(Oh yeah: This whole business is being streamed live here, if you’re curious.) 2:23 pm—And here something pretty great happens: Mike Daisey loses his shit, breaking character and pushing himself back from his table, laughing hard for a long spell, his big chest shaking, he’s giddy and enthusiastic and looking—for the first time in like […]
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Live Blogging Mike Daisey’s 24-Hour Monologue All the Hours in the Day
Mike Daisey is currently on hour 19 of his 24-hour monologue. I gave up last night at about 3 am, and couldn’t settle into it again this morning when I went back, so now I’m checking out the livestream from the relative comfort of my couch. Erik is still there, though, and he’s been blogging […]
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Rachid Ouramdane/L’A.: World Fair
I’m not going to lie; I had a hard time with this performance. I hardly know what to make of it. Sure, at times I could see themes of nationalism, political oppression, and maybe rebellion, but it was all so conceptual, I could not connect with any of it. As the audience trickled in to […]
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Review: James Benning’s Ruhr
There’s no way around it, James Benning‘s Ruhr is a challenging film. Seven shots compose the two-hour piece, all sourcing imagery from the Ruhr District of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, a manufacturing center with roots in the early water-powered stages of the Industrial Revolution. All shots weigh in between 8 minutes and an hour— the camera […]
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Review: Big Terrific
!!!!!!! [BESTIE x BESTIE 1] !!!!!!! from Dean Fleischer-Camp on Vimeo. I had high hopes for Big Terrific last night, and by the size of the crowd at Washington High School last night, so did plenty of other people—I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a Works show so packed, The show started out strong, with […]
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zoe I juniper, A Crack in Everything
PICA Press photo for A Crack in Everything Prior to the show last night, I caught zoe | juniper’s A Crack in Everything Installed. If you’ve seen it (it’s free), you’d probably agree, it’s totally bizarre and unnerving. There’s a series of women, standing in a line with tubetops on; their hair is up and […]
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Reviewing Catch or How Watching Someone Getting Kicked Out of Catch was Better Than Watching Catch
The warning didn’t bode well: “don’t go in there.” I had barely stepped into the lobby of Washington High School when two strangers on their way out, whispered secretively to me their misgivings about the evening’s programming. Last night THE WORKS brought us Catch, a bi-monthly showcase of sorts that features an array of performances, […]
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Tonight at TBA: Big Terriffic, Dance in Southeast, Dead Scenesters
Tonight at TBA, a visit from Jenny Slate, Gabe Liedman, Max Silvestri, the hosts of the well-regarded Brooklyn comedy night Big Terrific—SNL short-timer Slate wrote and voiced “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On,” and she stars with Liedman in the awesome web series Bestie x Bestie; they’ll also be showing short films from the director […]
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Dean & Britta: 13 Most Beautiful
Hey demographic, you’re about my age, right? Which means we’re too young to remember Andy Warhol’s experimental art scene of the 60s but old enough to have died of an overdose by now if we’d been a part of it. And so it went for several of the silent Screen Tests subjects chosen by Dean […]
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Review: NEW MUSICS
PICA Grouper and Flash Choir By 10 pm yesterday evening, TBA had worn me out with slow-paced artwork. I started off at the Northwest Film Center for James Benning’s Ruhr— a feature-length film that ends with a single, hour-long shot of the top of a smoke stack (which I’ll further explore in a later post). […]
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Mike Daisey on All Hours of the Day
Over on our TBA blog, I’ve got an interview with Mike Daisey about the 24 hour monologue he’ll be attempting for the first time this weekend. I’m sitting at a coffeeshop, working on this very post, when I get a text from Mike Daisey: “Surprising development: there will be a tremendous amount of bacon cooked […]
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24 Hours with Mike Daisey
I’m sitting at a coffeeshop, working on this very post, when I get a text from Mike Daisey: “Surprising development: there will be a tremendous amount of bacon cooked live when least expected.” Daisey, a New York-based monologuist who’s gained a considerable local fanbase over the past few years (including just about every writer at […]