Posts Tagged ‘performance’
The Artist is Present
In a room surrounded by the artifice of mediation at MoMA, Marina Abramovic suspends temporal consciousness inside her cone of re-privation. She appears as in a physically meditative state, and it is fascinating to watch the transformation of those [...]
Live & the Mediatized Other
“To the degree that performance attempts to enter the economy of reproduction it betrays and lessens the promise of its own ontology. Performance’s being…become itself through disappearance.” - Peggy Phelan On September 29, 2009 at a [...]
TRUE SOUTH
Paul D. Miller / DJ Spooky TERRA NOVA Sinfonia Antarctica BAM Howard Gilman Opera House (Next Wave) December 5, 2009 Between BAM’s awful marketing copy (Hip-hop savant cum shrewd cultural critic) and the New York Times snarky review (a [...]
BLACK LACQUER DISPARITY
Jeremy Wade “there is no end to more” @ Japan Society through December 5, 2009 In Jeremy Wade’s brilliant mash-up send-up of Japanese manga and kawaii (cute) culture, a voiceover describes colorful and bizarre scenes and behaviors as [...]
Performing the web
As part of PERFORMA 09 Eyebeam presented an event on Friday, November 20 featuring net art pioneers JODI (Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans) and emerging artists from Eyebeam's studios, senior fellow Jeff Crouse and research associate Aaron [...]
