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MARIANA VALENCIA — ALBUM

This week, the Time-Based Art Festival presents the West Coast premiere of Mariana Valencia’s ALBUM, a solo performance combining text, song, and dance within the content of an album—“a picture album, a song album, an autobiographical album, a herstorical album”*

 

MARIANA VALENCIA—ALBUM

Thursday through Saturday, September 13, 14, and 15.

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art

15 N.E. Hancock Street, Portland.

Mariana Valencia. Photograph by Peter Raper.

VAGINAL DAVIS — SASSAFRAS, CYPRESS, AND INDIGO

Vaginal Davis brings her lecture performance SASSAFRAS, CYPRESS, AND INDIGO to Portland’s Time-Based Art Festival this week.

Los Angeles-born Davis—a “complex mixture of queercore punk antics and MGM studio glamour”—has been living “in stylish exile” in Berlin for over ten years.

 

VAGINAL DAVIS—SASSAFRAS, CYPRESS, AND INDIGO: BLACK SCREEN IMAGES AND THE (E)MOTIVE NOTION OF FREAKINESS

Wednesday, September 12, at 6:30 pm.

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art

15 N.E. Hancock Street, Portland.

Photographs by Hector (above) and Nebojša-Tabačk.