The blaze destroyed nearly everything they owned and displaced them from their home with just a few belongings in a matter of several hours, Evans told Hyperallergic in a phone call from a hotel where she is currently living. "There's a lot of things that went wrong," Evans said. "It was not like the movies where it's very clear it's an emergency," she added, recalling how the building's smoke alarms had not even gone off when she and her neighbors cleared their homes.
After turning heads with his breakout presentation at NADA Miami last winter, Lee Moriarty is stepping back into the spotlight with Balance, his first solo exhibition. Opening September 27 at Night Gallery in Los Angeles and curated by Adam Abdalla, the show marks a striking debut that blurs the lines between performance art, wrestling culture, and personal identity. Through eight new works, Moriarty shifts focus away from the spectacle of the ring and toward the quieter, more vulnerable realities of the luchadores who inhabit it.
Since moving to New York City from Atlanta in 1990, she's accumulated some life experiences that most people only read about. Far from her previous life, where she was a teen model and taught young girls how to walk down runways in the '80s in a charm school, she graduated to a scene that wasn't even imaginable when she was on her high school track and tennis teams.
A Turkish angora cat peeks out from a wooden shelter at the Ankara Cat Protection, Survival and Promotion Centre at Ankara University. The veterinary faculty houses cats in safe conditions and helps them find new homes.
"I mean, I feel like we need laughter so badly. This is a style that blends a lot of different comedic techniques that you might recognize in whatever comedy, whether it's standup or sketch or improv."
Otero's decision to film her life and her challenges with mental illness ultimately led her to create a performance that poetically explores the struggle with love and madness.