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.>>

Thinking about drawing porn. And always interested in search results. This pic was the #1 on a Google image search for “porn”. Settings were Safe Search: Moderate, File type: Any, File Size: Any.

Interestingly, there was NO nudity on the first page of hits. However, there was a picture of John Ashcroft, lots of big tits, some dolls, and a lot of what appeared to be safe stock photos. A number of screen shots.

When I re-ran the search with Safe Search: Off this was still the first hit. First visible body part: Image #4 – vagina. First visible sex act: Image #4 – girl on girl oral. First visible penis: Image #10 – implied hetero oral.