I have been on the ground in Shanghai for 5 days, absorbing my surroundings in preparation for implementing surrogate pieces at the 2010 World Expo as part of People In Space.
Participating in the international performance art festival circuit requires one to tread through environments to challenge their voice, aesthetic, and conceptual practice to be [...]
Every once in a while the Boston art world aligns and produces a performance art marathon. March saw one of these weekends with Control Y Control Z at MEME, curated by the MEME Team, and Yard Sale at Mobius Curated by Jeff Huckleberry.
Control Y Control Z
Alice Vogler
Leigh Waldron-Taylor (performed by Daniel DeLuca)
Sylbille Neeve
Sandrine Schaefer
Yard Sale
Patrick [...]
Summer warms Boston as The Present Tense stretches it’s limbs and wipes hibernation from it’s eyes. In our somnolence, visions of the future abound! As of June 1 The Present Tense has moved on from MEME Gallery to explore new curatorial terrain. We are also investigating our roles as creators, nestling into new bodies of [...]
This past November, MEME featured an exhibition of work by Boston performance artist Jeff Huckleberry. We’ve known Jeff for a few years now, seen his work many times in many different places, but never in the white cube exhibition format. You can see more photos of the show in the MEME Vault.
Sandrine: Who are you?
Jeff [...]
More photos from our exhibition “Thus Far”, these ones from the closing event. It felt great to get back to our roots and host a night with a just a few performances, and to utilize the MEME Gallery to officially launch the Present Tense archive.
Philip Fryer
Coco Sgaller
Daniel DeLuca
It’s important to note that the artists body [...]
Joanne’s 2 year long performance came to an end last month, and Sandrine was there to witness it. Check out the article she wrote for Big Red and Shiny, as well as photos from the final action.
Above is a few photos taken of the visual timeline at our exhibition “Thus Far”. We will be screening a selection of videos this Friday night, and will be having a performance event on the 23rd, come out and see the art!
3-4 times per year the planet, Mercury, slows down and appears to stop and move backwards. Mercury has been in this state of retrograde since September 7th. Because Mercury rules communication, it is said that retrograde causes all matters of interaction to go bananas until the planet is back on track (September 29th). [...]
Lucas Murgida created the first part of this piece for Contaminate II as part of his Locksmithing series. The following text was given to the audience at the event:
“The Locksmithing Institute of Contaminate Lesson #7: Willful Disappearance
In lesson #7 the students of “The Locksmithing Institute of Contaminate” will be instructed in the ancient locksmithing technique [...]
