PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival
SEPTEMBER 5 – 22, 2024
PORTLAND, OREGON, USA
PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival (TBA) is back, and we are beyond excited to welcome you to Portland’s favorite celebration of contemporary art! This festival was created in 2003 as a way to bring artists and audiences together. Everyone remembers their first TBA: the first time a performance moved them, the first time they sweat furiously on one of our dance floors, the first time they felt at home in a crowd and truly welcomed in an institutional space. As TBA enters its 21st year, it’s time again for YOU to come with us. It’s time to meet a new artist over drinks at PICA. It’s time to run into an old friend and embrace. It’s time to encounter the unexpected and experience what you haven’t before.
TBA:24 has been thoughtfully built to span three weeks, allowing audience members to be fully immersed in a wide variety of programs on weekends, with some breathing room between the busier days. Join us as we gather with a host of renowned international, national, and regional artists for World Premieres with local partners and at accessible sites and spaces across the city. Get curious about some of the most vital ideas and conversations happening in our world today. Champion artists and art. Come, be part of TBA:24 — a festival like no other.
Organizer
About PICAPortland Institute for Contemporary Art acknowledges and advances new developments in contemporary art while fostering the creative explorations of artists and audiences. PICA’s programming supports the experiments of the most vital and provocative artists of our time. Our vision is international, intergenerational, interdisciplinary, and decidedly forward thinking (even when those explorations look back in history). PICA is unique among institutions for working right alongside artists at the increasingly blurry boundaries between forms and at the edge of new ideas. Throughout the year, audiences have myriad opportunities to interact with artists, curators, critics, and cultural visionaries in a direct, in-depth way. From performances to exhibitions to lectures to the annual Time-Based Art Festival, our programs catalyze conversations about contemporary culture.