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November 8, 2023 · Individualism

Sankai Juku Master Class

Sankai Juku Master Class

You walk into Roble Gym expecting, I don’t know, something mystical maybe. Incense. Robes. The kind of earnest California spirituality that makes you want to jump off a bridge. What you get instead is bodies. Real bodies, doing impossible things with physics. These dancers move like they’re negotiating a peace treaty with the floor, every […]

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Better a Tree Than This: Why Daphne Had the Right Idea
October 23, 2023 · FalseArt

Better a Tree Than This: Why Daphne Had the Right Idea

Strauss’s Daphne directed and designed by Romeo Castellucci  Castellucci knows what you know but pretend to forget… that pastoral is a lie… always was. Those sunlit meadows and nymphs dancing? Bullshit. The world’s a wasteland and nature’s not your mother, she’s indifferent, she’s cold, she’ll bury you under six feet of snow and not think […]

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Beach Signs
October 8, 2023 · Engineering

Beach Signs

Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore You know what’s fucked up? Here’s this sign. Had a […]

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October 1, 2023 · Wanderlust

Point Lobos

If I believed in grace, it would look something like this. Point Lobos on any given day. The same rocks, the same crashing Pacific that Edward Weston stared at through his 8×10, that Ansel Adams turned into icons of American landscape photography, that Imogen Cunningham explored with her Rolleiflex. This is hallowed ground for anyone […]

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Point Lobos
To Finir with Your Bullshit: Artaud’s Last Noise
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

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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Let Them Grunt: Evans and the Case Against Reverent Silence
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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