Monthly Archives: September 2008

Lizzie Fitch / Big Skin

Posted on September 12, 2008 by pica-blogger

Lizzie Fitch / Big Skin What Are You Wearing? Posted by: Donald Allgeier Photo: Aaron Igler     Walking into Lizzie Fitch‘s installation from a sun and heat-drenched outer world, I was a bit delirious. The underground space she had transformed … Continue reading →

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Geisha by Leesaar The Company

Posted on September 11, 2008 by pica-blogger

I found the experience of watching a dancer dance without music oddly transfixing. Not a note played at the opening of LeeSaar The Company’s production of Geisha. As Jye-Hwei Lin came to the stage, she was nothing but vulnerable, as … Continue reading →

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Tiago Guedes – Materiais Diversos

Posted on September 11, 2008 by pica-blogger

Tiago Guedes/ Materiais Diversos 09.09.08 at Winningstad Theatre 2008 Time-Based Art Festival, PICA Photo by Jennifer Erickson All Rights Reserved, PICA Posted by Dusty Hoesly Tiago Guedes is phenomenal. His show Materiais Diversos (Various Materials) is a joyful, funny, and … Continue reading →

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Daniel Beaty: “Resurrection”

Posted on September 11, 2008 by pica-blogger

Photo by Axel Nastansky All Rights Reserved, PICA by Abe Ingle For his TBA rendition of “Resurrection,” Daniel Beaty stripped his show from a fully-cast and set performance to a powerfully minimal one man show. With only six pieces of … Continue reading →

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Au at the Works

Posted on September 11, 2008 by pica-blogger

posted by Seth Nehil photo by Carole Zoom Luke Wyland is a restless composer. He is constantly experimenting, tweaking and changing his songs, searching for new sounds. He will often alter the instrumentation, tempo, syncopation and mood of a song … Continue reading →

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Topless Waterfront Rollerblader Part of TBA:08?

Posted on September 11, 2008 by pica-blogger

Diary | Age 30 Wednesday, September 10, 2008 5:42pm [Car-pooling home, near SW Naito Pwy and Alder] Patrick: “Whoa, is that a…” Sarah: “Yeah, that woman is totally naked. Well, bikini bottom & rollerblades” [Rollerblader stretches and does some twirly … Continue reading →

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Day is Done by Mike Kelley

Posted on September 11, 2008 by pica-blogger

Day is done by the time Day is Done is done. Elizabeth Cowin First, I am angry at the audacity of anyone who creates a film 169 minutes long and seriously expects people to sit through it. Second, I am … Continue reading →

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Nollifur

Posted on September 11, 2008 by pica-blogger

Nollifur James Maxwell For being just one guy on stage with a keyboard and a beat box Nollifur produced one hell of a show Wednesday night at the Leftbank Project. As I walked into the venue I knew I had … Continue reading →

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Tiago Guedes – Um Solo

Posted on September 11, 2008 by pica-blogger

Posted by: Jenevive Tatiana The careful blankness of the stage encourages a sense of anticipation that allows the simplest of gestures and rawest of materials to assume multiple meanings. A series of paper bags are so crisply arranged that they … Continue reading →

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Tiago Guedes – Materiais Diversos (Various Materials)

Posted on September 11, 2008 by kristan

Last night was the last of three performances of Tiago Guedes’ Materiais Diversos downtown at the Portland Center for Performing Arts. When Guedes first walks onto the blank stage he appears to be a perfectly normal fellow. Clean haircut, baby blue t-shirt, khakis, and Converse sneakers. But as soon as he begins you know that everything for the next hour will be anything but obvious.
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