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One of the five sense, taste is the sensation in the mouth that perceives flavor. It also describes one’s likes and dislikes and describes esthetic standards. Over the next few months, The Present Tense will feature works that explore the complexities of “Taste”. Sky Fairchild-Waller starts us off. “A video back-projected onto a large screen [...]

            This Generation’s Population of Ghosts* Near Death Performance Art Experience BOSTON 2013 Sandrine Schaefer As performance art moves into a phase where it faces the same commodification, professionalization, and institutionalism that other art mediums have endured, artists and organizers are challenged with how to maintain the authenticity of the [...]

Suzy Evans “Crypt Lick” 2012 When I was in college and working in the audio visual checkout center, slide projectors were a much sought after piece of equipment for presentations in class. The technology was flawed, of course, and it was a weekly headache to fish out mangled slides that the projector had decided to [...]

“Kids in Congo were being sent down mines to die so that kids in Europe and America could kill imaginary aliens in their living rooms.” – Oona King, former member of the British Parliament. For over a decade, war has ravaged the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Fueled, in part, by an intense demand [...]

To begin our next series of Thematic Posts, “Technology Doomed for Obsolescence,” we are sharing a durational piece The Present Tense curated into our event, PT3 at Midway Studios in Boston in 2007. Gabin Cortez Chance installed himself at a desk in a small room in the performance space. He was surrounded by money strewn [...]

From The Present Tense Archive:   Documentation from Philip Fryer’s performance “Last Exit (For Aubrey)” made in conjunction with the Aubrey Baer Memorial Exhibition, Boston, USA  

Here are 2 videos from Alejandro Uranga that were screened at Contaminate 3 Festival in 2007.  Enjoy! Rotacion 2006 “Spinning around oneself like the Earth. Sight ability suppressed. At the same time, ubiquity and misplacement.” Alumuminio 2005