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source amnesia
“Eighteen percent of Americans think the sun revolves around the earth, one poll has found.” Yikes. This article in the NYTIMES on “source amnesia” is really interesting. It discusses how we remember things and how susceptible we are to misremembering. Or how we basically re-write our memories every time we recall them, thus we are…
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Incubator (OHT): Helsinki Syndrome’s “True North”.
photo: Mike Hipple The second company invited by the Incubator curators to perform at the Ontological Hysteric Theater was Helsinki Syndrome, a performance art collective based in Seattle. I went to their last performance this past Saturday and found light plastic blankets awaiting the audience on the seats. The program warned us: there will be…
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Dance Theater Workshop: “Dance by Neil Greenberg. Really Queer Dance with Harps and Quartet with Three Gay Men”.
Neil Greenberg’s Quartet with Three Gay Men. Last week I attended one of the last performances of “Dance by Neil Greenberg” at Dance Theater Workshop. I went to the performance excited by the many reviews that spoke so well about Greenberg’s work: see, for instance, reviews by Roslyn Sulcas, Claudia La Rocco, and Gia Kourlas.…
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Creative Time Summer 2008
Good stuff from Creative Time all summer long… Throughout the summer Creative Time will present selections from fashion icon, agent provocateur, and founder of the Sex Pistols Malcolm McLaren’s new video series Shallow at 44 1/2: MTV’s outdoor, gilded, HD screen in the heart of Times Square. Catch the films on Broadway between 44th and…
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Deitch Projects’ Call for Artists!
Release your inner PT Barnum this September in NYC! Proposals for floats, placards, spectacles, and street performances by artists, designers, and performers are being accepted for the 2008 Art Parade. DEADLINE: THURSDAY, JULY 1. Visit www.deitch.com for more information
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La Mar Enfortuna at The Stone
My friend Daniel just wrote about these guys in the current issue of HEEB. I have been told it is going to be an awesome show. La Mar Enfortuna Saturday, June 28, 2008 8:00 pm The Stone (ave C and 2nd st) Oren Bloedow (guitar) Jennifer Charles (voice) Brahim Fribgane (oud) Ted Reichman (accordion) Zafer…
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PhotoElectric
This looks cool: “Photo-Electric” at Claire Oliver Gallery 513 West 26th Street Jun 26th, 2008 to Jul 26th, 2008 Opening Reception: Thursday, June 26 6-8 PM Photo-Electric examines the role of new media as a vehicle, enabling artists to represent their own version of reality and expand the visual possibilities of their work. Utilizing photography…
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ICE FACTORY 08
Oh man oh man…. Ice Factory this year looks like its gonna rock hard!!! from the press release: SOHO THINK TANK’S OBIE AWARD WINNING ICE FACTORY ‘08 CELEBRATES 15 YEARS OF BLAZING THE TRAIL FOR NEW YORK’S SUMMER FESTIVAL SCENE WITH 7 NY PREMIERES (June 23, 2008) New York, NY – Artistic Director Robert Lyons…
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Oph3lia, Hamlet, Macbeth & More
Okay I was going to do this in a logical way, starting with the first show and moving on up in time to this afternoon (Sunday). But I can’t do it that way because I have been moved to tears and almost to speechlessness by the extraordinary, astonishing, near-perfect masterpiece that is Aya Ogawa’s Oph3lia.…
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Eyeteeth
Eyeteeth: A journal of incisive ideas. I just got turned on to this great blog out of Minneapolis.Check it out.
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more queer stuff for june
Queer women performance and video artists will present their work on Thursday, June 19 starting at 7 PM in I think of you when I. This event is a one-night-only program of diverse performances presented in conjunction with Pink & Bent: Art of Queer Women, a show of visual art currently on view at Leslie/Lohman…
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flounder’s mashups
So I went down to DC over the weekend to go see a show that was so entirely misconceived and just plain wrong that I won’t even mention it. But lemme tell ya, I’d love to get those 2.5 hours of my life back. On my way back to Baltimore, however, I was traversing the…
