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Forest Fringe comes to Fusebox Festival in Austin, TX

Fusebox Festival blogger Shannon McCormick reporting from Austin, TX. For the past nine years, Austin’s Fusebox Festival has sought to bring a sense of local, national, and international community and dialogue to the often isolated and far-flung practioners of new work, or experimental performance, or

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Sunday Afternoon Report: The January Shit-Show Circus?

Oh good lord I’m tired. This January thing is killer, huh? I’m not even seeing shows today–it’s meetings and parties and interviews and so on. But it’s good. I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how nicely Dixon Place has served as the COIL Festival hub, and

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Culturebot’s Coverage of January’s Shit-show

How’s that for a series of possessives? Am I right? Ugh. I am. What a clusterfuck. January is upon us and…? Well? We got previews over at the mothership. Check ’em: Bodycartography Project (COIL/American Realness) David Wampach (COIL) Emily Johnson (COIL) Radiohole (COIL) Kristen Kosmas

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Helping María Irene Fornés

This has been making its way around Facebook, but for those who don’t know, the iconic artist María Irene Fornés has been suffering through the late stages of Alzheimer’s. While that’s tragic enough, due to her worsening condition (reportedly she’d stopped eating, due to depression

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Transparency Now

Big institutions keep arguing about why they need to exist and cost so much to operate but resist transparency. Artists, audiences and funders should start to demand transparency from institutions. NOW.