cranky is more than a mood — its an attitude
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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 [...]
I plan to submit a paper for this WOMEN AND PERFORMANCE journal which is published by the Performance Studies department at New York University. At this point, I’m thinking of writing about Roni Horn’s Still Water (The River Thames, for Example). i’ve also thought that her Library of Water would be an amazing text to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Every time I wrap my New Yorker onto itself while riding the light rail, I think of the jolting, crowded, smelly 7 train. Collapsing my reading is second nature, even if I have yards of empty space around me on my commute home. The reading hasn’t changed, either. First choice for my purse is The [...]
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.
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.
ever since i saw district 9, i’ve had a draft in my blog posts by the same title. but i couldn’t seem to get my head around all of the nuances, problems, promises and general malarkey of the film. thank god for bully bloggers guest writer, jayna brown who breaks it down and lays it [...]
I was in the lunch room, arriving late because I just don’t want to sit and watch “Family Feud” during the one uncommitted hour I have all day… Lynn was at the table and talking about her mother-in-law who’s in for her 6-month visit from Texas. Somehow, the subject of her brother came up. He [...]
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.
Was reading this month’s Frieze. An article about the current state of theory in the arts offers comments from various professors of art, art history and criticism from around the world. Following are a few thoughtful claims from the article that struck a chord with me.
George Baker (UCLA, Art History) describes a recent “undeniable anti-theoretical [...]
This great book has been recalled by the library, I have to give it back.
“Rhythmanalysis of Mediterranean Cities”
Reprinted in Writings on Cities (1996) p. 228-29
Henri Lefebvre and Catherine Regulier
It is impossible to understand urban rhythms without referring to the general theory, which we will call ‘rhythmanalsysis’ related particularly to these rhythms but not only these. [...]
This great article in the NYT last month focuses on how the unemployed are spending their time…
On an average weekday, the unemployed sleep an hour more than their employed peers. They tidy the house, do laundry and yard work for more than two hours, twice as much as the employed. The unemployed also spend an [...]
omg. i just read the article in the nyt about the financial ruin of annie leibovitz. you’d think i’d be stunned by her $24M debt, or perhaps struck by the possibility that she’ll loose control of her work… no. i’m really just annoyed by this absurd quote from tina brown of vanity fair:
“Annie is not [...]
I read a great article on the train this morning from this month’s Cabinet. It opened with an analysis of Lee Harvey Oswald casting him as an attractive young man and his open shirt at the time of arrest as ahead of the Beatles’ curve. Indeed. An image of him with a raised fist is [...]
“A written sign is proffered in the absence of the addressee. How is this absence to be qualified? One might say that at the moment when I write, the addressee may be absent from my field of present perception. But is not this absence only a presence that is distant, delayed, or in one form [...]
James Griffoen’s images of feral houses made it to Boing Boing a few weeks back. Pretty interesting stuff. But I’m more intrigued by his polaroids of feral dogs since I live in a neighborhood that has a few. They tend to travel in packs, yet James Griffoen’s dogs are mostly singular in the frame. Interesting.
My [...]
“It is as though the unconscious stretches out feelers, through the medium of the system Pcpt.-Cs., towards the external world and hastily withdraws them as soon as they have sampled the excitations coming from it. … I further had a suspicion that this discontinuoous method of fucntion of the system Pcpt.-Cs. lies at the bottom [...]
I am so excited about presenting next year at the College Art Association in Chicago. I’m on a panel titled “Contesting the City: Experiments in Transnational Public Art.” Abstracts for the individual papers were due Aug 1. This is mine.
“Seven Walks: Francis Alys Reads London”
Jo Novelli
New York University
jo.novelli@nyu.edu
This presentation examines Francis Alÿs’ Seven Walks (London, [...]
In an interview with Bennett Simpson in ArtForum (April 2001), Nicolas Bourriaud said
One of the most important ideas for me is what i called the “criterion of coexistence.” Take the example of ancient Chinese and Japanese painting, which always leaves space open for the viewer to complete the experience. This painting is an ellipses. I [...]
This is a cartoon by Suzanne van Rossenberg, a dutch artist living in Leiden. She takes the name Patricia Cornflake for these small drawings. Her larger body of work is a series of paintings that trade on queer identities and the power of storytelling. I consider Suzanne a friend, although we’ve never shaken hands. We [...]
I found this over at the Sugarbutch Chronicles and can’t wait to call Esther.
About four years ago, I was interviewed by a pych phd student who was writing a dissertation (she actually finished hers!) on different attitudes toward queer identifying that have, at the core, liberatory associations… the only bad part about the experience is [...]
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 [...]
I got the letter this morning. It’s official: I will be increasing my hours at work by 20%. That’s working four days a week instead of three. Yes, its great news because I need the money. Am I happy about spending another 8 hours at the day job? No.
When people ask me what I do, [...]