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May 29, 2017 · Engineering

OEDIPUS IN A MOTHERFUCKING CHAPEL: On Fate, Fort Mason, and Why Greek Tragedy Still Kicks Your Ass

John Warren Travis’ Design for Oedipus Rag There’s something absolutely primal, something that cuts through all the academic horseshit, about staging Sophocles in a chapel at Fort Mason. I’ve seen Greek tragedy done in every godforsaken venue from The Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus to prosceniums that smell like 1950s cigarettes to black box theaters where […]

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May 23, 2017 · Collusion

Ghosts and Gold Leaf: Chocolate Heads in Memorial Church

I’ve seen a lot of weird shit in sacred spaces, but Aleta Hayes’ Chocolate Heads turning Stanford’s Memorial Church into some kind of Byzantine hallucination hits different when that same building held my father’s memorial service. When my brother, who hated Stanford with a kind of pure contempt that honestly scared me, inexplicably chose to […]

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May 17, 2017 · Speculation

Oedipus and Tiresias

Oedipus and Tiresias (Nathaniel Justiniano and Tonyanna Borkovi) rehearsing for a site specific staged reading of Anthony Burgess’ adaptation of Sophocles’ Oedipus The King to be performed in the Fort Mason Chapel for the San Francisco International Art Festival and produced by the Museum of Performance and Design Oedipus and Tiresias walk into a Japantown […]

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May 7, 2017 · Collusion

Contamination at Pace

The Chocolate Heads came slithering through Pace Gallery’s pristine white corridors like they’d been unleashed from some wild ritual, all limbs and fabric swaddling their skulls, moving against David Hockney‘s lurid iPad Yosemites like beautiful vandals crashing a country club. This wasn’t some precious dance meets art dialogue. This was collision, the kind where you can’t […]

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May 4, 2017 · Industries

Shooting The Events: Documenting What Can’t Be Fixed

David Greig took the 2011 Norway massacre, where some kid walked into a summer camp and shattered everything, and decided to make a play that doesn’t give you easy answers or comfortable catharsis. Because there aren’t any. And Shotgun Players at Berkeley’s Ashby Stage produced it. I photographed this thing for set designer Angrette McCloskey. […]

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Shooting The Events: Documenting What Can’t Be Fixed

May 2, 2017 · Wanderlust

Steep Ravine

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it. Dorothea Lange I descend into Steep Ravine in Mount Tamalpais State Park following Lange’s ghost down the same trail she walked every summer, […]

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March 15, 2017 · Engineering

Limited Means, Maximum Stakes: When Theory Crashes Into Practice

You walk into the Stanford d.school, this temple of design thinking, this cathedral of sticky notes and whiteboards where tomorrow’s disruptors learn to disrupt, and you’re expecting the usual performance art nonsense. The kind where someone’s going to stand in a corner for three hours or wrap themselves in cellophane while reading Foucault through a […]

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