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September 3, 2023 · FalseArt

To Finir with Your Bullshit: Artaud’s Last Noise

Antonin Artaud gets out of Rodez, nine years of psychiatric lockup, electroshock frying his brain, and the first thing he does is get near a microphone. Thévenin sets him up with this radio program, Club d’Essai, and Artaud records Les Malades et les médecins. The whole thing’s a middle finger to the doctors: You want […]

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August 20, 2023 · FalseArt

Bodies as JPEGs: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Swipe Past Reality

I’ve spent enough time in theaters (dark ones, bright ones, ones that smelled like decades of dust and ambition) to know this much: we’re fucked when it comes to how we actually see bodies anymore. Three ways to watch someone perform. Theater: you’re in the room, sharing oxygen, watching sweat happen in real time, no […]

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July 24, 2023 · FalseArt

Let Them Grunt: Evans and the Case Against Reverent Silence

A good art exhibition is a lesson in seeing to those who need or want one, and a session of visual pleasure and excitement to those who don’t need anything — I mean the rich in spirit. Grunts, sighs, shouts, laughter, and imprecations ought to be heard in a museum room. Precisely the place where […]

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June 13, 2023 · FalseArt

The Beautiful Wreckage of the Irascibles

Revolutions don’t start with permission slips. They start in some paint-splattered shithole at three in the morning when you’re too broke and too angry to pretend anymore. They start when you realize the gatekeepers are idiots and their taste is garbage and you’d rather burn it all down than spend one more second nodding along […]

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The Beautiful Wreckage of the Irascibles

June 1, 2023 · Cinematics

What Gets Destroyed When the Barriers Come Down

Why do we sacrifice so much energy to our art? Not in order to teach others but to learn with them what our existence, our organism, our personal and repeatable experience have to give us; to learn to break down the barriers which surround us and to free ourselves from the breaks which hold us […]

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May 19, 2023 · FalseArt

The Knife I Chose to Pick Up

So What the Hell IS Real Anyway? Maybe the text is just sitting there like last week’s corpse… cold, rigid, embalmed in academic formaldehyde, while the actor’s body is out there in the trenches, sweating through the shirt, bleeding into the floorboards, happening in real time like a Mahler Symphony you can feel in your […]

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April 22, 2023 · Industries

LINES Ballet’s Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled

Let me be clear about something: Deep River works. It fucking works. But not because every element is worth a damn. It works because Alonzo King and Lisa Fischer have something real, something that cuts through the usual artist-meets-artist mutual noise. Alonzo doesn’t use Lisa Fischer as a voice. He listens. She doesn’t just sing […]

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