Simlâ Civelek’s Gestural Imaginary
By Alison Cooley Simlâ Civelek enters her performance in a beige shift dress and metallic heals: apparel difficult not to read as yuppie businesswear or the garb of a disaffected housewife. (I'm conscious of this ...
Humming the soul toward a sonic vibrato
By Jenn Snider The artist pushes and pulls. He threatens to crack.Please… just touch, just break, just reach, hope…just try.It might be enough this time to make this tension subside. “Is there anyone who is ...
“Think about fractals”, I told myself. Then, “don’t think about fractals.”
By Jenn Snider Kurt Johannessen probably doesn’t think about fractals, at least not when he’s performing. I don’t generally consider the self-replicating patterns that approach infinity very often either, so I can understand the idea ...
Exact(ing): John Court
By Alison Cooley An accumulation of chalk on the floor, an accumulation of marks on the chalkboard, an accumulation of blisters around the performer's mouth, an accumulation of time in his stride, an accumulation of ...
Eduardo Oramas’s very merry un-birthday
By Jenn Snider Eduardo Oramas is already seated when we arrive. Settled and straight-backed at his desk, the artist is dressed in a dark suit with a silver-striped red tie, and he gazes at the ...
Dispatch II from Radio Equals
By Alison Cooley What does it mean to receive Radio Equals? claude wittmann broadcasts his interpersonal egalitarian experiment (one-on-one interviews recorded inside a small, closet-like room) over the radio and online. As I listen, I ...
By the Way (Bingo Update)
By Alison Cooley Here's a quick look at the bingo after our first night. I worry I have made this too easy ...
The Alternate Erotics of Andrée Weschler
By Alison Cooley Andrée Weschler moves with the confidence and surety of someone enacting a familiar, precise and practiced routine. Opening Garbage bag & love seeds, Weschler strides into the studio with a chair. She ...
This artist has presence, or The Award goes to…
By Jenn Snider Éminence Grise Clive Robertson works in mysterious ways. Or rather, his works trouble the mysteries of art as apparatus. This may as well mean the same thing. Over more than forty years, ...
Unstill Life: Marisa Hoicka and the Edible Uncanny
By Alison Cooley The still life has been sitting there all day. Arranged on a table by the studio's back wall, an array of fruits and vegetables across a fur tablecloth have caught chance glimpses ...
