Newest Features
By THOMAS DORAN Print this article “To comprehend is not to construct an intellectual thesis but to apprehend by coexistence, the consciousness that is at the same time spontaneous and reflected.” Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible How do we come to know? Which faculties participate as we come to understand the world? Arguably, in the West, language holds primacy over sense perception as a way of coming to understand. Language does, admittedly, give us a means to explore and to debate the social, the theoretical, the historical. Yet for all…
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article The Nave Gallery is a lovely new exhibition space located in the still-active Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church on Powderhouse Boulevard. The gallery recently showed a lovelier still exhibit, curated by Lauren O’Neal and Alex Metral. The Persistence of Becoming was a collection of works that explored memory, especially in relation to the self and the body. Most works were figurative with obvious and direct connections to the human body. The becoming of the title seemed to be a ‘becoming’ in an ongoing mortal sense; we are…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article A quick Google search of the phrase genetically modified vegetables produces a wide range of interesting results. They run the gamut from the practical (What are the labelling requirements for genetically modified food?) to optimistic (Genetically Modified Rice Could Save Hundreds of Millions of Lives) to the vaguely paranoid (How to Avoid Genetically Modified Foods) to the completely paranoid (Soon we will all be genetically modified vegetables). Given how modified foods dominate our marketplace, it is no surprise that many people have an opinion nor that…
By JOE ZANE Print this article FEED – Artists and Digital Influence: a show around the theme of artists who use technology in creation of their work. Thirty or forty years ago this might have been a exciting topic to build a show around, with maybe ten or twenty artists doing really exciting work aided by the use of then cutting edge technology. Now, its a much harder sell. Artists have been using technology for decades in the creation their work and the number of artists who are influenced by digital technologies…
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article MOBILIZE (the 4th in the ongoing international performance art series) presented by Mobius and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston produced by Marilyn Arsem and Jamie McMurry at the Charlestown Working Theater October 28, 2004. It is so welcome to be reminded of the power of live art by live artists to rattle and stun. On October 28 at the Charlestown Working Theater, Jamie McMurry (Boston), Tamara Paris and Matt Fontaine (Seattle), and Mari Novotny-Jones (Boston, Mobius Artists Group) presented bracingly candid work.…
By BIG RED Print this article The past few months have seen many highs, and just as many lows, for the people of Boston. For every great moment, there has been a terrible one. For each evening spent in revelry, there has been a morning after spent woefully shaking our heads. First, there were the Red… No, wait – not really. Actually, first there was John Kerry. Somehow, he had survived the nasty in-fighting of the primary season and made it to the national candidacy. Better still, we got to celebrate that…
By JESSICA POSER Print this article Art Interactive begins its third season on a poetic and spiritually resonant tone with its first solo show, Sonalumina-13, a sound installation by Jeff Talman. This site-specific work is a meditative exploration of the space and the elemental properties that are both contained and generated by it. A minimalist aesthetic pervades this mausoleum-like installation. Three aluminum panels on the floor are raised up by speakers, one panel is mounted on the wall, and one is hanging at an angle from the ceiling. Video projections of cycles…
By BIG RED Print this article October 8, 2004 Candid photos from a Big RED night on-the-town at GALLERY for the opening of EXHIBITION —- Links: Clifford-Smith Gallery “Josh Winer: Photographs” is on view October 5 – 30, 2004 at Clifford-Smith Gallery. All images by Big RED & Shiny.