Urban Honking

DA: “You want them to know, you want them to hear and see and understand, so you try to say it in a song, right?  Like, ehm…you are writing these lyrics to push it under their skin, so they are experiencing it how you experience it. So you are telling this story. “ RB: “…Well…yeah […]

DA: “You want them to know, you want them to hear and see and understand, so you try to say it in a song, right?  Like, ehm…you are writing these lyrics to push it under their skin, so they are experiencing it how you experience it. So you are telling this story. “ RB: “…Well…yeah […]

The Mercy Corps benefit organized by Zeb Andrews raised close to $1600 tonight. Thank you to everyone who donated art work, purchased pieces, participated and helped make this event a success! And thank you Zeb for making it all happen. If you missed the First Thursday sale, there is still an opportunity to purchase photos […]

Video by Matthew DiTullo, song courtesy of Explode Into Colors/Claudia Meza. THERE’S NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT. This September, PICA’s ninth-annual Time-Based Art Festival takes over Portland, Oregon, for an all-hours, city-wide happening of contemporary performance and visual art. The Festival gathers artists for morning workshops, expands the conversation with afternoon talks and salons, fills […]

Video by Matthew DiTullo, song courtesy of Explode Into Colors/Claudia Meza. THERE’S NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT. This September, PICA’s ninth-annual Time-Based Art Festival takes over Portland, Oregon, for an all-hours, city-wide happening of contemporary performance and visual art. The Festival gathers artists for morning workshops, expands the conversation with afternoon talks and salons, fills […]

Chris Rice is an avid contributor to the cultural feedback loop of the digital archive. This tight little number is a formal re-creation of Tony Conrad‘s Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plane (1972; performed below in 2006) using hair metal hero/has-been Jim Gillette‘s (of Nitro) scream.

Chris Rice is an avid contributor to the cultural feedback loop of the digital archive. This tight little number is a formal re-creation of Tony Conrad‘s Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plane (1972; performed below in 2006) using hair metal hero/has-been Jim Gillette‘s (of Nitro) scream.

The Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley is hosting a symposium this week on the changing modes of presenting performance and visual art, and both Erin and Kristan will be speaking on a panel there. The conference will dive into the questions raised by visual artists working with a performance-based set of tools, and traditional […]