Monthly Archives: November 2007

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my barbarian

My Barbarian Co-Presented by PERFORMA Friday, November 9 7PM Lower Level Gallery Free Admission My Barbarian, 2007. Courtesy Scoli Acosta My Barbarian’s Voyage of the White Widow is a nautical musical spectacle set in a European Golden Age confounded by globalism and environmental disaster. Malik

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ciao, kinkaleri

I got this email and it took my awhile to figure it out, but it looks pretty interesting. Apparently there is an Italian live art group named Kinkaleri that is making a video/performance piece named WEST which consists of video shoots in many Western big

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the rage of the creative underclass

Vanessa Grigoriadis has written a thought-provoking article in New York magazine about Gawker.  As a veteran blogger who remembers the pre-Gawker blog world (and was once cool enough to get invited to Nick Denton’s parties – alas, no longer) it is interesting to see this

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workers of the world unite

Fellow writers… if you have some free time today, why don’t you spend it on a picket line? WRITER’S GUILD STRIKE FRI 11/9 PICKETLINE LOCATION: News Corporation  9AM-5PM 1211 Sixth Ave at 47/48 The Strike Hotline 877-724-7875 gives daily listings of LA and NYC strike

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performance art is alive and well

“A few years ago performance art was seen as marginal. Dealers couldn’t sell it; museums couldn’t show it; critics didn’t know what to say. It was some hippie-dippie remnant of the 1960s and ’70s, when art was “experimental,” which meant you couldn’t prove it was

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Performance Studies International

I’m sure most of you know about Performa 07 that has been going on all about town and has been covered pretty comprehensively in the big papers. You may not know about the Performance Studies International conference going on at NYU November 8-11. There’s a

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Performing Arts Forum

PAF: Introduction and Working Practices Thursday, November 8, 2007, 6pm DTW 3rd floor studio Jan Ritsema, initiator of PAF (PerformingArtsForum, www.pa-f.net), introduces this residency space by and for artists, a free zone for self-organization and self-education located in St. Erme, France. He will also lead