13 questions we ask ourselves – Guillermo Gómez-Peña
“13 Questions We Ask Ourselves” - from Guillermo Gómez-Peña – La Pocha Nostra (LA, USA) “1. What is our new place, our role as performance artists in this new century? 2. What are future formats for performance art? 3. What do words like radical, transgressive, rebellious ;, and oppositional mean after 9/11? 4. Where are...
Deufert + Plischke “in Quotes”
Our actual proceeding is rather like throwing sheets into the wind in any direction with the hope one hits a ghost. A ghost that haunts in the middle of us. Only a resonance in between, like a constant movement that neither represents nor mirrors relations of power and their rules and regulations of the body,...
Lost Notebook Defines Contemporary Performance
“Contemporary performance is hybrid work that integrates text, dance, objects, music, costumes, lighting, image, sound, sets, and vocal expression into complex interactive systems. Contemporary performance names a body of work that builds on an aesthetic history beginning in the 1880s with Alfred Jarry and early Dada experiments and unfolds through into the American avant-garde and...
Certain Fragments
“The struggle to produce witnesses rather than spectators is present in the contemporary performance scene. You can see it in excess/epic style at least in the public piercings and mutilations by American artist Ron Athey or the ‘suspensions’ on meet-hooks carried out by Stelare, events in which extreme versions of the body in pain, in...
