This Generation’s Population of Ghosts* Near Death Performance Art Experience BOSTON 2013 Sandrine Schaefer As performance art moves into a phase where it faces the same commodification, professionalization, and institutionalism that other art mediums have endured, artists and organizers are challenged with how to maintain the authenticity of the [...]
Posts tagged ‘Jeff Huckleberry’
The Present Tense Top 12 of 2012
January 9th, 2013
As we begin 2013, The Present Tense shares its reflections on 2012. 2012 offered countless moments for performance art that The Present Tense found inspirational. Here are 12 of them: 12. We probably don’t have to explain why its awesome that “100 Years of Performance Art” came to Boston University in 2012. This traveling exhibition [...]
Rough Trade II Interviews: Mothergirl | Jeff Huckleberry
November 5th, 2012
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 [...]
Interview with Jeff Huckleberry
December 27th, 2009
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 [...]
