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Discuss “Everything must go — and you should too”

Running through Thursday, April 26, Future Tenant’s Everything Must Go exhibit features the work of six second-year Master of Fine Arts candidates from Carnegie Mellon. Though the title might sound more like a closeout sale than a gallery exhibition, Everything Must Go is something else entirely. The translation is literal; everything must *go* (i.e. function), and the visitor is the one that has to make that happen.

For an installation called “Lost broadcast,” MFA student Eileen Maxson placed a podium full of microphones in one of the windows at the front of the gallery. Visitors are invited to step right up; when they speak, they are effectively addressing the street. This setup presents a contradiction: Though the speakers are in...

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