THRU Magazine Archive
One-man and one-woman shows demonstrate polarity at the Fertile Ground festival. My old steel bike frame heavily hoisted upon my shoulders, its old scarred body being carried like a damsel across the stream, I traversed the dozens of railroad tracks jutting across paved-over-wetlands on a January night, staring across that endless portal of industry, The […]
The Word Hand is a Reminder of Temporality Imagine that a line is drawn everywhere you move and this line follows you, leaving a permanent impression wherever you are. This trail would become a rod between my writing desk and the kitchen—it would circle the couch and spin off to the bathroom with more regularity […]
T:BA has been and continues to be roughly a month-long program including the visual art. The feature performances on two successive weekends create an expanding bubble that pops on the Saturday night preceding final events on Sunday. The broadest curve happens during mid-week; this is also when things start to reach maximum tension. Being a […]
Biking in the crisp autumn from ne forty-second down to the river, across the Broadway bridge, to plunge into my first attempt to navigate the new bike lanes recently carved into the Pearl, I arrived at the performance of Trajel Harrell’s Made to Measure a bit sweaty. Things becoming sweaty were to become a theme of the evening, as […]
Now getting deep in to the brush and organic material is clinging to your clothes, sweat is on your brow and the mirage of relief is beginning to appear lucid in your imagination. It is day four at the festival. Initially, you look forward to the weekend of activities, but on Sunday, you realize there […]