Tag Archives: Performance
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Full Frontal
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Full Frontal
I am on my way to New York, but not before finding Exercises for Rebel Artists: Radical Performance Pedagogy by Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes delivered to my door on my last …
Problematic: Answering Questions with Questions
Problematic | The Artist As Entrepreneur
Problematic: Answering Questions with Questions
Problematic | The Artist As Entrepreneur
Most artists assume the role of an artist, perhaps by going to school, perhaps by having a studio, or not. Bruce Nauman made it simple by deciding that anything he …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Embodying Echoes: An Interview with Matthew Goulish
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Embodying Echoes: An Interview with Matthew Goulish
“WE MAY AGREE on the premise that each work of art is at least in part perfect, while each critic is at least in part imperfect. We may then look …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Sanford Biggers
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Sanford Biggers
Images from popular culture abound in Sanford Biggers’s work, and particularly from hip-hop, East Asian Buddhism, and the Antebellum and Afro-Futurist African-American. Two images that have become particularly emblematic for …
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
It’s About Time: Gimme Shelter, A New Column on Performance Now
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
It’s About Time: Gimme Shelter, A New Column on Performance Now
In an interview for Rolling Stone, Mick Jagger described the 1969 hit “Gimme Shelter” as a song about apocalypse, about the end of the world. He channeled the rage of …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Carlos Motta
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Carlos Motta
While Carlos Motta’s work exists through a number of different media, I think of it primarily as putting forth a series of socially and politically committed archives. These archives are …
Art21 New York Close Up
“New York Close Up” Film Premiere: Shana Moulton and Kalup Linzy
Art21 New York Close Up
“New York Close Up” Film Premiere: Shana Moulton and Kalup Linzy
It’s a momentous Monday here at Art21. Following Maren Miller’s thoughtful introduction of our newest documentary series, New York Close Up, last week, we are thrilled to present you with …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Threading Infrastructure: An Interview with Anne Wilson
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Threading Infrastructure: An Interview with Anne Wilson
When I asked Anne Wilson if I could interview her for Art21, she sent me a preview copy of her book, Anne Wilson: Wind/Rewind/Weave—a catalogue published collaboratively by White Walls and …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Nicole Eisenman and Wynne Greenwood
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Nicole Eisenman and Wynne Greenwood
Digging through Nicole Eisenman’s current show at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, one begins to understand why it’s so perfect that the artist presents us with 77 different titles for …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | In Poor Taste,* Lunch with Jani Leinonen
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | In Poor Taste,* Lunch with Jani Leinonen
I was waiting in line to buy a movie ticket when I heard the news: Jani Leinonen had been incarcerated. Conversations with my Finnish friends in the previous weeks had …
Art21 Extended Play
Cao Fei: “PRD Anti-Heroes”
Art21 Extended Play
Cao Fei: “PRD Anti-Heroes”
SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE Episode #140: Artist Cao Fei discusses her multi-media theatrical work “PRD Anti-Heroes” (2005), a play performed by non-professional actors. Investigating …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Tania Bruguera
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Tania Bruguera
Tania Bruguera’s long and various career as an artist starts with a series of works made after, but mainly through, the Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta. I say “through,” because in …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | rocks/mud/linoleum: sculpture between sites
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | rocks/mud/linoleum: sculpture between sites
Richard Long’s artistic medium, since the 1960s, has been walking. On his walks all over the world, he uses found materials to create formations – circles, lines, ovals — leaving …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Georgia Kotretsos
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Georgia Kotretsos
Georgia Kotretsos is a visual artist, writer, and curator currently based in Athens, Greece. She earned a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | What up, Internet? Saxophonist Throws Mad Wrenches in Capitalism’s Machinations
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | What up, Internet? Saxophonist Throws Mad Wrenches in Capitalism’s Machinations
I’m happy to report that I’m alive. I made it through my first conference presentation as part of The Now Museum Graduate Student Symposium last Sunday at the New Museum. …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions with Colectivo Situaciones
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions with Colectivo Situaciones
* This interview has been translated and co-edited by Brian Whitener. I first heard about Colectivo Situaciones about a year ago, when I received a publication in the mail titled …
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | biriken
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | biriken
biriken is the five year old interdisciplinary, collaborative project of Melis Tezkan and Okan Urun. Working at the intersection of performance art, installation art, and traditional theater practice, Tezkan and …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Characters, Not Caricatures: The Multifarious Art of Rachel Mason
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Characters, Not Caricatures: The Multifarious Art of Rachel Mason
Rachel Mason’s work is not easy to neatly summarize. I’ve been following her projects for several years now, and I still have difficulty explaining what exactly it is that she …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Amy Balkin
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Amy Balkin
For the past couple years, I have been teaching Bay Area-based artist Amy Balkin’s work within a curriculum about environmental art and “land expropriation.” I teach her work besides Karl …
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