PICA‘s TBA Central Box Office opens tomorrow, August 1 in the Weiden + Kennedy foyer. That’s the box office for the Time Based Art Festival produced by the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art that regularly sells out many of the performances it brings in from across the country and around the world. So in years past, if you didn’t jump on tickets for Yubiwah Hotel (Japan) and Lone Twin (UK) early, say, you were out of luck. What will be the sellouts this year? Well, Nature Theater of Oklahoma (pictured above), for one, is a Sure Thing, and Ace In The Hole. The Box Office is open Tuesday through Friday, 12-6 PM. Plus, PICA will be at the 5th Avenue Old Town/Chinatown Street Fair on First Thursday, August 2 from 5-10 PM on NW 5th Avenue between Burnside and Glisan.
You can access the whole TBA catalogue as a PDF here to start making your picks. Of course, your safest bet is a festival pass.
This is your A#1 Best Chance to get a bead on contemporary performance delivered to you on a silver, if somewhat off-kilter, platter here in Portland, Oregon.
POSTED: July 31st, 2007 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art | 1 Comment »
Here’s our challenge to you. In this second year of the contest-slash-fashion-show with the rhyme-y name, we challenge you to make a garment from discarded materials that looks not like a joke, a clown suit, or a Burning Man project. Why not be truly subversive and make a garment that is subtle and intelligent, taking inspiration from Martin Margiela perhaps? His 1990 Porcelain Waistcoat that is a bit Julian Schnabel, but lovely just the same. Take back fashion as art as fashion.
You are required to use materials that one might find in the trash. The deadline for submissions for Junk to Funk, a benefit for Orlo is October 17, 2007. The fashion show of finalist designs takes place on November 17, 2007 at the Wonder Ballroom.
POSTED: July 28th, 2007 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art | 1 Comment »
We first knew Richard Schemmerer a few years back as one of the only independent knitwear designers in Portland. Since then, this prolific artist and fashion designer has taken on more projects than you’ve even dreamed about while fitting in a year of travel in Europe. Among other upcoming group shows, his installation, “Sleeping With My Stories,” for which he created the clever little maquette above, opens this Saturday, July 28 at new NE arts space Rererato (5135 NE 42nd) as part of the group show ZZZ…(between the sheets). There’s a reception from 4-9 PM with music by Emily Katz, among others.
Meanwhile, here’s a shot of the one-of-a-kind necklace he designed that we saw around his neck at the Denwave menswear show.
POSTED: July 26th, 2007 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art | No Comments »
Martina Witte
We’re all about overlap and convergence. We spent the weekend considering the point(s) at which art meets craft and vice versa via the opening of the new Museum of Contemporary Craft (to wit, “Why hang this particular piece as part of a craft exhibition rather than hanging it in an art exhibition?” And the myriad attendant questions.) Now we get to consider art and illustration. Again there is the notion of utility. Illustration serves a communicative purpose in editorial or commerce. Art, well, better minds than ours have tackled the “what is” question. So what do we say about the many shows of illustration-based fine art that Portland hosts? How can we explain how much we like APAK or Carson Ellis or even some early pieces we see daily by Chandra Bocci when we really fall more into the David Eckard, Brad Adkins fan club? We’ll consider these questions at OFFICE PDX‘s (2204 NE Alberta) new exhibition opening tomorrow night, July 26 with a reception from 7-9 PM. The Art of Illustration features the work of three award-winning illustrators who have done work for high-profile clients and shown in galleries across the country: Martina Witte (New York), Matte Stephens (Alabama) and Ryan Bubnis (Portland). One could also enjoy examining the art/design connection, intersection, inspiration, conversation as another interesting art show shares space with OFFICE’s mod office products shop.
Matte Stephens
POSTED: July 25th, 2007 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art | No Comments »
That theater happens in the Gerding Theater at the Armory is nothing (very) new. It is home turf for Portland Center Stage, after all. But yesterday theater spilled out of the main stage and studio theater taking place in a long concrete hallway two stories below ground, in a puppet theater in the boiler room, and in the lobby, spilling out onto the sidewalk. During the Theater Fair that was part of the Just Add Water (JAW) festival, and in between other events (staged readings, etc.) Liminal Performance Group, Fever Theater, and Dim Sum Puppet Opera Company created work for three non-theater sites in the building for “You Are There.”
We loved Fever Theater drawing us through the hallway with monologue, “song,” movement, and sound in a smartly abstract way. And we were f-l-o-o-r-e-d by Bryan Markovitz and Liminal’s “Still Feelings in Still Times.” 25 actors and fine improvising musicians participated in this still piece (added one by one until the line of them snaked out the door of the lobby and onto the sidewalk) for which the actors held poses (based on paintings, we understand) for an hour at a stretch, and the musicians responded to one another and their environment based on a loose instructional armature.
POSTED: July 22nd, 2007 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art, art, portland | No Comments »
