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Franconia Performance Salon #10
May 3, 2014 · Collusion

Franconia Performance Salon #10

So here’s what happened at Franconia Performance Salon #10, and going into this one was half an admission of cultural masochism, and the other half a desperate hope that someone, anyone, was going to do something that matters. Nick Berger’s documentary was the evening’s unexpected grace note. Beautiful, moving, words we throw around until they […]

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May 2, 2014 · FalseArt

The Man Who Painted His Own Disappearance

The Man Who Painted His Own Disappearance

In 1995, William Utermohlen, American painter, living in London, doing his thing, gets the diagnosis that makes every other piece of bad news you’ve ever received look like a parking ticket. Alzheimer’s. The brain-eater. The self-thief. The thing that doesn’t just kill you, it dismantles you piece by piece, room by room, until the lights […]

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The Defiant Uselessness of Saying Hello to the Dead
April 27, 2014 · FalseArt

The Defiant Uselessness of Saying Hello to the Dead

Here’s the thing about Tsukimi Ayano that’ll either crack you open or leave you mumbling platitudes about “healing” and “resilience” like some asshole at a TED talk: she’s not doing this because she’s broken. She’s doing it because she’s whole. Thirty people left in Nagoro. Thirty. Used to be three hundred. You do the math […]

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Surfing Fort Point
April 19, 2014 · Adventure

Surfing Fort Point

There is something about being small, genuinely, cosmically small, underneath that orange monument to human hubris, surfing Fort Point, while the Pacific tries its damnedest to kill me. The water’s so cold it feels personal, like it has a grudge. My body’s screaming at me that this is a terrible idea, and you know what? […]

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March 19, 2014 · Collusion

Inhabitant – Mission District, San Francisco 2014

Frank Smigiel, from SFMOMA, calls me up and asks if I want to play the Mayor of San Francisco. Not the actual mayor, but some conceptual version of a mayor in a performance piece by these South African artists in the Mission District. I’m thinking: Why me? I’m not an actor. I’m not a politician. […]

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Inhabitant – Mission District, San Francisco 2014
Notes on Live Art and Video (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Fragmentation)
March 15, 2014 · FalseArt

Notes on Live Art and Video (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Fragmentation)

Here’s what happens when you come see one of my pieces. You’re watching three things at once. Three different versions of reality: or “ontologies of the real,” if we’re being insufferable academics about it. Which, fine, I am. PhD and everything. Doesn’t mean I have to sound like one. First: the actors. Right there. Meat […]

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March 7, 2014 · Industries

The Worst Kind of Fool

The Worst Kind of Fool

Looking at the Fool in Lear is like staring into a cracked mirror at 1:34 AM with bourbon on your breath and truth seeping through the fissures. This isn’t some jingling court jester doing pratfalls for the Renaissance crowd, this is the guy who sees the wreckage before the crash, who speaks in riddles because […]

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