Month: November 2007

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 cities, a sequence of single persons collapsing to the ground…

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 take on Gawker five years down the road. But my…

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 pickets anyone can walk.  [Thanks, Nicole Blackman!]

“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 bad or good.” Hmm…. interesting article on Performa 07 by…

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 lot of interesting stuff going on. Unfortunately I think you…

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 a broader discussion on contemporary performance working practices. Moderated by…

hi! we’re moving this whole site over to new servers. that means we may experience  some serious  downtime. don’t go away, though, we’ll be right back! Thanks! Andy