THRU Magazine Archive
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 […]
I want to hearken back to Allison Hallet’s T:BA guide in The Portland Mercury where she says, “I like what it does to my brain.” And then I want to take that a step further. If you attend almost thirty different performances, talks, and exhibits as do I every year, you are schooling and evolving […]
This is it. Summer is over. Literally, that is true because we had our Harvest Moon over the weekend, but since nobody in contemporary life counts that as a matter of fact, it’s more about personal markers, such as the end of this year’s annual contemporary art festival. It is as based in time and […]
Wondering why I haven’t spent more time at the Ace Hotel next to PICA. Here now writing. I realize numerous artists are staying here or nearby and this happens to be a hub for creative people, offering an aesthetic that is both welcoming and creative. I could have conducted interviews here just by waiting for […]
Hopelessly lost on my bicycle, somewhere in the vicinity of OMSI and a confusing jumble of construction sites, I found the extremely poorly-labeled Hampton Opera Center just in time to be let in. The stage was in the round. Lit up luminous white and stark, with several blank screens set at peculiar angles on the various sides. […]