Highlights: Performa 09 (NYC, USA) Part 1
Performa: Performa, a non-profit multidisciplinary arts organization established by RoseLee Goldberg in 2004, is dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century. Performa’s Objectives are: Commission new performance projects in visual arts Present a dedicated performance...
(NSFW) In Performance: Anne de Vries’s Ornament Enter at Creature Feature#2 (Berlin, Germany)
About Anne de Vries (Amsterdam/Berlin) From his Website: i embrace the digital photo revolution and i am eager to think of what new role photography has next to all other visual media. this makes me create performances, installations and happenings that become photographed and become part of the media. the transition between the actual happening...
In Performance: Cloud Eye Control’s “Under Polaris” (LA, USA)
Cloud Eye Control Cloud Eye Control is a collaborative performance group from Los Angeles comprised of three members: Chi-wang Yang, Miwa Matreyek, and Anna Oxygen. The company creates original works that uniquely combine interactive media with live performance. Since their inception in 2004 they have created three original works that have been presented both nationally...
Highlights: Prospettiva 09 – Un festival d’autunno (Torino, Italy)
Prospettiva 09 – An Autumn Festival (Torino, Italy) Contemporary culture knows no boundaries, it affirms its identity in the interaction between genres and languages, and constantly redefines its own form, ignoring barriers and set boundaries. The birth of Prospettiva 09 is the fruit of these interactions, of many dialogues between projects and realities that are...
Digest: News for the week of October 5-10, 2009
Featured: John Jesurun (NYC, USA) October 5th, 2009 JOHN JESURUN is a playwright, director, designer living in New York. His presentations integrate elements of language, film, architectural space and media. His exploded narratives cover a wide range of themes. —————————————————————————————————————————————————————— In Performance: Creature Feature #3 (Berlin, Germany) October 6th, 2009 We propose that performing otherness...
Featured: Mia Makela (Finland)
Mia Makela (SOLU) is a finnish media+live cinema artist, teacher, investigator, curator and cultural activist residing in Berlin. Her trajectory has led her from shamanistic studies to art. From art to media art and design. From media art to organization of events and workshops on contemporary digital culture. As part of fiftyfifty.org collective (until 2002),...
Announcement: Jack Smith: Cologne, 1974 at Exile Ausstellungsraum (Berlin, Germany)
Jack Smith: Cologne, 1974 Exile Ausstellungsraum Alexandrinenstr 4 October 10 – November 1, 2009 The exhibition Jack Smith: Cologne, 1974 brings together photographs by Gwenn Thomas and a film by Birgit Hein, both documenting a performance by Jack Smith in the Cologne Zoo as part of Projekt 74 organized by Kunsthalle Köln. Jack Smith (1932-1989),...
In Performance: Creature Feature #3 (Berlin, Germany)
Creature Feature #3 Tuesday October 6th @ 21:00 Basso Berlin Creature Feature; a queer performance series presenting works in progress, improvisations, videos, lectures and group actions in the intimate and informal setting of the Basso. We propose that performing otherness is a threshold towards repositioning our habitual understanding of queer ideals. Creature Feature will work...
Featured: John Jesurun (NYC, USA)
John Jesurun is writer, director and multi-media artist, based in a New York, USA. His work Chang in a Void Moon is a live serial running since 1983, originally at the Pyramid Club in the East Village, and now less frequently at venues worldwide. He was born 1951 in Battle Creek, Michigan. Jesurun received his...
Digest: News for the week of September 28-October 4, 2009
Digest: News for the week of September 28-October 4, 2009 Books: Digital Performance – A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation October 3rd, 2009 . . Featured: Reza Abdoh (1963-1995) October 2nd, 2009 . . Highlights: On The Boards (Seattle, Washington) October 1st, 2009 . . Featured: Lindy Annis (Berlin,...
Featured: Reza Abdoh (1963-1995)
Reza Abdoh Reza Abdoh, avant-garde director, playwright, company leader and poet, was born on February 23, 1963 to Ali Abdoh and Homa Oboodi in Teheran, Iran. At the age of seven, he saw Peter Brook’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in London and was deeply affected by it. Although there is some dispute regarding...
Highlights: On The Boards (Seattle, Washington)
On The Boards (Seattle, Washington) On the Boards is a non-profit contemporary performing arts organization located in the lower Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle. Founded by artists in 1978, their programming supports the development of artists and companies who are creating ground-breaking new work that would otherwise not be seen in Seattle. We were among...
