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By Silvi NaciJuly 20, 2017 0

Lupe Mojada: Interview with Jimena Bermejo

In this conversation with dancer and performance artist Jimena Bermejo, we explore the interdependent themes of belonging, immigration, borders, and human relationships in regards to dance and performance art. With a background in dance and theater, Bermejo’s practice centers on…

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By Silvi NaciMarch 28, 2017 0

STAND UP: Silvi Naçi in conversation with Furen Dai

With a background in linguistics and work experience as an interpreter for several years in China, Furen Dai’s artistic practice centers on language and the culture built through it. She reflects on various forms of interpretation in her work with…

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By Silvi NaciJanuary 18, 2017 0

STAND UP: Silvi Naci in Conversation with Dell M. Hamilton

Dell M. Hamilton’s work draws on not only the historical conventions of photography and performance art but also on the history of black theater, the written and oral traditions of black & Latina women writers as well as the contradiction &…

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By Samuel AdamsJanuary 12, 2017 0

Art and Accountability: Carrie Mae Weems and Dell Hamilton Share Space at Harvard

For decades, Carrie Mae Weems’s staged photographs and videos have served as aids for processing the legacies of slavery, racism, and sexism in the United States. The elegant solutions in Weems’s compositions, their gravitas and narrative content, appear to operate…

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By Silvi NaciSeptember 28, 2016 0

TO BE IS TO BE PERCEIVED: Inside Public Trust

“…the problem lies not whether to reach for either larger or more selective audiences, but rather in understanding for ourselves our own definitions of those groups we wish to speak to, and in making conscious steps to reach out to…

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By Maia Dolphin-KruteFebruary 11, 2016 1

See It Before It’s Gone: Ann Hirsch

“You may or may not have real feelings for me,” says Frank Maresca in an episode of the VH1 show Frank the Entertainer…In a Basement Affair. Addressing the group of women competing to win his love, Frank goes on to note…

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By Chelsea CoonJanuary 27, 2016 0

‘this moment: missives from another world’

A collection of performance art photography spanning decades, the book ‘this moment: missives from another world’ provides a unique insight into the history of performance art in Boston, Massachusetts and beyond through the perceptive lens of artist Bob Raymond. Performance…

Interviews

By Céline BrowningMarch 23, 2015 0

2015 Foster Prize Interviews: Sandrine Schaefer

Every two years the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (ICA) selects up to four Boston-area artists to receive the James and Audrey Foster Prize. In addition to a cash award, finalists are given the opportunity to mount a show in…

Interviews

By Matthew KuhlmanApril 17, 2014 0

Studio Sessions: Jessica Borusky

Hello and welcome to Studio Sessions. In this episode, I’ll be speaking with Jessica Borusky. Jessica earned her BA in visual and performance art from the New College of Florida in 2009. Jessica places her body at the center of…

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By Stephanie CardonFebruary 5, 2014 0

Onto Objects: Patty Chang and Jeffrey Gibson perform at the MFA

Last Wednesday, after dark, two dimly lit galleries in the Museum of Fine Arts resonated with words. To those familiar with Boston’s generally stoic and tight-lipped durational performance art1, Jeffrey Gibson and Patty Chang must have seemed awfully talkative. Onto…

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By Allison VanouseDecember 16, 2012 0

On Theater and A.R.T.

To be a performance artist, you have to hate theatre. Theatre is fake: there is a black box, you pay for a ticket, and you sit in the dark and see somebody playing somebody else’s life. The knife is not…

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By Lola Arellano-WeddletonOctober 15, 2012 0

Performance and Participation at the Polish History Museum

Sitting on my desk is a small enamelware cup that I purchased in the gift shop at the new Schindler Factory branch of the Museum of the History of Krakow in Poland. The cup is blue, with a black rim…

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By Matthew NashMarch 9, 2010 0

Jena Performing Local

My idea is to try to eat local for 30 days, or perhaps 60 (if Tehching Hsieh can go a whole year). The point is to attempt an experiment in living the beliefs I have been advocating. Beyond advocacy I…

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By Christian HollandJanuary 16, 2010 0

The World Famous Secretary in For You, 9-5

Jessica Gath reckons she will have typed about 200 letters and postcards by the time she’s done. On a decades-old Royal “Quiet De Luxe” typewriter in immaculate condition, the painter and performance artist will be typing, folding and posting the…

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