Reviews for Exchange Artists Performances
Review: The Man Who Planted Trees by Exchange Artists
by David Glen Robinson
Published on October 12, 2012
A foreign-language play right here in River City? Don’t let any perceived language barrier deter you from receiving the delights of this rare work.
The story of how Sparky Pocket Park on Grooms St. in central Austin came to exist is a drama all by itself, involving City departments and neighborhood voters. But that story is for another time; I went there on this chilly October evening to see the site-specific work by the Exchange Artists, The Man Who Planted Trees, based on a story by the French writer Jean Giono. I certainly was not disappointed in my expectations. …
Review: The Story Seekers by Exchange Artists
by Michael Meigs
Published on April 04, 2011
The grove of shelter has features of death, of memory, of limbo and of simple mythos or story telling -- perhaps those children exist only because we imagine them.
The Elizabeth Ney museum on E. 44th Street in Hyde Park is already haunted. A crowd of stark white plaster figures and busts stand in the shabby shaddows of the odd small Austin-stone castle that was Ney's final residence and studio from 1902 to 1907. Among them is a bust of German writer and philologist Jacob Grimm that she sculpted of the old man in Berlin in the 1850's. Grimm would have approved of …