Category: Ideas
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Complicating Theaster Gates
Andy responds to the symposium “Theaster Gates: A Way of Working” recently hosted by the Vera List Center at the New School.
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Latin America Comes to Portland
Sarah Rose Leonard reports on post-dictatorship Latin American theater presented as part of TBA 2013 in Portland.
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Politics and Aesthetics and Social Movements! (A How-To Guide, Extracted from the Brain of Jacques Rancière)
Nick Benacerraf kicks the knowledge about Jacques Rancière, aesthetics and the politics of spectatorship, among other things.
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Territorial Pissings
Andy takes on Salon.com, Generation X & The Myth of the Midlife Crisis
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Notes From Berlin (Part II)
An associative essay on cultural diplomacy, curatorial practice, phenomenology & the fragility of language, Trayvon Martin and WWII.
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Criticizing Private Foundations: Anti-Capitalist or Pro-Capitalist?
Taking a critical look at private foundations with Angie Kim.
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The Future of Performance: A Performance, Lecture
A recording of Andy’s talk on “The Future Of Performance” given at The Glasshouse Project for BIPAF
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Propositions: To Dance Differently
Choreographer and thinker Michael Kliën shares his vision on new directives for dance with Propositions: To Dance Differently
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Whites Only (or, WTF is the deal with diversity in the performing arts?)
As Black History Month draws to a close Andy dives recklessly into the arts punditsphere’s diversity conversation clusterf**k.
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THE POLITICS OF CULTURAL PRODUCTION IN THEATER (OR, DEVISE THIS!), Part III
Part III of III, in which Andy discusses in broad strokes the economics of cultural production in theater, its aesthetic implications and hints at its resemblance to large national economic conditions.
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Words Of Advice to Young People
A few weeks ago I was invited to speak (via Skype) to the Theatre Criticism class at Royal Holloway, University of London. It was a lot of fun, they were great kids and asked fantastic questions. A day or two later I got an email with two additional questions from the students: