Butter. It’s a beloved ingredient found in households around the world—and it has frequently been the source of inspiration for artists. By some accounts, the history of butter dates back to 8000 B.C.E. in ancient Africa. Over the centuries, it has been used as a healing unguent, for cosmetic purposes, and, of course, for cooking … Read more
In 2020, Rod Webber and his team of performance artists and filmmakers found themselves as the targets of what Webber calls an unwarranted FBI and Boston Police Department investigation. Webber, who is the writer and director of the documentary 2020: The Dumpster Fire, says that investigators are falsely using footage from a trailer of the … Read more
Chinese student crawls on train floor as ‘performance art’, sparking discussion online South China Morning Post
“The divided realities I witnessed were a map that showed me how to traverse my biracial and queer identity: Black, Jewish, and a butch dyke,” she said. Those experiences would later lead her to perform, in one piece, “the idiosyncrasies of my white, Jewish, and African-American grandmothers adjacent to a butch entrepreneur and a teenage … Read more
Writers: ClusterFlux Collective In New Mexico, the US Government has proposed burying spent nuclear fuel in a repository under Yucca Mountain. Although the repository’s future is currently undecided, if it ever becomes a reality the site could be hazardous for tens of thousands of years. ClusterFlux Collective’s Please Leave (a message) asks what type of … Read more