TBA:19 Institute

Choreographer Adam Linder discusses his TBA project, The WANT, an experimental dance, musical score, and opera created in collaboration with composer Ethan Braun and visual artist and designer Shahryar Nashat.

Mark Burford is Associate Professor of Music at Reed College, where he is also chair of the American Studies program. His research and teaching focuses twentieth-century African American music and late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Austro-German concert music. His scholarship has appeared in numerous journals and other edited collections. He is the author of Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field (Oxford University Press, 2019) and editor of the forthcoming Mahalia Jackson Reader.

TBA Conversations are an opportunity to hear directly from festival artists about their practices, processes, and the ideas behind their work through presentations, panel discussions, and dialogues with guest artists, curators, and scholars.

All TBA Conversations are FREE of charge and take place on the PICA Patio unless otherwise noted. TBA:FOOD service will be available, including grab-and-go lunch, snacks, and drinks.

Please note that some conversations will be ASL interpreted.

The PICA Patio is ADA accessible. For any other access needs or requests, please contact the TBA Box Office at boxoffice@pica.org or 503-224-PICA.