Category: Live Art
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Getting Real #1: Michelle Ellsworth’s “The Rehearsal Artist” for American Realness
Michelle Ellsworth brings a real head trip to American Realness 2018.
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Pastoral Paradox
A response to “Farmhouse/Whorehouse: An Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra starring Lili Taylor” at the 2017 BAM Next Wave Festival
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in spite of safety and comfort: Perforations Festival round up
Perforations Festival brings us into direct responsibility for the execution of artistic ideas and challenges the passive stasis of sideline observation in a mostly successful series of performances that ripped apart conventional norms.
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The Resuscitation of Rhapsody; or, Can Anybody Make Art Anymore Without Someone Comparing it to Game of Thrones?
The severed head of Homer has been degraded, discarded in wintry sidewalk snow mounds and forgotten inside the walk-in refrigerator of some swank restaurant before being hung on a meat hook above the bath tub.
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Swimming in a Sea of Plastic: “Tides Project: Drowning Planet/Disposable Bodies” at La MaMa Moves
George Emilio Sanchez offers a rumination on Culturebot’s Maura Donohue’s recent work at La MaMa
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My Dinner With Andrea: “I’ll Always See What I Saw When I [Saw] It”
I. The Urge To Participate I don’t often sit in the front row. Not because I’m afraid to (I actually quite like it), but because it’s such a deliberate choice, and I want to reserve it for special occasions. And as the lights went down I wondered if my front row seat was the catalyst…
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Standing Up in January: Day 2 Dispatch (COIL, Squirts & La Mama with Pavel Zustiak, Patti Harrison & Marga Gomez)
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…
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DoublePlus x 2
luciana achugar curates Naomi Elena Ramirez & Oren Barnoy, Cynthia Oliver curates Lela Aisha Jones & Leslie Cuyjet – the sum of doubling double pluses is manifold.
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The Building Show: Cathy Weis
With an impending Developer-in-Chief and First Son-in-Law eager to tear down historic buildings for the sake of more real estate profits, the preservation of buildings like 537 Broadway become essential. Kudos to Cathy for bringing it forward as the centerpiece and star of her latest work.
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All of the history on our backs: Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music
They fucked us good.
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Death and Doggie Hamlet
We go on with our daily lives, reacting not much more consciously than the sheep, who respond to their concerns only by releasing little poops.
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Denuded: Interrupted – Bruno Isakovic at La Mama
Bruno Isakovic’s Denuded @ Queer New York International Arts Festival