Posts Tagged ‘ performance studies ’
Chicago artist Amber Hawk Swanson explores the relationship of marriage and gender inequality through video and photographic performance with a life-size Real Doll made in her own image. [ READ MORE ]
There are so many reasons. Here is one, quoted from the blog Metro Times: “Fluxus artists were irresistible art flirts and menaces. They refused tickets to snobs, patronized critics and dared the public to find a point to art. They pushed the boundaries of what is considered art and, as Fluxus artist Nam [ READ MORE ]
We just got word that we’ll be presenting a performative talk at PSi #16 Performing Publics in Toronto, 9-13 June 2010. The talk will focus on our life in the Fishbowl – if you’re up north, hope to see you there! [ READ MORE ]
So we’ve been interested in identity and its implications in the digital age. In fact, a lot of our work has been a version of the analog investigation of avatars. Here’s a link to an interesting article from WIRED about what happened when one man tried to disappear without a digital trace – into an [ READ MORE ]
A lot of our work lately has been involved with looking at the human:digital interface. Is that the same as the human:machine interface? What are the differences that I am interested in exploring? How does our work in Performing the Self (the avatar as the real), as well as our work with the digital (trying [ READ MORE ]
So the first piece that we re-performed was Vito Acconci’s Centers. We then decided to start looking for performance that could utilize our relationship. Performances that incorporated two bodies in their original intention, and ideally works that were concerned with the nature, energy and dynamics of relationship. [ READ MORE ]
So this is a new idea: re-performing objects. We started with Longo sort of arbitrarily – we love his work, but probably wouldn’t have chosen it as a beginning for our investigation of material culture through performing the objects of that culture. We’ve worked for a long time around the idea of object/surroundings informing identity. For [ READ MORE ]
This is an interesting article called Framing the Ephemeral about the collection and preservation of ephemeral art works. It was part of a one-day symposium organized by PERFORMA in 2004. [ READ MORE ]
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, [ READ MORE ]