Category Archives: Art

Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People/LAST MEADOW Posted by: Benjamin Ford Asriel Know this: I’m biased. When I first encountered Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People, I was a college student and a comparative troglodyte. Seeing MGPP popped my dance-cherry … Continue reading →

Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company: The Shipment (Gerding Theater) By Jens Larson The reviews from Young Jean Lee‘s four-week run of The Shipment in New York were almost uniformly positive, and for good reason. Performed in three vignettes, the play’s … Continue reading →

Explode Into Colors, Janet Pants, & Chris Hackett (Los Moustachios), EYES HANDS MOUTH Posted by: Jim Withington Explode into Colors (and crew) played an evening set full of video art, short story vignettes, and endurance-flaunting solo dance tonight, but what … Continue reading →

I like performance art as much as the next girl. Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People’s Last Meadow features all the mainstays of performance art. Overwhelming industrial soundscape, wigs, cross dressing, simulated masturbation, simulated intercourse, repetition, witty monologues, innovative dance/movement. … Continue reading →

On Sight Opening at The Works, 09.03.09 Posted by: Jim Radosta Photo by: Kenneth Aaron While most kids are dreading going back to school next week, contemporary art lovers jumped at the opportunity during TBA’s opening celebration last night. The … Continue reading →

Noontime Chat – TBA in a Nutshell posted by laura becker Last year, on the eve of his departure, Mark Russell gave a passionate, sincere, charmingly rambling postlude to his three years as director of the festival. The PICA staff … Continue reading →

ON SIGHT Opening posted by: laura becker My anticipation for TBA, building up over the past couple weeks of arranging schedules and re-reading the catalogue, turned into an all out fever by last night as I putzed around my kitchen … Continue reading →

Gang Gang Dance, opening night performance at the Works By Jens Larson With more than seventy-five fans dancing on stage during the encore, the band is lucky they only lost the drumsticks. Some of the burlier fans could have lumbered … Continue reading →

Tim DuRoche pens a response to DK Row’s commentary in the Oregonian this morning. Did you read this morning’s Oregonian and the disingenuous commentary by David Row, “Whither the Time-Based Art Festival?” Behind the not entirely insincere wish that it … Continue reading →