Weekend Arts Agenda: ‘Without Knowing’ January 03 2014

Here are some questions: “Have you ever started talking? Have you ever stopped? Do you find yourself in a constant state of rational paralysis?” And here is the WonderRoot show these questions describe: Without Knowing, by Erin Palovick and Jared Christopher, which is closing Friday with the whole thing (starting at 7 p.m.) - including live music and an artist talk, which is also being called “an inexplicable question and answer session.”

Two more picks for your weekend after the jump.

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SATURDAY

• Courtesy Get This! Gallery
• Gyun Hur, “hole,” 2013, pen and ink on paper, 45x30 in.

Gyun Hur’s A System of Interiority at Get This! doesn’t make any sense to me. Or maybe it makes too much sense, produced at the knife’s edge between aestheticism and literality. Her second solo show at the gallery “invites the viewer to experience the installation over time as the light changes.” It includes broken things, dirt, and silk flowers, as well as lighting designer Rebecca Makus and writers Kristin Juarez, Lilly Lampe, and Ruiyan Xu. With an opening reception from 7-10 p.m. and an artist talk at 11 a.m.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY

It’s your first full weekend of the new year, and your first weekend to see Stan the Lovesick Snowman at the Center for Puppetry Arts. Frankly, I love the whole idea. Existential puppets! (Existential sounding ones!) Consider this a similarly age-appropriate riff on Hans Christian Anderson (it’s adapted from “The Snow Man”), if you find the idea of snowmen who have strange names annoying. Puppetry can be detailed (emotionally and imaginatively) even in service of the simple. Tickets are $9.25-$16.50.