Month: December 2016
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Amplify the Radical: Poetry Project’s 50th Anniversary & New Year’s Day Marathon
The Poetry Project’s “dedication to the amplification of radical imagination, oppositional thinking, and community building among writers, artists, and their audiences” makes its New Year’s Day Marathon Reading a perfect way to let go of all the lost voices and hopes of 2016 and to rebuild our fortitude, inoculate ourselves against the vitriol and demagoguery,…
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DoublePlus x 2
luciana achugar curates Naomi Elena Ramirez & Oren Barnoy, Cynthia Oliver curates Lela Aisha Jones & Leslie Cuyjet – the sum of doubling double pluses is manifold.
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Citizens and Discontent: Nickyland and Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel
Christmas in Nickyland and Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel prove dancing and singing are practices of resilence and resistance.
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The Building Show: Cathy Weis
With an impending Developer-in-Chief and First Son-in-Law eager to tear down historic buildings for the sake of more real estate profits, the preservation of buildings like 537 Broadway become essential. Kudos to Cathy for bringing it forward as the centerpiece and star of her latest work.
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Searching For Kindred Spirits – a response to ‘My Name Is Gideon: I’m Probably Going To Die, Eventually’
Gideon welcomed audiences into a world that is built upon believing in the innate goodness of people.
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We Will Not Rest in Peace: Lost and Found Ends
Judy Hussie-Taylor, Ishmael Houston Jones, Will Rawls and over a 112 artists, undertook a labor of revisionist history and artistic accomplishment that is clearly one for the books historic…Lost and Found Ends, but WE WILL NOT REST IN PEACE.
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Negotiations of Self
These ugly feelings: disgust, animatedness, mourning, are radical in their fugitivity.
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NUMB: a history of painlessness
Our work tends to look back to look forward.