We’re packed into a shotgun style hall on the second floor of a campy german social club. There are barbies with lederhosen encased in the walls, billowy red ribbons cover the ceiling. The lights are low, drink in hand, I’m peering over bobbing heads to get a glimpse of the neon spandex mesh glued to
Samson Young is considering sonic warfare. Night bombing videos are a thing on YouTube, like how cat videos are a thing. They sound different than you’d imagine, he started wanting to do sound design for these videos. As he continues working on this project he consideres feeling the magnitude of what it means morally to do
Saturday’s chat was the mega-panel of who’s who in festival curating: Karen Farber (Counter Current Festival, Houston), Martin Faucher (Festival Transamériques, Montreal), Gideon Lester (Crossing the Line Festival, NYC), Angela Mattox (TBA Festival, Portland), Mark Russell (Under the Radar Festival, NYC) and, of course, Ron Berry. These six came together to answer some of the hard questions about balancing the varying
Much of the conversation at this year’s festival has centered around geographical context. Questions have come up repeatedly about the balance between presenting local and non-local work, how to engage community audiences and the pros and cons of touring work that was created in a vastly different context than the one at a given festival.
Friday’s Waffle Chat brought together Annie B Parson Lazar, David Neumann, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Brian Rogers in a talk that centered about practice, resistance and live/virtual performativity. All four panelists are invested in liveness and the body in ways that rubs up against mediated intimacy. Again, I will leave you with a string of questions
Day two of Waffle Chats brought together four artists, Luis Garay (choreographer), Daniela Libertad (visual art), Rachel Mars (performance maker) and Anna Rispoli (filmmaker and one third of art collective Zimmerfrei). Moderator Leslie Moody Castro quickly picked out themes that all four approach in their respective practices, she also prodded Luis into sharing personal stories
Last night at MoHA, Rachel Mars, Julie Fiore, Ann Sunder and Lori Paradoski tore down the facade: fairies, envy, a little bit of group therapy and the sweet smell of fresh group coffee. If you missed Our Carnal Hearts, you can go tonight at 7. @kmcatmull captured it perfectly. #Fusebox2016 All that's left of OUR
The kickoff Waffle Chat at #Fusebox2016 got to the heart of things real quick. Panelists Kee Hong Low ( West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong), Matthieu Goeury (Vooruit, Belgium), and Cory Baker (The Long Center, Austin) joined Ron Berry for some real talk about the state of international arts funding, the role of arts centers in local communities and
Last night at Fusebox Eve, Paul Lazar described Fusebox as “equisite for an American city” while discussing the importance of Fusebox and other festivals for the American arts community. There is something about dining together, with colleagues, artists, new faces, locals and out-of-towners, that made that importance tangible. Or as Aaron Sanders put it “holy