TBA:20 INSTITUTE

SATURDAY AFTERNOON ARTIST CONVERSATION: Dao Strom and Elisa Harkins with Pablo de Ocampo 

Date

September 26, 2:00 PM PDT | CLOSED CAPTIONING | TICKETS/WATCH

Description

TBA artists Dao Strom (Portland, OR) and Elisa Harkins (Cherokee/Muskogee (Creek), Tulsa, OK) both use hybrid forms of text, music, performance, and image to examine, abstract, preserve, and celebrate language, culture, and sound. Their projects and practices are utterly unique but hold common curiosities and questions. We have invited Dao and Elisa to be in dialogue with Pablo de Ocampo, Exhibitions Curator at Western Front (Vancouver, BC, Canada), our collaborating organization in presenting Elisa Harkins’ work at TBA. 

Moderator Bio

Pablo de Ocampo lives in Vancouver where he is Exhibitions Curator at Western Front. He has curated screenings, exhibitions, and performances at galleries, cinemas, and festivals internationally. From 2006 to 2014, de Ocampo was Artistic Director of the Images Festival in Toronto, and in 2013, served as the programmer of the 59th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, History is What's Happening. He was a founding member of the collective screening series Cinema Project in Portland, OR.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON ARTIST CONVERSATIONS

A handful of festival artists will be featured in dialogue with each other and guest curators and scholars about their TBA projects and broader artistic practices. All Artist Conversations will be streamed online for the public and archived for later viewing. Some will include audience Q&A.

TBA:20 Institute

Connecting audiences with festival artists and their ideas - the aesthetics, politics, critical concepts, and cultural contexts that inform their work - has always been a highlight of TBA. Sustaining the discursive and participatory spirit of past festivals, this year's TBA Institute includes a mix of reading groups, discussions, artist conversations, workshops, and post-show Q&A's, all presented virtually. We will miss bringing together large groups in person for deep dialogue, but we are pleased to make the Institute program available online, with audiences, artists, and guest moderators from across time zones. 

Please note that some online Institute events have limited capacity and require registration, while others are publicly accessible. Please visit pica.org/TBA to learn more about this year's TBA Institute and how to engage.