Contemporary Performance Network

Contemporary Performance Network

10 Socially Engaged Art Practitioners to Know: 6. Pedro Reyes

Pedro Reyes Pedro Reyes was born in Mexico City in 1972. He designs ongoing projects that propose playful solutions to social problems. From turning guns into musical instruments, to hosting a People’s United Nations to address pressing concerns, to offering ecologically-friendly grasshopper
December 28, 2017

10 Performance Cabaret Artists to Know: 9. Salty Brine

Salty Brine The Living Record Collection Salty Brine is a New York-based actor, playwright, and cabaret artist. He is the creative force behindThe Living Record Collection, a series of cabaret performances built around popular albums. Time Out New York has called him “the love
December 11, 2017

10 Performance Cabaret Artists to Know: 6. Narcissister

Narcissister Narcissister employs a spectacle-rich approach to explorations of gender, racial identity, and sexuality. Humor, pop songs, elaborate costumes, contemporary dance, and her trademark mask are her tools in deconstructing stereotypical representations. By opening up and turning against themselves what Stuart Hall calls
December 11, 2017

10 Performance Cabaret Artists to Know: 5. Erin Markey

Erin Markey in conversation with Katherine Cooper: KC: It seems like you have to do a lot of code-switching because you occupy a few different worlds, whether that’s an MTV audition, or family Christmas or making a YouTube video or performing in drag and
December 11, 2017

10 Performance Cabaret Artists to Know: 4. Becca Blackwell

Becca Blackwell Becca Blackwell is a NYC based trans actor, performer and writer. Existing between genders, and preferring the pronoun “they,” Blackwell works collaboratively with playwrights and directors to expand our sense of personhood and the body through performance. Some of their
December 11, 2017

10 Performance Cabaret Artists to Know: 3. Taylor Mac

Taylor Mac Taylor Mac (who uses “judy”, lowercase sic, not as a name but as a gender pronoun) is a playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, performance artist, director and producer.  “A critical darling of the New York scene” (NY Magazine), judy’s work has been
December 11, 2017

10 Mixed Reality Artists To Know: 3. CREW (Belgium)

CREW As an experimental company CREW aims to visualize how technology is changing us. The art form that is used for this purpose and that quite simply engages the body of the spectator, is immersion. There are multiple ways of sharing immersive
December 6, 2017

10 Mixed Reality Artists To Know: 4. Javier Molina (US)

Javier Molina Francisco Javier Molina is an engineer, actor and media artist working with virtual reality, motion capture, interactive installations, performance art and experimental film. He holds a degree inTelecommunications Engineering from the Army Polytechnic School in Quito, Ecuador. He moved to New York City
December 6, 2017
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