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Slideshow: Tavares Strachan's ''Orthostatic Tolerance'' at the MIT List Visual Arts Center

Tavares Strachan at the MIT List Visual Arts Center | Through July 11

By TAVARES STRACHAN | June 18, 2010

Tavares Strachan, We Train to Get Better at the Things We May Know Already. 2009-10 | HD film, 10 min. | Courtesy of the artist and Pierogi Gallery, New York, NY

From the exhibition "Orthostatic Tolerance: It Might Not Be Such a Bad Idea if I Never Went Home," on display at the MIT List Visual Arts Center through July 11, 2010.

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Bill Daniel doesn't call the landlord when there's a hole in the roof. He just turns the damn house into a boat.
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Commonly artists prefer to work away from public scrutiny, shielded from revealing the awkward phases of creation, to emerge with a finished work of art that will last, if not for eternity, at least for quite a while.
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