Category Archives: Art

Superamas: BIG 3rd Episode (happy/end) 09.12.08 at Lincoln Hall Auditorium 2008 Time-Based Art Festival, PICA Photo by Patrick Sullivan All Rights Reserved, PICA You really need to go see this show tonight. No really. If you’re a TBA fan, you … Continue reading →

Photo: Patrick Sullivan posted by patrick leonard As the fog billows up just outside a set of sliding glass doors, the audience witnesses a purely-Kubrick moment. A cosmonaut, in illuminated helmet, carefully explores a suburban patio to the swelling strings … Continue reading →

Dance-offs, Deconstruction, and Reiteration: Oh My! By Wayne Bund I don’t know where to start. Feisty dance offs. Gorgeous actors on stage repeatedly undressing and exposing themselves. A lip-synched lecture of Jacque Derrida given from an exercise machine. A reenacted … Continue reading →

Such a pleasing mess. I’ll be the first to admit that I am not usually a fan of large-scale chaotic installations that streamline sculpture and painting into something unrecognizable. Yet the latest creation by the artist collective PAINTALLICA, on view … Continue reading →

Keep It Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism with The Yes Men is the first major exhibition by the largely faceless group of international impostors and I couldn’t be more pleased that it’s happening in Portland and in conjunction with TBA. The Yes … Continue reading →

I have such a crush on Vivarium Studio. I have mooned over The Itching of the Wings for two years now, and now have new fodder in L’Effet de Serge. This performance was sweet and heartening, something art seldom manages … Continue reading →

Zidane: a 21st Century Portrait documents one of modern football’s finest players during the course of a match between Real Madrid and Villareal on April 23, 2005. Using 17 cameras, all trained on the title character, the film documents literally … Continue reading →