Can Survival Be Choreographed? Gisèle Vienne’s Extra Life at the Holland Festival
In Extra Life at the Holland Festival, Gisèle Vienne sculpts fog, sound, and time into a choreography of survival, tracing how bodies persist after trauma.
Opportunities: Deadline extended || OPEN CALL – POOL 22 (Berlin, Germany) Deadline – July 31st 2022
Opportunity: Deadline extended || OPEN CALL – POOL 22 Where: DOCK 11, Berlin, Germany When: Deadline: July 31st, 2022 *EXTENDED // Festival: October 12th – 15th 2022 Deadline: July 31st 2022 Online Application: https://pool-festival.de/submission/ Fee to Participate or Apply: 0,00€ Description Of
Featured: Contemporary Performance Announces Festival Special Effects 2015
Contemporary Performance announces the festival Special Effects from January 8-10, 2015. The festival consists of artists from the Contemporary Performance Network presenting work at The Wild Project in the East Village. Curated by network editors Caden Manson and Jemma Nelson the four
First Person: Agnes Nedregard
She crouches down covering her eyes with her hands; stands up, takes off her boots, and removes her characteristic, thick glasses. It is difficult to tell whether she is aggressive or sensual. She looks, in any case, like she is spotting her
Polymer: Art-Boiling Factory
January, 29th, 2014 Photos from Culture Factory Polymer Facebook Page www.facebook.com/culturefactorypolymer “The term “polymer” derives from the ancient Greek word πολύς (polus, meaning “many, much”) and μέρος (meros, meaning “parts”), and refers to a molecule whose structure is composed of multiple repeating units,
First Person: Ernesto Pujol’s Time After Us (New York)
above: Ernesto Pujol surrounded by his performers, dawn | photo by the author An Exercise in Reverence, Patience, and Force How is one meant to wrap words around an experience that exists beyond our humanly agreed-upon notions of time? Durational work
First Person: Massive Attack V Adam Curtis
above: The Park Avenue Armory Drill Hall, Photo by Susane Berger The multi-media spectacle of the fall thundered through the Park Avenue Armory’s military airs with all of the pomp and circumstance of the pope arriving, or rather some great dictator, rolling
First Person: homeLA (Los Angeles, CA)
There’s a grand experiment afoot; the intrepid folks at Pieter and the Dance Resource Center are seeking to infiltrate large private homes throughout Los Angeles with a “site-sensitive” dance series called homeLA. The concept is a mutually beneficial one; the city’s small
First Person: Chris Green on Forced Entertainment’s Quizoola (Great Britain)
Although, I have many reservations about the relevance of Forced Entertainment’s work as ‘experimental’ I was pleasantly surprised and challenged by the presentation of this work in a 24-hour durational version. The form of the work is simple; there are 6 performers,
First Person: Robert Wilhite interviewed by Nuri Richards (Mexico)
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eOW61oNSmE] At first, when I called the corresponding area of the Jumex Collection to set up an interview with the members of IGLU I was expecting to talk with Davitt Felder the director of the performance, and maybe in a quick
First Person: Elia Arce, First Woman on the Moon (Houston, TX, USA)
First Woman on the Moon by Elia Arce, was presented by DiverseWorks at Frenetic Theater on November 30 and December 1, 2012. This remounting of Arce’s seminal performance was timed with a 25 year retrospective of her career and the end of
First Person: Stacks at Art League Houston (Houston, TX, USA)
Stacks is on view at Art League Houston from November 16 through January 4, 2013. The exhibition was kicked off with collecting objects the artists defined as “negatively antiquated Black memorabilia and paraphernalia” which were then obliterated in a wood chipper at
First Person: Jill Bernard’s “Drum Machine” (Houston, TX, USA)
Drum Machine was performed by Jill Bernard, special guest of Station Theater, at Avant Garden on November 25, 2012. Station Theater is a comedy and arts conservatory in Houston, Texas. Bernard began the solo performance with calling an audience member onto the
First Person: In The Middle Of This – Nuri Richards (Mexico City)
December 1st of this year groups of people went out the streets in Mexico City in a peaceful protest against the designation of the new President. People were beaten and arrested without evidence of involvement in acts of vandalism. Part of the
First Person: Mulholland Dérive (Los Angeles, USA)
The latest edition of Los Angeles Road Concerts, an annual daylong art/performance/music/literary event that takes over the entire length of one of the city’s iconic boulevards, took place on Mulholland Drive yesterday. It was very cleverly named Mulholland Dérive, after a Situationist
First Person: A New English Theatre of Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
A bomb goes off, a telephone rings in the darkness, the lights flicker, and a thin tract of stage slowly reveals the actors standing dreamily at a hotel’s front desk. But this is no ordinary stage, and it is no ordinary theatre.
First Person: Karen Cytter, Show Real Drama, DiverseWorks (Houston, TX, USA)
Keren Cytter’s Show Real Drama was performed at DiverseWorks Art Space October 10 through October 13, 2012. This performance is in conjunction with Cytter’s exhibition Video Art Manual about the history and development of video art, on view in DiverseWorks’ galleries. For
First Person: Brett Bailey and Berliner Festspiele (Berlin, Germany)
Earlier this month I saw a piece by South African Artist Brett Bailey and it continues to disturb me so I reckon it’s time to blog about it. The piece, part of the Berliner Festspiele Foreign Affairs festival, is a work titled
First Person: Deborah Hay, Richmond Hall (Houston, TX, USA)
Deborah Hay, a member of the Judson Dance Theater and a founder of postmodern dance, performed at Richmond Hall on October 13 at noon and again at 3pm. Her site specific work called Richmond Hall was performed by the audience, six dancers and
First Person: Imitation Of Participation at Prelude.12 (NYC) #prelude12
This past October 3-5, 2012 Contemporary Performance Network was a critical partners for the annual PRELUDE.12. NYC Regional Editors engaged with PRELUDE and are now following up with their first person responses. These Regional Editors are Kathleen Amshoff, Esther Neff, Raul Zbengheci, and Emily Bercir Zimmerman. In
Featured: (e)merge art fair 2012 (Washington, DC)
Call him Ishmael. Seriously. At 5am on a cool morning in early October, Andrew Wodzianski launched his thirty-six hour endurance performance called Self Portrait as Ishmael at the (e)merge art fair here in DC. “Launched” is not a metaphor. In the predawn
First Person: Reflections On The Form Of Prelude.12 (NYC) #prelude12
Though Prelude.12 addressed four themes, this organizing principle was the most privately critical aspect of the 3-day festival’s form as audience members leafed through the program for the color-coding blocks sorting the performances, lectures, video, and readings into the categories Manifestos, Imitation of
First Person: Overcooking and The Judson Church (Malte)
In the age of processed culture, to build roots is uncommon. The thread of life, the essence of reason, the richness of wisdom and the spectacle of nature are being metamorphosed into a vacuum of glutinous addictions which mould the cycle of
First Person: Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen, 343 Perspectives at Peckham Space (London, UK)
Using residents of areas in London that are only served by one mode of transport, the 343 bus Larsen’s film shows different perspectives on the people who live within these communities. The film tells the stories of a number of residents
First Person: Prelude 2012 Manifestos // The Potential Space (NYC) #prelude12
This past Wednesday – Friday October 3-5, 2012 Contemporary Performance Network was a critical partners for the annual PRELUDE 12. NYC Regional Editors engaged with PRELUDE and are now following up with their first person responses. These Regional Editors are Kathleen Amshoff,
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