Culturebot: Spectacular Experiments on the Great Atomic Bombreflector, Maura Nguyễn Donohue, July 2024
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Excerpts from a review published in Culturebot, reflecting ORTA’s experiments at La MaMa.

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​The Bombreflector offers the world a new machine, powered by the human voice, vibration, and visioning. Together, at LaMaMa, artists and audience created confluences of creative energy, making the resistance to destructive energy more powerful through relational efforts across the confines of national borders.

The entire endeavor never leans away from an absolute sincerity amidst apparent preposterous situations. It feels like the necessary spirit of actual resiliency. Often resiliency has been expressed as a way of withstanding the buffeting forces of oppression. This can establish the impression that one is then harder against the wind, instead of evolved enough to know to softly bend like bamboo or even better, as the Great Bombreflector experience proposed, the real victory over a history of bombardment is to rise, and rise again together… laughing.​

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