Emerging: Implied Violence (Seattle, Washington)
(from the artists’ website) Implied Violence makes plays that are not plays. We make theatre that may or may not be theatre. We generate pieces that are rooted in an internal logic and rigid structure that audiences may or may not understand. However, our work does not beg to be understood. We don’t care to be understood, to understand...
Featured: Performance Studies – A Selection of Recent Performative Work Developed at The Watermill Center (NYC)
Performance Studies A Selection of Recent Performative Work Developed at The Watermill Center December 10, 2009 – February 15, 2010 Watermill Brooklyn Gallery / Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation 111 Front Street, #216 Brooklyn, NY Curated by Dmitry Komis Works by: Maria José Arjona (Colombia) C. Ryder Cooley (USA) Robin Deacon (UK) GIRLMACHINE – Carlos Soto...
Featured: Rodrigo García / La Carnicería Teatro (Madrid, Spain)
Rodrigo García (1964) is author, set designer and director. Originally from Argentina, he has lived and worked in Madrid since 1986, where he founded his own theatre company, La Carnicería Teatro. He makes theatre in a very experimental and personal way, always researching a personal language, far away from traditional forms of theatre. On his...
Featured: American Realness Festival (NYC)
AMERICAN REALNESS A Festival of Contemporary Performance January 8-11, 2010 At a time when international perspectives of American dance hang onto Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown, and too many American performing arts presenters are afraid of dance that traverses the heritage of lights and tights, AMERICAN REALNESS commands attention to the proliferation of choreographic practices transcending...
Featured: Gob Squad (Berlin & Nottingham)
Gob Squad is a group of UK and German artists, working collectively with performance, theatre, installation and video since 1994. Based in Nottingham and Berlin the group makes and presents its work in urban sites such as offices, houses, shops, railway stations and hotels as well as in galleries and theatres. Using the language of film,...
In Performance: Jonah Bokaer’s REPLICA (NYC)
REPLICA December 17th, 7:00pm December 18th, 7:00pm New Museum 235 Bowery NYC, NY 10002 212.219.1222 www.newmuseum.org/events REPLICA, a collaborative performance piece by Daniel Arsham, Jonah Bokaer, and Judith Sanchez Ruiz, examines memory loss, pattern recognition, and perceptual faculties as they apply to the human body. The piece employs built spaces, objects, lighting, and other media...
In Performance: BACKSANDEDBYLUTZKINOY at X Initiative (NYC)
A project of interdisciplinary artist and Emily Roydson, Ecstatic Resistanceis a project, practice, partial philosophy, set of strategies, and group exhibition(s)” beginning with a pair of ’sister shows’ here in New York at X Initiative and in Kansas City, MO at Grand Arts. According to Roydson, the project, aims to “think about all that is unthinkable...
In Performance: Netimage 10 Festival (Italy)
The tenth edition of the Netmage festival (Bologna, 21,22,23 January 2010) will present contemporary audiovisual research featuring live media, live cinema, concerts, performances, sound and visual installations in the historical castle of Palazzo Re Enzo,. The Netmage festival’s focus is on multi-media design, electronic arts and cutting-edge work and is a meeting point for video-makers, multi-media and visual artists,...
Featured: Nature Theater of Oklahoma (NYC)
Nature Theater of Oklahoma is a New York-based performance group under the direction of Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper. The ensemble strives to create an unsettling live situation that demands total presence from everyone in the room. The Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s mission is to explore and push the definitions of what is theatre and...
Highlights: Coil Festival at PS122 (NYC)
COIL Festival at PS 122 A winter festival of contemporary performance featuring work of the past, present, and future. Richard Maxwell/NYC Players – Ads Upstairs at Performance Space 122 WORLD PREMIERE | THEATRE, VIDEO Co-presented with Under The Radar Festival Ads marks a new departure in the work of celebrated downtown auteur Richard Maxwell. In...
