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Michael Stevens / Elizabeth Daniels

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Intro to Grey’s Anatomy

So I recently started watching Grey's Anatomy, and I am surprised at how good it is. I mean, yes, there are some soap opera-y moments, but for the most part, it is surprisingly well written with fleshed out, strong characters, especially female characters, who are not relegated to their romantic desires or their good looks, but are whole, real people with hopes, dreams, ambitions, likes, dislikes, lust, and love. They are all flawed in their own way, but together, the cast really shines through.

I'm four episodes in right now. In the 4th episode, we see Cristina deal with a dying patient and Izzie confront Karev over his sexism towards her. It was so gratifying to see Cristina finally shook up by something - her character so far as been very cool and aloof, very detached and I think this experience of her having a patient that she initially took on just to get into OR but to whom she eventually becomes so attached... it is a nice step in the evolution for her character. I assume (hope!) we will see her become a more balanced person, a person more capable of empathy towards her patients.

I love Izzie's character not just because of how positive she is, but also because of her confidence and her refusal to feel ashamed about her modelling past. She did what she had to do to pay for med school. Like she reminds Karev after shaming him for putting photos of her in the locker room, "Just remember that while you're sitting on $200K of student loans, I'm out of debt!".

The theme of this episode was "Intimacy". The roommates deal with their intimacy issues - George is uncomfortable with the girls just walking around the washroom in their underwear and asking him to buy tampons when it's his turn to do the groceries. Cristina is uncomfortable with intimacy with her patient (and the love she sees her get from her former colleagues). Meredith is perennially toeing the line of intimacy with McDreamy and by the end of this episode, most of these issues are if not resolved, then accepted and progressed. George learns that he can't change his roommates and just asks Izzie "I hope you're not using my toothbrush". Meredith finally accepts Dr. Shepherd's invitation to breakfast and most surprising of all, Dr. Burke helps Cristina let her patient go. I think there's definitely something brewing for these two in the future. Their last scene together, where is is shocked after calling the time of death and trying to figure out what to do for the patient next... then Burke comes in and holds her arms and says "Let her go!" ... they have an intense state-off, as if they've both just realized something shocking, as if that intimacy that has come from this shared experience has scared them a little bit and now they're unsure of how to proceed... So yes, I will definitely not be surprised if I see them hooking up in the future!

Until next time, xoxo

[mpa-blog]

DIRECT ACTION FESTIVAL 2013 review by Elizabeth Stevens

This weekend’s [DIRECT ACTION] gathering took place at the cleverly named satellite space for Institut Für Alles Mögliche, Abteilung für Alles Andere.  Abteilung für Alles Andere has been presenting it’s iterations of [DIRECT ACTION] at MPA-B since 2010.  This year’s gathering (DA*13) featured performances from students and invited artists alike, with the title theme “performance on*with*through language.”  According to the program, DA*13 “highlights the concept of ‘works-in-progress,’” wherein performers were given the opportunity to develop their works over the course of the weekend. 

This concept of “works-in-progress” was most apparent when I arrived on Friday evening.  The performers were all present, eating a communal meal and preparing to discuss the weekend’s events.  As director of the Institut Stefan Riebel explained, the schedule was not yet determined; rather, planning the series was part of the series.  As such, the preparation of events became a performative event in itself.

I returned on Sunday evening to witness the progress of DA*13.  The evening held multiple performances, video screening and discussions, now with the focus on the main theme of the series.  All artists played with the idea of language through various platforms, all questioning the purpose, necessity and means of communication in our everyday lives.  Most intriguing for me was Sebastian Boulter’s reinterpretation of Florian Kiniques’s “Occurrence,” an open-ended series of instructions which required the performer to create an ephemeral work using slide projections.  In the darkened space, Boulter, presented a series of slides which retraced various journeys he had taken throughout the world.  Slides of pictures and words related to his travels were punctuated by hand-drawn maps, which the artist had received, unsolicited, from people from whom he’d asked directions.  For the artist, these maps became a way of communication when conventional language (words) failed him, allowing him to find his way in a foreign place using only a few words at a time.

The evening closed with Konstantinos-Antonios Goutos’ short video entitled “talib.bites,” which displayed the first fragments of each of the 84 sentences spoken in Obama’s speech on Afghanistan, and then a communal sing-along led by Thomas Lindenberg and Lisa Schwalb to Katy Perry’s “Firework.” Finally, former artists-in-residence Campus Novel discussed the conversations they had had with visitors over coffee over the course of the weekend.  The concept of constant development seemed to be crucial in all of these works, because as the conversation about language changed, so too did the language of conversation.

More information:

http://www.mpa-b.org/stefan-riebel.html

All photos courtesy Stefan Riebel

Elizabeth Stevens

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Olvide recordar quien soy

Michael Stevens Volveré a casa en poco, estoy en la ciudad.

Daniels Elizabeth Déjame libre, solo quiero dejar todo esto atrás

Michael Stevens ¿Pasó algo?

Daniels Elizabeth Olvide recordar quien soy

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