Category Archives: Art

My little copy of the TBA catalogue has become dog-eared from browsing and now lays open flat in some places. I carry it like a little prayer book to work and dinners, sticking purple tabs on the events of special … Continue reading →

David Eckard’s “Float” The wait’s almost over. It would be impossible to overstate how much I’ve been anticipating David Eckard’s piece “Float.” You should know by now that Eckard employs sometimes ultilitarian, sometimes baroque sculpture in performance that has components … Continue reading →

photo credit: Serena Davidson Stan’s Cafe: When Food Commodities and TBA Collide. by LIZZY CASTON Rice. White. Long Grain. In 50 Pound Bags. 10,866 Pounds of Rice. Can you find it? When PICA asked me to help find rice for … Continue reading →

For those of you who missed it, DK Row of the Oregonian had a great front-page piece on PICA’s own Kristan Kennedy, providing a bit of behind-the-scenes insight into her art, her tireless work for PICA and her inspirations (a … Continue reading →

TBA 05- The dancers stood on a set of black stairs they had painstakingly constructed themselves from a grid of moveable pillars. Earlier in the performance the pillars had constricted them, causing tense, tight patterns of movement. But as the … Continue reading →

Jeff Jahn at the local blog PORT recently posted about TBA artist David Eckard’s own blog chronicling the development of his soon-to-be revealed performance contraption, Float. One part logistics, one part meditation on his historical sources, and one part humorous … Continue reading →

Looking beyond PICA’s TBA Festival, here’s the first word about the second annual Runway to Rooftop fashion show benefiting Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. The show, sponsored in part by Nordstrom will feature, according to the press release, designs from … Continue reading →

PICA’s Time Based Art Festival starts the first week of September. http://www.pica.org/tba As tickets are really starting to move, I was just figuring out how I could see as much of everything as possible, get from one venue to another, … Continue reading →

I think I remember hearing my grandfather (God rest his soul) talk about having seen Kiki and Herb perform at the Coconut Club in Guam, back when he was stationed there in the late fifties. Of course I could be … Continue reading →

When I learned that Laurie Anderson would be performing for the TBA festival this year, my reaction was something like- “Are you effing serious?” You see, I have this bad habit of crudely asking people to confirm the factuality of … Continue reading →