I just got home from an enthralling live performance by Sung Hwan Kim at Gallery TPW (more on this soon) to find an email from Ben Coonley, who graciously spent his flight from New York answering some questions about his performance at Harbourfront Centre tomorrow. As Sholem noted, cute animals and earnestness are major ingredients [...]

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I am going to see Ben Coonley’s Power Plant-hosted performance at the Harbourfront Centre’s brigantine room based solely and entirely on the strength of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETQ0urHjSIk I have long been obsessed with the idea of cuteness as a weapon; the idea that relatively defenseless infants (animal or human) have only cuteness as a protective [...]

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