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Arts Review Festival

Yellow and Brown: Visual Arts Review + T:BA:14 Epilogue

As round as an apple, as deep as a cup There is still time to view all the visual exhibits featured at T:BA this year. One thing that now seems permanent to the routine is this magazine that Kristan Kennedy put together to accompany her visual arts program. The content pivots out from featured artists […]

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Arts Review Festival

T:BA:14 Scatters the Room and Kicks Up the Dust

Days 9-11 at T:BA:14 The walls are closing in and there is no escape. No escape but through yourself. But when you find the hatch and down you go, there is no turning back, and its hatches all the way down. It is a dream realized upon a dream, projected against the brick wall of […]

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Arts Review Festival

What We See Through the Looking Glass

Days 6-8 at T:BA:14 Time-Based Dementia appears to be what I am going through at this point. Existential crankiness because you need a nap is not necessarily unpleasant. It is simply another affect of post-modern performance. Writing now, I am sitting inside PICA and Angela Mattox is explaining to someone how she keeps herself on […]

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Arts Review Festival

No Better Time to Transcend

Days 4-5 at T:BA:14 There is a transformative effect about the Time-Based Art Festival and many travellers are caught by the sirens song. These sirens are the curators and artists. Once drawn in to the siren’s world by their eloquent song, many remain bound. They are met with challenges and pursuits that are ultimately illusory […]

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Theatre

No Man to Save Women in Intimate Apparel

We are talking about a woman whose life rests in the hands of another woman but risks her life for the hand of a man. Thirty-five year-old African-American woman, Esther simply wants to find love, to be married, and to take some time off from work. She is blessed with skills on the sewing machine […]