Touching, observing, crowding around Alastair MacLennan’s actuation (MacLennan prefers this term over performance), audience members surrounded the artist as he began, fully aware of the objects that he would incorporate… Read More →

Freya Björg Olafson started her performance timidly, hiding herself behind her long stringy hairy, her long black jumper. Hooked to a projection screen behind her was the computer in front… Read More →

I have not been standing outside the electrodes watching Alison Crocetta and Peter Reese perform for more than five minutes before I start feeling the pain of stillness. Peter Reese… Read More →

Jessica’s voice comes to us over the PA. She explains the steps she takes to get dressed, how to prevent skin rubbing skin, how to straighten seams. These descriptions are… Read More →

La Pocha Nostra’s reputation in the performance art world precedes it. They’ve led rebel artist pedagogical workshops internationally under the leadership of Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes. Their core members… Read More →

Boryana Rossa enters the space unassumingly. “My name is Boryana Rossa.” She wants to have a conversation with us about performance art, and as such, she introduces herself in a… Read More →

Legs high, pressed to the wall, the flat front of feet, the shins, the knees. Then thighs lead to pelvis, stomach, and chest on the floor. Spread fingers under shoulders,… Read More →

Sara Legg: Were there any formative experiences in your past (maybe your childhood) that led you to pursue theatre and performance? Matthew Prest: I think going way back my first… Read More →

The Golden Boy is prone. He is on his knees with his spine bent backwards. An alert, also gold leafed, blonde Adonis suspends him by the throat. He is beauty… Read More →