

ExA 2019 in Review: Gustavo Solar
GUSTAVO SOLAR
I will be millions February 22, 2019 In his work, “I will be millions,” Gustavo Solar demonstrated that the body is a force more powerful than a choreography of re-imagined torture. In the middle of a vacant street wet and muddy from an on-going mist of rain, Solar began his performance floodlit by the headlights of a revving truck engine. Undulating his body before the audience, he seemed a mixture of animal, the sacred, and a butoh interpreter. Through pure m


ExA 2019 in Review: Sarah Sudhoff
SARAH SUDHOFF Wired 2.0 February 22, 2019 A pure technologist would have been puzzled if it had walked in on Wired 2.0, a performance during Experimental Action 2019. A woman sat on stage in a stylish sleeveless, black dress and black high heels with her legs spread. Perched on a tripod, a camera aims at her crotch. To her right, projected on a screen was a thermal image of her crotch. The blue-orange-red-yellow shapes undulated over an image of her inner thighs. A readout of


ExA 2019 in Review: Roos Hoffmann
ROOS HOFFMANN Eldorado 2.0 February 21, 2019 Netherlands-based artist Roos Hoffmann directed a participatory work on February 21, 2019 at Experimental Action Festival. Using the ground level of Rockefeller Houston’s open, two-story theatre space, Hoffman asked twelve people to stand, motionless and silent, in a 4 x 3 grid configuration for approximately 15 minutes. If you were one of those people, which I was, this seemed almost a lifetime. At the beginning of the event, Hoff