Category: Etcetera
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Making and Shaping Work as Artists and as a Cohort
Considerations of how to communicate certain ideas, evoke abstract affects, and share stories explicitly offer possibilities for shared dialogue.
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Stormy Budwig on Meg Stuart’s UNTIL OUR HEARTS STOP
These moments of transparency and revealed infrastructure are strictly intended.
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Heather Kravas: Objects That Inspire & Interview with Aron Cantor
The objects could be anything generative, and Heather’s choices are varied, sophisticated, heartfelt, and a fascinating insight into what interests this artist.
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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?
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Agnes Borinsky’s Weird Classrooms
In the alchemic container that is Weird Classrooms, anyone’s expertise becomes compelling.
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Every house has a door’s “The Three Matadores”: A Dialogue
Jeremy M. Barker and Matthew Goulish discuss Every house has a door’s “The Three Matadores”
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The Ways In Which We Break: A Conversation with Taja Cheek and Ali Rosa-Salas
The impacts of grief, however miniscule or massive, are the focus of “Submerge 2017: Break Time”, a festival curated primarily by Ali Rosa-Salas. Interested in the ways in which “we” are “permitted” to grieve in public space and, as the curatorial statement offers, a concern on the “expectation to bounce back,” Rosa-Salas has assembled an…
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I Just Unraveled Myself: Some Moments By/With/For Ash R.T. Yergens
The moment it becomes legible, it becomes something else.
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Americana Psychobabble: Alexandra Tatarsky at FringeArts Philadelphia
This place where language is familiar because of airports and tampon boxes and online preachers and being cat-called and the slow drip of consumer rhetoric.
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The “Violent Ambiguity” of Roberto Bolano
“Roberto Bolano’s appearance in the world is great for Latin American literature, for Latin American writers,” Javier Antonio Gonzalez, playwright and artistic director of the theater company Caborca, told me recently. “Even though his work is celebrated everywhere and people connect to it all over the world, he kind of re-opens this door of what…
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A long time into the future, slowly: Emily Johnson’s “Then a Cunning Voice and A Night We Spend Gazing at Stars”
“There is no end to the work we begin here.”
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CLUB DIAMOND – An Interview with Saori Tsukada and Nikki Appino
This January I had the privilege of seeing Saori Tsukada and Nikki Appino’s CLUB DIAMOND at the Public Theater’s Under the Radar festival. The work uses various forms of storytelling (live performance, silent film, musical composition, scrappy street theater) to speak deeply about our collective urge to tell stories, despite (or perhaps especially because of?)…
