First run starring Sam Ashford, Dean Kissick, Ala Dehghan, James Shaeffer, Pujan Karambeigi, Micaela Carolan at Jones Beach for the 17th edition of Miami Art Basel.
God bless the dealers: NAFTA Miami and subsequent editions NAFTA Contemporary take place at a fictional art fair, post-vibe shift. A "very contemporary" (read: last minute) revival of the 1984 Pulitzer play Glengarry, Glenn Ross, lines are lifted from art world press releases and fed through a python algorithm that matches the syntax of the original play .
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We do it a little differently every time, just like a retrospective -- starring everyone who's anyone in the international downtown.
Meanwhile, we've turned David Mamet's blazing salesmen into art dealers into "MEN"- as perfectly capable of mansplaining the blockchain as they are the neoconceptual, neocorporate post-contemporary crime scene that spills into Silicon Valley like one of those godforsaken drip paintings...
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Act II premiered during Urbit New York (2022) starring Blaketheman1000 and Marshall Jones.
Subsequent productions at Montez Press Radio (2019).
See also alyssa davis gallery
Written by Campbell Carolan