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Arts Review Festival

Inspirations and Invocations: My First Days at T:BA:14

This year my birthday was on a full moon! There were dinosaurs and karaoke songs, old friends and new admirers of my amazing karaoke powers… I got to meet one of my biggest crushes in the entertainment industry the day after my birthday! I gave Tim Heidecker a squash at the farmers market! I’m writing […]

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Arts Review Festival

Don’t Be Afraid to Use Your Voice

The real first day of T:BA is the second one. A launch party and some gallery shows are good and revealing, but the curation is not exposed until Portland’s theaters are brimming with activity. In my How-To Guide for T:BA, I neglect to mention a strategy for getting between theaters and what to expect from […]

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Arts Review Festival

Opening Night at T:BA Satisfies the Masses

When the Time-Based Art Festival rolls around every year, there is a sensation in my body that I can not explain, at least beyond the whiskey. The time to party is nigh and I do not aim to neglect that. It is not so serious, this art, not always anyway. The two visual exhibitions I […]

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Arts Review Festival

How-To Guide for Time-Based Art Festival 2014

Today happens to mark the opening night of Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s ten-day Time-Based Art Festival (T:BA), in Portland, Oregon, and it has been happening for more than ten years now. If you have never attended a single event but always see the annual booklet popping up at your favorite cafe or local library […]

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Festival Music

Your Staycation Could Be a Music Festival

The fourth annual Quiet Music Festival hosted by Disjecta, curated by Chris Johanson, softened hearts and ears last Friday and Saturday (June 27-28). Surrounding a stage only two feet above the concrete floor are layers of pads, blankets and pillows, accommodating an audience of roughly one hundred, which may have swelled up to almost two […]