A drag show inspired by (WHAT ELSE) Paris Is Burning, adult ghost dress-up time, and sounds that make us feel present in our bodies or just confused—if you haven't been to PICA's Time-Based Art Festival yet, here's what you've been missing:

Ghosting.

Alison Hallet was a pink ghost in Not About Face, Luke George's performance piece that requires adults to dress up as classic sheet-with-eyeholes-cut-out ghosts, sing together, and bump into strangers. Emphasis mine because being invisible seems thrilling and great:

Upon entering the studio where Not About Face is performed, each member of the 50-person audience is draped, one at a time, in a bedsheet that smells like it's just been through a hotel laundry. For a few minutes, everyone just roams the space freely, getting their... ghost legs? Most people seem to take to their sheets quickly, flapping and swooping and twirling. (Or, if you're me, giggling uncontrollably because you've got the Diarrhea Planet song "Ghost with a Boner" stuck in your head.) There's a video monitor at one end of the room, showing a picture of the space we're in—but on the monitor, the room is empty. We're ghosts! We're invisible. And it's hard to be inhibited when no one can really see you.

Matt Stangel found the "remedy to noise-culture listlessness" in Tim Hecker's "minimalist, synth-and-acoustic-sample melodic arrangements."

Jenna Lechner unpacked a whole lot of gender politics and/or performance in Eisa Jocson’s Death of a Pole Dancer and Macho Dancer:

Jocson’s performance is mostly a study in movement, also in gender. After her performance on Friday night, I was left thinking about what it means to move in a masculine way: so many of the movements in Macho Dancer are about making yourself look bigger, about broad stances, about lunging forward (and pelvic thrusts, naturally). It’s helpful to see Death of a Pole Dancer and Macho Dancer together, for comparison. As Jocson said in that same interview, “Pole dancing is vertically oriented and works with the illusion of lightness and grace, while macho dancing is horizontally oriented, and works on the illusion of weight and volume. It’s more compact.”

Death of a Pole Dancer.
  • Death of a Pole Dancer.

Bob Ham listened to Chris Sutton read from his Tumblr to a soundtrack of DJ Shadow and Thelonious Monk, and came to the very true conclusion that "a mixtape without context feels like an odd gift."

Alison Hallett reports that Critical Mascara: A Post-Realness Drag Ball, TBA's raucous, glorious drag contest inspired by (seriously though) Paris Is Burning was exactly as fun and over the top as it sounds. Pictures were taken:

Critical Mascara.

See them all here.

You still have until September 21 to make it to a performance of your very own—and maybe even literally your own. More info here.