Month: February 2018
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Why Returning to Reims works: The sequence and method of a political play
We engulf and tangle with a political idea in a different way than how we listen and respond to a play.
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“These People Seem Like Republicans”: Rebecca Patek takes on shame, rapey logic and misogyny with CHASM
With CHASM I wanted a way to get that back because I feel like that’s not about a career, or being an artist, it’s mine, it’s what I do, it’s what I’ve always done. It feels necessary for survival.
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The Art v. The Artist: POLLOCK explores the repercussions of abuse
Not long after the new Whitney opened in 2015, the museum exhibited an all-star lineup of abstract expressionists on their seventh floor, where they show their permanent collection. On the […]
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Fault Lines Tremble: A Conversation with Tatyana Tenenbaum
This idea of American desire and what’s encapsulated in that is this reckoning, but, also holding the truths of being white in American culture means you have to hold the history of being an oppressor. But, then, how do you hold that?
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in the waking: Tommy DeFrantz (American Realness) & David Thomson (COIL)
“Double consciousness is knowing the particularity of the white world in the face of its enforced claim to universality… Double consciousness, in other words, is knowing a lie while living its contradiction.” – Biko Maura ruminates on white privilege and the mythology of the neutral body.
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Queering Marriage
Editor’s Note: QUEERING MARRIAGE is the concluding essay documenting the long-table process around Kyoung’s Pacific Beat’s production of PILLOWTALK at the Tank. You can read about the previous conversations here […]
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Agnes Borinsky’s Weird Classrooms
In the alchemic container that is Weird Classrooms, anyone’s expertise becomes compelling.
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My Experience Working On AMERICA IS HARD TO SEE
Every story needs to be considered individually for us to have any chance at finding something that looks like justice.