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CLAIRE ASHLEY Claire Ashley 2012 from The Present Tense on Vimeo. TPT:  Did your piece for Rough Trade II have a title? CA: The sculpture is called “Ruddy Udder” for the performance piece “Ruddy Udder Dance.” TPT:  How did you decide on the form of the inflatable?  What about color? CA: I made it originally [...]

  ERIN PEISERT & ELENA KATSULIS   Elena Katsulis and Erin Peisert 2012 from The Present Tense on Vimeo. TPT: How did you meet? How long have you been making work together? E&E: We were once co-workers. We bonded over a mutual love for performance and decided that we should collaborate. We’ve been working together [...]

Chicago infiltrates Boston

September 30th, 2012

Last weekend, artists from Chicago traveled to Boston to make work at Massachusetts College of Art and Design’s Pozen Center for ROUGH TRADE II; a Boston Chicago artist exchange.  This collaboration between The Present Tense and Defibrillator Gallery was a great success.  We are already talking about doing another exchange between the 2 cities next [...]

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 [...]