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It is a curious thing we ugly Americans do: we are infatuated with a meta-world of fictional animals to replicate our social order, manifest our ids and superegos, our social rites and character flaws, and enact our moral lessons. The peculiar and unprecedented intimacy of the human psyche with anthropomorphized animals saw its flowering in […]

In attending various galleries and museums this past October, such as the Sculpture Center and Jack the Pelican in New York, I noticed a trend: many exhibitions were set up as installations in the form of a narrative, whereby each part of the story was broken up into “stations” that the viewer was to view, […]

The notion of “star quality” would seem an anathema to those ensconced in the world of contemporary dance. It nods to the vacuous ethos of Hollywood’s commercial celebrity-dom; it is created, fictionalized, valorized and vulgarized by the variegated tentacles of a capital-intensive media, it simplifies complex artists into a superficial, je-ne-sais-quoi dazzle, often privileging appearance […]

It is a long turgid night of mediocre—some barely watchable—performances at “Improvisation and Otherwise” at Brooklyn’s BRIC theater. Worse yet, it is a venue where you have to sit at a table, eat dinner and socialize while watching the performances, protracting the pain. Finally, we are on the last act of the night, Lower Lights […]

Upon entering the Bryce Wolkowitz gallery in Chelsea, New York, one often feels an uncanny sensation of skating the rims of a futuristic otherworldiness: a cryptic hollowed-out future void of human meaning, oddly detached yet doomed in its aura of absence of human-motivated intentionality. The pieces in Wolkowitz’s exhibitions often seem to coalesce into a […]

Dance Theater Workshop was home to the American premiere of ALARM! –zero hour edition, by Japanese dance company Baby Q, a multimedia dance performance group with a sardonic pop culture and highly-visual stylized flair. Baby-Q: Remnants of a Post-Human World Andrea Liu courtesy of Baby Q Dance Theater Workshop was home to the American premiere […]

"The secret organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Herbal Capriccio–rippling arpeggios of thyme, lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle, tarragon; a series of modulations through the spice keys into ambergris; and a slow return through sandalwood, camphor, cedar and new-mown hay (with occasional subtle touches of discord–a whiff of kidney pudding, the faintest suspicion of pig’s […]

I return from Portland, Oregon and the Portland Institute for Contemporary?s Art?s Time Based Art Festival, a geographical-cultural missionary of sorts. I feel like Malcolm X, ossified and stalwart in my political beliefs, before being thrust into Mecca and realizing that my entire paradigm for understanding the world was unjustly skewed by my poisonous environment. […]

It is a decided minority of modern dancers who have anything inside–a depth, an intelligence, a charisma, a sense of freedom–that seems larger than the mere sum of their physical acts and movements;(…) How to Start A Daniel Linehan Fan Club Andrea Liu Daniel Linehan, Squeeze Machine, 2006. Photograph by Steven Schreiber. It is a […]

With an airy coolness and subversion, Bob Gramsma brings his architectural installation Schwamendingen, OI#0485 to Haswellediger Gallery in Chelsea, New York. An architectural structure of over 200 glass windows and doors salvaged from an old house in Zurich layered into walls, floors and ceilings, this installation stood aloof from being categorizable as a pavilion, a […]