By the time I enter the spacious warehouse in Red Hook, Brooklyn, Danish-Kenyan movement artist Phyllis Akinyi has already begun her performance. I hear her before I see her. A repeating loop plays...
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Rana SanA heavy cut of fresh meat hangs suspended over the abdomen, the artist’s own body bare against the blue cold of a wall. Her abrupt movements cause ripples in the flesh of the meat. From where the viewer sits, the female body, nearly...
Vivian Hua 華婷婷A series of informal Zoom conversations about how artists and arts administrators are learning to grapple with public art, social practice, and performance in the context of digital space and real-life limitations. This second installment features a...
Photography by Naomi Ishisaka “But those are the most narrow parameters!” balks my well-meaning white friend. We are on our way to On The Boards to see dancer and choreographer Dani Tirrell’s latest ensemble piece, Black Bois, and...
Backwoods folk music plays quietly as visitors enter The Mistake Room, and they find themselves in the midst of a manufactured landscape. Pathways demarcated by rubber tires lead towards a simple architectural structure, and TV sets are strewn about...
According to Death Play writer and performer Lisa Dring, grief, in its most violent throes, can be so consuming that one who is experiencing it can hardly feel anything at all. Dring would know. Having lost her estranged father, beloved mother, and...
Self-referential yet self-governing in the best of ways, the music video for Pantha Du Prince’s “The Winter Hymn”, directed by the musician Hendrik Weber himself, culls together years of video footage to offer a look into his...
Photography by Claire Finucane We are said to dream on any given night, even if we fail to remember its contents. For the inaugural performances of Arya Davachi’s immersive theatre piece, Rough Sleeper, a woman polls us before we enter the...
"My work is all about shifting from the literal to the lyrical, and it's actually a brain shift from one hemisphere to the other." - Anna Homler, on Breadwoman and performance art
Devastation Melody opens with a striking sequence. Dressed fairly androgynously in dark-colored linens, Lucy Yim recalls a Chinese railroad worker — an image made all the stronger as she slowly uses rope to pull nine cinderblocks towards her...
"I certainly have patterns and systems that I use, and I have a cache in my mind of certain shapes that follow other shapes -- but I'm totally working intuitively. I'm trying really hard to let my brain not get involved." - Julie Alpert
Jax Deluca and Kyle Marler of Flatsitter discovered one another years ago on an Amtrak train, in what one might call an act of divine timing, or a perfect illustration of the “right place, right time” adage. What emerged from this...
![MUSIC VIDEO PREMIERE! “Manor Holes High Rise” by musician #JanJulius @yawnjewel and animator #NickMcKernan @a_ceilingless_sky presents struggles faced by BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities, especially amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, centering a diverse set of visibly trans characters.
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Jan Julius (Musician): [The LP] Meat Shot Idyllic as a whole is wrestling with our apocalyptic times and finding moments of joy and resilience in queer communities, which “Manor Holes” exemplifies. I’m trying to make queer, anti-fascist art that speaks to our times, and speaks to communities surviving the interlocked crises of capitalism and global warming that we’re experiencing right now. I wrote most of the lyrics to the song before COVID-19 hit, but the pandemic has highlighted how severe the housing crisis is, and how little our institutions are willing to do to ensure poor people have housing. “Manor Holes High Rise” shows a not-unattainable utopian daydream of life free of parasitic landlords and institutions, where marginalized communities can support and protect one another.
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