May 2012
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artpluslanguage: More culture is slowly smothering us and turning our faces black. —- Zhang Huan Zhang Huan —-  Family Tree 2000 (New York, USA) 1/2 1998 (Beijing, China) Foam 1998 (Beijing, China)
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The Present Tense's Current Submissions
The Present Tense Submissions The Present Tense is currently accepting submissions for written works in response to live art practices or specific pieces. Submissions can be in the form of traditional or experimental essays, personal accounts, interviews, etc. This is an ongoing submission. The Present Tense will review writing on the 3rd of each month. You will be notified by the 15th of the...
May 18th
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FOR EXAMPLE- Friday Night @ Mobius
Philip Fryer “Drift III” 2011 photo by Sandrine Schaefer FOR EXAMPLE two evenings of performance @ Mobius 55 Norfolk St Cambridge, MA Friday May 18th & Saturday May 19th 7:30pm Phil Fryer of The Present Tense will be showing new work alongside Jeff Huckleberry, Sandy Huckleberry, Mari Novotny-Jones, Faith Johnson, and Vicky Sabourin.
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The End of Performance Art as We Know It
by Thomas Micchelli on May 12, 2012 0 Marina Abramović wearing the model for her eponymous Institute for the Preservation of Performance Art (all images courtesy OMA) So I clicked on Jillian Steinhauer’s post — “Is Marina Abramović Trying to Create a Performance Art Utopia?” — and the first thing that popped into my head was, “Why does it look like a suburban public library, circa...
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choice + control: Wanna Play?, Grace Space,... →
choiceandcontrol: Play / searching / unknown / anticipate / sugar / games / balance / time Space: white floor, stainless steel table, bottom of table filled with a mound of sugar, single light bulb hanging in front of table. I start slowing picking up the sugar with both hands and putting it on the floor on…
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I'LL JUST LEAVE THIS HERE. →
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Never or Now →
amperage: A great catalog of a performance festival in Bergen, Norway.
May 5th
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Liberate Tate
laureljaycarpenter: A naked member of the activist group Liberate Tate lies on the floor of Tate’s classical sculpture exhibit room drenched in an oil-like substance to protest Tate’s ongoing partnership with BP. The protest, which took place recently to mark the one-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion, lasted 87 minutes — one for every day oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico ...
May 4th
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choice + control: Wanna Play?, Grace Space,... →
choiceandcontrol: Play / searching / unknown / anticipate / sugar / games / balance / time Space: white floor, stainless steel table, bottom of table filled with a mound of sugar, single light bulb hanging in front of table. I start slowing picking up the sugar with both hands and putting it on the floor on…
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Q&A with Marina Abramović, Mary Reid Kelley, and... →
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April 2012
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M R Miller: Waking Matter Brainstorm →
marisarmiller: Waking Matter is a platform for exploring the potentials of artistic experimentation in Houston. The goal is to generate ideas as a group for a project or thing that revitalizes Houston using its own ingredients. This could look like anything… material/ immaterial/ shelter/ interlocution/…
Apr 29th
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Review of THIS MOMENT: MISSIVES FROM ANOTHER WORLD...
By Cate McQuaid Performance art must be documented. And the photos that document it are no substitute for the performance itself. Having seen many such images, I went into a retrospective of the late Bob Raymond with some hesitation. Raymond photographed performances at, and sponsored by, the artist-run organization Mobius for close to three decades. Mobius is the granddaddy of performance art...
Apr 29th
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MULTIVERSAL and SITUATION 0 present 3+3
 3 performances Katie Lee Dunbar http://katiedunbar.carbonmade.com/ YOU MUST BRING A CAMERA TO EXPERIENCE THIS PERFORMANCE! Daniela Gast http://www.danielagast.com/ Frederic Krauke, Theodoros Klissiaris and Mathieu Sylvestre http://www.xn—frdric-krauke-chbb.com/http://www.kleissonic.com/  http://www.mathieu-sylvestre.com/ 3 concerts MadamaskS http://soundcloud.com/madamasks Bloody...
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The Present Tense Stillness Series- Kid Romance
Posted March 22nd, 2012 by Sandrine Terror of History 2009  is not a piece that The Present Tense would normally show.  It isn’t performance art, it is a song and video created by Kid Romance on the subject of time passing and historical memory loss. The video is a compilation of still images that are glimpses of a time that have long passed in Kid Romance’s life.  Romance states that the...
Apr 27th
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The Present Tense Stillness Series- Daniel S....
Posted April 5th, 2012 by Sandrine Sitting With Cloud Gate October 21st, 2009, 7am- 5pm Chicago, Millennium Park On October 21st, 2009, Boston-based artist, Daniel S. DeLuca sat in front of Cloud Gate by Anish Kapoor in Millennium Park in Chicago from the hours of 7 am-5pm.    This was part of a series of actions in response to public art that DeLuca was working on at the time....
Apr 26th
Adventures in Being (small): Xlitla →
adventuresinbeing: 22 abril 2012 Adventures in Being (In Mexico) Sandrine Schaefer “Orange Moss” 2012 photo by Daniel S. DeLuca location: Xlitla During our final week in Mexico, we visited Xlitla, a small rainforest town in the hills north of Mexico City. After a bumpy 9 hour bus ride…
Apr 25th
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The Present Tense Stillness Series- Sue Murad
Posted April 23rd, 2012 by Sandrine For multi-media artist, Sue Murad, stillness is a way to experience rest, both in life and in art.   Murad describes her work as an intuitive engagement with form, disregarding notions of usefulness, common meaning, and prescribed narratives.  Much of Murad’s work operates in the territories of slippage between experimental dance, performance art, and visual...
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WatchWatch
ebenonics: Levitation Project Part 2 Eben Kowler
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dakotasica: Documentation of Performance by artist Dakota Sica Performance is interrupted midway through completion when police officers force the artist at gunpoint to the ground. As the camera keeps filming…  Videographer : John Miller
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crownofdestruction: John Wood and Paul Harrison - “One More Kilometre” taken from the Screen website : “On Screen March 10 – 5 May. John Wood and Paul Harrison have been working collaboratively since 1993 producing single screen and installation based video works. Their work investigates the relationship between the human figure and architecture, developed through short form video with...
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