Picture the dirtiest dive bar you know. Stale cigarette smoke loiters
in the air. Hockey or basketball plays on a TV over the bar, which has
signs everywhere advertising cheap beer specials. The bartenders always
look tired, their skin leathery, their fashion dated.
Usually, the dive bar has karaoke. But tonight, there's a band playing --
an out-of-town band from L.A. While there's a certain excitement that
a band from the big city is here, everyone knows that nobody with real
talent plays at
On Friday, February 6, Kevin Harris debuted Move, a trio of multimedia installations at Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts. Entitled Exercise/Execution, the show's gauntlet-like centerpiece consisted of the functioning base of a dismantled treadmill slowly turning on an elevated, neon-illuminated Lucite platform, mountable via steps covered in orange felt. At the end of this short trip lay a bed of nails lit by cheap red desk lamps. The apparatus was cordoned off with velvet ropes on stanchions a
