Welcome to this week's network update. Below are some links to top content and latest additions to the blog. You can also see this weeks Member Spotligh tinterview with Grace Exhibition Space/Jill McDermid-Hokanson/Erik Hokanson (Brooklyn, NYC). Let us know what you are working on...
The chance situation or random event—whether as a strategy or as a subject of investigation—has been central to many artists' practices across a multiplicity of forms, including expressionism, automatism, the readymade, collage, surrealist and conceptual photography, fluxus event scores, film, audio and video, performance, and...
Welcome to this week's network update. This week's Member Spotlight Vote has already started. You can cast your vote here. Below are some links to top content and latest additions to the blog. Let us know what you are working on and see you...
Welcome to this week's network update. We hope all your projects are going well. A few new updates to our network and blog. We've started our Member Spotlight section again and this weeks Member Spotlight is Theo Edmonds (Lexington, KY, USA). One of his...
Welcome to this week's network update. We hope all your projects are going well. A few new updates to our network and blog. This week we reached 2689 members on the network and 6334 Facebook page! We've started our Member Spotlight section again and...
Digital Performance - A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation [amazonify]0262042355[/amazonify] Winner, 2008 Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics given by the Media Ecology Association (MEA). and Winner, Music and the Performing Arts category, 2007 Professional/Scholarly Publishing...
Postdramatic Theatre by Hans-Thies Lehmann Hans-Thies Lehmann's groundbreaking study of the new theatre forms that have developed since the late 1960s has become a key reference point in international discussions of contemporary theatre. Postdramatic Theatre refers to theatre after drama. Despite their diversity, the new forms and aesthetics...
The theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players has received significant international recognition over the past ten years. The company has received three OBIEs, for House (1999), Drummer Wanted (2002) and Good Samaritans (2005). Maxwell received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010 and...
Contemporary Performance Update - August 22, 2011 Welcome to this week's network update. We hope all your projects are going well and would love to hear from you on their progress. A few new updates to our network and blog. This week we released the new...
Exploring a range of topics, including Greek tragedy, Shakespearean theater, contemporary British plays, opera, and the theatricality of Parisian culture, this compilation provides new perspectives on the relationship between Eros and Death in a series of dramatic texts, theatrical practices, and cultural performances. Detailed and...
This book articulates the first theoretical context for a 'cyborg theatre,' metaphorically integrating on-stage bodies with the technologized, digitized, or mediatized, to re-imagine subjectivity for a post-human age. It covers a variety of examples, to propose new theoretical tools for understanding performance in our...
At a time when art world critics and curators heavily debate the social, and when community organizers and civic activists are reconsidering the role of aesthetics in social reform, this book makes explicit some of the contradictions and competing stakes of contemporary experimental art-making.Social Works...