Francesca Fini’s Fair & Lost”
“When you wave the flag of your country you feel like you are really a part of something,” Francesca Fini explains as she attaches the pads of Electric Muscle Stimulation (EMS) machine to her biceps before picking up a small Italian flag. The machine causes her arm to twitch in a mechanized, agitated staccato. The […]
Fereshtesh Toosi’s “Shoebox Lunch”
Fereshteh Toosi shows us a lot by making us blind. In “Shoebox Lunch,” a performance on Sunday, July 9th at The Hub, the conventionally visual medium of performance art is expounded into a multi-sensory, multi-voiced exploration of history using food and oral storytelling. The interactive performance takes place in total darkness. Participants wear blindfolds while […]