In 2004 Sandrine Schaefer and Philip Fryer founded The Present Tense in an effort to educate various audiences about live art and challenge the performance art community that they are active in both locally and worldwide. In it's history, The Present Tense has used passion and resources to bring over 75 artists from all over the world together to share their work at performance art events/ festivals.
In 2009, The Present Tense joined forces with 3 other Boston-area artists to create MEME Gallery in Cambridge, MA. After a successful debut year, Sandrine and Philip left MEME to focus on their own work and to assess the future of The Present Tense. In addition to
organizing festivals, exhibitions, and artist exchanges between Boston and other cities connected by this medium, The Present Tense is also an evolving online archive of artist materials for community study.

The Present Tense is always collecting materials from artists interested in showing work. For more information visit The Present Tense.