Performing arts may include dance, music theater, experimental music performance, experimental opera, spoken word, theater/performance art, and interdisciplinary projects.

A CHANNEL EXCLUSIVE: Hear composer/music journalist Frank J. Oteri lead a discussion with PICA Artistic Director Kristy Edmunds and Creative Capital Program Director for Media and Performing Arts Esther Robinson. PICA's first annual Time-Based Art Festival, held September 12-21, 2003, is intended as a bold new look into the contemporary arena of time-based art, including theater, media, dance, music, and mixed disciplines. It includes artists from all over the world who are converging in Portland for a chance to present and see one another's work, discuss issues, exhange solutions and forge new relationships with audiences and colleagues.

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Homer Avila: (Body of) Work in Progress
Mason Bates and Anne Patterson: Mercury Soul: An Electro-Acoustic Evening
Sujata G. Bhatt: Invisible Hand
Lisa Bielawa and Susan Narucki: Chance Encounter
Djola Branner: Mighty Real: A Tribute to Sylvester
Ronald K. Brown: Walking Out The Dark
Nick Cave: Drop: Soundsuits in Degrees of Observation
Grisha Coleman: echo::system
Jane Comfort: Asphalt
Fred Curchack: Lear's Shadow
Brian Freeman: A Slight Variance
Janie Geiser: Josiah Meigs and Me: A Song Cycle for Puppets
Joe Goode: Undertaking Harry
Joanna Haigood: Ghost Architecture
David Hancock: The Sisters of Eve
Rennie Harris: Facing Mekka
Headlong Dance Theater: Hotel Pool
Shelley Hirsch: A Rupture in the Order of Reality
Danny Hoch: A Word Is Born
Dan Hurlin: Hiroshima Maiden
Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd: In What Language?
Jon Jang: When Sorrow Turns to Joy
John Jasperse: Giant Empty
Joan Jeanrenaud and Alessandro Moruzzi: ARIA
Daniel Alexander Jones: Phoenix Fabrik
Marc Bamuthi Joseph: Scourge
Gulgun Kayim: Self-Portrait
Lisa Kron: Well
John Leaños: Imperial Silence: A Xican@ Net.Ópera
Ledoh: COLORMEAMERICA
Ralph Lemon: The Geography Trilogy/Part 3: Come Home Charley Patton
Locust: mockumentary
James Luna: Surreal Post Indian Blues and the Origin of the Sun and the Moon
Mickle Maher & David Isaacson: The Strangerer
Kari Margolis and Tony Brown: Sleepwalkers
Bob Massey and David Wilson: The Nitrate Hymnal
Richard Maxwell: House
Sarah Michelson: Dogs
Bebe Miller: Necessary Beauty
Meredith Monk and Ann Hamilton: mercy
Jennifer Monson: Bird Brain
Tracie Morris: The East New York Project
Richard Move: Martha@ . . .
Cynthia Oliver: AfroSocialiteLifeDiva
Jarrad Powell: Kali
Radiohole: Fluke
Red Dive: Peripheral City
Daniel Roumain: I, Composer
David Rousseve: Saudade
Rude Mechanicals: The Method Gun
Amelia Rudolph: Crossing
Carl Hancock Rux: Talk
Rafael Sánchez: Balloons Umbrellas Turntables
Sophiline Shapiro: Pamina Devi
Susan Simpson: Lead Feet and Nothing Upstairs: A History of the Lifelike
Elizabeth Streb: Action Heros
Sekou Sundiata: Udu
Tamango: Bay Mo Dilo
Trimpin: The Gurs Zyklus
Basil Twist: Dogugaeshi
Donna Uchizono: The Salon Project
Tory Vazquez: Wrestling Ladies
Ricki Vincent: A Night at Miss Mimi's
Kristina Wong: Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Nami Yamamoto: A Howling Flower
Yasuko Yokoshi: Shuffle
Pamela Z: Voci (Voices)