England, seated far north in the turbid sea, now visits my dreams in the semblance of a vast and well-manned ship, which mastered the winds and rode proudly over the waves.

It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.

“Jeanne Delman” aside, Ms. Akerman’s greatest work is “D’Est” (“From the East”), a multimonitor installation piece that centers on blank-faced Eastern Europeans in train stations and other bleak surroundings.

I'm so jealous that you got to see them perform live!