Month: October 2009

  • Don Juan as Bad Boy

    On October 27, 2009 at 7:00pm, New York City Opera’s own Don Juan (bass-baritone Daniel Okulitch) in its new production of Don Giovanni, director Christopher Alden, and Esther Perel, a leading sexologist, will gather at the Museum of Sex for an intimate, provocative exchange on the Don Juan legend. They’ll explore history versus myth, the Don’s changing…

  • lifelogging

    Last week news broke that a commercial version of a camera worn around the neck to capture photos of your every moment is to be launched. It was originally invented to help people with memory problems. It has been said before that an era of lifelogging, in which people will record and broadcast their daily lives,…

  • ZEE

    ZEE is a rigorous mindscape; a hallucinatory architecture of light; a dream machine. click on the pic for more info on when/where/how

  • Art and Social Change Mapping Initiative

    From the Americans for the Arts website/newsletter: Animating Democracy, a program of Americans for the Arts, has launched an initiative to map and highlight the spectrum of ways the arts are being activated to engage and make change. A centralized online resource will make this important work visible and serve to link change agents, artists…

  • Five Questions for Heidi Schreck

    Name: Heidi Schreck Title/Occupation: Actor/Playwright 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in Wenatchee, Washington, the Apple Capital of the World. When I was 6, my mom cast me as Hermia in a children’s production of  A Midsummer Night’s Dream and that’s how…

  • I Started a Joke – LOW

    I first found about about the band LOW when I heard their cover version of the BeeGee’s “I Started a Joke” from the album Pure Sweet Hell back in 1996. Here’s the song on YouTube: I am told that LOW is playing live to accompany Morgan Thorson’s Heaven at PS122. You would just be plum…

  • China, Culture and Frankfurt

    Culture can be tricky… As China extends its economic reach, it has also increased efforts to promote its culture, or “soft power,” to counter Western influence and improve its image in the wider world. Yet if Chinese goods are accepted everywhere, its arts and literature, embattled at home after decades of censorship and state control, are…

  • MERGE

    #13.) Is contemporary art too sterile and safe? #5.) Dream up an interesting collaboration. #19.) Why invite an audience? #44.) How do you decide when it’s time to shift from brainstorming about a new work to actually creating something in the studio? #45.) How can we balance creative needs in new work with respect for…

  • The Mad Ophtalmologist

    Dr. Assember has a problem. He may have discovered eyedrops that cause X-ray vision and even visions of the Divine. Yet his research methodology is unconventional and he’s unable to get additional funding. What’s a Mad Scientist to do? Turn to his trusty and shapely assistant, that’s what. Together the two of them embark on…

  • Hiroki Otsuka in Berlin

    I got an email fromPaulus Fugers, curator at Kunstraum Richard Sorge in Berlin that directly following the premiere performances of Jeremy Wade’s “there is no end to more” at the Hebbel Theater, on November 28, Kunstraum Richard Sorge will present a large exhibition of his collaborator Hiroki Otsuka’s drawings and murals: “Everything To More “.…

  • Growing Up In Public – Monday

    Growing Up in Public: A FREE Monday Night Salon The Performance Project teams up with the Ontological-Hysteric Incubator to tackle issues confronting the NY performing arts community. Each salon is moderated by an arts blogger and features a panel of artists currently engaged with the Project or the Incubator. All are welcome. When : This Monday…

  • there is no end to more

    Just saw inkboat and cokaseki’s AME TO AME (Candy and Rain) at Japan Society. (See earlier preview post). It was a delightful work of “Butoh 2.0” – a playful, surreal, physically rigorous meditation on relationships. It used some of the movement vocabulary associated with Butoh but had a distinctly contemporary feel – from the soundtrack to…