Just like all
the other theatrics Davey and his crew have come up with during this budget mess, this exercise was totally not necessary.
Not exact matches
It also set an example to
other world leaders for ignoring their own systemic causes in favor of matinee
theatrics.
Attorney Michael Hrab — a former neighbor — also warmed up the crowd with a bit of
theatrics and a sleight - of - hand magic gag that he used to jab
other Democratic candidates.
Adolfo Carrión, the former Bronx borough president and City Council member, said it was time «to get Albany off our back,» though he had earlier warned the crowd to «beware of the
theatrics» of the
other candidates.
This event, more than any
other, is the time for drama and
theatrics in fashion.
At first glance, it would seem like an amusing premise for a satire, yet for large stretches the film takes itself seriously on the one hand, then completely goes for bad over-the-top
theatrics and schlock in the
other.
Aitken's work draws on many
other artists — text and image paintings by Ed Ruscha; video ruminations on animal intelligence by Diana Thater (Aitken's fellow student at Art Center College in the late 1980s); Bruce Nauman's insistent demand to audiences to «Please Pay Attention,» repeated in an Aitken light - box; Bill Viola's technical video -
theatrics; Jack Pierson's faded wall texts composed from scavenged commercial signage; the mirrored sculptures of Robert Smithson, avatar of entropy; Yayoi Kusama's infinity chambers, and more.
There he performed in a proto - punk noise band called Destroy All Monsters with three
other artists, Jim Shaw, Niagara and Carey Loren, creating work that, with its combination of anti-establishment politics and Dada
theatrics, had close connections to performance art.