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Put your arms up look at me don’t move – CAN’T BREATHE

by Didier Morelli

We enter the space and settle down along the edges of the room. Like a well-trained pack of sheep we leave the center for you…

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Mixed Realities and Inflatable Tits

by Kate Sierzputowski

Layers and stacks of the surreal, ATOM-R overlays virtual reality onto nearly naked and tattooed bodies scrunched onto wooden boards, thin attractive bodies galavanting haphazardly…

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Watering Jelili

by Whitney Richardson

Below you will find Jelili Atiku’s synopsis of his upcoming performance for Rapid Pulse 2015 followed by a brief Question & Answer between Whitney Richardson,…

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You Are An Artist, You Are An Artist, You Are An Artist: An Interview with Julie Potratz

by Robin Dluzen

The video opens on the artist’s head and shoulders as she lies in the grass on a sunny day, desperately gasping to catch her breath…

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Lather, Splash, Soak, Rinse: Mitsu Salmon’s Bathing Panel

by Jessica Santone

I’ve been thinking a lot about bathing lately. I am about to move from the sometimes-flooded Midwest to California, where mandatory residential water usage reductions…

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Performing versus Recording with Nabeela Vega

by Madge of Honor

Preparing to attend Rapid Pulse for the very first time, I connected with media artist Nabeela Vega who showed their video “Purge” at Rapid Pulse…

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Who wants to punch a clown?

by Jeffery Byrd

Consider the classic punching bag. Perhaps the only toy designed to be attacked, the weighted bottom means the big balloon bounces back after every punch…

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To Perform/ To Construct/ To Witness

by Meghan Moe Beitiks

I am watching Larissa Kopp make a meat bouquet. Very literally, She is sitting wearing white in a white room at a white table wearing…

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Loving Care Revisited: Yolanda Benalba

by Jennie Klein

Yolanda Benalba’s performance work, inspired by her mother and her grandmother, deals with the theme of violence against women in her native country of Spain.…

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Missile Pillow Pin

by Meghan Moe Beitiks

Adam Gruba asks for volunteers. He is wearing a bright orange space suit, but his question is very direct, not otherwordly. It’s unclear what folks…

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