Month: January 2016
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Ordinary Beauty, Ecstatic Beauty
Watching them is like witnessing a birth, yet from a great distance—romanticized, and with none of the bloody details present.
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Read a Book: Jaamil Olawale Kosoko’s #negrophobia as a lesson in sitting in pain
I’m drawn to the body, repelled by the face. I think of Stop and Frisk Watch apps. I think of fear.
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Yesterday Tomorrow, a response
Three singers sit on three couches; they each occupy their own. They wear nice fitting clothing in gentle colors and matching mukluks, the kind you can order on Amazon. The […]
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A Performance-Installation for the Anthropocene Era
findlay//sandsmark + pettersen offer a bleak take in “o’ death”
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I Know Nothing About Opera
Dani Lencioni responds to Angel’s Bone and Dog Days as part of the 2016 Prototype Festival
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Together in Sadness: Ligia Lewis’ “Sorrow Swag”
I spit on your happiness! You are all dogs! D-A-W-G-Z dogs!
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Past Versions of the Present Future in niv Acosta’s DISCOTROPIC
One of the great gifts science fiction can give us is the memory of how many times we’ve been spectacularly, beautifully mistaken.
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Minor Threats: Chris Thorpe & Rachel Chavkin’s Confirmation at The Invisible Dog, COIL Festival 2016
I haven’t thrown a dildo in the mailbox for Oregon, but I’ve belatedly followed the white militia’s armed occupation of a wildlife refuge and the ensuing conversations around who is […]
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Ignite the Senses
Amelia Parenteau responds to The Spinning Wheel at BRIC.
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An Exercise in Vocal Release
Anne Waldman gave what felt and looked like a sermon. Meredith Monk exemplified how closely voice and body are connected.
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Under the Radar 2016: 600 Highwaymen’s “Employee of the Year”
Working with a cast of five young women to reveal the richness of personal identity
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On The Offending Gesture, or what means ‘work’?
A response to The Offending Gesture by Mac Wellman and what makes something ‘work.’