| The Present Tense |

While many Americans were digesting their Thanksgiving experience and braving the malls on Black Friday, Daniel S. DeLuca and I set out to begin the Adventures in Being (small) tour across the United States. We have now been traveling for 15 days. The majority of our time has been spent experiencing the southern area of [...]

I have been involved in a romance with space since I came into being. When I speak of space, I am not referring to stars and galaxies, but physical space here on earth, both natural and manmade. My love affair with space is one of many reasons that I have committed myself to making and [...]

Lewis Gesner is an artist that has been creating surrogate performances on behalf of artists such as Boris Nieslony and Vassya Vassileva for several years. Implementing his work through People in Space was an intriguing experience, knowing that through his own practice, he often puts himself in the position that we were in. Lewis’ pieces [...]

5 years ago I was walking down the street in Central Square, Cambridge and my eyes met those of a white haired man wearing a barely buttoned dress shirt. He stopped me and asked “What kind of human are you?”. With a question like that I couldn’t resist a conversation with this stranger. This was [...]

Boston-based artist, Heather Kapplow had a special role with People in Space. She actively made herself available to offer her insight during the development stage of the project. This gave her a unique perspective, strengthening her performance concepts to be enacted at the World Expo. Kapplow’s pieces seemed to serve as premonitions of the chaos [...]

When asked why they made the decision to visit the World Expo, the majority of the people that People In Space met answered that they wanted to experience the “spectacle”. Infinite lights, color, sound, copious space, the abundance of Haibao, the Expo’s absurd “imaginary” mascot made the expo, indeed, spectacular. The surrogate performances that People [...]

Boston- based artist, Jeff Huckleberry uses the phrase “Success in Failure” to define his practice. This idea has always resonated with me because it gives integrity to chance and haunted me while trying to implement surrogate pieces at the World Expo.   Some of the actions that we curated into “What Are We Waiting For?” [...]