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Daniel Beaty – Resurrection

Him: Six African-American men, all related or inter-related through their life situations if not by blood, aged 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60, all talking, singing, telling their life’s stories, all at the same time, all through the same … Continue reading

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Tim Etchells: Sight is the sense that dying people tend to lose first

Tim Etchells Sight is the sense that dying people tend to lose first is a long tirade of simple descriptions and explanations of the world. The delivery of these observations by actor Jim Fletcher, is in an earnest and sincere … Continue reading

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Daniel Beaty – Resurrection

Daniel Beaty/Resurrection 09.9.08 at Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center 2008 Time-Based Art Festival, PICA Photo by CaroleZoom All Rights Reserved, PICA Posted by Dusty Hoesly Resurrection is a powerful, piercing, and poetic story of African American men in the early 21st … Continue reading

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The Yes Men / Keep It Slick

The Yes Men / Keep It Slick posted by: Donald Allgeier The Yes Men exhibit on display at PNCA is comprised of two rooms. One is a conference room where a perpetual presentation is being given to whomever enters the … Continue reading

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Lizzie Fitch / Big Skin

Lizzie Fitch / Big Skin What Are You Wearing? Posted by: Donald Allgeier Photo: Aaron Igler     Walking into Lizzie Fitch‘s installation from a sun and heat-drenched outer world, I was a bit delirious. The underground space she had transformed … Continue reading

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Geisha by Leesaar The Company

I found the experience of watching a dancer dance without music oddly transfixing. Not a note played at the opening of LeeSaar The Company’s production of Geisha. As Jye-Hwei Lin came to the stage, she was nothing but vulnerable, as … Continue reading

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Tiago Guedes – Materiais Diversos

Tiago Guedes/ Materiais Diversos 09.09.08 at Winningstad Theatre 2008 Time-Based Art Festival, PICA Photo by Jennifer Erickson All Rights Reserved, PICA Posted by Dusty Hoesly Tiago Guedes is phenomenal. His show Materiais Diversos (Various Materials) is a joyful, funny, and … Continue reading

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Daniel Beaty: “Resurrection”

Photo by Axel Nastansky All Rights Reserved, PICA by Abe Ingle For his TBA rendition of “Resurrection,” Daniel Beaty stripped his show from a fully-cast and set performance to a powerfully minimal one man show. With only six pieces of … Continue reading

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Au at the Works

posted by Seth Nehil photo by Carole Zoom Luke Wyland is a restless composer. He is constantly experimenting, tweaking and changing his songs, searching for new sounds. He will often alter the instrumentation, tempo, syncopation and mood of a song … Continue reading

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Topless Waterfront Rollerblader Part of TBA:08?

Diary | Age 30 Wednesday, September 10, 2008 5:42pm [Car-pooling home, near SW Naito Pwy and Alder] Patrick: “Whoa, is that a…” Sarah: “Yeah, that woman is totally naked. Well, bikini bottom & rollerblades” [Rollerblader stretches and does some twirly … Continue reading

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