In one of the book's most beautiful passages, two women in Agassiz's experimental school struggle to enter a sea cave in Victorian dress: "The folds of her skirt, which dragged on the shells and tore at the algae, kept blocking her way.... From the shore they must look like a pair of handbells, stems slipped into the cave".
It provided a sour note for manager Roy Hodgson - as did the injury sustained by Oxlade-Chamberlain - as he saw his experimental side struggle defensively but produce some excellent work going forward, especially from Everton midfielder Ross Barkley.
Glen R Johns - who has just staged a circus show called Dead End and a one-woman show called The Mother Woman in the same Adelaide back alley – says that more experimental artists are struggling to get bums on seats, though his own shows were at least 80% full.
They valued students "learning about appropriate experimental design," including struggling to think about "what controls were used and why there were important".
Like Indie Game: The Movie, this Kickstarter-funded project tracked the life and struggles of experimental game makers like Robin Arnott and told the story of people on the fringes of game development trying to make weird and wonderful things.
Dorn was identified, and identified himself, throughout his career with Black Mountain College, the small, financially struggling North Carolina experimental school whose teachers included, among others: Joseph Albers, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Walter Gropius, Buckminster Fuller, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Harry Callahan and Robert Creeley.
Charlotte Higgins nails the weakness of the argument for endowments: fine for big institutions, with their teams of fundraisers, but no use at all for small, struggling or experimental organisations.
Elementary school students are known to struggle with experimental controls, and they are more competent in recognizing than designing such controls (Bullock and Ziegler, 1999).
Occasionally, Machado's genre-bending conceits overreach, but her use of a vivid experimental lens to show women struggling for agency is startling.
Along with Andy Field and Ira Brand, she programmed the kind of adventurous, intimate, experimental and participatory work then struggling to find a place in the fringe.
