Performance, Technology, & Science Johannes Birringer Performance, Technology, & Science by Johannes Birringer explores convergences between performance and science through an investigation of new technologies that drive computer-mediated, interactive art. In tracing the evolution of digital performance within a particular history of engineering and theatre that now expands...
Land/Scape/Theater proposes landscape as a necessary paradigm for understanding modern theater's increasingly spatialized aesthetic as well as its engagement with the cultural meanings of place and space. Embracing subjects as diverse as the "landscape dramaturgy" of Suzan-Lori Parks, Artaud's trip to the Sierra Madre,Gertrude Stein's...
Let’s Try That Once More, This Time In The Past: Performance & Documentation Sunday, February 19th at 7:30 pm, $9 suggested donation. Johanna Linsley and Christa Holka in attendance for discussion. Purchase Tickets (From The Organizers) As performance navigates the shifting of its institutional position – from practitioners’ self-identification...
[caption id="attachment_10804" align="alignnone" width="590" caption="Loie Fuller Added by Ola Maciejewska"][/caption] Welcome to this weeks Network Round Up. We've gathered the top most viewed, liked, and discussed members, content, photos, and blog posts. Warning: Some of these are NSFW. Contemporary Performance Network is a social media / community organizing network providing artists, presenters, scholars and...
[amazonify]0415977231[/amazonify] Mama Dada is the first book the examine Gertrude Stein's drama within the history of the theatrical and cinematic avant-gardes. Since the publication of Stein's major writings by the Library of America in 1998, interest in her dramatic writing has escalated, particularly in American avant-garde...
[amazonify]1403916977[/amazonify] Technology has always been an important part of theater, both as a means to an end and as end in itself. Throughout the twentieth century a unifying attitude in all art forms is the desire to examine the materials and the tools of making art....
Jim Findlay BOTANICA 3LD Art & Technology Center (80 Greenwich St., New York City) 2/1-25/2012 [caption id="attachment_9975" align="alignnone" width="590" caption="© Paula Court"][/caption] BOTANICA explores our complicated and inextricably dependent relationship to plant life, presented as a creepy futuristic black comedy where morals, ethics, and consequences unravel along with the human sense...
The Varieties of Performance Experience A panel discussion with authors Judith Rodenbeck and Shannon Jackson (NYC) The Kitchen (NYC) January 24, 2012 7pm FREE Protagonist? Irruption? Squatter? Successively celebrated, rejected, ignored, and rediscovered, “performance” as a term and practice is a vexed and provocative domain within a number of fields....
This ambitious and comprehensive book explores technology’s influence on artistic performance practices in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Entangled, Chris Salter shows that technologies, from the mechanical to the computational—from a "ballet of objects and lights" staged by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1917 to contemporary...
THE LEGACY OF REZA ABDOH Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (Map) December 19, 2011 10am - 9pm [caption id="attachment_4972" align="alignnone" width="590" caption="L to R: Juliana Francis, Tom Fitzpatrick, Gerard Little, Tom Pearl, Reza Abdoh, Rafael Pimental."][/caption] Part I 10-4pm ALL-DAY SCREENINGS Curated by Adam Soch Williams, videographer and documentarian 10am Introductory remarks...
The Theatre of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio chronicles four years in the life of an extraordinary Italian theatre company whose work is widely recognized as some of the most exciting theatre currently being made in Europe. In the first English-language book to document their work, company founders,...
[caption id="attachment_4931" align="alignnone" width="590" caption="© T. Charles Erickson 1992"][/caption] Widely credited as one of the greatest artistic achievements of the 20th century, this rarely performed and revolutionary work launched director Robert Wilson and composer Philip Glass to international success when it was first produced in Avignon,...