“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.
La Mama dispatch for PS 122’s COIL Fest, Pavel Zustiak’s “Custodians of Beauty” and “Bastard (The Painted Bird: Part 1)” and Squirts intergenerational queer pairings with stand up sets from Patti Harrison and Marga Gomez. To start the year alternating between bent over from either despair or because I might laugh so hard that the tears trickle down my legs felt fitting to my polar emotional swings of late.
…maybe there’s a virtual theater space where Network Performance would happen and people could be curated and commissioned to create works for the web…
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Blaming Alastair is so over, American Realness is neither of those things and The January Shit Show concludes. What are your resolutions for the New Year?
Culturebot contributor Jeremy M. Barker discusses the new play “Muazzez” with Mac Wellman and the playwright’s long collaboration with actor Steve Mellor.
Culturebot’s completely unbiased guide to January Festival Season in NYC. At your service to help manage the Madness.
Now I’m sniffling and coughing and bed-ridden. But it was worth it. Here’s Andy’s Week That Was.
Andy’s round-up of his week of shows.
Okay so its APAP time again and its busier than ever. PS122 has COIL, The Public has Under The Radar, at CSV will have Witness Relocation and International WOW presenting the shows they did during Spotlight Japan at PRELUDE two years ago. HERE Arts Center