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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  

MARILYN ARSEM Marilyn Arsem “still.missing” 2012 from The Present Tense on Vimeo. TPT: How did you find performance art?  How did performance art find you? MA: I think it found me…  I remember being completely taken by written accounts of Happenings when I was in high school, and as a result we created our own, [...]

MOTHERGIRL Mothergirl “What You Look Like, Too” 2012 from The Present Tense on Vimeo. TPT: How did you find performance art?  How did performance art find you? M: We are both studied theatre in school, but when we started working as Mothergirl, our ideas started moving farther and farther away from the definition of traditional [...]

Here is another piece from The Present Tense archive that utilizes rope!  Christian Messier from Quebec uses endurance and repetition to deconstruct and reconstruct a chair.