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Looking For Love In The Hall Of Mirrors

October 17, 2002
Performance
Depicting visual and emotional vignettes, Looking for Love In the Hall of Mirrors is Daniel's third graphic-performance. This live illustration traces and develops the internal dialogue of a common (sub)cultural archetype - the acerbic old queen. The character leaves the farm and moves to the city looking for love and artistic success; many of the protagonist's sermons address the politics of a sexually-charged landscape, and so the piece also obliquely addresses conformity in the queer community. This exhibition has a recorded electronic score by audio artist Jeffrey Cressman which accompanies the live monologue.

October 4, 2002 to October 26, 2002
Exhibition
The human nude, central to Clement's work, is reinterpreted through numerous small drawings. The drawings are gathered into long strips and folded into large accordion shapes which are hung nearly to ceiling height. Created with mixed techniques and media, and done primarily in luminous blues, the resulting installation generates an impression of movement and enclosure within a sequence of instantaneous emotion.

May 9, 2002
Performance
In 1954 the elected government of Guatemala was overthrown by a coup encouraged by the United Fruit Company in collusion with the CIA. Ramirez-Figueroa uses this as a starting point for his performance that mines Guatemalan history and the Broadway musical. This minimalist dance musical without words or music derives inspiration from Elsa Miranda, Disney Cartoons and political speeches to explore aspects of Latin American history.

April 19, 2002 to May 11, 2002
Exhibition
This exhibition of sculpture by Cuban artist Osvaldo Yero consists of wall-mounted ceramics, running water, and live plants. He makes use of symbols such as the hand, the heart, plants and tears, to use kitsch and cliche to make statements about poverty and Cuban history.