Digest: Jan 25 – 29. 2010
Featured: Nature Theater of Oklahoma (NYC) January 28th, 2010 Books: Penny Arcade’s “Bad Reputation: Performances, Essays, Interviews” January 26th, 2010 In Performance: PIG at X Initiative (NYC) January 25th, 2010
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. Using readymade materials, found space, overheard speech, and observed gesture, and through extreme formal manipulation and superhuman effort,...
Books: Penny Arcade’s “Bad Reputation: Performances, Essays, Interviews”
A runaway at thirteen, a reform-school graduate at sixteen, a performer in the legendary New York City Playhouse of the Ridiculous at seventeen, and an escapee from Andy Warhol’s Factory scene at nineteen, Penny Arcade (born Susana Ventura) emerged in the 1980s as a primal force on the New York art scene and participant of...
In Performance: PIG at X Initiative (NYC)
PIG 7pm – January 28, 2010 X INITIATIVE 548 West 22nd Street New York, NY 10011 T: 917-697-4886 E: info@x-initiative.org Wu Ingrid Tsang, Zackary Drucker, and Mariana Marroquin with a video by Rhys Ernst Addressing notions of misinformation and revolutionary impulses, PIG is a performance that stages a meeting of politically involved “girls.” This multimedia...
Digest: Jan 12 – 22, 2010
Featured: Massimo Furlan (Genève, Switzerland) January 22nd, 2010 Featured: Performancelogía blog and website (Caracas, Venezuela) January 21st, 2010 Featured: Scott Heron (New Orleans, LA) January 19th, 2010 In Performance: Big Art Group – Cinema Fury at Rhizome/The New Museum (NYC) January 12th, 2010
Featured: Massimo Furlan (Genève, Switzerland)
Massimo Furlan Born from Italian parents in Lausanne on October 8th, 1965, Massimo Furlan, after having followed training at the Beaux-Arts School of Lausanne (1984-1988), initiates an operating cycle centred on the themes of the memory and the forgetting. He exposes regularly since 1987. He’s interested in scenic representation and collaborates with several dance and...
Featured: Performancelogía blog and website (Caracas, Venezuela)
Performancelogía is a project dedicated to Compilation, Publication, Dissemination and Interchange of Documentation about Performance Art and Performance Artists. Since 2006, we create this space as a Virtual Archive of Documentation with all kinds of documentation about Performance Art, understanding documentation both the photographic and video registries of performances, then an essays, theoretical texts, reviews of events...
Announcements: Big Art Group – Casting new group work
Big Art Group (New York) seeks male, female and trans-variant performers and artists for their new group work, FLESH TONE, rehearsing Feb – March with performances April 15-18, 2010 at Abrons Arts Center. Diversity is important to the group. Big Art Group is a New York ensemble of performers and artists. For each new group...
Featured: Scott Heron (New Orleans, LA)
Scott Heron discovered the joy of dancing while studying liberal arts at Colorado College. A move to Austin, Texas led to an accidental meeting with radical dance pioneer Deborah Hay. He participated in four of her large group workshops and has continued a long relationship with her, occasionally touring as a guest of the Deborah Hay...
In Performance: Big Art Group – Cinema Fury at Rhizome/The New Museum (NYC)
Caden Manson / Big Art Group’s Cinema Fury is an ongoing series of experimental video art and musical collaborations; a spontaneous, open framework continually in production and evolution that both references the company’s history and research for current creations; resulting in unique performance-installation events. For Rhizome’s invitation at The New Museum the company is creating...
Digest: Jan 3 -9, 2010
Announcement: CONTEXT – Platform for Contemporary Dance Festival (Berlin) January 8th, 2010 In Print: The State of New York City’s theatrical avant-garde… January 7th, 2010 In Performance: P.S.1 Saturday Sessions (NYC) January 6th, 2010 Emerging: Faye Driscoll (APAP Showing -NYC) January 5th, 2010 Emerging: Latitude 14 (NYC) January 4th, 2010 Highlights: Festival Overload (NYC) January...
In Performance: Call Cutta in Box at The Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis, USA)
A phone is ringing in an empty office on the 40th floor of the IDS Center…you pick up the reciever and embark on an hourlong personal performance experience that crosses continents, dissolves borders between audience and performer, and challenges cultural expectations. German collective Rimini Protokoll has created “a thrillingly intimate production, which asks us to...
