The Question of New Territory in Target Margin’s Pay No Attention to the Girl
The sense of risk, scrappiness, and, in the words of Herskovits, “failure” is strong.
Yearly Archives: 2018
A Damaged Interview with a Complete Freak Box
In the alchemy of her performance, humor and transformation become means not of hiding the self, but of revealing it.
DECOLONIZING with Cristina Pitter
I know both the impossibility and necessity of such a Decolonizing.
EmmaGrace Skove-Epes at Gibney Work Up 4.3: “in search of mirrors, and catch the light just right”
As a central point of exploration: “Spaces are not exterior to our bodies, instead, spaces are like a second skin, they unfold in the folds of the body.”
‘Brobot Johnson’ Pioneers Black Futures Onstage
We, as a culture, seem to be searching for answers that black futures may provide us.
Life On (the way to) Mars: Loading Dock Theatre’s Spaceman with the Wild Project
The unknown and imagined expanse of space becomes synonymous at times with something like Heaven.
Why Returning to Reims works: The sequence and method of a political play
We engulf and tangle with a political idea in a different way than how we listen and respond to a play.
“These People Seem Like Republicans”: Rebecca Patek takes on shame, rapey logic and misogyny with CHASM
With CHASM I wanted a way to get that back because I feel like that’s not about a career, or being an artist, it’s mine, it’s what I do, it’s what I’ve always done. It feels necessary for survival.
The Art v. The Artist: POLLOCK explores the repercussions of abuse
Not long after the new Whitney opened in 2015, the museum exhibited an all-star lineup of abstract expressionists on their seventh floor, where they show their permanent collection. On the money wall — the final north facing wall before the windows and doors to the
Fault Lines Tremble: A Conversation with Tatyana Tenenbaum
This idea of American desire and what’s encapsulated in that is this reckoning, but, also holding the truths of being white in American culture means you have to hold the history of being an oppressor. But, then, how do you hold that?
in the waking: Tommy DeFrantz (American Realness) & David Thomson (COIL)
“Double consciousness is knowing the particularity of the white world in the face of its enforced claim to universality… Double consciousness, in other words, is knowing a lie while living its contradiction.” – Biko Maura ruminates on white privilege and the mythology of the neutral body.
Queering Marriage
Editor’s Note: QUEERING MARRIAGE is the concluding essay documenting the long-table process around Kyoung’s Pacific Beat’s production of PILLOWTALK at the Tank. You can read about the previous conversations here and here. I have the privilege of sharing out PILLOWTALK’s third, and final long-table, addressing