In the eight years since the Portland Institute for Contemporary Arts launched its Time-Based Art Festival, the annual synergy of performance, dance, music, new media and visual arts has secured a place among the city’s most anticipated cultural events—and as a potent, provocative kick-off to the arts season.
This year’s festival—held September 9-19, with visual art installations running through October 17—is no exception, thanks to a host of local, national and international talent in town, and time, with each other.
Morning, noon or (late) night, visions established or emerging, and regardless of medium, TBA weaves together narrative and approach, experience and perspective in a 10-day marathon that finds common ground through creation. Coursing through TBA’s veins is a vibrant collaborative spirit, one that this year results in partners teaming up for a conceptual site-specific grave, a choreographer melding concrete forms with abstract relationships and a host of DJs, hip-hoppers and electro artists tweaking both philosophy and beats.
And for openers, the Oregon Symphony sharing the classical stage with a member of a modern musical dynasty.
In the following pages, we highlight some of the hands of Time 2010—and feet, and voices. Visit pica.org/tba for a complete calendar of events, and blogout.justout.com for more profiles and previews of TBA offerings.
Passes and tickets are available at pica.org, at the TBA box office at The Works at Washington High School (531 SE 14th Ave.) or by calling 503-224-7422.
