I understand that an artist can do an invisible piece, but a piece that no one knows is kind of weird.
In pitch-darkness I tried to fumble my way to a seat, but tripped over some invisible piece of deco ornamentation and went sprawling down the aisle.
"It is an invisible part of the piece," she says, "but one of the things about the disability community is that massive judgements are made about what is seen in public and very little is known about what goes on behind closed doors".
That's right: you could pick up an invisible chess piece and your fingers would freeze at just the right spot so it would feel like you're holding something sold.
"Where as [sic] media technology becomes smaller and eventually invisible, the piece turns that development up-side-down: due to its transparent setup, the sculpture's mode of operation turns out to be the actual subject matter," REVERSE explains on its website.
Nascent Palestine is in pieces, invisible behind a reassuring fence-wall.
A haunting presence throughout the piece, invisible to the angry policeman and the kindly American, is a street fiddler.
In "Replica," Arsham breaks through the walls of the set, a plaster and foam cube, carrying chunks of it offstage, which allows the dancer to move in and out of the cube, becoming alternately visible and invisible in a piece that is about memory and experience.
They'll be joined by the writer Sarah Stillman, whose piece "Invisible Army" was published in the magazine last year, alongside van Agtmael's photographs; the broadcaster Amy Goodman, of Democracy Now; and Ali Adeeb, an Iraqi journalist who was a news editor at the New York Times Baghdad bureau.
