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Reflections of Ourselves

by Madge of Honor

As viewers approach Defibrillator’s front window, there’s a common refrain: “Has she started yet?” Marilyn Arsem is lying on her side facing a chair positioned…

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Talking through What is Lost: A Post-Performance Rumination

by Rae Langes

Following The Lost Twelve Years, composed and performed by Chun Hua Catherine Dong at Defibrillator Gallery on Friday, June 12, 2015 during Rapid Pulse Performance…

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Fist Raised!

by Jessica Santone

Bells and hollers softly vibrate from the speakers as we face a large pink triangle suspended horizontally above half the gallery space. It looks like…

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Skinning Humanity: Anthropomorphism and the Mortality of an Ideal

by Rae Langes

“Are those real animals?” “Yeah…they’re real dead!” “Hahaha!” “She’s got her shoes off!” “That’s disgusting! Where’s her self-respect?” “I wonder what it smells like…” “That…

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Poetry Response to Maryam Taghavi

by Nabeela Vega

Struck Me She spoke of Translation and I wonder what she means by the words A different kind of Magic when she communicates softness The…

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Matters of Gravity

by Jeffery Byrd

Brazilian artist Bernardo Stumpf began by wrapping his feet and ankles with athletic bandages and tape. Wearing loose shorts and a t-shirt, he performed this…

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They Shoot Horses

by Jennie Klein

They Shoot Horses: Ayana (Yana) Evans’ Stay With Me In 2004, British artist Phil Collins advertised for, auditioned, and subsequently paid two groups of youths…

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From the Unspoken Between Feet and Head

by Jessica Santone

Marcel Sparmann, 11 June 2015 A list of (some) materials in the order in which they appeared (or were noticed) I. A soft white pillow,…

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Interrogations: Gender and Performativity

by Kate Sierzputowski

Saturday, June 13th’s panel on gender and performativity began with several specific questions asked by Jessica Santone (an art historian focused on contemporary performance) of…

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The Garden of Earthly Delights: Out of Sight Out of Mind by Weeks & Whitford

by Jennie Klein

Rebecca Weeks and Ian Whitford create performances that reference a variety of sources, many of which would fall into the category of the abject, the…

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