“Birdsongs of the Necromancer” showcases new ways of improvising, recording, and playing centuries-old instruments.
Chris Vitiello
Bio: Chris Vitiello lives in Durham and writes for INDY Week on art, music and hockey.Twitter: http://twitter.com/chrisvitiello
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The Commons Crit: Justin Tornow Is Trying to Uncouple Expectation and Outcome, Consumer and Commodity
What if a “performance” could be less like passively receiving a predetermined takeaway and more like life, where anything can happen?
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The Commons Crit: Justin Tornow Is Creating a “Space in Which Nothing Is Wrong”
How can the concept of “audience engagement” expand beyond grant-application bait?
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Wim Botha Searches for the Secret Marks that Instill Classical Images with Agony and Power
Looking between the sculpture and the drawings, one can imagine Botha asking himself: “If I remove this line, or change its relationship to that line, is it still the Laocoön?”
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As the Local Dance Scene’s Borders Expand, Its Center Can Be Harder to Find. So Renay Aumiller Created Her Own Connections in RAW.
Plus, an explainer on what DIDA’s been doing instead of presenting shows this fall.
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With a Fresh Vision, and an Impending Remodel, the Ackland Art Museum Bounds into the Future
Plus, our editor’s picks for five art exhibits and five art festivals you can’t miss this fall.
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SPARKcon Is Saved! But Why Did It Need to Be?
SPARKcon’s crisis is overat least for now. Raleigh’s annual open-source arts festival, founded in 2006 and run by arts nonprofit VAE Raleigh for the last eight years, will fill downtown with a wide array of programming as usual Sep. 13–16. But at the start of August, SPARKcon’s funding was $22,500 short of its operating budget, […]
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In Kidnapped Pagans, Antoine Williams Brutally Charts the Distorting Effects on the Body of Structural Racism and Forced Dysfunction
ANTOINE WILLIAMS: KIDNAPPED PAGANS Through Saturday, Aug. 4 Anchorlight, Raleigh www.anchorlightraleigh.com Antoine Williams makes monsters. Except they’re not monsters; they’re us. The hybrid half-animal figures that populate his collaged paintings are warped by generations of structural racism, and express the trauma of forced dysfunction. But there’s hope within the horror, new abilities that emerge from […]
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ADF Review: Pilobolus’s Crowd-Pleasing Dance Is Apolitical. Unfortunately, the World It Inhabits Is Not.
Pilobolus ★½ Thursday, Jun. 21 & Friday, Jun. 22 Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham Pilobolus exempts itself from politics. The dance company wants you to escape the real world and have a good time for a couple of hours. It wants to give you a handful of chuckles and elicit some oohs and aahs in […]
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Removed from YouTube, The Muslims Take Their Protest Punk to Facebook Live
You need to see The Muslims’ excellent video to their ninety-second punk track “Muslims at the Mall.” After a closeup of someone’s hands squishing cheese through their fingers, Saba Taj wanders through Southpoint Mall, drawing stares in her “Alpha Delta Burqa,” a pink and green burqa made of Lilly Pulitzer fabric and cotton, glitter, gold […]