THE SPACE BETWEEN TWO, at Link’s Hall, through January 14. One subgenre of performance art seems to descend directly from museum audio tours, enforcing how long an audience looks at an image. That approach may be justifiable, but it’s not a substitute for images that reward scrutiny.
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The “Space Between Two” program, curated by Local Infinities (visual artist Charlie Levin and theater artist Meghan Strell), intersperses selections from three works in snippets of 1, 3, 6, and 20 minutes. If that sounds overdetermined, it is. Local Infinities’ Vanishing Point (the one piece appearing both weekends) is moderately interesting for shorter intervals but nauseating for the long one, as a slide projector blinks on and off Strell and Theresa Sofianos changing poses. Director Levin takes his time giving the poses content, and it isn’t worth waiting for: mother and daughter mirror each other and occasionally, with difficulty, embrace.
