Willamette Week - November 15, 2000
by Steffen Silvis
In Liminal’s Interrupt-Interactive Hypermedia, the audience is thrown into the middle of an event, as Liminal has constructed a multimedia funhouse where those who enter interact with a series of installations and performers. It’s a Caligarian nightmare alley, where a series of rooms plunge the viewer into alternative worlds. Yet, the viewer has the power to alter the experience by interrupting the action. As usual, John Berendzen has crafted an excellent soundscape to aurally traverse, using fragments Hochenkeit and Katie Griesar. Past the bio-surgical art installation of Keith Yurdana lies the unknown. Jennifer Olson is a caged medium and Amanda Boekelheide runs a nurse’s station in some nearby dystopia, while Rich Southwick appears as a mysterious gentleman on a telephone whose conversation may be about you. Interrupt is a piece that needs more than one visit, and patrons are encouraged to turn all knobs, open all doors and, most importantly, interact.
Current News
Features
Resurrectory preview
Portland Tribune, May 5, 2005
Death, Drama, Deconstruction
Portland Mercury, May 4, 2005
Cult of the Liminal
Portland Mercury, April 17, 2003
Liminal Fills Its New Space With A Little Show
Willamette Week, Feb. 21, 2003
Liminal Puts a Modern Spin on Brecht/Weill
The Oregonian, August 23, 2002
The Seven Deadly Sins
Portland Mercury, August 29, 2002
The Seven Deadly Sins
Portland Tribune, August 30, 2002
Artbeat segment on Liminal
OPB, May 2001 [.mov]
Ad for the Artbeat segment on Liminal
OPB, May 2001
Where Text Meets Technology
The Oregonian, April 22, 2001
The New School
Willamette Week, Sept. 15, 1999
Letters to the Editor
Willamette Week, Nov. 11 & 18, 1998
Reviews
The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other
The Oregonian April 13, 2000
Articles by Liminal members
Past news releases
Liminal stages Caryl Churchill’s play Far Away
December 16, 2005
Liminal’s Resurrectory Re-Commits, Investigates 100-Year-Old Murders
March 28, 2005
High-resolution photos of The Resurrectory
Bikes, Bands and Bacchanalia Oct. 21, 2003
Faust(Faust) August 13, 2003
Krapp’s Last Tape June 28, 2003
Three Plays, Five Lives April 1, 2003
FluXconcert PDX March 17, 2003
Minimal at Liminal February 4, 2003
The Seven Deadly Sins August 7, 2002
Objects for the Emancipated Consumer (in Vancouver, B.C.) Oct. 4, 2001
Objects for the Emancipated Consumer (in Portland) April 4, 2001
Objects for the Emancipated Consumer (in Seattle) Jan. 22, 2001
Thomas Leabhart workshop Dec. 3, 1999
Jowl Movements I-IX (3) Oct. 28, 1998
Jowl Movements I-IX (1) Oct. 8, 1998
Handke Salmagundi March 16, 1998
Symposium on the Avant-Garde in Portland March 16, 1998
Suicide in B-flat July 1997
