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As a central point of exploration: "Spaces are not exterior to our bodies, instead, spaces are like a second skin, they unfold in the folds of the body."
We, as a culture, seem to be searching for answers that black futures may provide us.
The unknown and imagined expanse of space becomes synonymous at times with something like Heaven.
We engulf and tangle with a political idea in a different way than how we listen and respond to a play.
With CHASM I wanted a way to get that back because I feel like that's not about a career, or being an artist, it's mine, it's what I do, it's what I've always done. It feels necessary for su…
Not long after the new Whitney opened in 2015, the museum exhibited an all-star lineup of abstract expressionists on their seventh floor, where they show their permanent collection. On the m…
This idea of American desire and what's encapsulated in that is this reckoning, but, also holding the truths of being white in American culture means you have to hold the history of being an…
"Double consciousness is knowing the particularity of the white world in the face of its enforced claim to universality... Double consciousness, in other words, is knowing a lie while living…
Editor’s Note: QUEERING MARRIAGE is the concluding essay documenting the long-table process around Kyoung’s Pacific Beat’s production of PILLOWTALK at the Tank. You can rea…
In the alchemic container that is Weird Classrooms, anyone's expertise becomes compelling.
Every story needs to be considered individually for us to have any chance at finding something that looks like justice.
Culturebot contributors Amelia Parenteau and Audrey Moyce in dialogue on SHEILA at A.R.T./New York
The evening resembles what one might imagine how a Moth Storytelling Hour might play out if it were held at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
Moodey tries to save the bird by soaking it in Epsom salts and massaging it, but the inevitability of its death leads to the practicality of it being made into chicken soup.
The age of the ally is over, let's be accomplices. Maura on Rosy Simas, Nora Chipaumire and NIC Kay at American Realness 2018.
"Money is not the root of all evil. The love of money is the root of all evil." We need money, but money is not the only way to define our value.
Bizarre, off-putting, and utterly spectacular
Editor’s Note: Jason Tseng attended a long-table discussion following a recent performance of Pillowtalk and provided the following response. Future long-tables will be held on J…
Responding to CUTE ACTIVIST at the Bushwick Starr: "Does this play want me to 'like' it or to 'crying face' it?"
Terry shepherds us through storytelling, theater, and song on an absurdist Lynchian dive into the creepy under belly of the suburban Midwest town.
Michelle Ellsworth brings a real head trip to American Realness 2018.
"Uh what else was I gonna say?…I'm so cold." Yeah. "Yeah it's fuckin cold as fuck. Um. I have a lot questions about…how we…how we end this." Julia pricks up at Peter's question, didn't…
My collaborators on Pillowtalk have pushed me to envision a different time and place: a beautifully queer place that simultaneously grounds us in the deeply dangerous reality of American cul…
"It started as a piece with very pared down visual corollary, but I soon realized that was beside the point. It was a much more interesting piece to use language to describe a thing and enti…
I wonder about the ways that our bodies clue us into selves and identities, perhaps even before we're aware of them.