This is the card that participants can offer to strangers to explain their behavior and invite them to join the performance. Very happy to say that 3Monkeys Small Business Printing is donating their services to produce 5,000 cards!
Archives for Performance
Texts Post Card
Went to print with the post cards for Texts From the Fringe.
Has it really been that long?
Oh my.
I haven’t posted in months. This tends to happen when I start a blog and I know why. I begin when its difficult to write the dissertation, then I feel guilty about spending all that time on writing that’s not on topic…once a catholic always a catholic – isnt that what they say? THEN [...]
In My Backyard
One more reason to finish the dissertation:
Tenure-Track Position in Performance Studies
The Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies (HArCS) in the New College at Arizona State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Performance Studies to begin in August 2010. HArCS is interdisciplinary and committed to a critical examination [...]
“this information isn’t going to leave this room…”
I just can’t stop thinking about this recent (2007) video of Miss Vaginal Davis.
From Frieze Magazine: “Vaginal Davis is the key proponent of the disruptive performance aesthetic known as terrorist drag. Disrupting the cultural assimilation of gay-oriented and corporate-friendly drag, she positions herself at an uncomfortable tangent to the conservative politics of gay culture, mining [...]
Tommy and Adriene
Mel recently asked if I had any good readings on death… what a question. Yes, i have too many good readings on death too count – but from what angle. We explored the usual suspects – Goulish’s 39 Microlectures which brought us to Kathy Acker, Peggy Phelan’s tribute to the dying student which begged me [...]
Oiticica’s Works Burn
I just read in Artforum that an estimated 2,000 works by the inestimable Brazilian artist Helio Oiticica (1937-80) went up in flames. This is really so sad… Oiticica was primarily preoccupied with color who’s work as a Brazilian Modernism often articulated a provocative response to formalism. His commentary on universal form was shaped through 3-dimensional [...]
Any zombies out there?
I went to see Jillian McDonald talk about her work today at lunch time. She’s the current artist in residence at the ASU Art Museum as part of their Social Studies series of exhibitions.
I was so happy that she showed a little video of her earlier work – its the most interesting to me. She [...]
Soundsuit Plans
I wrote an earlier post about Nick Cave’s soundsuits and my burning desire to see them… last weekend I made a trip to SMoCA and was astounded by them.
Amazing.
Larger than life-sized and presented on a low platform, the suits towered over me. My nephew was a little taken aback (he’s 3 years old) but once [...]
Foxy
I’ll be writing about this piece for my paper at CAA in February. This is the first time I’ve seen the video of the fox Alys tracked through the National Portrait Gallery. AWESOME.
Doing Dishes With Deleuze
thanks to alex villar for posting this great video to fb. he’s always giving me great leads for reading, watching, thinking. i like to listen to these vids while doing housework.
Two Faves Do Kaprow
Allan Kaprow (center, with beard) and participants in his “Yard” (1967), at the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York.
This month and next, two of my favorite artists (both featured in the dissertation) will be re-inventing Allan Kaprow’s Yard in NYC: William PopeL and Sharon Hayes. The NYT says a bit about their efforts.
We Live In Public
Saw a review in the NYT about the new film We Live In Public. I remember meeting Josh when Martha Wilson of the Franklin Furnance brought him to a party I was hosting. He was carrying around a stinky, un-but-previously-lit cigar and wearing a felt hat. I remember him being sort of noise, in a [...]
Hannah Wilke, that’s who.
A few days ago, I asked
Who is the 1970’s artist who posed for several self-portraits with small gum vulvae affixed to her body?
And, I’m sure you all knew the answer was Hannah Wilke. In her 1974 SOS: Starification Object Series she issued a critique of the sexualized female artist as seen by the male dominated [...]
Etchells on Tehching Hsieh
I just came across this great article by Time Etchells on Tehching Hsieh.
And the toast Etchells made at the launch of Out Of Now:
To time
To time past
To the clock
To the watched clock
To the minute hand, hour hand
To the second hand
Against the clock
Against the punch clock
To the heartbeat
To ducking out of time
To running out of time
To [...]
Nick Cave (not of the bad seeds)
I absolutely must see Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth at SMOCA (up until November 29, 2009). Don’t miss the interesting videos on the SMOCA site. In one of the clips he asks: “What makes people be light within a moment?” Lovely. I am particularly enamored of the second video (embedded [...]
Gobs in Saveur
About six months ago, Beth Kracklauer interviewed me about my Home is Where the Gob Is project. Her write up finally made it into Saveur Magazine and she (accurately quoted me)! I only wish they would have put a link to my website in the article.
Most of the coal mines have closed around Johns-town, [...]
Knitta Please
Knitta is a pretty funny group of knitters who take stitching to the streets. They consider their work a form of graffitti and call their installations “tags.” I love how the van becomes a sort of clown car with (mostly) white girls spilling out to accomplish the absurd.
Sculpture and Performance
This looks very interesting! I could do something about William PopeL’s installation in Santa Monica!!!
‘Sculpture and Performance’
Henry Moore Institute and Tate Liverpool
Thursday 25 and Friday 26 March 2010
This two-day conference will explore the complex relationship between sculpture and performance over the last century and into the present. Much research [...]