Experiments in art : digital : life

observe
view
look at
eye
gaze at
stare at
gape at
peer at
contemplate
survey
keep an eye on
inspect
scrutinize
scan
examine
study
ogle
gawk at
regard
mark

A view from the command center at the top of the stairs. Vinyl on the door. Time to get some work in here. First show scheduled for October.

Part I: What is performance studies?

p5: “Self consciously positioned as liminal…between two states of being and belonging to neither.”

Essay 1: “Performance Studies, the broad spectrum approach” by Richard Schechner. pp 7-9.

• A working relationship must exist b/t teachers and professionals in the field
• Performance is a broad spectrum of activities including at least the performing arts, rituals, healing, sports, popular entertainments, and performance in everyday life.
• “Broad spectrum approach”: treating performative behavior, not just the performing arts, as a subject for serious scholarly study
• “Performance quadrilog”: author, performer, director, spectator
• “Performative thinking must be seen as a means of cultural analysis” p8

“I believe that if the study of performance does not expand and deepen, going far beyond both the training of performance workers and the Western tradition of dram and dance, the whole academic performing arts enterprise constructed over the past half-century or so will collapse.” p9

<<This essay seems like a good place to look to for teaching philosophy.>>

From wikipedia
Idea: Very small loans to impoverished people to spur entrepreneurship

To be eligible, applicants must lack:

Collateral
Steady employment
Credit history

Loans in “developing countries” are generally provided to SHGs: Self-help group of invested parties. Usually 20 or fewer members.

SHGs generally pay interest rates between 12% and 24% per year based on the flat calculation method.

On the web, the principles of microcredit have been used to facilitate the development of peer-to-peer lending platforms.

Thunder and lightning, temperatures in the 60s with a moderate wind

In the mountains, hiking, then sitting by the fire, breathing

Walking my dog early in the morning with my husband – quiet and still with birds

Sunday night football in cold, cold Chicago winters

Reading and thinking and reading

Eating a brownie sundae for dinner

Sitting by the ocean watching the tide come in

There’s more – what else??