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Scenes from the Status Quo Ante: Performing the Egypt that Was, and Is, and Might Have Been
If the reader will permit me to pierce the critical veil, for one brief instance, I’d like to relate a conversation that took place between myself and a friend at a bar in Chelsea, while watching a Jets playoff game in mid-January 2011. My friend
Life During Wartime: “Holy Land’s” Permanent Gaza of the Soul
In the midst of its USA premier, French playwright Mohamed Kacimi’s Holy Land is a play with an awful lot to say – sometimes too much. It is, at times, loquacious to the point of obfuscation, and expository in a manner approaching pedantry. And yet,
Audience Crisis, Parataxis, and Flexibility: A conversation with Karinne Keithley Syers
Eric Conroe talks to Karinne Keithley Syers
Relational March: St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha
Relational March Day 7-9 ‘the role of artworks is no longer to form imaginary and utopian realities, but to actually be ways of living and models of action within the existing real, whatever the scale chosen by the artist’ (Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational Aesthetics p. 13).
Relational March: Lexington and Louisville, KY
Day 4-6: Lexington/Louisville, KY We are here in Lexington at the University of Kentucky on the invitation of Rae Goodwin and Dmitry Strakovsky. We met Dmitry briefly last year at Grace Exhibition Space, he is (among many other things) a performance artist. We met Rae
Relational March: Columbus, OH
Relational March Day 3: Columbus, Ohio Everybody, regardless of categorical identification across racial, class-based, cultural, and lingual differences agrees: young white people from the Midwest do not belong in Brooklyn. Go back to where you came from, take your contact mics and your kale-chips and
Relational March: Washington, D.C
Day One: Washington D.C In the car on the way from Brooklyn to D.C., the invitation to write a tour blog becomes a reoccurring topic, popping up like a commercial between moments. We begin a kind of joke-trope which beings “Dear Andy…(Horwitz).” Dear Andy: today
On Trial Together at NYLA
Serbian artists Ana Vujanović and Saša Asentić present the participatory performance project On Trial Together at NYLA February 20 – 22.
Join Culturebot at UTR & APAP in NYC this January
Culturebot will be hosting a series of conversations at APAP and Under The Radar this January in NYC, so plan your schedule now.
Intriguing Encounter: New Sounds from Iran at Asia Society
Basel Rajoub, Saied Shanbezadeh and Naghib Shanbezadeh blend Iranian and Syrian musical traditions as Sound: The Encounter, performing at Asia Society this Saturday.
In Conversation With David White
Kyoung H. Park talks to David White, Artistic and Executive Director of the Yard, former Executive Director of Dance Theater Workshop (now New York Live Arts) and founder of The National Performance Network / Visual Artists Network.