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photo courtesy of Gadfly LR:  I love that your pieces get slightly updated names with each production, the 2.0, 3.0 at the end etc…What have you learned or developed in the pieces as you’ve restaged over time?  OS: What we have learned I think is that those works were not finished. They were a snapshot in time of where we were as artists and things have changed. Being able to revisit works is not a chance but a must. We had to do it. We are not finished. We are not satisfied. We owe it to the people who come see our works. It is our choice. Go back into the lab and fix things that might have been rushed. What we’ve gained is that our works represent where we are in our heads. We change, we grow and so do those works, especially the ones coming from very personal places. LR: And the pieces you are premiering — what are the inspirations for them? OS: Inspiration is a very tricky term for me. I don’t buy into the idea of one thing as the trigger for creatin...

When Tracey Norman's email announcing her show "How to Tear Down a Wall" arrived in my inbox, I teared up a little just reading its title. How to tear down a wall. Wall of ice. Wall of apathy. Wall of despair. Wall that divides, keeps out, keeps in, restricts. In a time when walls really can't stop us from communicating with each other, or from knowing what's going on elsewhere, there is something still powerful, threatening about the idea of building a wall. So how to tear one down? I want to know. LR: How to tear down a wall  — what does this title mean? it’s super evocative, at face value, or taking into consideration some recent political statements of building a wall etc and our metaphorical/allegorical use of it in daily language. i want to know how to tear down a wall!!!! TN: Well I think it’s a fairly accessible title to which you can attach surface value meaning right away and hopefully relate to in some way. I looked at it a bit a...