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Festival Interdisciplinary

T:BA:15: A Narrative from Kate

Day 1: Artist Talk Begins T:BA On opening day of T:BA:15 Thursday, I attended an artist lecture at the new PNCA campus, housed in the old federal building at the tip of the park blocks. The artist, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, is from Detroit, studied photography and poetry in Providence, RI, continued his studies and showed work in […]

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Festival

How To Spend Your Time-Based Art

A practical guide to PICA’s annual contemporary arts festival The 13th Annual T:BA Festival launches its ten-day mission on Thursday. I have lived through eight of these, seeing well over a hundred different works. It was the first assignment of this magazine, and it was the first I ever made for myself, in 2008, on […]

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Dance Festival Interdisciplinary

T:BA Day 2 | Don’t Like This

Last night seemed to be a solid kick off to the performance program—if not controversial. Attendance was full for the two theater events I witnessed. In a brief encounter with Angela Mattox earlier this year, at the closing party of social practice conference, Open Engagement, that attendance for T:BA ‘13 was a concern. Last year’s […]