DOOM: House of Hope is comically apolitical and tragically hollow beneath all the hype.
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An Artist Possessed by Her Alter-Ego
In Give Me Carmelita Tropicana! performance artist Alina Troyano asks: Where does one identity start and the other end? Can they even be separated?
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Joshua Serafin’s Living Shrine to Gender Nonconformity
The Filipino-born artist takes a journey through primordial mud, chimeric worlds, and suppressed psychic demons to honor trans people as channels of divinity.
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Artist Invites the Public to Write Letters to the Next US President
Sheryl Oring has typed and sent thousands of messages to the White House every election since 2004 as part of her performance series I Wish to Say.
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Marval Rex Shares a Tale of Trans Jewish Self-Discovery
The artist’s newest performance, Rexodus: Out of the Closet, Into the Tribe, is “sort of a TED talk, but not a boring one,” Rex told Hyperallergic.
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The Viral Performance Artist Who Takes the Form of Trash
Shoji Yamasaki imitates plastic bags and other detritus moving in the breeze in his entrancing choreography series Littered Mvmnts.
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María Magdalena Campos-Pons Leads a Procession of Hope
With stops at sites of significance to Black and Cuban New Yorkers, the artist’s walking performance captures the essence of her practice: harnessing the collective toward a unified vision.
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This Museum Wants to Reignite Performance Art in Los Angeles
“We’re building on the generations before us that have grown from the fertile grounds of California,” said Museum of Performance Art founder Samuel Vasquez.
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Inside Brooklyn’s Very Own Immersive “Clown Cult”
The bi-monthly variety show gathers both newcomers and veterans of the craft to help participants discover “the power in cringe.”
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At the River to River Festival, Performance Is Everywhere
A sonic protest against colonial politics, a conceptual ice cream tasting, and other live and participatory experiences headlined the annual New York City festival.
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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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Social Tensions From Antiquity to the End of the World
The trials of a post-apocalyptic New York and hedonistic Rome become one another’s mirrors and choirs in The Industry’s double opera Comet/Poppea.