The large back room at the Frye Art Museum has been mostly sealed
off, and it’s dark in there. Two facing walls of videos and mirrors
stand in the center; on them, sexy young men and women perform a
parodic restaging of a 16th-century German mariner’s account of
Brazilian cannibals, this time set on a favela rooftop to catchy
beats. The installation, by Mauricio Dias and Walter Riedweg, is the
beating heart of this season at the Frye; the artists will give a
talk about traveling the world and making art out of social distortion.
(Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave, 622-9250. 7 pm, free.)

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...