Adam Sultan grabs a drink and talks art- you can join him tonight to see Bodytronix at 11

Fusebox: “A confluence of multi-disciplinary art theater innovation conversation blah-blah-blah.” Jeez! How many other people can never quite describe in ten words or less what this festival is about? How many are surprised or dismayed that they even have to? Let’s talk about it over a drink at the United States Art Authority tonight. We probably already have. Or we talked about how the other person is crazy for liking that show and hating this one. Or we watched the band with bemused disinterest or danced our asses off or both. Or there was no band, and the slow trickle of Fusebox staffers and artists arriving didn’t look like a payoff for hanging out there all night, but somehow we got our drink on and made a new friend who has to get back to New York, England, or L.A. tomorrow so we didn’t hold on too tight but did look ‘em up on Facebook at 3 a.m. anyway.

What’s so romantic about hanging out eleven nights in a row at the same neighborhood after-party venue? Well if you do happen to have a Fusebox t-shirt’s toss from it, you know you can ignore your limits. Also, you can establish that new pretend relationship you both know will end with the Festival. You can get the inside scoop of what’s hot and what’s lukewarm and why, and strategize your next all-nighter. You can plan next year’s festival, even though you’re not the planner, just a guy or girl with a dream, a rocket in your pocket, a distaste for what’s hanging on that one wall and an endless supply of pics to be snapped in the questionable light with your iPhone.

I think we’re hanging some of those pictures there tonight. Someone has managed each evening to take the Photo Of The Night, gathering any or all who were willing to jump behind the bar, hang themselves with a coat hanger, lie on their back and kick their feet up, or maybe just smile. Snap!

Night 4: Sexy and Compassionate

Night 6: Monday Is The New Saturday

Night 7: Jazz Hands

Night 10: Held Up By The Feet

I’ll miss you, US Art Authority. I’ll miss you, pretend girlfriend. I’ll miss you, crazy art catalyst geography form art contemporary theater re-invent discussions dynamic challenge performance boundary-breaking engaging ideas collaboration. Festival.