“That Paradise Place” explores the romantic lives and sexual fantasies of artists with disabilities through song and puppetry.
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An Abortion-Oriented Cosmology Tale Debuts in NYC
Alexandra Neuman’s latest performance, The Collective Womb, reframes abortion as a natural exchange of energy between the body and the world.
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A Black Bean Grows Quietly in Washington Square Park
In a 10-day meditation, Jemila MacEwan silently nurtures a seed in the palm of their hand amidst the hustle and bustle of the iconic public park.
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VALIE EXPORT Insists on Taking Up Space
EXPORT’s urban interventions in her exhibition Embodied alert us to the risks of being read as femme in a highly visible, public space.
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Audience Members Cut Iranian Artist’s Hair in Moving Performance
At San Francisco’s Legion of Honor, Mobina Nouri took scissors to her own strands and invited others to do the same.
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Dancing Toward Peace and Healing
In She Who Lives on the Road to War, Rosy Simas combines installation and performance to address the immense losses experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Pissing on Faces or When Women Behave Badly
When Sophia Urista urinated on an audience member onstage, her act was framed and understood in a particularly gendered way.
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Why an Italian Village Tied Itself to a Mountain
The event was devised by artist Maria Lai and involved almost all of Ulassai’s 1,000 inhabitants and required nearly 17 miles of light blue denim ribbon.
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Fun Facts I Learned from a Year of Producing No Garbage
We’ve all seen the zero wasters on Instagram showing off their mason jars full of a year’s worth of trash. But most people aren’t going to be willing or able to change their lifestyles to that degree.
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How Many Latinx Women Artists Have Had Solo Shows At MoMA PS1?
In her performance last weekend, Yali Romagoza asked difficult questions about the museum’s representation of Latinx artists.
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At Boss Witch, Art Performances Will Thrive in Nature
Launching this month in Los Angeles, Boss Witch will support site-specific performances in Joshua Tree, Mono Lake, and more.
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Coco Fusco Enlists Cuban Artists to Recite Heberto Padilla’s Forced Confessions
Fifty years ago, poet Heberto Padilla was forced to publicly denounce himself and his friends as counterrevolutionaries.