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Las Tres Margaritas Presents: The Rise & Fall of the Big Top: A Circus for the New Millennium

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Las Tres Margaritas Presents: The Rise & Fall of the Big Top: A Circus for the New Millennium

Saturday, April 20th 2006

An evening of mammoth man-eating monstrosities, the most terrifying creatures the world has ever seen with thieves and carnal acts beyond belief.

This exhibition curated by Nancy Christensen, Jake Hartman, Heather Haynes and Michelle Sargent was a one night circus extravaganza with  over 50 artists and audience participants as barkers, acrobats and performers  engaging in organized and spontaneous acts all addressing the rising hysteria of the approaching millennium. Acts were timed in the gallery and outside in the red big top circus tent. The eking was led by  a Ring Leader who slowly becoming intoxicated throughout the evening. After awhile becoming too drunk to lead, he confuses the audience, looses focus and control and finally gives up.   Some of the 50 featured works included projections on the outside of the gallery, with works such as a life size functioning coin operated guillotine, a Wheel of Misfortune, a 20 foot electrified worm that moved throughout the space, a blind tight-rope walker plummeted by pies from the audience, a circus clown suffering from depression,  and an aspiring performance artists whose teacher teaches her to breathe and eat fire live on stage. 

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