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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

The Present Tense takes the month of August off from posting on the archive.   This summer, we would like to leave you  with a video by Christopher Robbins that we screened as part of the Contaminate 3 Festival in 2007.     “I’d like there to be a story about a man who made a [...]

Vicky Sabourin “Rock My Diva” Sometimes you experience a piece of art that imprints such a striking image on the brain that it dramatically impacts your memory.  Suddenly your relationship with a color, a shape, a smell, and/ or an object has been forever changed.  Vicky Sabourin creates “living pictures” that had this kind of [...]

Willem Wilhelmus Helsinki-based performance artist and organizer, Willem Wilhelmus shared his work with Boston in 2008 at the Contaminate 3 Festival. The beginning of the performance was light-hearted, Wilhelmus asking the audience to gather closetogether.  He asked the audience to let him borrow the coins that they had in their pockets.  The space filled with [...]

Stillness is a concept that is explored through many practices. It is used in meditation, yoga,and Butoh. Stillness is captured through photographs, paintings, and animals use it as a defense mechanism. Stillness is universal concept and a communicative tool. The Present Tense is fascinated with how Stillness can be used in experiential art practices. This [...]

Last week, Big Red and Shiny, an arts journal that served as a staple in the Boston art scene for the last 6 years, launched their final issue. After providing our community a forum to challenge and create dialogue around the state of the arts in New England, Founder, Matt Nash decided to “close up [...]