Last night PICA announced their "On Sight" visual arts lineup for the TBA festival September 5-14. Overall, a much stronger and more rebellious visual arts lineup than last year (there were grumbles and bad installs) with a real vis art festival feel than just some appended element to primarily performance oriented TBA lineup. For the first time since they canned their year round visual arts exhibition program I'm truly excited. Overall the curatorial arc has lots of recent Whitney Bi approved names.

Mike Kelley Day is Done ... Kelley's aesthetic can be found in a lot of the other artists here.
The Yes Men Co-presented with Pacific Northwest College of Art
Fritz Haeg Co-presented with Reed College... hmmm a rebel gardener in Portland, frankly I'm most excited about this. Haeg's talk last year was a highlight.
Ryan Trecartin I-Be Area... Another of Trecartin's videos was seen last year at Igloo in the Everett Station Lofts. It needed more attention, so good to see it in a higher profile situation... a fantastic video artist
Lizzy Fitch Residency / Commission of new work / Installation + Performance
Jacob Hartman Residency / Commission of new work / Installation + Video
Jeffry Mitchell a commission of new work
Corey Lunn a commission of new work. Lunn is a fantastic Portland artist who specializes in drawings... I still remember that Scratch show work from the old Haze gallery (I still have that postcard)
Sharon Hayes Installation + Performance
Harry Dodge + Stany Kahn Installation of new video
PAINTALLICA Site specific installation
Justin Gorman Site specific installation
Tamy Ben-Tor Gewald

What's the performance lineup?

TBA:08 ON STAGE: Performing Arts Program
Antony and The Johnsons with The Oregon
Symphony conducted by Nico Muhly Presented in partnership with The Oregon Sympony
LeeSaar The Company Geisha
Jérôme Bel Pichet Klunchun and Myself
Tim Etchells/Forced Entertainment Sight is the sense that dying people tend to lose first and Quizoola
Mike Daisey Monopoly and If You See Something, Say Something
Daniel Beaty Resurrection presented by Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center and PICA
Tim Crouch England
Dael Orlandersmith Stoop Stories
Tiago Guedes Diverse Materials and A Solo
Vivarium Studio L’Effet de Serge
Reggie Watts Transitions
Bridget Everett and Kenny Mellman Sexercise Live! A Tribute to the Potty-Mouthed Millie Jackson
Superamas BIG 3rd Episode (happy/end)

TBA:08 Out in the World
Khris Soden The Portland Tour of Tilburg
Third Angle New Music Ensemble Frozen Music II
Sojourn Theatre Built
Linda Wysong South Waterfront Walking Tour Project

TBA:08 On Screen
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait Directed by Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno