Category Archives: Art

For those of you following us on Twitter, you may have seen our big Twittercast today. Below is the full lineup with more information on the artists and their projects. Festival Passes are on sale now so get ready to dive in.
Details:
2009 Time-Based Art Festival (TBA:09)
September 3 – 13, 2009, visual exhibitions and installations through October, 2009
Portland, Oregon USA
Festival Passes on sale NOW : 503.242.1419
www.pica.org
Locations and venues to be announced.
FESTIVAL CURATORS
Cathy Edwards, Artistic Director
Erin Boberg Doughton, Performing Arts Program Director
Kristan Kennedy, Visual Art Program Director
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) presents the 2009 Time-Based Art Festival (TBA:09), PICA’s annual convergence of contemporary performance, dance, music, new media and visual arts projects in Portland, OR USA from September 3-13, 2009 with visual art installations continuing through October, 2009. Now in its seventh year, the TBA Festival celebrates every form of contemporary art and is one of the only festivals of its kind in North America.
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You’ve been involved with PICA since the mid-nineties–a long time! Can you give five reasons why you’ve been a PICA supporter for so long? David Bragdon: I joined early on to support Kristy Edmunds efforts to bring creative new work … Continue reading →

PICA’s Visual Art Program Director, Kristan Kennedy just got back from her annual pilgrimage to the sprawling art fair that is the Armory Show. When Kennedy travels she sends back stream of consciousness emails about the work she sees to … Continue reading →

Holcombe Waller’s Into the Dark Unknown is on a special NPR Top 100 Songs To Make Out To. Take a listen to the saucy aural audio. Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! Also, get ready for his performances of Into the Dark … Continue reading →

Get a feel for what is to come with Ethan Rose’s Oaks Park concert next week. Both the Portland Mercury and Willamette Week have done some great interviews with Ethan. “Rose’s infatuation with utilizing the fruits of the ancient Wurlitzer … Continue reading →

Holocene Records and PICA are throwing a roller rink party to launch the new album by PDX’s own Ethan Rose, whose music was recently used in Gus Van Sant’s movie Paranoid Park. Rose’s haunting electronic music reminds me of Colleen, … Continue reading →

Tim Crouch / England 09.08.08 at Elizabeth Leach Gallery Tim Crouch Hannah Ringham 2008 Time-Based Art Festival, PICA Photo by Axel Nastansky All Rights Reserved, PICA Here we are, a few weeks from when the festival ended, and here I … Continue reading →

I do not think we can take full credit, or even any credit for the impulses of artists. Although it is kind of strange that several of our TBA alumni take to shearing off their hair post festival. (e.g. Nature … Continue reading →

—Emily Katz This show begins in silence. I hear the shuffle of people in the audience, and then we all quiet ourselves and a small young woman moves onto stage, in only jeans, with no top, completely bare chested, with … Continue reading →