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Over the course of the next few posts, we’ll share artist interviews and insights about this year’s ON SIGHT visual arts line-up. You can experience all of TBA:09’s visual arts installations from Sept 4 – 13, every day 12 – … Continue reading →

Each week in August, TBA:09 Artistic Director Cathy Edwards will zero in on different artists and projects coming to the Time-Based Art Festival September 3-13. This is the final post of the series. The TBA Festival this year features not-to-be-missed … Continue reading →

Each week in August, TBA:09 Artistic Director Cathy Edwards will zero in on different artists and projects coming to the Time-Based Art Festival this September. This is the third post of the series. The second week of the TBA:09 Festival … Continue reading →

Since the beginning of August, artist-in-residence Fawn Krieger has been at work creating her National Park, on site at Washington High School. All day and into the evenings, the halls have been filled with the sounds of chop saws, drills … Continue reading →

Each week, from now until TBA:09, Guest Artistic Director Cathy Edwards will zero in on different artists and pieces coming to the festival. When I first started to watch contemporary dance, one of my bright-light moments was seeing Meg Stuart’s … Continue reading →

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 →