Saturday September 10, 2005

12:30 PM : TBA: Hip Hop Strategies Chat @ PNCA

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Hip Hop Strategies: The Art & Science of Rhythm & Collaboration
Saturday Sept 10
12:30-1:30 pm, PNCA
Reed College Anthropology professor Paul Silverstein speaks with TBA artists
and occasional co-conspirators Daniel B. Roumain (DBR) and Paul D. Miller/DJ
Spooky That Subliminal Kid.

09:00 PM : TBA: DJ Spooky @ Newmark Theatre

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PAUL D. MILLER
AKA DJ SPOOKY THAT SUBLIMINAL KID
Rebirth of a Nation
“It wouldn’t much surprise me if DJ Spooky invigorates the
intellectual world someday as Professor Spooky or even
Chancellor Spooky.”
—Bruce Sterling
Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years

Remixing cinema, music and American history,
DJ Spooky reconstructs D.W. Griffith’s racist 1915
silent film Birth of a Nation for three-screen digital
video projection. Added digital and analog visual
elements, including footage from the Bill T. Jones
Dance Company and Miller's own original score, are
mixed by the artist on the fly, making for a unique
performance each night.
Paul D. Miller is a conceptual artist, writer, and
musician. His writing has appeared in The Village
Voice, ArtForum, Rap Pages and Paper Magazine,
among others. His first collection of essays, Rhythm
Science, was published by MIT Press in 2004, and
his anthology of writings on sound art and multi-
media, Sound Unbound, will be published this year.
Best known under the moniker of his “constructed
persona” as “DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid,”
Miller has recorded a huge volume of music and has
collaborated with such musicians and composers
as Iannis Xenakis, Kool Keith a.k.a. Doctor Octagon,
Killa Priest from Wu-Tang Clan, Steve Reich, Yoko
Ono and Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth. Miller’s
media work has appeared in contexts including
The Whitney Biennial, The Venice Biennale for
Architecture and The Andy Warhol Museum.
DJ Spooky’s Rebirth of A Nation was commissioned by The Lincoln
Center Festival, Festival D’Automne à Paris, Spoleto Festival USA and
Wiener Festwochen (Vienna). Additional support was provided by
the American Center Foundation and Mass MOCA. Venue generously
provided by Portland Center for the Performing Arts.
www.djspooky.com

Newmark Theatre
Portland Center for the
Performing Arts
Fri . Sept 9 . 9 pm
Sat . Sept 10 . 9 pm
Running time: 75 min
Seating Capacity: 880
$15 members / $20 general
Mature Audiences

Sunday September 11, 2005

01:00 PM : TBA: Breakfast Of Champions @ The Works

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BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS – 1 PM
Sunday, September 11
Let’s face it. We can all get pretty serious. Why not blow off some steam
at Breakfast of Champions? This DIY comedy show/dance party, which
is native to Portland, was a monthly staple at Holocene for more than a
year, and made its TBA festival debut last year. Drinking Bloody Marys
and eating cereal while watching themed comedy skits interspliced with
cartoons became the Sunday norm for many a Portlander. Join host Johnny
Bigshot (think failed member of the rat pack) as he runs the show (think into
the ground) and generally abuses the large ensemble cast known as the
Breakfast of Champions players.

This is to be their last performance ever so expect them to pull out all the
stops. The theme for the skits and the cartoons is “fame.” Think over the top
costumes, musical numbers, ludicrous papier-mâché props, and 15 friends
trying to make each other laugh on stage. If the last TBA performance was
any indication, we can expect a tailor-made show which is huge in scope and
lampoons the festival and performance art in the best possible ways. Think
thinking, just not thinking too hard.

And just when you can’t handle any more good clean fun, you can burn off
all your pent up energy in the afternoon “dance church” as we work off our
sugar highs on the dance floor. Try it out before it disappears forever.

02:00 PM : TBA: Kristy Edmunds Lecture @ W+K

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KRISTY EDMUNDS
10-year Wrap Up
Join us as we host PICA’s Founding Artistic Director
and curator of the first three TBA Festivals in a
discussion reflecting on the making of PICA.
Edmunds will present a host of behind the scenes
glimpses into where PICA began, where it has
evolved, and the challenges and opportunities
of creating and sustaining a not-for-profit arts
organization over the past decade.
Wieden+Kennedy Atrium
Sun . Sept 11 . 2 pm

Friday September 16, 2005

12:30 PM : TBA: Art Blogging Chat @ PNCA

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Being Here Now: Alternative Strategies for Documentation
Friday Sept 16
12:30-1:30 pm, PNCA
Kristan Kennedy of PICA with Elizabeth Zimmer of The Village Voice, Jeff
Jahn, Jennifer Armbrust and Katherine Bovee of PORT (portlandart.net),
Mike Merrill of urbanhonking.com, and PICA Press Corps member Amanda
Deutsch.

Saturday September 17, 2005

04:00 PM : TBA: How We Investigate @ Guild Theater

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In media that range from 3D PowerPoint to digital photos, microscopes, personal ads, celluloid, animation, timelapse, and night vision, these artists turn a deft eye to register our weirdly transformative world. Falling airplanes mutate into a fantasyland of human touch, porn magazine cutouts turn from titillating to taunting, and aliens grow cruelly alienated by their contact with Earth. Following the program of shorts, Mike Wilder, PowerPoint lecturer extraordinaire, presents his newest examination of how humans perceive the world. Hold on to your 3D glasses!
"At the dawn of the 21st Century, many humans feel lost in a frenzied world of scientific, military, commercialÑand above all 'newsworthy'Ñimages. In a live 3D multimedia presentation, I will briskly survey the history of visualization technologies, including a discussion of my own research on 3D imaging robots. Within this context, I locate the origin of this 'disorientation' in the imaging technologies of the 17th century. Though the microscope and the telescope afforded radically new images, they also 'generated' the vertiginous world with which we still contend."
ÑM. Wilder

At the Bottom of Everything (a music video for Bright Eyes) - Cat Solen
Home Sweet Lean-to - Shawna Ferreira
Twenty-Six - Randall Wakerlin
Going to the Ocean - Matt McCormick
WhereÕs My Boyfriend - Gretchen Hogue
Hello, Thanks - Andy Blubaugh
Continuum - Ryan Jeffrey
WhereÕs Eddie - Jalal Jemison
Eventide - Cassandra C. Jones
Special 3D PowerPoint Lecture: Sand, Fire, and the Empire of Images: Visualization Technologies from Leeuwenhoek to the Mars Probe Ð Mike Wilder

NW Film Center's Guild Theatre
Sat . Sept 17 . 4 pm
Sun . Sept 18 . 4 pm
Running time: 90 min
Seating Capacity: 380
$6 members / $7 general
Mature Audiences

Sunday September 18, 2005

02:00 PM : TBA: My Lunch With Anna @ Guild Theater

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When French choreographer Alain Buffard set out to create a film about the legendary American choreographer Anna Halprin, the pair staged a series of lunches on sites that were used for her performances, including Washington Square in San Francisco, the Berkeley Art Museum and Stinson Beach. The result is a move away from the documentary form, nor merely a film about dance, but instead a dialogue between two artists of different generations and geographies. More than a performance or a film, the project became an extended interview with astonishing moments of exchange.
Alain Bufard will discuss his work following the screenings.
My Lunch With Anna was created with the support of Association Francaise d'Action Artistique, Villa Medicis-Hors les murs, the French Consulate in San Francisco and New York, and Le Fresnoy, National Studio of Contemporary Arts.

NW Film Center's Guild Theatre
Sat . Sept 17 . 2 pm
Sun . Sept 18 . 2 pm
Running time: 52 min
Seating Capacity: 380
$6 members / $7 general
All Ages