Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Corbu Pops” had, the performance splashed the container off the table. Placed in a corner of the Carpenter Center lobby, the set was a large and angled board painted with a ghostly cliff face of melting mouths, eyes, ears, and noses. Melancholy organ music played in the background as the student actors wearing over-sized baby masks with large glasses struck blasé poses watching the audience watching them or contemplating a spot on the floor or the ceiling. Questions of the viewer-performer relation were further raised by Pope.L’s shifting positions. The artist...
...album teeters on the verge of redundancy. With the constant nature theme and the simple chord progressions, there are moments when the untiring voice of Case is not enough. In “Fever,” country influences are emphasized with the twang of the guitar in the background, but despite an unanticipated tempo change, the track lacks a strong melody, making her usual form and instrumentation seem stale and tiresome. The trouble is that when Case does try to change her tune, the songs often become much less appealing. “Prison Girls?...
...Family” holds center stage, both as the name of the rundown adult film theatre that serves as the Pineda clan’s home and sole source of income, and as the core group responsible for the film’s relational dilemmas. Set against the background of a lawsuit between matriarch Nanay Flor (Gina Pareño) and her estranged husband, the film displays a day in the life of her large extended family’s impoverished existence. Her daughter Nayda (Jacklyn Jose) resents the unbreakable ties to this home that an unexpected pregnancy...
...sacrifice worth making to carry out the art’s intent.“The Space Within; The Time Without,” on view through April 3, calls for observation, perception, and deliberation. To directly address the exhibition, which passively defies confrontation by retreating into the background, is to uncover a metaphysical wonderland...
...actually like scary movies,” he says, although everyone else is too terrified to look at the screen. 12:53 a.m. After the movie ends, a game of Hoopla begins with “Baby One More Time” on an infinite loop in the background. Sameer Lakha ’09 drops by and comments on the relatively empty room. “It’s a great idea, but you know, it’s Friday night.” 1:30 a.m. In the midst of charades: “Strip Club...