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JOSEPH RAVENS       TPT:  How has being an artists influenced your curatorial work and being a curator influenced your artwork?   JR: As an artists who has participated in many festivals and exhibitions, I’ve seen a lot of work. I’ve seen it from the inside.  So I’m familiar with many styles and aesthetics [...]

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 [...]

Boston infiltrates Chicago

September 16th, 2012

Last weekend, 6 artists from Boston traveled to Chicago to make work at Defibrillator Gallery as part of ROUGH TRADE II; a Boston Chicago artist exchange.  Here is video documentation of the pieces that they created.  In the coming months, The Present Tense will be posting extended interviews with each artist, giving them the opportunity [...]