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Rasmussen
Chicago, IL
A cover of “Lullaby for the Miserable” — the song at the heart of Young Jean Lee’s We’re Gonna Die (2011). In the play, Lee shares stories of isolation and heartbreak on stage with the band Future Wife, offering them as “ordinary comforting things” for anyone in that “really lonely isolated place.”
What this work is actually about — the gap between intention and expression, from Stanislavski through Lacan to AI as co-author…
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“I was enthralled with Rasmussen’s performance — could feel his conflict, his pain, his passion.”
TheaterWhat happens when you let a machine write your sentences — and whether the resulting text belongs to anyone…
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The Gaze
A procedural roguelike about desire and mirrors
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Radiohead Covers — Live at Old Town School of Folk Music
Session 3
40+ min live set · multiple songs · Szold Hall
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