IMMERSION $200 Members/$250 General
Entry to all performances, exhibits, Institute programs, and THE WORKS.
*Note: Does not include admission to Third Angle New Music Ensemble or
Meow Meow & Thomas Lauderdale with the Oregon Symphony.
FLEX $120 Members/$150 General
Choose up to six performances, plus full access to exhibits, Institute programs,
and THE WORKS. *Note: Does not include admission to Third Angle New Music
Ensemble or Meow Meow & Thomas Lauderdale with the Oregon Symphony.
WORKS $48 Members/$60 General
Ten days of late-night shows at THE WORKS. Discounts on individual performance
tickets and PICA merchandise. *Note: Does not include admission to main stage
performances at Con-Way.
VISITING PORTLAND?
Travelers receive special discounts on TBA passes and tickets.
Call the Box Office (503.224.PICA) for details. See page 130 for more
visitor resources.
FESTIVAL SPONSORS
SUPERHERO SPONSORS
MAJOR SPONSORS
LESLIE B. DURST
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
PRESENTING SPONSORS
MAJOR MEDIA SPONSORS
JAMES F. MILLER &
MARION L. MILLER
FOUNDATION
TRAVEL PARTNERS
TRAJAL HARRELL. PHOTO: MIANA JUN
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PERFORMANCE
CAMPO / Pieter Ampe & Guilherme Garrido
Lola Arias
Trajal Harrell, Made to Measure
Suniti Dernovsek & David Stein / bobbevy
Meow Meow & Thomas M. Lauderdale
Linda Austin & David Eckard
Trajal Harrell, Antigone Jr.
The Blow
Laura Arrington & Jesse Hewit
Third Angle New Music Ensemble
Mariano Pensotti
Miguel Gutierrez & The Powerful People
Bouchra Ouizguen
The Chop Theatre / Itai Erdal
Nacera Belaza, Le Trait & Le Temps Scellé
Daniel Barrow
Karen Sherman
Ivana Müller
Nacera Belaza, Le Cri
VISUAL ART
Curator’s Statement
Anna Craycroft
Alex Mackin Dolan
A.L. Steiner
Emily Roysdon
Andrew Ritchey
Krystal South
Sue Tompkins
Lucy Raven
Jamie Isenstein
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THE WORKS
Food & Drink at THE WORKS
Opening Night Dinner
The Julie Ruin
Peter Burr
Kaj-anne Pepper & Chanticleer Tru
Nick Hallett
Like a Villain
Getting to Know You(Tube)
Wishful Thinking
Ieva Miseviciute
DUBAIS
Alexandro Segade
Janka Nabay & The Bubu Gang
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INSTITUTE
TBA Conversations
Workshops
Institute Flights: Drag Balls & Judson Church
Institute Flights: Latin American Politics & Performance
Institute Flights: New Choreography From North Africa
Field Guide
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INFORMATION
FAQ
PICA & TBA Festival Supporters
Corporate Sponsorship
PICA Board & Leadership
PICA Membership
PICA Staff
TBA Festival Staff
Schedule Grid
Schedule Day-by-Day
Online Resources
Traveling to TBA
Venue List & Map
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BEL/POR
THEATER
CAMPO / Pieter Ampe &
Guilherme Garrido
Still Standing You
US PREMIERE
“To say that this contemporary dance piece is memorable
is an understatement: You can’t forget watching two
naked men manipulate each other’s penises in a game
of one-upmanship.” —The Globe and Mail
With a dance idiom entirely their own, Pieter Ampe
and Guilherme Garrido unflinchingly seek out what
they mean to each other. By turns hilarious, macho,
violent, and foolish, these two men put their bodies
to work discovering the different layers of their
physical complicity. Are they friends, partners,
lovers, rivals, or even enemies? Still Standing You
takes a complex view of friendship, in which
ruggedness, anger, and love are entwined in one
great physical and all-encompassing embrace.
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WINNINGSTAD THEATRE
PORTLAND CENTER FOR
THE PERFORMING ARTS
Fri, Sept 13, 6:30 p.m.
Sat, Sept 14, 6:30 p.m.
Running Time: 60 min
Seating Capacity: 250
$20 Members/$25 General
Guilherme Garrido is a Portuguese artist, dancer,
and musician. From 2007 to 2009, he was the
curator of Show Rooms at the Festival da Fábrica
in Porto. In 2011, he premiered his first solo work at
Fresh Festival in Croatia, and in 2012 he presented
his first group piece as choreographer in HAU,
Berlin. He has performed Still Standing You with
Ampe at Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, Festival
Transamerique in Montreal, and PuSH Festival in
Vancouver, BC.
campo.nu
PHOTO: PHILE DEPREZ
Pieter Ampe grew up in Belgium and studied at
the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, the
Arnhem Dance Academy, and P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels.
Together with Garrido, he has created and performed Still Difficult Duet (2007) and Still Standing
You (2010). In 2006, Ampe took part in danceWEB
at Vienna’s ImPulsTanz festival, and since 2009,
he has been an artist-in-residence at CAMPO.
ARG/CHI
THEATER
Lola Arias
El año en que nací
The Year I Was Born
US PREMIERE
“...it shakes you to the core [...] Recommended for all
generations – those of us who lived through those years,
those who saw our children in peril, and those who are
only now realizing that history is more than learning dates,
parrot style.” —La Segunda
Running Time: 120 min
Seating Capacity: 200
$20 Members/$25 General
Spanish with
English subtitles
Post-Show Talk
IMAGO
Sat, Sept 14, 6:30 p.m.
Artist Talk (pg. 89)
PICA
Sun, Sept 15, 12:30 p.m.
For more events on Lola
Arias, Mariano Pensotti,
and Latin American
theater, see pg. 98.
Eleven Chileans born under Pinochet’s dictatorship
take to the stage to reconstruct scenes from their
parents’ past and reconcile a collective history.
Somewhere between stunt doubles and historians,
they don their parents’ clothes and draw words from
photos, letters, and recordings in this raw and
honest act of storytelling. With the youthful energy
of a new generation, and bolstered by original live
music, the cast poetically performs truth on stage.
The Year I Was Born operates at the border of
reality and memory and the intersection of national
history and private stories.
Lola Arias is a writer, director, performer, and songwriter from Argentina. Her works include Striptease
(2007), El amor es un francotirador (2007), Mi vida
después (2009), Familienbande (2009), and That
Enemy Within (2010). Together with Ulises Conti,
she composes and plays music and has released
two albums. In 2010, Arias and Stefan Kaegi founded
Ciudades Paralelas, a festival of site-specific urban
performance projects in Berlin, Buenos Aires,
Warsaw, Zurich, and Singapore. Her performances
have been staged at festivals including Festival
d’Avignon, In Transit Festival in Berlin, Spielart
Festival in Munich, Alkantara Festival in Lisbon,
and Radicals Festival in Barcelona.
lolaarias.com.ar
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PHOTO: DAVID ALARCÓN
IMAGO THEATRE
Fri, Sept 13, 6:30 p.m.
Sat, Sept 14, 4:30 p.m.
Sun, Sept 15, 6:30 p.m.
US
DANCE
Trajal Harrell
CON-WAY
Fri, Sept 13, 8:30 p.m.
Sat, Sept 14, 8:30 p.m.
Running Time: 75 min
Seating Capacity: 250
$20 Members/$25 General
Artist Talk (pg. 89)
PICA
Sat, Sept 14, 12:30 p.m.
Field Guide Session (pg. 100)
Sat, Sept 14
Trajal Harrell, Antigone Jr.
(pg. 17)
CON-WAY
Sun, Sept 15, 6:00 p.m.
For more events on Trajal
Harrell, Judson Church,
and Harlem balls, see pg. 97.
“Restraint and minimalism can be just as sexy and
intriguing as vivacity and flair. Combined, they present
a seduction impossible to resist.” —The New York Times
What would have happened if one of the early
postmodern choreographers from Judson Church
had gone uptown to perform in the ball scene
in Harlem? In M2M, three dancers collide the
formalism and minimalism of postmodernism with
the flamboyance and performativity of voguing.
Layering these movements with the soaring and
powerful vocals of a gospel, Trajal Harrell repositions the influence of jazz, funk, and RnB on
postmodern dance, imagining a sweaty, ecstatic,
and beautiful new possibility on stage.
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Harrell’s work has been presented across the US at
venues including New York Live Arts, The Kitchen,
American Realness Festival, ICA Boston, Danspace
Project, Dance Theater Workshop, PS122, and
Walker Arts Center, and in visual art contexts such
as Performa, Fondation Cartier, MoMA PS1, The
New Museum, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and
Art Basel-Miami Beach, as well as galleries in Tokyo,
Berlin, and New York. Internationally, his work has
toured in France, Switzerland, Portugal, Japan,
Holland, Belgium, Austria, Germany, Poland, Croatia,
Brazil, and Mexico.
M2M is a co-production of Danspace Project for Platform 2012:
Judson@50, MoMA PS1, Hau Hebbel am Ufer, Tanz im August
Festival- Berlin. Residency support provided by Impulstanz Vienna
International Dance Festival. The commission is made possible by
MoMA’s Wallis Annenberg Fund for Innovation in Contemporary Art
through the Annenberg Foundation and by Danspace Project’s 20122013 Commissioning Initiative, which receives major support from the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
betatrajal.org
PHOTO: MIANA JUN
WEST COAST
PREMIERE
Judson Church is Ringing in Harlem
(Made-to-Measure)/Twenty Looks or Paris
is Burning at The Judson Church (M2M)
US
DANCE
Suniti Dernovsek &
David Stein / bobbevy
This is how we disappear
World
premierE
This is how we disappear examines the complexity,
frailty, and weight of human relationships in contrast with the fluid simplicity of the passage of time.
Two performers embody Suniti Dernovsek’s unique
movement vocabulary and are captured in their
actions by custom electronics, driving a real-time
response in sound and video. These elements blend
seamlessly to create a stylized and fantastical visual
landscape, caught in the persistent pull of time yet
defined by a journey that sets it utterly apart.
Running Time: 50 min
Seating Capacity: 150
$15 Members/$20 General
Choreographer Suniti Dernovsek and visual artist
David Stein began making work together in 2004
under the name Hot Little Hands, which, in 2011,
evolved into the Portland-based contemporary
dance company bobbevy. In addition to 18 shorter
works, Dernovsek and Stein have produced six
evening-length shows: This is how we disappear
(2013), Palace of Crystal (2011), ill-starred (2009),
Lawn of the Limp (2008), Avian Fable (2007), and
Marionette (2004). They have been presented by
Conduit Dance, Reed College Arts Week, Danspace
NYC, Velocity Dance Center, Northwest New Works
at On the Boards, Ten Tiny Dances’ South Waterfront Project, and PICA’s TBA Festival. They have
received several grants from the Regional Arts and
Culture Council, as well as the Dance New Work
Award from UWM.
This is how we disappear was funded in part by a 2012 Regional Arts
and Culture Project Grant.
bobbevy.com
PHOTO: LINDSEY RICKERT
BODYVOX
Fri, Sept 13, 8:30 p.m.
Sat, Sept 14, 8:30 p.m.
Sun, Sept 15, 8:30 p.m.
Mon, Sept 16, 6:30 p.m.
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AUS/US
MUSIC
Meow Meow &
Thomas M. Lauderdale
Co-presented with the Oregon Symphony
“Meow Meow takes the art of cabaret and splits it open,
exposing the disillusioned, yearning heart that beats under
the sequins.” —The Australian
Sat, Sept 14, 8:00 p.m.
Running Time: 90 min
Seating Capacity: 2400
Tickets: $23-98
Available online and at
Oregon Symphony Box
Office: 923 SW Washington
Included only in Patron
Pass. All other pass holders
must purchase a ticket.
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Thomas Lauderdale is the bandleader and pianist
for Portland’s internationally acclaimed pop
orchestra Pink Martini. He has appeared as soloist
with ensembles including the Oregon Symphony and
Oregon Ballet Theatre and has collaborated with
Rufus Wainwright and the late Phyllis Diller.
Since the Oregon Symphony was established 117
years ago, it has been recognized for its internationally acclaimed music directors, skilled performers,
and diverse programs. The Symphony is the oldest
west of the Mississippi.
meowmeowrevolution.com
orsymphony.org
pinkmartini.com
PHOTO: KARL GIANT
Arlene Schnitzer
Concert Hall
Called “sensational” by the The Times (UK), the
“Post-post-modern cabaret diva” Meow Meow
has wowed audiences globally with her kamikaze
cabaret. She returns to Portland for the first time
since 2008 to join her dear friend, Pink Martini’s
Thomas Lauderdale, along with Carlos Kalmar and
the entire Oregon Symphony for an evening of
sharp-clawed cabaret. Take a front row seat as this
wild, chain-smoking, hot mess chanteuse storms
the Schnitzer! Meow Meow has hypnotised, inspired,
and terrified audiences globally, with sell-out
seasons from New York’s Lincoln Center and Berlin’s
Bar Jeder Vernunft to London’s Apollo Theatre and
the Sydney Opera House. Meow’s award-winning
solo work has been curated by David Bowie and
Pina Bausch, and her eclectic collaborators range
from Amanda Palmer to the London Philharmonic.
US
DANCE
Linda Austin &
David Eckard
World
premierE
Three Trick Pony
Music composed by Doug Theriault
“Ms. Austin’s powers of invention never failed her.”
—The New York Times
Three Trick Pony is an intimate face-off between
performer Linda Austin and a sculptural installation by David Eckard. As Austin passes through the
interactive environment, the objects echo, interrupt,
and amplify her gestures. This skin-to-skin collision
highlights the impressibility of both body and
sculpture, a shuttling back and forth of cause and
effect that blurs the nominal separation between
body and outside world.
Running Time: 60 min
Seating Capacity: 250
$15 Members/$20 General
Artist Talk (pg. 90)
PICA
Sat, Sept 21, 12:30 p.m.
Linda Austin, co-founder & director of Performance
Works NorthWest in Portland, has been making
dance and performance since 1983. She has
performed at venues such as Danspace Project,
PS122, Movement Research at Judson Church,
the Kitchen, On the Boards, and PICA’s TBA Festival.
David Eckard is an artist, educator, and performer
based in Portland. He has had solo exhibits in
New York, Chicago, Seattle, and Portland, and has
performed at TBA Festival and On The Boards in
Seattle. Eckard received the 2010 Bonnie Bronson
Fellowship, the 2010 Hallie Ford Fellowship in Visual
Arts, and the 2006 Oregon Biennial Juror’s Award.
Doug Theriault is an instrument builder, improviser,
and composer who resides in Portland.
The development of Three Trick Pony was supported in part by the
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation’s SEED grant program.
performanceworksnw.org
davideckard.com
Buzz-R-Electronics.com
PHOTO: JEFF FORBES
CON-WAY
Sun, Sept 15, 4:30 p.m.
Mon, Sept 16, 6:30 p.m.
Wed, Sept 18, 6:30 p.m.
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US
DANCE
Trajal Harrell
Antigone Jr./Twenty Looks or Paris is
Burning at the Judson Church (Jr.)
WEST COAST
PREMIERE
“The themes in these works [...] are big and fractious ones.
Race, gender, sexuality, all intersecting at an imagined
meeting between two historical (yet still in play)
movements...” —The New York Times
Running Time: 35 min
Seating Capacity: 250
$10 Members/$15 General
Trajal Harrell, M2M (pg. 9)
CON-WAY
Fri, Sept 13, 8:30 p.m.
Sat, Sept 14, 8:30 p.m.
Artist Talk (pg. 89)
PICA
Sat, Sept 14, 12:30 p.m.
For more events on Trajal
Harrell, Judson Church, and
Harlem balls, see pg. 97.
Trajal Harrell’s work has been presented in New York
and across the US at venues including New York
Live Arts, The Kitchen, American Realness Festival,
ICA Boston, Danspace Project, Dance Theater
Workshop, PS122, and Walker Arts Center, among
others. Internationally, his work has toured in
France, Switzerland, Portugal, Japan, Holland,
Belgium, Austria, Germany, Poland, Croatia, Brazil,
and Mexico, and he has shown his performances
in visual art contexts such as Performa, Fondation
Cartier (Paris), The New Museum, The Newhouse
Center for Contemporary Art, The Bronx Museum
of the Arts, and Art Basel-Miami Beach, as well as
galleries in Tokyo, Berlin, and New York. His latest
works have been seen in 2013 at The Museum of
Modern Art (MoMA) and MoMA PS1.
Antigone Jr. is a co-production of Menagerie de Verre. Residency
support has been provided by Menagerie de Verre, Workspace Brussels, and Pact Zollverein.
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PHOTO: WHITNEY BROWNE
CON-WAY
Sun, Sept 15, 6:00 p.m.
Through the lens of Harlem ball and postmodern
dance, New York choreographer Trajal Harrell performs a study of Antigone from Sophocles’ tragedy.
On stage with dancer Thibault Lac as Antigone’s
sister Ismene, the pair struts and sings and poses,
voguing the essence of Greek tragedy. Antigone Jr.
is both unique and unisex, an intimate performance
of the too-muchness of identity and history.
US
MUSIC/PERFORMANCE
THE BLOW
WE PUT IT TOGETHER SO WE COULD
TAKE IT APART.
“A true original.” ­­—Pitchfork
The Blow returns to TBA in its new collaborative
incarnation between founder Khaela Maricich
and conceptual/installation artist Melissa Dyne.
The duo has spent several years on a pop odyssey
while recording the long-fabled new Blow album,
investigating the deepest corners of pop music,
performance art, and the slippage between the two.
Using live sampling, The Blow reconfigure their
songs into something new, creating a platform for
improvisation that honors the heartbeat of the music
and challenges our expectations of live performance.
WE PUT IT TOGETHER SO WE COULD TAKE IT APART
is a salute to the void and the thrill of throwing
pieces of oneself out into it.
Running Time: 90 min
Seating Capacity: 250
$15 Member/$20 General
Artist Talk (pg. 89)
PICA
Fri, Sept 13, 12:30 p.m.
theblow.org
melissadyne.com
khaelamaricich.com
PHOTO: MARINA ANCONA
Winningstad Theatre
Portland Center for
the Performing Arts
Sun, Sept 15, 8:30 p.m.
Mon, Sept 16, 8:30 p.m.
Melissa Dyne is a conceptual, installation, and
performance artist who focuses on the physics
of sound and light. Her installations have shown
in Mexico City, Hong Kong, and in Portland at The
Museum of Contemporary Craft. Khaela Maricich has
been performing as The Blow since 2002. She has
performed at The Kitchen, TBA, On The Boards, and
Art in General. Since coming together as The Blow
in 2009, Dyne and Maricich have performed at The
Wexner Center, Joe’s Pub, and The Warhol Museum.
They have lectured on their collaboration at PICA;
The Henry Gallery, Seattle; and Residency Unlimited
in Brooklyn, NY. They first met at the TBA Festival
in 2004.
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US
DANCE
LAURA ARRINGTON &
JESSE HEWIT
ADULT
CON-WAY
Mon, Sept 16, 8:30 p.m.
Tue, Sept 17, 8:30 p.m.
Wed, Sept 18, 8:30 p.m.
Running Time: 90 min
Seating Capacity: 100
$10 Members/$15 General
Pass holder reservations
required
Workshop (pg. 93)
STUDIO 2
Sat, Sept 14, 10:00 a.m.
Field Guide Session (pg. 100)
Tue, Sept 17
Artist Talk (pg. 90)
PICA
Wed, Sept 18, 12:30 p.m.
In ADULT, grown-up friends Laura Arrington and
Jesse Hewit exorcise and exhaust their collective
fantasies about death and dying. In a dance duet,
guided by essentialized qualities of dark (warm/
admissive/liver/monster/THE LIVING ACT OF DYING)
and light (postured/lungs/effect/freak/THE DYING
ACT OF LIVING), they play at behaviors of reflexivity,
suffering, love, and economy. ADULT interrogates our
careful curation of our lives and deaths and considers
the implications of letting go.
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Laura Arrington is a Bay Area artist who has
spent the last two years as a core member of Keith
Hennessy’s Turbulence. Arrington’s work has been
shown at YBCA, Z Space, The Lab, CounterPULSE,
and ODC in San Francisco, and at American Realness
in New York. She has been an artist-in-residence at
Headlands Center for the Arts, CounterPULSE,
Kunst-STOFF Arts, and ODC. She created and curates
the SQUART performance series.
Jesse Hewit is a dance artist who lives in San Francisco. He has performed, taught, and had residencies
at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, CounterPULSE,
Z Space, KUNST-STOFF, Headlands Center for the
Arts, Ponderosa Tanzland, Firkin Crane, and others.
Hewit received a 2010 Goldie Award, and was a
2011 YBCA Bay Area Now artist. He has curated for
the National Queer Arts Festival, West Wave Dance
Festival, among others, and his writings have
appeared in In Dance, Critical Correspondence,
and Dance Theater Journal.
lauraarringtondance.com
jessehewit.com
PHOTO: ROBBIE SWEENY
WORLD
PREMIERE
US
MUSIC
THIRD ANGLE
NEW MUSIC
In the Dark
“In the beginning, Georg said, let there be no light. And
there was dark. Silky, womb-like India-ink blackness. No
emergency lighting in theaters, nada, nothing. And it was
good. Mind-blowingly good.” —Los Angeles Times
OMSI PLANETARIUM
Tue, Sept 17, 7:30 p.m.
Wed, Sept 18, 7:30 p.m.
Thu, Sept 19, 11:59 p.m.
Running Time: 60 min
Seating Capacity: 190
$25 Members/$30 General
Included only in Patron
Pass. All other pass holders
must purchase a ticket.
When Georg Friedrich Haas composed his String
Quartet No. 3 (In iij. Noct.), he stipulated that
the piece be played in total darkness, demanding
that the musicians fully memorize their parts and
cues and the audience forgo their sense of sight.
In iij. Noct. (the three nights) refers to the Tenebrae,
the last three nights of the Roman Catholic Holy
Week, when the light is extinguished before the
resurrection. For Third Angle’s performance, the
OMSI planetarium will be a sanctuary, the perfect
place for Haas’ tour de force. It’s a meditation of
musical color, a conversation in total darkness
between the four players, a “must hear” event.
Portland-based Third Angle New Music pushes
the boundaries of the expected with the creation
and performance of contemporary musical events,
works, and collaborations. It’s an opportunity to
rethink the conditions of the performance itself.
And because it is new music, you never know what
is going to happen next. How refreshing.
thirdangle.org
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THEATER
MARIANO PENSOTTI
Sometimes I think, I can see you
VARIOUS LOCATIONS
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Times to be announced.
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Artist Talk (pg. 89)
PICA
Sun, Sept 15 12:30 p.m.
For more events on Lola
Arias, Mariano Pensotti,
and Latin American
theater, see pg. 98.
“Pensotti has a fine facility with irony, with the fine
balance between comedy and tragedy.”
—British Theatre Guide
In a wry act of conspicuous voyeurism, a group
of authors will observe our public spaces, writing
live about what they see and imagine. But while
our daily observations remain private, their
written thoughts and musings will be projected
onto a large screen, narrating and reflecting on
the proceedings around them. Both casual
passersby and lingering audiences will become
characters in the speculative stories written on
the spot, and each has the power to change
the plot.
Mariano Pensotti is a playwright and director
living and working in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Part of the young generation of rising talents in
Argentina, Pensotti deftly weaves together reality
and theatrical fiction. His performances have
been presented in Argentina and in festivals and
venues in Belgium, Germany, France, Ireland,
Latvia, Brazil, Canada, Japan, Austria, Spain,
Chile, England, Denmark, and Switzerland. For his
work he has won a Rozenmacher Award, a Clarín
Award, and Premio F prize, and scholarships from
Unesco-Aschberg, Rockefeller Foundation,
Fundación Antorchas, and Casa de América
de Madrid.
Sometimes I think, I can see you premiered in Berlin in 2010
as part of the Ciudades Paralales Festival and is produced by
Hebbel am Ufer. Funding for the Performing Americas Program
is provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Robert
Sterling Clark Foundation and, for Los Angeles artists and arts
organizations, the City of Los Angeles, Department of
Cultural Affairs.
marianopensotti.com
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PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
US PREMIERE
WEST COAST
PREMIERE
HAMPTON OPERA
CENTER
Wed, Sept 18, 6:30 p.m.
Thu, Sept 19, 6:30 p.m.
Fri, Sept 20, 6:30 p.m.
Sat, Sept 21, 6:30 p.m.
Running Time: 80 min
Seating Capacity: 185
$20 Members/$25 General
Field Guide Session (pg. 100)
Wed, Sept 18
K.J. Holmes Workshop
(pg. 93)
STUDIO 2
Thu, Sept 19, 10:00 a.m.
Luke George Workshop
(pg. 94)
STUDIO 2
Fri, Sept 20, 10:00 a.m.
Miguel Gutierrez Sensewalk
(pg. 94)
STUDIO 2
Sat, Sept 21, 10:00 a.m
Miguel Gutierrez and
the Powerful People
And lose the name of action
“...unfold[s] with bracing, almost destabilizing momentum,
but even after that subsides, his potent images have a way
of persisting in the mind.” —The New York Times
And lose the name of action balances neuroscience,
improvisation, and paranormal investigations to
explore the ghostlike traces that dance leaves on
the mind and body. Gutierrez creates an intimate
and moving séance for the 21st century with awardwinning performers Michelle Boulé, Hilary Clark, Luke
George, K.J. Holmes, and Ishmael Houston-Jones,
music from Neal Medlyn, lighting design by Lenore
Doxsee, and film/text by Boru O’Brien O’Connell. This
immersive performance draws together the analytical
and the unexplainable, grappling with the limits of
language and the ever-present spectre of mortality.
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Miguel Gutierrez, a dance and music artist based
in New York, has been called “one of our most
provocative and necessary artistic voices” by Eva Yaa
Asantewaa of Dance Magazine. His work has toured
internationally and in 2010, he received fellowships
from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Foundation for
Contemporary Art, and United States Artists. He is
the winner of three New York Dance and Performance
“Bessie” awards. WHEN YOU RISE UP, a book of his
performance texts, is available from 53rd State Press.
And lose the name of action is a National Performance Network
(NPN) Creation Fund/Forth Fund Project co-commissioned by MCA
Chicago in partnership with Flynn Center for the Performing Arts,
On the Boards, PICA, Brooklyn Academy of Music and NPN. npnweb.
org. Additional project support from the New England Foundation for
the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris
Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from the Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust, The
MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris
Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, and the
Jerome Foundation.
miguelgutierrez.org
PHOTO: IAN DOUGLAS
US
DANCE
MOR
DANCE/MUSIC
Bouchra Ouizguen
Ha!
US PREMIERE
Running Time: 60 min
Seating Capacity: 200
$20 Members/$25 General
Field Guide Session (pg. 100)
Wed, Sept 18
Fri, Sept 20
Post-Show Talk
IMAGO
Thu, Sept 19, 9:30 p.m.
Artist Talk (pg. 90)
PICA
Fri, Sept 20, 12:30 p.m.
For more related events on
Bouchra Ouizguen, Nacera
Belaza, and contemporary
African choreography, see
pg. 99.
Born in Ouarzazate, Morocco, Bouchra Ouizguen
has been performing in Marrakech and France
since 1995. In 2002, with Taoufiq Izeddiou and Saïd
Ait El Moumen, Ouizguen founded ANANIA, a
contemporary dance company in Marrakech, and
created the On Marche dance festival. She also
collaborated that year in forming the Al Mokhtabar
contemporary dance company. Her choreographic
works include AnaOunta (2002), Fina ken’ti (2002),
Mort et moi (2005), Déserts, desires with Taoufiq
Izeddiou (2006), Aïta with Naïma Sahmoud (2007),
and Madame Plaza (2008-2009). Ouizguen has
performed throughout Morocco and France,
including at the prestigious Montpellier Dance
Festival, and in New York at the 2010 FIAF Crossing
the Line Festival. Since 2007, Ouizguen has been a
co-organizer of the annual festival Recontres
Chorégraphiques in Marrakech.
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VIDEO STILL COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
IMAGO THEATRE
Wed, Sept 18, 8:30 p.m.
Thu, Sept 19, 8:30 p.m.
Fri, Sept 20, 8:30 p.m.
Moroccan choreographer Bouchra Ouizguen
draws inspiration from the writings of the famed
Persian poet and Sufi mystic Rumi to probe the
obsessions lurking in each of us. In Ha!, she shares
this exploration with her collaborators Fatima El
Hanna, Fatima Aït Ben Hmad, and Naïma Sahmoud—
a trio of Moroccan aïtas, traditional cabaret singers
who are both celebrated and scorned for their
performing tradition on the margins of society.
Alongside these unconventional women, Ouizguen
creates a living ritual, performing “madness”
through movement and vocals, plying a tense line
between formality and abandon.
ISR/CAN
THEATER
The Chop Theatre/
Itai Erdal
How to Disappear Completely
“The professional insights of Erdal, who at times operates
the lighting from the stage [...] illuminate his story,
becoming a metaphor for his experiences and for life’s
big questions... he uses the medium he knows so intimately
[...] to present theatre with universal resonance.”
—The Globe and Mail
Itai Erdal is an award-winning lighting designer and
a gifted and gregarious storyteller. In How to
Disappear Completely, Erdal blends these skills in a
reflection on mortality and family, charting the
course of his mother’s diagnosis with cancer, and
revealing the events that followed her asking him to
help her die. Erdal brings no actor’s tricks to his
performance, only the direct power of his story and
the nuanced potency of stage lighting in this honest
act of public memory.
Running Time: 60 min
Seating Capacity: 200
$20 Members/$25 General
How to Disappear Completely was generously supported by the
Canada Council for the Arts, the BC Arts Council and Arts Partners
in Creative Development.
thechoptheatre.com
PHOTO: EMILY COOPER
IMAGO THEATRE
Thu, Sept 19, 6:30 p.m.
Fri, Sept 20, 6:30 p.m.
Sat, Sept 21, 6:30 p.m.
Erdal was born in Jerusalem in 1974 and moved to
Canada in 1999. He has designed over 130 shows for
companies in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Tel Aviv,
Jerusalem, Berlin, London, and New York. He’s been
nominated for 17 awards in four different cities and
won the 2003 Sam Payne Award for Most Promising Newcomer, the 2005 Associated Designers of
Canada’s Jack King Award, the 2007 Dora Mavor
Moore Award, Best Design at the Dublin Fringe in
2008, and a Jessie Richardson Award in 2009. The
Chop Theatre is an award-winning, Vancouver, BCbased company that has been building and touring
original performances since 2004.
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ALG/FRA
DANCE
Nacera Belaza
Le Trait solos and Le Temps Scellé
US PREMIERE
Running Time: 100 min
Seating Capacity: 250
$20 Members/$25 General
Artist Talk (pg. 90)
PICA
Fri, Sept 20, 12:30 p.m.
Le Cri (pg. 41)
CON-WAY
Sat, Sept 21, 8:30 p.m.
Workshop (pg. 94)
STUDIO 2
Sun, Sept 22, 10:00 a.m.
For more related events on
Bouchra Ouizguen, Nacera
Belaza, and contemporary
African choreography, see
pg. 99.
“Nacera Belaza practices the detail drawing, the
imperceptible nuance, the painting of a slow-moving body
with a play of light and shade. She is to the dance what
Bresson is to the cinema...” —RTBF
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Nacera Belaza forges a singular path through
her performances, investigating the existential
questions of the body in the world. Her choreography—whether solo or with her sister—explores the
relations between traditional forms of Algerian
dance, holy rituals, and her own language of
gestures. Characterized by intensity, inwardness
and precise detail, the dancers’ bodies strive for
autonomy as they move through a play of light
and shade, of trance and apparent motionlessness.
Born in Algeria, Nacera Belaza moved to France at
the age of five, where she studied French literature,
before focusing on dance and establishing her own
company in 1989. Belaza works with dancers from
Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Egypt, and Palestine
and has performed internationally in Europe,
Africa, Asia, Indonesia, and North America. In
France, Belaza has performed at Montpellier Danse,
Rencontres Seine-Saint-Denis, Festival of Avignon,
and Biennale de la danse de Lyon. For her work,
Belaza has received the 2008 Prix de la Revelation
Choregraphique by the French Critics Syndicate and
a 2009 Award La Danse in Quebec. Belaza lives and
works in Paris and Algiers.
cie-nacerabelaza.com
PHOTO: DAVID BALICKI
CON-WAY
Thu, Sept 19, 8:30 p.m.
Fri, Sept 20, 8:30 p.m.
CAN
FILM/PERFORMANCE
DANIEL BARROW
The Thief of Mirrors/Looking for Love
in the Hall of Mirrors
Co-presented with NW Film Center
Running Time: 60 min
Seating Capacity: 250
$15 Members/$20 General
Montreal-based artist Daniel Barrow has exhibited
widely and internationally. He has performed at
The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), MoMa PS1
(New York), The Museum of Contemporary Art (Los
Angeles), The International Film Festival Rotterdam,
PICA’s TBA Festival, and the British Film Institute
(London). Barrow is the winner of the 2010 Sobey
Art Award, Canada’s highest art award.
Funded in part by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec.
danielbarrow.com
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IMAGE COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
NW FILM CENTER
WHITSELL AUDITORIUM
AT THE PORTLAND ART
MUSEUM
Fri, Sept 20, 6:30 p.m.
Sat, Sept 21, 8:30 p.m.
Since the early 90s, Daniel Barrow has developed a
unique style of “manual” animation, layering and
manipulating his intricate drawings on overhead
projectors. With The Thief of Mirrors, Barrow returns
to TBA with the story of a jewel thief who wears the
mask of a sad clown. His deep, emotive eyes charge
the mask with supernatural powers—so captivating
is his expression that his gaze can permanently
inscribe his visage in the glass. The Thief of Mirrors
pays homage to the classic archetype of the
“Kissing Bandit”—the cat burglar who creeps into
women’s homes, collects their jewelry, and kisses
them in their sleep, leaving them both violated and
charmed. Exploring forgotten sexual mores and
kitschy characters, Barrow walks the razor edge of
irony, challenging systems of class and control in
our culture.
US
DANCE
Karen Sherman
One with Others
BODYVOX
Fri, Sept 20, 8:30 p.m.
Sat, Sept 21, 8:30 p.m.
Sun, Sept 22, 4:30 p.m.
Running Time: 60 min
Seating Capacity: 150
$15 Members/$20 General
Artist Talk (pg. 90)
PICA
Sat, Sept 21, 12:30 p.m.
“Karen Sherman is an artist with both grit and guts…She is
agile and fearless.” —Minneapolis/St. Paul City Pages
Dance, words, and scrap lumber are the raw materials for One with Others, an examination of who we
become due to the choices we—or others—make.
Crude, handmade wooden appendages—part prop,
prosthetic, and costume—stand alongside text and
choreography to form a trio of blunt, jury-rigged
languages that ask: can movement be a refuge
from words? Can objects be language? Can words
be visuals? Can we, in our groping toward selfrealization and being with others in the world, do
without even one of these?
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Karen Sherman makes performances, writes, and
builds things. Based in Minneapolis by way of New
York, her work has been presented nationally by
Walker Art Center, Fusebox Festival, PS122, ODC, and
many others. She has worked and collaborated with
many fine artists, including Sally Silvers, Morgan
Thorson, Dan Hurlin, Emily Johnson, Lisa D’Amour,
Katie Pearl, Neal Medlyn, NTUSA, and the feminist
punk pop band Le Tigre. She received a 2007 Bessie
Award for her performance in Thorson's Faker. She
is also a sound and scenic designer, stage electrician, production manager, and fifth-generation
lasso spinner.
One with Others was made possible in part with a research and development residency and co-production support by Vermont Performance Lab with funding support from the New England Foundation
for the Art’s National Dance Project with lead funding from the Doris
Duke Charitable Foundation and VPL’s Creation Fund donors. One
with Others is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts in
cooperation with the New England Foundation for the Arts through
the National Dance Project. Major support for NDP is provided by the
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from the Community Connections Fund
of the MetLife Foundation.
karenshermanperformance.org
PHOTO: JEFFREY WELLS
WEST COAST
PREMIERE
FR/cro
THEATER
IVANA MÜLLER
We are still watching
A show performed by its audience. Taking the form
of a theatrical “read-through,” attendees will pick
up their scripts and navigate a text collectively, to
create and perform a community. In the temporary
microcosmic society that’s established over the
course of the reading, everybody slowly but surely
gets his or her role. We Are Still Watching is a
play in which the idea of “spectacle” slowly shifts to
where we least expect it.
Running Time: 60 min
Seating Capacity: 50
$10 Members/$15 General
Pass holder reservations
required
Supported in part by Performing Arts Fund, NL, Amsterdams Fonds
voor de Kunst (NL), SNS Reaal Fonds/ with kind help of Het Veem
Theater, Amsterdam.
ivanamuller.com
PHOTO: SANNE PEPER
CON-WAY
Sat, Sept 21, 12:30 p.m.
Sat, Sept 21, 2:30 p.m.
Sat, Sept 21, 4:30 p.m.
Sun, Sept 22, 12:30 p.m.
Sun, Sept 22, 2:30 p.m.
Sun, Sept 22, 4:30 p.m.
Ivana Müller is a Croatian-born choreographer,
artist, and author, currently living in Paris and
Amsterdam. Müller’s projects have been presented
in venues and festivals including Frascati Theater,
Amsterdam; Kampnagel, Hamburg; La Villette,
Paris; Wiener Festwochen; DTW, New York; National
Museum of Singapore; Sadler’s Wells, London;
HAU Berlin; Centre nationale de danse, Paris; and
Kaaitheater, Brussels. She received the 2007
Charlotte Koehler Prize from the Prins Bernhard
Funds, as well as Impulse Festival and Goethe
Institute Prize. Müller also curates and teaches as
a guest lecturer at Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdams
and the School For New Dance Development,
Amsterdam, among others.
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ALG/FRA
DANCE
Nacera Belaza
Le Cri
CON-WAY
Sat, Sept 21, 8:30 p.m.
Running Time: 45 min
Seating Capacity: 250
$15 Members/$20 General
Artist Talk (pg. 90)
PICA
Fri, Sept 20, 12:30 p.m.
Workshop (pg. 94)
STUDIO 2
Sun, Sept 22, 10:00 a.m.
For more related events on
Bouchra Ouizguen, Nacera
Belaza, and contemporary
African choreography, see
pg. 99.
“In her minimal work Ms. Belaza has revealed nothing and
everything in a captivating swoop.” —The New York Times
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Nacera Belaza’s mesmerizing choreography
commands attention with its spare aesthetics and
focused intensity. In this one-night-only duet with
her sister, Belaza concentrates on the starting point
of her work, looking inwards and moving out from
the intimate to the surface, until the movement
disappears. It is a simple idea, and an endless and
vital one.
Born in Algeria, Nacera Belaza moved to France at
the age of five, where she studied French literature
before focusing on dance and establishing her own
company in 1989. Belaza works with dancers from
Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Egypt, and Palestine
and has performed internationally in Europe, Africa,
Asia, Indonesia, and North America. In France,
Belaza has performed at Montpellier Danse,
Rencontres Seine-Saint-Denis, Festival of Avignon,
and Biennale de la danse de Lyon. For her work,
Belaza has received the 2008 Prix de la Revelation
Choregraphique by the French Critics Syndicate and
a 2009 Award La Danse in Quebec. Belaza lives and
works in Paris and Algiers.
cie-nacerabelaza.com
PHOTO: PHILIPPE LAURENT
Le Trait and
Le Temps Scellé (pg. 33)
CON-WAY
Thu, Sept 19, 8:30 p.m.
Fri, Sept 20, 8:30 p.m.
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VISUAL
“... community declared itself a medium...”
This is not an exhibition. “...community declared itself a medium…” is a
fragment of a sentence, ripped off, taken out of context, and divorced from its
beginning and ending.* It is about this community and that one. “That one” =
the one you belong to, the one you don’t belong to, the one you hope to
belong to, the one that does not yet exist but is forming or might yet emerge.
Early on in our organization’s history, our founder Kristy Edmunds wrote:
“The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) is about the activity
generated by a community using its energy.”
What a curious way to describe what we are. Then again, what a perfect way to
describe what we are. This energy exchange could just as easily apply to this
Festival and this exhibition (or non-exhibition, as it were). The artists included in
this year’s program will certainly be using our energy. This might make us feel
uncomfortable, and it might uplift us. “Community. Ugh.” “Community, yeah!”
Their projects will live in several different locations and they will expand
over time. They will take the form of classrooms, workshops, publications,
essays, performances, scraps of paper, games, sounds, flickering films, public
residencies, and discrete unannounced activities. Sometimes they will be all of
these things at once. Like a “community,” their activity will occasionally bring
us together; at other times it will send us to opposite ends of the room or city.
We can use the artists’ energy, too. In fact, we must. It is crucial. “Community”
is exhausting.
Anna Craycroft
C’mon Language
PICA
Jun 3–Sept 30, 2013
Jun 7—Sept 12, Tue-Fri, 12–6:00 p.m.
Sept 12—22, Every day, 12–6:00 p.m.
Sept 24–29, Tue–Sun, 12–6:00 p.m.
Jamie Isenstein
Will Return
Curated by Stephanie Snyder
Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery
Reed College
Aug 27–Oct 20, 2013
Tue-Sun, 12–5:00 p.m.
Opening Reception: Thu, Sept 19, 6–8:00 p.m.
A.L. Steiner
Feelings and How to Destroy Them
Philip Feldman Gallery at PNCA
Sept 5–Oct 26, 2013
Every day, 10:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
For the sake of this engagement, it feels important to keep “community”
in quotes. It helps preserve its mutable and debatable meaning. “Community”
is fragile, dangerous, galvanizing, ineffective, affective. Let’s think of the quotation marks as a little suit of armor. It is not yet clear whether we are protecting
ourselves from “community” or it from us. Can “community” be dangerous?
Absolutely. Maybe. Really? I don’t know yet. Let’s talk about it? Let’s try and
figure it out. Together? We must. It is crucial.
Sue Tompkins
Kristan Kennedy
Visual Art Curator, PICA
Con-Way
Sept 12–22, 2013
Sept 12, 9:00 p.m. – late
Sept 13–22, 25–29 Every day, 12–6:30 p.m.
*excerpted from “Next Level Spleen,” John Kelsey, Artforum, September 2012
Portland Museum of Modern Art
Sept 5–Oct 5, 2013
Every day, 12–7:00 p.m.
Alex Mackin Dolan
Lucy Raven
Andrew Ritchey
Emily Roysdon
Krystal South
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ANNA CRAYCROFT
Anna Craycroft
C’mon Language
CLASSROOM AS EXHIBITION. Craycroft’s evolving installation will host a
summer-long series of workshops and lectures by artists, scholars, and
educators, contributing to the development of a common language and an
intelligible work of art.
Anna Craycroft has had solo shows at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin,
Tracy Williams, Ltd. in New York, and Le Case del Arte in Milan, and her work
has been exhibited at the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, Palais de
Tokyo in Paris, and PS1’s Greater New York. Craycroft has received
commissions for public sculpture from Socrates Sculpture Park in New York,
Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, and Den Haag Sculptuur in the Hague,
Netherlands. She curated the 2011 and 2012 first-year exhibition for Columbia
University School of Arts, from which she received her MFA in 2004. Craycroft
is represented by Tracy Williams, Ltd. in New York.
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annacraycroft.com
PUZZLES AS SCULPTURE. Dolan presents a new series of sculptural
works that investigate various structural components of everyday life.
These mechanics are contrasted with those of games and puzzles, which
plainly present their rules.
Dolan is an artist who lives and works in Portland, Oregon, where he is a
co-curator of Appendix Project Space. Recent exhibitions include Infinite Cell
at Autzen Gallery (Portland), Cherry Picking at Karma International (Zurich),
ZERTZ Player with Koch Snowflake at West Lane South (London), and
Deep Freeze at Generation Works (Tacoma). Dolan is a 2013 artist-in-residence
with the Park Avenue Armory in conjunction with 89plus, an ongoing research
project conducted by Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Simon Castets.
alexmackindolan.com
PHOTO:
PATRICK LEONARD
photo courtesy
of tracy williams, ltd.
Alex Mackin Dolan
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
ALEX MACKIN DOLAN
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A.L. STEINER
A.L. STEINER
Feelings and How To Destroy Them
RADICAL COMMUNITIES AS COLLABORATIVE ARTWORKS. This videobased survey will span Steiner’s solo and group projects, channeled through the
sensibility of an activated skeptical queer ecofeminist androgyne.
Steiner is a collective member of Chicks on Speed, co-curator of the project
Ridykeulous, and founding member of Working Artists and the Greater Economy
(W.A.G.E.). Her works have been featured internationally at such venues as
MoMA PS1, Tate Modern, The New Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art/
Boston, Centre Pompidou, The Kitchen, REDCAT, and Zacheta National Gallery
of Art, among others. Steiner is currently based in Los Angeles and is faculty at
the University of Southern California.
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hellomynameissteiner.com
EMILY ROYSDON
Minor Theatres (wrkshp 1)
Roysdon is a New York–and Stockholm-based artist and writer. She is editor and
co-founder of the queer feminist journal and collective LTTR and has written
lyrics for The Knife and JD Samson & MEN. Roysdon’s work has been shown
at the 2010 Whitney Biennial, MoMA PS1, Manifesta 8, Participant, Inc., Museo
Tamayo in Mexico City, and Power Plant in Toronto. She has received recent
commissions from Performance Room, Tate Modern, Art in General, The
Kitchen, and Konsthall C in Stockholm.
Commissioned through PICA’s Calligram Fund for New Work, If I Can’t Dance Amsterdam, STUK/Museum
M (Playground) Leuven, and with the Stedleijk Museum Amsterdam, with additional support from Corpus,
European Network For Performance Art, funded through the European Union.
emilyroysdon.com
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
RESIDENCY AS PUBLIC PRACTICE. Roysdon will “discompose” the form of a
theater company, taking the traditional structure as a starting point to engage
in public skill-based workshops, role switching, and questions of time that will
influence the development of a new vocabulary around performance. Her collaborative, episodic, year-long project will culminate at next year’s TBA Festival.
Photo: Tate Photography, Gabrielle Fonseca Johnson
EMILY ROYSDON
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ANDREW RITCHEY
ANDREW RITCHEY
THE SECRET SOCIETY
FILM AS ANTHROPOLOGY. This exhibition presents a survey of 16mm film
esoterica in four parts: Rebus, Number, Chronicles, and Erotic Miscellany, culled
from the secret society of artists working in the historical medium of “Film Art.”
For the TBA Festival, Mr. Ritchey has specially composed a totally unique
narrative-form biography of no more than 150 words. This personal biography
provides context for the 16mm programs he has organized. At each of the
screenings, Mr. Ritchey's exclusive, narrative-form biography will be distributed
as an addendum to the program notes. This biography totaling less than 150
words will be an important and unrepeatable part of the unique experience of
each individual program, as well as the exhibition as a whole.
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N.B.: For each of the four programs, the third film will be unannounced. The programs of The Secret
Society are for educational and informational purposes only. All patrons driven by other motives will
be barred from the screening room at the start of each program.
KRYSTAL SOUTH
Identify Yourself
Krystal South is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and writer from Portland,
Oregon, who has been online every day since she was 12. South has been
included in group exhibitions at Recess, Carhole, and Portland Art Museum in
Portland, R&R Gallery in Los Angeles, and the ALL CAPS Festival in Toronto.
Her writings have been featured in Bear Deluxe Magazine, YA5, and September,
a project of artists Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen at the 2011 TBA Festival.
krystalsouth.com
idyrself.com
photo: rudolf steiner
AN ESSAY AS WEBSITE. A DIGITAL QUESTION IRL. You can take the art
out of the internet, but can you ever take the internet out of the art?
image courtesy of the artist
KRYSTAL SOUTH
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SUE TOMPKINS
SUE TOMPKINS
Organized by Chris Johanson, Libby Werbel of PMoMA, and PICA
COMMUNITY OF WORDS. Working with fragments of language gathered from
everyday encounters and experiences, Tompkins presents a selection of concrete
poems and works on paper.
Sue Tompkins lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland, where she is represented by
The Modern Institute. She has had solo exhibitions at The Modern Institute;
Inverleith House, Edinburgh; and Contemporary Art Musuem, St. Louis; and she
has presented in shows at Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis; the 29th
São Paolo Biennale; the British Art Show 7 at the Hayward Gallery, London;
Tate Modern, London; and Artists Space, New York. Tompkins was shortlisted for
the Beck’s Futures Prize in 2006 and received the Paul Hamlyn Award in 2011.
She was formerly a member of the Glasgow-based art collective Elizabeth Go,
and the band Life Without Buildings.
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LUCY RAVEN
Room Tone
Lucy Raven was born in Tucson, Arizona, and lives in New York City and
Oakland, California. Her work has been included in exhibitions and screenings
internationally at Berlinale, Berlin (2013); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2012);
Whitney Biennial, New York (2012); MoMA, New York (2010); and MoMa PS1,
New York (2010). Raven is a contributing editor to BOMB magazine, and her
writing has appeared in Artforum, BOMB, and October. She has curated projects
for the Goethe Institute, New York (2010), and Ballroom Marfa, Texas (2008);
and she was the co-creator of Bump City, a series of online documentaries for
the Oakland Museum of California (2012).
Commissioned by Manchester International Festival, Manchester Art Gallery, and the International
Arts Festival RUHRTRIENNALE 2012-2014.
lucyraven.com
Photo: Gene Pittman
SPACE AS A SOUND. Inspired by composer Alvin Lucier’s 1969 recording
“I am Sitting in a Room,” Room Tone is an instruction piece for voice and
electromagnetic tape to be performed live by one or more people for visitors
who may come and go throughout the work.
Ferdinand Schlingensiepen in Room Tone. Photo: Hellmut Schlingensiepen
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JAMIE ISENSTEIN
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JAMIE ISENSTEIN
Will Return
Curated by Stephanie Snyder
Born in Portland, Oregon, Isenstein lives and works in New York. She has
exhibited her work in museums and galleries including the Contemporary Arts
Museum, Houston; A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy; the Tate Liverpool, UK; The
Kitchen, New York; The Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles; and MoMA PS1,
New York. Her work is represented by Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York and
Meyer Riegger in Berlin/Karlsruhe, Germany.
andrewkreps.com
reed.edu/gallery
photo courtesy of the artist
THE ARTIST’S BODY AS PROP. Jamie Isenstein creates objects, drawings,
mixed-media sculptures, and installations that engage her body as an artistic
medium—a subject of humor, theatricality, and historical representation. In keeping with the tragicomic slapstick of turn-of-the-century Vaudeville, Isenstein
explores the subjectivity of the marginalized individual—the bit-player, the human
prop, the butt of the joke, the wisenheimer who gets the last laugh. Like all good
magicians, Isenstein keeps her secrets close, so don’t ask.
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THE WORKS, TBA:12. PHOTO: MARIO GALLUCI
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THE WORKS is where TBA goes after dark. Where artists wind
down with a drink, and where dance parties ignite. Rock shows,
drag balls, video art, pop-eras, and more. Ten nights of
experimental, immersive performance, music, and film. It’s an
after-party where everyone’s invited, a summer night beer
garden, a warehouse venue that changes with each new use.
THE WORKS is located at Con-Way, 2170 NW Raleigh, and opens nightly
at 10:00 p.m. Outdoor bar opens at 9:30 p.m. THE WORKS is a 21+ venue,
except where noted. No outside food or drink is permitted.
$8 Members/$10 General Admission at the door. Included in all levels of
TBA passes.
A NEW CANVAS FOR THE WORKS. PHOTO: PATRICK LEONARD
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JOIN US TO SEE WHAT TAKES SHAPE.
THE WORKS
CARNIVAL WITHOUT RIDES
FOOD AND DRINK AT THE WORKS
This year when it comes to after-hours snacking in the TBA kitchen, it is all about
high/low mash-up. Long time co-conspirators Liz Calderón (Special Projects) and
Jake Sheffield (Grüner) have invited some of the city’s most creative, revered,
and unexpected kitchen talents to guest chef at THE WORKS, providing us with
late-night wise-cracking and binge eating.
One night, you may find a fantasy meal; and the next, your favorite low-brow
indulgences. Whether it’s your first meal or your fourth meal, this festival has got
you covered.
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Follow along at pica.org for the face-stuffing schedule and news.
#TBA4thmeal
Keeping your late-night thirsts quenched, we’ll have the talented Merit Badge
team mixing up cocktails that “put hair on your chest and hearts in your eyes.”
Their craft cocktails will fit the bill, while Full Sail Brewing beers fill up your cups.
Indoor Concessions open nightly at 7:30 p.m.
Outdoor Bar is 21+ only
PHOTO: CHASE BIADO
Outdoor Bar opens at 9:30 p.m.
PHOTO: ALIYA NAUMOFF
PHOTO: MITCHELL SNYDER PHOTOGRAPHY
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
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7:00 PM COCKTAILS / 8:00 PM DINNER
10:30 PM FREE / ALL AGES
OPENING NIGHT DINNER
THE JULIE RUIN
Get your first look at our new home for TBA, as we officially kick off the
first night of the Festival. Gather with all of your PICA friends and artists as
Mitchell Wine begins the celebration with a proper christening of THE WORKS
(champagne across the bow?!). Between the incredible talent cooking in our
pop-up kitchen and the guest mixologists and amazing wineries behind the bar,
there couldn’t be a better way to usher in the next ten days of TBA and the
last moments of summer.
In 1997, riot grrrl legend Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill, Le Tigre) released a solo
album under the name Julie Ruin, hoping someday to find a band to play the
songs live. She finally assembled her dream team in 2010 as The Julie Ruin,
with her ex-Bikini Kill bandmate Kathi Wilcox on bass; Kenny Mellman (half of
the legendary punk cabaret act Kiki and Herb) on keys; actor, filmmaker, and
musical juggernaut Carmine Covelli on drums; and, Sara Landeau, whom
Kathleen met through the Rock Camp for Girls, killing it on guitar. The Julie Ruin
brings a strong, tight musical backbone to Hanna’s iconic vocals. Run Fast—their
debut album as a band—spans topics from euthanasia to cookies and will be
released in September 2013.
Tickets $100
thejulieruin.com
PHOTO: ERIC SELLERS
image courtesy of the artist
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
10:30 PM
10:30 PM
PETER BURR
Kaj-anne Pepper & Chanticleer Tru
SPECIAL EFFECT
CRITICAL MASCARA: A Post-Realness Drag Ball
Video and performance artist Peter Burr presents a live television show featuring 18 short animations from underground video label Cartune Xprez. Inspired
by Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1971 film Stalker, SPECIAL EFFECT takes a journey to
“The Zone,” an off-limits place of hope and possibility rumored to make one’s
deepest desires come true. With laser beams, green screens, and a live webcam,
Burr acts as our guide and TV host, collaging live happening with animated
experience. Original music by Lucky Dragons and Seabat.
specialeffect.peterburr.org
Queens and kings, outcasts, and misfits parade their most vital “realness” in
a queer glamor, gender-bending spectacle, honoring the tradition of the drag ball.
Surprise performances, audience challenges, and queer history are embodied by
West Coast and PDX mavens in a high-stakes, multimedia dance competition.
Kaj-anne Pepper is a choreographer and gender performer, who got his start with
the drag-troupe Sissyboy and has presented at Dance +, TBA, and Risk/Reward,
among others. Chanticleer Tru is a singer and performance artist who performs as
frontman for the punk-soul band Magic Mouth.
kpepper.net/criticalmascara
Photo: Diana Markosian
Photo: Stern Weber Studios, courtesy of Avant Media
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
10:30 PM
11:30 PM
NICK HALLETT
LIKE A VILLAIN
Rainbow Passage
Make Well
A diagnostic text containing every sound of the English language serves as
inspiration for composer Nick Hallett’s new multimedia concert, Rainbow Passage.
These sounds are first intoned literally, and then rewoven into a musical tapestry
that simultaneously evokes the myth and science of rainbows. A vivid crosssection of Portland’s music scene will perform the work, including alt-Classical
vocal quartet The Julians, the cosmic electronics and bass clarinet duo of Matt
Carlson and Jonathan Sielaff (Golden Retriever), and celebrated songsmith
Holcombe Waller. Artist Brock Monroe creates a light installation that bathes
the performers and audience in refracted color and form.
Make Well has been composed to heal its listeners in parts of their souls left untouched for unknown reasons. In early 2010, Holland Andrews began a solo project
behind the alias of Like a Villain. She pulls her influences from notable minimalist
composers such as Arvo Pärt, contemporary vocalists including Diamanda Galás,
and modern experimental musicians like Björk, and she is heavily influenced by
Broadway and opera music. By creating a tapestry of live loops using her voice,
clarinet, and glockenspiel, her aim is to emphasize the roots of organic sounds
and create an emotional realm of sonic healing and magic.
harknessav.org
likeavillain.bandcamp.com
PHOTO: OWEN HUTCHINSON
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTISTS
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
10:30 PM
10:30 PM
GETTING TO KNOW YOU(TUBE)
WISHFUL THINKING
Crystal Baxley & Stefan Ransom
Co-presented with the Hollywood Theatre
Embark on a spiritual journey into the deepest caverns of YouTube’s collective
consciousness, through a participatory artist and audience-curated video
screening. Together, we’ll unearth hidden treasures, stretching the boundaries of
what tubes and you were meant for. Collectively, we’ll laugh, learn, contemplate,
and cut loose when we wrap up the night with a YouTube DJed dance party.
GTKYT is currently held at, and generously supported by, Portland’s historic
Hollywood Theatre, with help from the interknitting skills of Mike Merrill.
gettingtoknowyoutube.com
Featuring Led Er Est, Blues Control, Further Reductions, and The Coombe
Curated by Owen Hutchinson
We’re not a synthpop band, a goth band, a noise band, an industrial band, or a
new age band. We make music to confound ourselves and to challenge others.
We don’t like doing things the right way. WISHFUL THINKING brings together the
musicians of Led Er Est, Blues Control, Further Reductions, and The Coombe—
bands that use hardware electronics to subvert the digital abstractions of the
personal computer and resist the pure click-and-drag of the soft synth world.
They’ll dissolve pop songs into walls of noise, and re-build aggressively rhythmic
tracks that embrace the beauty of error in improvisation.
lederest.com
soundcloud.com/bluescontrol
Photo: Boris B. Voglar
Photo COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
10:30 PM
10:30 PM
Ieva MiseviCIUTE
DUBAIS
I Will Rip Your Arms Off
Unterwelt: A Pop-era by Nadia Buyse
Co-presented with Disjecta Contemporary Art Center and
curated by Summer Guthery, 2013-2014 Disjecta Curator-in-Residence
International singing sensation DUBAIS has decided to end it all and leave this
world, only to end up in the Unterwelt—a place split in two by ideologies and a
wall. Using the city of Berlin as a backdrop, this multimedia pop opera investigates
conceptions of morality, power, and the landscapes of political indifference.
Ieva Miseviciute—former Lithuanian clown, academic, and practitioner of
unproductive gymnastics—presents her take on sketch comedy that lost its
punch line and has been abstracted through dance and free-floating characters.
The performance will be followed by a series of minute events in which we will
learn that life can never be as sweet as a sponge. Miseviciute is a performing artist
and curator, and she has performed in such venues as The Kitchen, New York;
dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel; de Appel art center, Amsterdam; Center Pompidou, Paris;
Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius; and Performa 09 at Swiss Institute, New York.
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DUBAIS is Nadia Buyse, a Portland-based trans-disciplinary visual artist, cultural
activist, and musician. Nadia has performed nationally and internationally, including a residency at the ART STAYS festival in Ptuj, Slovenia, and FREE THE WORD
in the Republic of Georgia. This summer she has been invited to participate in the
Homebase residency program in Berlin, Germany, and also to help facilitate a rock/
experimental music education program for teenage girls in Bahrain.
dubaispdx.tumblr.com
Photo: Carly Rabalais
VIDEO STILL COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
10:30 PM
10:30 PM
ALEXANDRO SEGADE
JANKA NABAY & THE BUBU GANG
Boy Band Audition
Combining science-fiction, electronic pop music, and audience participation,
Boy Band Audition is a night of dancing, singing, and imagining life after the future
is over. Written and directed by Alexandro Segade, with music by Mateo Segade,
the performance continues the series of queer sci-fi adventures the brothers have
presented at REDCAT and LAXART, Los Angeles; YBCA, San Francisco; Vox Populi,
Philadelphia; and Museo del Barrio, New York. Segade is a member of My Barbarian,
a performance and video art collective, and he has received a Creative Capital Grant
in 2012 and a Foundation for Contemporary Art Award, 2013.
Sierra Leonean singer Janka Nabay will close out THE WORKS with the bubbling,
double-time dance sounds of his Bubu Gang, a global crew of indie experimenters
(featuring members of Skeletons, Chairlift, Starring, Saadi, and Highlife). Nabay’s
“bubu” music has 500-year roots, by way of “Michael Jackson, Bob Marley, and
God,” modernized into hypnotic dance music with a glittering layer of psychedelic
lyricism. Singing in Sierra Leone’s lingua franca, Krio, as well as his native
tribal Temne, English, and Arabic, Nabay’s music is an open letter to his fellow
Sierra Leoneans and an electrifying call for the crowds to dance. As Nabay says,
“Bubu music is fun—once you try it, you never leave it!”
wordpress.alexandrosegade.com
luakabop.com/janka-nabay
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TBA CONVERSATIONS
A daily series of engaging discussions with artists, curators,
and TBA audiences. All chats are FREE and open to the public
and take place 12:30–1:30 p.m. at PICA.
FRI, SEPT 13
Performing Pop: Khaela Maricich and Melissa Dyne
Khaela Maricich and Melissa Dyne—the collaborating artists and musicians of
The Blow—discuss the place of pop music in contemporary art and its value as
a performance practice.
SAT, SEPT 14
Church Bells & High Heels: Trajal Harrell
Choreographer Trajal Harrell will talk with Judy Hussie-Taylor, Artistic Director
of Danspace Project in New York, unpacking the sources for his Judson Church
is Ringing in Harlem project.
SUN, SEPT 15
Latin American Performance Theater Now: Lola Arias & Mariano Pensotti
Two leading Argentine theater artists discuss their own work as it intersects
with aesthetic and conceptual trends in Latin American performance, as well
as both artists’ thematic and documentary-inflected engagement with the
experiences of Latin America’s post-dictatorship generation. Moderated by
Ruth Wikler-Luker, Curator and Producer, Boom Arts.
MON, SEPT 16
Away from Keyboard: Krystal South
Portland artist and net native Krystal South shares her digital essay created
as part of the TBA:13 visual projects—a personalized history of “internet aware”
art, and how its diffuse communities function online and IRL.
TUE, SEPT 17
The Artist Is Present: Jamie Isenstein, in conversation with Stephanie Snyder
A collective conversation about exhibition making, “performance” community,
and the artist as object, with artist Jamie Isenstein, Cooley Gallery curator
Stephanie Snyder, and PICA’s Kristan Kennedy.
WED, SEPT 18
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ADULT Audiences: Laura Arrington & Jesse Hewit
Laura Arrington and Jesse Hewit discuss their newest work, ADULT, and
reflect on their collaborative process subverting the dance duet. Moderated by
Ju-Pong Lin, Faculty, MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts, Goddard College.
THU, SEPT 19
Laugh-In: Ieva Miseviciute in conversation with Summer Guthery
Disjecta Curator-in-Residence Summer Guthery and artist Ieva Miseviciute will
discuss comedy, problems, mimes, audience members as captives, undescribing
performance, and fugues, all while sitting in very tall chairs.
FRI, SEPT 20
Emily Roysdon in conversation with Bouchra Ouizguen and Nacera Belaza
True to PICA’s interdisciplinary, artist-driven focus, TBA visual artist
Emily Roysdon—whose practice spans independent and collaborative work in
performance, installation, printmaking, text, video, and curating—interviews
visiting choreographers Bouchra Ouizguen (Morocco) and Nacera Belaza
(France/Algeria) on their newest works.
SAT, SEPT 21
Constructing Dance: Karen Sherman and Linda Austin
At this year’s Festival, Karen Sherman (Minneapolis) performs with set pieces
she designs and builds herself, drawing on her skills in construction, while
Linda Austin (Portland) performs with sculptural objects by artist David Eckard.
Here, they talk about designing and constructing set pieces and choreographing
with and for sculptural objects and visual artists.
KEITH HENNESSY WORKSHOP, TBA:12. PHOTO: GK WILSON
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WORKSHOPS
An opportunity to learn from TBA artists visiting from around
the world. Advance registration is required for all workshops;
please call TBA Central Box Office at 503.224.PICA.
All workshops are held or begin at Studio 2. Workshops are
$10 Members/$15 General, and are included for Flex, Immersion,
and Patron pass holders.
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SAT, SEPT 14, 10:00 a.m.
Laura Arrington & Jesse Hewit: FREEDOM PRACTICE
A physically rigorous but also gentle and slow workshop for anyone with an
interest in the body. Come prepared to strut, drool, dance, nap, dream, tantrum,
pray, sweat, seduce, and soar.
2 hours, All Levels, Performance/Movement
SUN, SEPT 15, 10:00 a.m.
Keith Hennessy: Rigorous Play
TBA:12 artist (and Field Guide “faculty”) Keith Hennessy will lead a workshop for
dancers, choreographers, and body and conceptual artists, re-imagining social
relations through performance, improvisation, dance, and embodied action.
2 hours, All Levels, Performance/Movement
THU, SEPT 19, 10:00 a.m.
K.J. Holmes: The Athletics of Intimacy
Holmes will combine applications of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen’s Body-Mind
Centering, Steve Paxton’s Contact Improvisation, and improvisational
approaches in solo, duet, and ensemble dancing.
2 hours, All Levels, Performance/Movement
FRI, SEPT 20, 10:00 a.m.
Luke George: EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME
Tools and tactics for dancing and performance, which may or may not include:
doing movements, imagining doing movements, rolling on the floor, touching
each other, talking, screaming, seeing, and being seen. Participants will
access and build a sense of awareness, presence, decision making, quality,
and imagination.
2 hours, All Levels, Performance/Movement
SAT, SEPT 21, 10:00 a.m.
Miguel Gutierrez: Sensewalk
Choreographer Miguel Gutierrez will lead a unique walk through the world,
guiding participants to awaken, explore, and illuminate their senses of the
world around them.
2 hours, All Levels, Performance/Movement
SUN, SEPT 22, 10:00 a.m.
Nacera Belaza
Algerian choreographer Nacera Belaza will share exercises that seek
movements from within the self but remain neutral and open to the space
around the body. The exercises propose a free and open movement that
feels out the space, seizing it and investing it with action.
2 hours, All Levels, Performance/Movement
LOLA ARIAS. PHOTO: DAVID ALARCÓN
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INSTITUTE FLIGHTS
To help you navigate this year’s Festival, we’ve put together a
few clusters of activities—performances, workshops, talks, and
screenings—that center on a theme, region, or particular artist’s
work. Take a look at our lineups below and explore the rich
connections between projects at TBA.
Drag Balls & Judson Church
TRAJAL HARRELL
RELATED PERFORMANCES
Trajal Harrell, Made-to-Measure at Con-Way (pg. 09)
Trajal Harrell, Antigone Jr. at Con-Way (pg. 17)
THE WORKS: CRITICAL MASCARA at Con-Way (pg. 76)
SAT, SEPT 14, 12:30 p.m.
TBA Conversation: Trajal Harrell and Judy Hussie-Taylor at PICA (pg. 89)
SAT, SEPT 14, 3:00 p.m.
Judy Hussie-Taylor, Judson NOW lecture and book launch at PICA
An introductory lecture by Judy Hussie-Taylor, curator of Danspace Project’s
PLATFORM 2012: Judson NOW, followed by a conversation with Lydia Bell to
illuminate Judson Dance Theater’s West Coast influences. Wine and book signing
to follow.
SAT, SEPT 14, 5:00 p.m.
Paris Is Burning Film Screening at NWFC Whitsell Auditorium
Jennie Livingston’s iconic 1990 documentary explored the voguing and drag ball
culture of New York City and its African-American and Latino gay and transgender communities. Co-presented with QDoc and NW Film Center.
SAT, SEPT 14
Field Guide Session: Made to Measure (pg. 100)
SAT, SEPT 14
Kaj-Anne Pepper & Chanticleer Tru
Critical Mascara: A Post-Realness Drag Ball (pg. 76)
Contemporary Latin American
Politics & Performance
LOLA ARIAS & MARIANO PENSOTTI
RELATED PERFORMANCES
Lola Arias, The Year I Was Born at Imago Theatre (pg. 08)
Mariano Pensotti, Sometimes I think, I can see you (pg. 26)
SAT, SEPT 14, 6:30 p.m.
Lola Arias Post-Show Conversation at Imago Theatre
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SUN, SEPT 15, 12:30 p.m.
TBA Conversation: Lola Arias & Mariano Pensotti at PICA (pg. 89)
SUN, SEPT 15, 3:00 p.m.
Boom Arts Presents: Reading of Guillermo Calderon’s VILLA at White Box at UO
In Guillermo Calderón’s VILLA (2011), three young women debate the future
of a former torture barracks site from the Pinochet dictatorship. Originally
performed inside the infamous Villa Grimaldi, this “spare, intense” play by
one of Chilean theatre’s fiercest new literary voices grapples with the legacy
of atrocity. Translated by William Gregory.
VILLA was originally produced as a co-production between Teatro Playa and Santiago a Mil International
Theater Festival.
SUN, SEPT 15, 4:00 p.m.
The Past in the Present: Young Chileans and the Legacy of Pinochet
Co-presented with Boom Arts at White Box at UO
How are a new generation of Chileans making sense of their shared past within
a post-Pinochet climate? Join Guillermo Calderon (via Skype); Amalia Gladhart,
Professor of Spanish and Head of the Department of Romance Languages at
the University of Oregon; and other special guests for a discussion moderated
by Ruth Wikler-Luker, Curator and Producer, Boom Arts. A reception hosted by
University of Oregon in Portland will take place in the White Box Lobby
immediately following the panel.
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FIELD GUIDE: DANCE
PICA’s new Field Guide program creates context around contemporary dance
through small-group workshops, conversations, online interviews and social
outings to PICA performances. “Upgrade” your performance ticket or pass for
just $10 to access special events ranging from movement exercises to pre-show
workshops led by visiting artists and scholars to social downloads after the performance in the beer garden. Visit pica.org for more details on individual sessions.
NEW CHOREOGRAPHY from
North Africa
PARTICIPATING FIELD GUIDE FACULTY
– Emily Roysdon, artist (Sweden, New York)
– Ariel Osterweis, Ph.D., dance and performance studies scholar (Detroit)
– Tonya Lockyer, dance artist/educator, Artistic Director,
Velocity Dance Center (Seattle)
– Keith Hennessy, choreographer and performance artist (San Francisco)
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– Zoe Scofield, choreographer, zoe I juniper (Seattle)
– Tahni Holt, Danielle Ross, Noelle Stiles, and Robert Tyree of FRONT (Portland)
RELATED PERFORMANCES
Bouchra Ouizguen, Ha! at Imago Theatre (pg. 29)
Nacera Belaza, Le Trait at Con-Way (pg. 33)
Nacera Belaza, Le Cri at Con-Way (pg. 41)
TBA:13 FIELD GUIDE SESSIONS
Full details, times, and locations will be posted on pica.org for each session.
TUE, SEPT 17, 6:30 p.m.
Movement (R)evolution Africa Film Screening at Living Room Theaters
Joan Frosch’s 2007 film uses interviews and performance footage to examine
the work of contemporary choreographers throughout the African continent,
debunking the homogenizing myths that shape persistent perceptions of
“traditional” African dance. Featuring a live Q&A with the filmmaker.
TUE, SEPT 17
Laura Arrington & Jesse Hewit, ADULT
Performance: 8:30 p.m. at Con-Way (pg. 21)
Bouchra Ouizguen & Nacera Belaza
WED, SEPT 18 & FRI, SEPT 20
Field Guide Sessions: Bouchra Ouizguen (pg. 100)
THU, SEPT 19, 9:30 p.m.
Bouchra Ouizguen Post-Show Conversation at Imago Theatre
FRI, SEPT 20, 12:30 p.m.
TBA Conversation: Emily Roysdon in conversation with Bouchra Ouizguen &
Nacera Belaza at PICA (pg. 90)
SUN, SEPT 22, 10:00 a.m.
WORKSHOP: Nacera Belaza at Studio 2 (pg. 94)
SAT, SEPT 14
Trajal Harrell’s Made to Measure
Performance: 8:30 p.m. at Con-Way (pg. 09)
WED, SEPT 18
Bouchra Ouizguen, Ha!
Performance: 8:30 p.m. at Imago Theatre (pg. 29)
THU, SEPT 19
Miguel Gutierrez & the Powerful People, And lose the name of action...
Performance: 8:30 p.m. at Hampton Opera Center (pg. 27)
FRI, SEPT 20
Bouchra Ouizguen, Ha!
Performance: 6:30 p.m. at Imago Theatre (pg. 29)
Engaging Dance Audiences is administered by Dance/USA and made
possible with generous funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
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Frequently asked questions
Where is the box office?
The TBA Central Box Office is located at 415 SW 10th Avenue, outside of the
PICA offices in a yellow trailer.
IS THERE A SERVICE CHARGE ON TICKETS & PASSES?
The per-ticket and per-pass service fees are set by Patron Ticket Services and
are collected on all credit card orders taken online, by phone, and in person.
Can I share my festival pass?
Passes are non-transferable. Your name will be written on your pass and you
will be required to show ID with your pass upon entering each venue.
What if I am late to the show?
As a general rule, there is no late seating. All shows will start promptly as listed.
You must check in no later than 15 minutes before curtain to ensure seating,
even if you have a pass or a pre-purchased individual ticket. At 15 minutes prior
to curtain, any unclaimed seats reserved for pass holders will be opened up for
individual ticket sales.
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If I buy a ticket, does my child get in for free?
Sure, if they can sit on your lap. Otherwise you will need to purchase an
additional ticket. Additionally, while we welcome children and babies, please
note that if there is any disturbance to the live performance, we may have to
ask you to please wait in the lobby.
CAN I BRING MY FAMILY? WHAT SHOWS ARE APPROPRIATE FOR
CHILDREN?
PICA supports artists’ freedom of speech and audiences’ right to choose what
to see and hear. Due to the nature of live performance, we cannot pre-screen all
works for content. Young people are welcome at all shows that are not 21+ only,
at their parents’ discretion. If you have specific concerns or questions, our box
office staff can offer suggestions on shows.
Is there a lost and found?
Lost and found items from all venues will be collected and brought to the TBA
Central Box Office at 415 SW 10th Avenue. Please call 503.224.PICA to inquire
about your item.
What if I forget my pass?
You must purchase a single ticket at the door.
Are venues accessible?
All venues are wheelchair-accessible. Please contact PICA in advance to arrange
use of the elevator/ramp at Conduit.
What if I lose my pass?
Contact PICA immediately and we will assist you in reissuing your pass.
Can I get a refund or exchange my ticket?
All ticket and pass sales are final. There are no refunds or exchanges.
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SUPERHERO
Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
Calligram Foundation
Leslie B. Durst
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
PRESENTING
The Collins Foundation
EMC Arts
Engaging Dance Audiences
James F. & Marion L. Miller Foundation
Maybelle Clark Macdonald Foundation
Meyer Memorial Trust
National Endowment for the Arts
New England Foundation for the Arts
Oregon Arts Commission
The Regional Arts & Culture Council
including support from the City of Portland; Clackamas, Multnomah,
and Washington Counties; and Metro
Dan Wieden & Priscilla Bernard
Work for Art, including contributions from more than 1500 employees
throughout the tri-county region
MAJOR
The C.E. John Company, Inc.
Linda Hutchins & John Montague
National Performance Network
Nordstrom
Oregon Cultural Trust
The Boeing Company
The Kinsman Foundation
The Oregon Community Foundation
The Irene Gerlinger Swindells Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation
Travel Portland
MAJOR MEDIA
Bridgetown Printing
Clear Channel Outdoor
OPB
PosterGarden
Portland Mercury
Portland Monthly
CHAMPION
Darci & Charlie Swindells
Jana Bauman & John Baker
Harry & Claudia Bray
Kristin Bremer & Stephen Moore
Rosine & Colin Evans
Gerding Edlen
Goddard College
Heinz Records/Pink Martini
Julianne & Tim Hershey
Mimi Lettunich & Kris Wiggers
Mike & Mikael McCommon
Sarah & Andrew Meigs
Miller Meigs
Ann K. Millis Fund of
Oregon Community Foundation
M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust
Jane Schiffhauer
John Shipley
Al Solheim
Switchyard Creative
University of Oregon
Dorie & Larry Vollum
PATRON
Hugh d’Autremont
BOORA Architects
car2go
Lucinda Carmichael
Whitney Chapman & Clint Werner
The Equity Foundation
Ellen Fortin & Michael Tingley
Steve & Brook Galloway
Susan Hoffman & Fred Trullinger
Holst Architecture
Deke Hopkins
Deborah Horrell & Kit Gillem
Jon Kellogg, Inc.
Stephanie Kjar & Adam Roth
Peter Koehler, Jr. & Noël Hanlon
Laika/HOUSE
Dorothy Lemelson
McGraw Family Foundation, Inc.
Nike, Inc.
Northwest Natural
Eric Philps & Laura VanHouten
Bonnie Serkin & Will Emery
Susan Sterne & Peter Kellers
Stoel Rives LLC
Jeff Stuhr & Peter Kalen
The Rose E Tucker Chritable Trust
Tonkon Torp LLC
Western States Arts Federation
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SUPPORTER
The Autzen Foundation
Jane & Spencer Beebe &
PDX Contemporary Art
Jennifer Jacobs & William Bennington
Sid Bos
Loulie Brown
Marianne Buchwalter
By Design Legal Graphics, Inc.
Ken & Amy Dice
Cliff & Nora Diver
Kristy Edmunds & Ros Warby
Barnes Ellis
Victoria Frey & Peter Leitner
gallagher designs
Diana Gerding
MK Guth & Greg Landry
Lourri Hammack
HERENOW Creative Network
John Holmes
Terri & Robert Hopkins
Beth Hutchins & Pete Skeggs
Philip J. Iosca
The Jackson Foundation
Mark & Courtney Fitzloff
Kirk & Katie James
Kirk Kelley & Jessica Burton
Stephanie Kjar & Tim Roth
Sally & John Lawrence
Pamela Lloyd & Renny Gleeson
Tom Maher & Kacey Baxter
Julie Mancini & Dennis Bromka
Betsy Miller
C. Alex Miller & Lynn Frey
Casey Mills & Carmen Calzacorta
Beth & John Nouguier
Perkins & Co.
Jim Sampson & Geof Beasley
Sandbox Studio
Paul Schneider & Lauren Eulau
Ethan Seltzer & Melanie Plaut
SERA Architecture
Stephanie & Jonathan Snyder
Kathleen & Leigh Stephenson
Rebecca and Alexander Stewart
Union Bank
Walter D. Calvert Fund of the
Oregon Community Foundation
Wieden + Kennedy
ADVOCATE
Anonymous
Cynthia & Steven Addams
Paula Amato & Eve Golden
Christopher Israel & Jason Bell
Martha Bergman
Eric Busch
Cargo
Annie Duden
Jennifer Dunn
Ferguson Wellman Capital Management
Mark & Courtney Fitzloff
Leonard Gionet & Yvonne Meekcoms
Pam Greene & Hans Kretschmer
Pat & Kelley Harrington
Kay Alys Hutchinson
Philip Iosca & Thomas M. Lauderdale
Dennis Johnson
Kathleen Lewis
Thomas Manley & Susanne Hashim
Daniel Peabody
Barry Pelzner & Deborah Pollack
Pat & Randy Reiten
Jaymi & Francis Sladen
The Standard Insurance
Employee Matching Program
Carol & Elton Storment
Ken & Mary Unkeles
Sharon Urry & Scott Soutter
Kricken & James Yaker
Beth & Brian Zappitello
ENTHUSIAST
Alaska Tanker Company,
LLC Matching Gift Program
Mark Allyn
Baker-Ellis Asset Management, LLC
Daniel Boeckman
Stefanie Carlson
Fred & Michelle Chown
Maryann Deffenbaugh
Sean Doran
Theo & Nancy Downes-Le Guin
Laura & Connor Durrett
Cathy Edwards & Mike Wishnie
Dick & Vicki Frey
Mark Friedman & Mary Elliott
Kyle & Charles Fuchs
Teri & Christopher Gelber
Lorraine Guthrie & Erik Kiaer
Britt Howard
Robert & Pamela Howard
IBM Foundation,
Matching Gift Program
Julie Kim & Dan Root
Lisa Kraus
Le Happy Restaurant
Peter & Karen Leonard
John Light & Patricia Barnes-Light
Jeffrey Morgan
Gayle Mroczkowski
Denise Mullen
Martin Müller
Steve Neighorn
Jill Sherman & Marc Monaghan
Lori & Dick Singer
Sylvia & George Sterne
Kim Thomas & John Morrison
George & Nancy Thorn
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INNOVATOR
Carole Alexander
Robert Bricker
Gary Hartnett & Eloise Damrosch
Cerinda Survant & David Kaplin
Kathy Lombardi
Janet & Ron Lunde
Carter & Jenny MacNichol
David & Melissa Rue
Jessica Scarborough
Sallee Humphrey & David Hyman
Carole Zoom
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CONTRIBUTOR
Jamin Aasum
Marika van Adelsberg
Ruby Apsler
Kavita Bali
Kimberly Barta & Jeffrey Wallin
Andrew Billing & Sara DeWaay
Fred & Bettina Blank
Samantha Brody & Jonathan Eisner
Dennis Brown & Dave Meeker
Amber Buker
Sue Horn-Caskey & Rick Caskey
Donna Avedisian & Craig Chanti
Grace Chung
Dermott Cleary & Rachael Spavins
Kirsten Collins
Philip & Melinda Conti
David Creech & Shanin Andrew
Bryan Deaner
Charles & Gail Dickel
Martha Dixon
Jan & Jon DuClos
Kathryn Dapcic & Harry Dudley
Daniel Duford & Tracy Schlapp
Leiv Fagereng
Sally Finch
Nick Fish
Melanie Flood & Matt Smith
Nick Gideonse
Gary Golla & Jeanie Lai
Wendy Hambidge & Craig Redfern
John & Janice Jablonski
Allen Johnson
Pauline Kim
Yoshio & Nikki Kurosaki
Cynthia Kirk & Jim Leisy
Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson
& Jack Wiarda
Juliette Levy
Joyce Lozito
Linda Meng
Holly Meyer
Monograph Bookwerks
Jordan & Taylor Morrell
Trude Parkinson
Patrick Leonard & Amanda Peden
Ruthie & David Petty
Steven Pinger & Katharine Sammons
Lisa Berkson Platt & David Platt
Ricoh USA
Rob Robbins and Mary Morris
Bradley Rogers
William Romanelli
Reuben Roqueñi & Marlana Donehoo
Cara Rozell
Daniel and Diane Sagalowicz
Jerry & Diana Sellers
Larry Shatuck & Kim Carlson
John Slocum & Margaret Doolen
Lydia Stacy
Ellen Thomas & Frederic Cann
Barry Tonkin
M. Howard Weinstein
Peter Zuckerman
Mark Zusman & Brenda Bonnell
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FROM
Ace Hotel
Allied Fire & Security
Anne Amie Vineyards
Clear Channel Communications
Fieldwork Flowers
Full Sail Brewing Co.
The Georgia Straight
Grand Central Restaurant & Bowling Lounge
Hewlett Packard
Hotel Fifty
Kink FM
Lane Powell Attorneys & Counselors
Living Room Theaters
The Mac Store
The Mark Spencer Hotel
Claudia Meza
Magnolia Properties
Mitchell Wines
Noetic Design, Inc.
North Country Productions, Alan T. Jones
Pacific Grip and Lighting
The Paramount Hotel
Parrilli Renison
Pattern People
PINO
Raptor Ridge Winery
Sandbox Studio
Sequence Press
Showdrape, Inc.
Simpatica Catering
Small Vineyards
Stumptown Coffee
Wine Bridge Imports
TBA PUBLIC PARTNERS
Commissioner Nick Fish, City of Portland
Chris D’Arcy, Oregon Arts Commission/Oregon Cultural Trust
Eloise Damrosch, Regional Arts & Culture Council
Todd Davidson, Oregon Tourism Commission
Karen Goddin, Oregon Economic & Community Development Department
Anne Mangan, Portland Development Commission
Jeff Miller, Travel Portland
Deborah Edward, Business for Culture and the Arts
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PICA & TBA FESTIVAL
CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP
Visit pica.org or call 503.242.1419
PICA is the creative economy in action. Become a Corporate Sponsor and
declare your business to be a cultural leader. Your support will help PICA to
fund artist residencies and commissions, subsidize free programs, engage in
a civic dialogue with the community, and continue to bring leading-edge
contemporary art to Portland.
Benefits of being a sponsor include:
–Connecting with PICA’s community of vibrant and educated art enthusiasts, who embrace innovation and exploration.
–Unique and memorable experiences with contemporary art for your staff
and clients.
–Invitations to exclusive sponsor receptions.
–Acknowledgement listings in printed materials, on donor walls, and on the
PICA website.
–Invitations to visiting and resident artist events year-round.
–Member benefits for your employees including discounts on TBA Festival passes and tickets, discounts to year-round performances and events, and discounts on PICA merchandise and publications.
Double your impact
All new or increased corporate gifts up to $1,000 will be generously matched by
the Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund. Make a gift today to help us reach our
matching goal of $75,000. Double your support of contemporary art and artists.
Other ways to support PICA
–Donate in-kind services, such as construction, design, or printing.
–Donate materials and goods such as lumber, computers, frequent flyer miles,
or projectors.
–Become a PICA volunteer!
PICA BOARD AND LEADERSHIP
Board of Trustees
Betsy Miller, Chair
Eric Philps, Vice Chair
Susan Sterne, Treasurer
Kristin Bremer, Secretary
Jana Bauman
Harry Bray
Kristin Bremer
Lucinda Carmichael
Hugh d’Autremont
Barnes Ellis
Rosine Evans
Ellen Fortin
Steve Galloway
Julianne Hershey
C. Alex Miller
Reuben Roqueñi
Jane Schiffauer
Jill Sherman
Jeff Stuhr
Kricken Yaker
Leadership Council
Howard Shapiro, Founding Chair
Gene d’Autremont
Leslie B. Durst
Pat Harrington
Kirk Kelley
Peter Koehler, Jr.
Julie Mancini
Ethan Seltzer
Kathleen Stephenson-Kuhn
Tiffany Sweitzer
Michael Tingley
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Advisory Board
Edward Albee
Linda Brumbach
Ann Carlson
Kristy Edmunds
Cathy Edwards
Carol Hepper
Philip Glass
Ralph Lemon
Mark Russell
Melissa Schiff Soros
Robert Soros
Rebecca Stewart
Sally M. Stillman
Elizabeth Streb
Dan Wieden
Paul Zumwalt
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ARTIST/STUDENT $35
INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIP $50
Discounts on TBA Festival passes and tickets + Discounts on year-round
performances and events + Discounts on PICA merchandise and publications +
Access to PICA’s Resource Room, containing over 3,000 books, periodicals, and
recordings + Discounts at local businesses and art organizations + Discounts
on art and culture magazine subscriptions + Advance program and ticket
information + Subscription to email newsletter for the latest PICA updates
DUAL $75
All above benefits + Additional card for partner or guest
CONTRIBUTOR $100
All above benefits + Acknowledgement listing in printed materials
and on Donor Wall at THE WORKS at TBA
PICA MEMBERSHIP LEVELS
Visit pica.org, call 503.242.1419,
or email [email protected]
A PICA membership supports the presentation of performances
and visual art installations, subsidizes residencies, commissions new projects from emerging and established artists, and
promotes our education and outreach activities. Support our
work while saving money on everything you love about PICA,
Portland, and contemporary art!
DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT
The Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund will generously match all
new or increased donations up to $1,000 dollar-for-dollar. Make
a gift today to help us reach our matching goal of $75,000.
Double your support of contemporary art and artists.
INNOVATOR $175
All above benefits + Invitations to social networking events
supporting Portland’s creative industries
ENTHUSIAST $250
All above benefits + Invitations to visiting and resident artist events
year-round
ADVOCATE $ 500
All above benefits + Invitations to TBA Sponsor Reception +
Acknowledgement listing on Donor Panel at PICA
SUPPORTER $1,000
All above benefits + A Dual Level Membership for family or friends +
Invitations to special artist receptions
PATRON $2,500
All above benefits + Invitations to participate in private Visual Art Tours
with curatorial staff + Exclusive opportunities for PICA-led travel with
artistic and curatorial staff
CHAMPION $5,000
All above benefits + Two complimentary TBA Festival Immersion Passes
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TBA FESTIVAL STAFF
PICA STAFF
Victoria Frey
Executive Director
Angela Mattox
Artistic Director
Chris Rousseau
Festival Production Manager
Erin Boberg Doughton
Performing Arts Program Director
TBA TECHNICAL directors
Bill Boese
Jeff Forbes
James Mapes
Kayla Scrivner
TC Smith
Kristan Kennedy
Visual Art Curator
Roya Amirsoleymani
Community Engagement Manager
Heather Donahue
Curatorial Assistant & Gallery Manager
Elise Bartow
Development Associate, Special Events
Jamie Edwards
Graphic Designer
Beth Hutchins
Finance Manager
Patrick Leonard
Communications Director
Kate Merrill
Institutional Giving Manager
Jane Wood
Development Manager
SPECIAL EVENTS INTERNS
Robin Boedecker, Ashley Vaughan
DEVELOPMENT INTERN
Susie Rumsby, Deidre Lyons-Keefe
PERFORMANCE PROGRAM INTERNS
Jackie Davis, Sarah Turner
OUTREACH & INSTITUTE INTERNS
Amber Buker, Hannah Bulkley,
Amy Fredericks, Coco Kapfer,
Jane Selivanova, Meagan Winkelman
Kent Richardson
Head Preparator
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THE WORKS Coordinator
Irisa McCausland
THE WORKS Front of House Manager
WESTON SMITH
THE WORKS Late Night Front
of House Manager
LIZ CALDERÓN
THE WORKS Food Producer
Assistant PreparatorS
Daniel Glendening, Danridge Geiger,
Tim Stagliano, Rene Allen
JAKE SHEFFIELD
THE WORKS Food Producer
ELIZABETH SPAVENTO
Box Office Manager
ALLEGRA JONGEWARD
Resource Room Annex
CASEY SZOT
Volunteer Coordinator
Jesse Champlin
Guidebook Color Correction
WILL ELDER
Artist Services Coordinator
Jonathan Fine
Guidebook Editing
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SCHEDULE:
PERFORMANCE & THE WORKS
For Visual Art dates and gallery hours, see page 44.
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Imago
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Con-Way
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BodyVox
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Schnitzer
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Con-Way
017 Trajal Harrell, Antigone
Con-Way
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Sun 15
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Tues 17
Wed 18
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Fri 20
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Con-Way
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OMSI
60
7:30pm
11:59pm
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Opera
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6:30pm
6:30pm
6:30pm
029 Bouchra Ouizguen
Imago
60
8:30pm
8:30pm
8:30pm
031 Itai Erdal
Imago
60
6:30pm
6:30pm
033 Nacera Belaza, Le Trait
Con-Way
100
8:30pm
8:30pm
035 Daniel Barrow
Whitsell
60
6:30pm
037 Karen Sherman
BodyVox
60
8:30pm
8:30pm
4:30pm
039 Ivana Müller
Con-Way
60
12:30pm
12:30pm
039 Ivana Müller
Con-Way
60
2:30pm
2:30pm
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Con-Way
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Sat 14
Sun 15
Mon 16
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Wed 18
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Studio 2
120
10:00am
089 Trajal Harrell Talk
PICA
60
12:30pm
097 Judson NOW Book Launch/Lec. PICA
60
3:00pm
097 FILM: Paris Is Burning
Whitsell
80
5:00pm
093 WKSHP: Keith Hennessy
Studio 2
120
10:00am
089 Arias/Pensotti Talk
PICA
60
12:30pm
098 Calderon VILLA reading
White Box
60
3:00pm
098 Chilean Artist Panel
White Box
60
4:00pm
089 Krystal South Talk
PICA
60
089 Jamie Isenstein Talk
PICA
60
12:30pm
099 FILM: Movement (R)evolution
Living Room
65
6:30pm
090 Arrington/Hewit Talk
PICA
60
093 WKSHP: K.J. Holmes
Studio 2
120
10:00am
090 Ieva Miseviciute Talk
PICA
60
12:30pm
094 WKSHP: Luke George
Studio 2
120
090 Belaza/Ouizguen Talk
PICA
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090 Sherman/Austin Talk
PICA
60
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Studio 2
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Sat 21
Sun 22
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SCHEDULE: DAY-BY-DAY
SCHEDULE: DAY-BY-DAY
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
10:00 p.m.
WORKSHOP: Laura Arrington & Jesse Hewit, Studio 2
7:00 p.m.
Opening Night Dinner
12:30 p.m.
TBA Conversation: Trajal Harrell, PICA
9:00 p.m.
THE WORKS Opening, Con-Way
3:00 p.m.
Judy Hussie-Taylor, Lecture and Book Launch, PICA
10:30 p.m.
THE WORKS: The Julie Ruin, Con-Way
4:30 p.m.
Lola Arias with Post-Show Conversation, Imago Theatre
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
5:00 p.m.
Paris Is Burning, NWFC Whitsell Auditorium
12:30 p.m.
TBA Conversation: Performing Pop with The Blow, PICA
6:30 p.m.
Pieter Ampe & Guilherme Garrido, Winningstad Theater (PCPA)
6:30 p.m.
Pieter Ampe & Guilherme Garrido, Winningstad Theater (PCPA)
Lola Arias, Imago Theatre
8:00 p.m.
Meow Meow & Thomas M. Lauderdale w/Oregon Symphony,
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
8:30 p.m.
Trajal Harrell, Made-to-Measure, Con-Way
bobbevy / Suniti Dernovsek & David Stein, BodyVox
8:30 p.m.
Trajal Harrell, Made-to-Measure, Con-Way
bobbevy / Suniti Dernovsek & David Stein, BodyVox
10:30 p.m.
THE WORKS: Peter Burr, Con-Way
10:30 p.m.
THE WORKS: Critical Mascara, Con-Way
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SCHEDULE: DAY-BY-DAY
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
10:00 a.m.
Workshop: Keith Hennessy, Studio 2
12:30 p.m.
TBA Conversation: Lola Arias & Mariano Pensotti, PICA
3:00 p.m.
Boom Arts Translated Reading of Guillermo Calderon’s VILLA,
UO White Box
4:00 p.m.
Panel: The Past in the Present: Young Chileans and the Legacy of
Pinochet, UO White Box
4:30 p.m.
Linda Austin & David Eckard, Con-Way
6:00 p.m.
Trajal Harrell, Antigone Jr., Con-Way
6:30 p.m.
Lola Arias, Imago Theatre
8:30 p.m.
bobbevy / Suniti Dernovsek & David Stein, BodyVox
The Blow, Winningstad Theatre (PCPA)
10:30 p.m.
THE WORKS: Nick Hallett and Like a Villain, Con-Way
12:30 p.m.
TBA Conversation: Krystal South, PICA
6:30 p.m.
bobbevy / Suniti Dernovsek & David Stein, BodyVox
Linda Austin & David Eckard, Con-Way
8:30 p.m.
The Blow, Winningstad Theatre (PCPA)
Laura Arrington & Jesse Hewit, Con-Way
10:30 p.m.
THE WORKS: Getting to Know You(Tube), Con-Way
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
12:30 p.m.
TBA Conversation: Jamie Isenstein with Stephanie Snyder, PICA
6:30 p.m.
Movement (R)evolution Africa, Living Room Theaters
7:30 p.m.
Third Angle New Music Ensemble, OMSI Planetarium
8:30 p.m.
Laura Arrington & Jesse Hewit, Con-Way
10:30 p.m.
THE WORKS: Wishful Thinking, Con-Way
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
SCHEDULE: DAY-BY-DAY
12:30 p.m.
TBA Conversation: Laura Arrington & Jesse Hewit, PICA
8:30 p.m.
Bouchra Ouizguen, with Post-Show Talk, Imago Theatre
Nacera Belaza, Le Trait & Le Temps Scellé, Con-Way
6:30 p.m.
Miguel Gutierrez, Hampton Opera Center
Linda Austin & David Eckard, Con-Way
10:30 p.m.
THE WORKS: DUBAIS, Con-Way
7:30 p.m.
Third Angle New Music Ensemble, OMSI Planetarium
8:30 p.m.
Laura Arrington & Jesse Hewit, Con-Way
Bouchra Ouizguen, Imago Theatre
10:30 p.m.
THE WORKS: Ieva Miseviciute, Con-Way
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
10:00 a.m.
Workshop: K.J. Holmes, Studio 2
12:30 p.m.
TBA Conversation: Ieva Miseviciute & Summer Guthery, PICA
6:00 p.m.
Jamie Isenstein Opening Reception, Cooley Gallery
6:30 p.m.
Itai Erdal, Imago Theatre
Miguel Gutierrez, Hampton Opera Center
11:59 p.m.
Third Angle New Music Ensemble, OMSI Planetarium
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
10:00 a.m.
Workshop: Luke George, Studio 2
12:30 p.m.
TBA Conversation: Emily Roysdon in conversation with Bouchra
Ouizguen and Nacera Belaza, PICA
6:30 p.m.
Itai Erdal, Imago Theatre
Daniel Barrow, NWFC Whitsell Auditorium
Miguel Gutierrez, Hampton Opera Center
8:30 p.m.
Bouchra Ouizguen, Imago Theatre
Nacera Belaza, Le Trait & Le Temps Scellé, Con-Way
Karen Sherman, BodyVox
10:30 p.m.
THE WORKS: Alexandro Segade, Con-Way
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SCHEDULE: DAY-BY-DAY
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
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Workshop: Miguel Gutierrez, Studio 2
12:30 p.m.
TBA Conversation: Karen Sherman and Linda Austin, PICA
Ivana Müller, Con-Way
2:30 p.m.
Ivana Müller, Con-Way
4:30 p.m.
Ivana Müller, Con-Way
6:30 p.m.
Itai Erdal, Imago Theatre
Miguel Gutierrez, Hampton Opera Center
8:30 p.m.
Nacera Belaza, Le Cri, Con-Way
Daniel Barrow, NWFC Whitsell Auditorium
Karen Sherman, BodyVox
10:30 p.m.
THE WORKS: Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang, Con-Way
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
10:00 a.m.
Workshop: Nacera Belaza, Studio 2
12:30 p.m.
Ivana Müller, Con-Way
2:30 p.m.
Ivana Müller, Con-Way
4:30 p.m.
Karen Sherman, BodyVox
Ivana Müller, Con-Way
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TRAVELING TO TBA
BE OUR GUEST
Out-of-town TBA Festival attendees receive generous discounts on TBA passes
simply by showing out-of-state ID or an international passport. Contact the
PICA Box Office at 503.224.PICA (7422) in August to reserve your pass.
TBA RESOURCES
THE ALL NEW PICA.ORG
We completely revamped our website this year, making it easier than ever to
discover TBA artists and events. Visit pica.org and explore related events, connected artists, and hours of video, audio, and other digital content. We’re live on
your desktop, tablet, or smartphone, so you can find us at home or on-the-go.
TBA GROUP TRAVEL
For Time-Based Art travel packages customized especially for your organization, contact Jennifer Jacobs at [email protected] or call
toll-free (866) 362-1039.
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TRAVEL PORTLAND
For travel deals and discounts on dining, shopping, and the arts, please visit the
official tourism and travel site of Portland at travelportland.com or call toll-free
1.87.PORTLAND.
Special thanks to:
PORTLAND ART FOCUS
PICA BLOG
Now fully connected at pica.org/blog, we’ll post TBA previews, interviews
with Festival artists, and all sorts of behind-the-scenes errata in the lead-up
to this year’s action. Once TBA begins, make sure to check back regularly for
dispatches from our volunteer corps of writers covering all the events.
MAKE FRIENDS WITH PICA
The PICA staff are on the move and all over town during the Festival. Keep up
with us through our social networks for daily photos, press rundowns, and the
latest schedule updates.
twitter.com/P_I_C_A
#tba13
instagram.com/picatba
facebook.com/PICAPDX
flickr.com/photos/pica
An association of academic and nonprofit museums and galleries in alliance
with the Portland Art Dealers Association. Plan your Portland art tour at
padaoregon.org.
WEST END PORTLAND
A young neighborhood with an old past, the West End is bringing new energy to
the central city with shops, restaurants, hotels, and PICA’s new headquarters.
We’re the Portland you’re thinking of. wepdx.com
TRAVEL SPONSORS
information
VENUES
8. NW Film Center Whitsell Auditorium
at Portland Art Museum
1. Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall:
Portland Center for the Performing Arts
9. OMSI - Kendall Planetarium
1001 SW Broadway (at Main) / Bus Stop ID #7767(N), 13168(S)
2. BodyVox Dance Center
1201 NW 17th Ave. / Streetcar Stop ID #10776(N), 10751 (S)
3. Con-Way (THE WORKS)
2170 NW Raleigh St. / Bus Stop ID #7130(N), 7132(S)
4. Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College
3203 SW Woodstock Blvd., in Reed’s library / Bus Stop ID # 7360(N), 7358(S)
5. Hampton Opera Center
1219 SW Park Ave./ Streetcar Stop ID #10759(S), 6493(N)
1945 SE Water Ave. / Streetcar Stop ID #13615(N/S)
10. Philip Feldman Gallery at PNCA
1241 NW Johnson St./ Streetcar Stop ID #10753(S), 10773(N)
11. PICA
415 SW 10th Ave. (Suite 300) / Streetcar Stop ID #10769(N), 9600(S)
12. Portland Museum of Modern Art
5202 N Albina Ave. / Bus Stop ID #94(N), 95(S)
13. Studio 2 at Zoomtopia
810 SE Belmont St. / Bus Stop ID #465(E), 4026(W)
211 SE Caruthers St. / Streetcar Stop ID #13615(N/S)
6. Imago Theatre
14. The White Box at UO Portland
24 NW 1st Ave. / MAX Stop ID #8388(N), 8379(S)
17 SE 8th Ave. / Bus Stop ID #820(E), 13329(W)
7. Living Room Theaters
341 SW 10th Ave./ Streetcar Stop ID #10769(N), 9600(S)
15. Winningstad Theatre: Portland Center for the
Performing Arts
1111 SW Broadway (at Main) / Bus Stop ID #7767(N), 13168(S)
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