PICA’s Time-Based Art festival concluded on Sunday. The consensus seems to be that the third and final year of Guest Artistic Director Mark Russell’s tenure was the festival’s most accessible yet, with a notable selection of straightforward personal and political narratives (Mike Daisey, Lemon Anderson, Daniel Beatty) amidst the more conceptual offerings. A few more posts went up on the Mercury‘s TBA blog today, and we’ll have a couple more visual art reviews later this week, but otherwise our coverage is just about wrapped up.
Up in the past few days:
Chas finds the similarities between the Blue Man Group and TBA artists Tiago Guedes, ” Portugal’s most charming emo-mime,” and then unpacks the time-based portraiture of Douglas Gordon’s Zidane.
I fall for both the over-the-top (and often topless) antics of French/Austrian Superamas, and the quietly transcendent L’Effet de Serge from Philippe Quesne’s Vivarium Studios.
Patrick tries, fails to be a good sport about the festival’s closing celebration, an all-day scavenger hunt culminating in a performance by Brother and Sister.