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Farewell to Big Red and Shiny

August 29th, 2010

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 [...]

MEME and Mobius, March 2010

August 8th, 2010

Every once in a while the Boston art world aligns and produces a performance art marathon. March saw one of these weekends with Control Y Control Z at MEME, curated by the MEME Team, and Yard Sale at Mobius Curated by Jeff Huckleberry.

Control Y Control Z
Alice Vogler

Leigh Waldron-Taylor (performed by Daniel DeLuca)

Sylbille Neeve

Sandrine Schaefer

Yard Sale
Patrick [...]

PT RETURNS!

June 19th, 2010

Summer warms Boston as The Present Tense stretches it’s limbs and wipes hibernation from it’s eyes.  In our somnolence, visions of the future abound!  As of June 1 The Present Tense has moved on from MEME Gallery to explore new curatorial terrain.  We are also investigating our roles as creators, nestling into new bodies of [...]

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 you?
Jeff [...]

Thus Far, Part 2

November 18th, 2009

More photos from our exhibition “Thus Far”, these ones from the closing event. It felt great to get back to our roots and host a night with a just a few performances, and to utilize the MEME Gallery to officially launch the Present Tense archive.

Philip Fryer

Coco Sgaller

Daniel DeLuca

It’s important to note that the artists body [...]

Thus Far, Part 1

October 15th, 2009

Above is a few photos taken of the visual timeline at our exhibition “Thus Far”. We will be screening a selection of videos this Friday night, and will be having a performance event on the 23rd, come out and see the art!

Accumulation Time Lapses

July 6th, 2009

Announcing a new show in a new space!
 
MEME & The Present Tense presents: 
Accumulation 
(Phase I)  
June 7-27, 2009 
MEME 
55 Norfolk Street 
Cambridge, MA 02139 
www.memegallery.com 
 
 
Accumulation (phase I) will provide an environment to witness the evolution of a space that has 
been activated by accumulated creative action. Over the duration of this exhibition the 6 Boston- 
based artists and curators of MEME [...]