PICA's Time-Based Art 2015 Lineup Announced

Reggie Watts' dance partner, an opera set designer who's obsessed with tiny model cities and a Japanese composer who favors cassette Walkmen are just a fraction of this year's Time-Based Art Festival.

PICA announced the program for its annual, 10-day fest, which will take over the city Sept. 10-20 with a mix of dance, visual arts, concerts, multimedia experiments and urban pop-up performances. Events will be held at The Redd, Ecotrust's new food-focused industrial hub on Southeast Salmon Street.

The lineup starts with a mystery performer TBA at Thursday's opening night at The Redd, then folk-crooner Holcombe Waller on the main stage and a sing-along with The Feminist Art Gallery on Friday. Other highlights of the fest include grand-scale art installations from Philippe Quesne, the larger-than-life comedy of Jibz Cameron in her Dynasty Handbag alter-ego persona and the usual Ten Tiny Dances. Yes, watching people try to perform on a 4-foot by 4-foot stage is still entertaining. And yes, there is always a drag show—this year it's Critical Mascara: A Post-Realness Drag Extravaganza from Pepper Pepper.

With a few internationally-born artists—from countries including Japan and Iran—this year's lineup stays relatively States-centric. Many of the artists hail from the Pacific Northwest (like one of WW's Funniest 5 Bri Pruett) or the usual hubs of L.A. and New York City.

The full lineup will be announced July 21 on PICA's website and the TBA:15 Guidebook comes out in August, but passes are available now. This year PICA added a $150 Enthusiast Pass that gets you unlimited access to late-night shows just like the Works Pass ($60) and adds six main-stage tickets. Full Patron Passes run up to $500.

Here's the lineup so far:

TBA:15 MAIN STAGE PERFORMANCE

Holcombe Waller
Requiem Mass: LGBT / Working Title 
September 11, 12

Alessandro Sciarroni

FOLK-S
Will you still love me tomorrow?
September 11, 12

keyon gaskin
its not a thing
September 11, 12

Okwui Okpokwasili
Bronx Gothic
September 11, 12, 13

Suniti Dernovsek
Leading Light + Luke Gutgsell in collaboration with Nicholas Daulton
The Self Possessed
September 12, 13

Lars Jan / Early Morning Opera
The Institute of Memory (TIMe)
September 12, 13

Lucy Yim

Devastation Melody
September 12, 13, 14

Tyondai Braxton
September 13

Aki Onda & Akio Suzuki
September 14

Michelle Ellsworth
Preparation for the Obsolesce of the Y Chromosome
September 15, 16, 17

Radhouane El Meddeb / La compagnie de Soi
Je danse et je vous en donne à bouffer
September 15, 16

Dynasty Handbag 
Good Morning Evening Feelings
September 17
Co-presented by Portland Museum of Modern Art

Philippe Quesne
La Mélancolie des dragons
September 17, 18

Amy O’Neal
Opposing Forces
September 17, 18, 19

Dana Michel
Yellow Towel
September 18, 19

Radhouane El Meddeb / La compagnie de Soi
Au temps où les Arabes dansaient…
September 18, 19

DakhaBrakha
September 19

Ingri Fiksdal, Ingvild Langgård and Signe Becker
NIGHT TRIPPER
September 19, 20

TBA:15 VISUAL ART

Tannaz Farsi

Jibade-Khalil Huffman
Vanishing Point / A Drive-In at the End of the World

Bill Jenkins

Dawn Kasper
WHAT IS TIME?

Karl Larsson with Morgan Ritter, Pascal Prosek, and Container Corps
Commonplace

MPA
Nothing to You.
Curated by Chiara Giovando, Disjecta Curator-in-Residence, 2015-2016

Peter Simensky
Surface Contents 1 & 2 

Akio Suzuki
Nami

TBA:15 THE WORKS AT THE REDD

TBA OPENING NIGHT AT THE WORKS, Free and open to the public
Surprise Headliner TBA!
Thursday, September 10

LIVE RIOT: SINGING WE MUST RAGE! A SING ALONG
Featuring: General Sisters and The Feminist Art Gallery with Emily Kingan, and other Alien She collaborators
Friday, September 11

Critical Mascara: A Post-Realness Drag Extravaganza
Pepper Pepper

Saturday, September 12

S1 NIGHT AT THE WORKS
S1 Presents: Zola Jesus (DJ Set), U.S. Hard / Contemporary, Coast2C
Sunday, September 13

Ten Tiny Dances
Monday, September 14

Disoriented Comedy
Bri Pruett, Jenny Yang, D’Lo
Tuesday, September 15

BEACON SOUND NIGHT AT THE WORKS
Bardo:Basho, Benoit Pioulard, and Apartment Fox
Wednesday, September 16

DJ KLYPH NIGHT AT THE WORKS
Welcome to the Neighborhood Live!
Featuring: DJ O.G., Vursatyl, Mic Capes, Theory Hazit, and Neka & Kahlo
Thursday, September 17

DECIBEL FESTIVAL NIGHT AT THE WORKS
Friday, September 18

PARTY LIKE IT’S 1995! (PICA’s TBA 20th Anniversary Dance Party)
Featuring: SNAP! + MORE
Saturday, September 19