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This is how we disappear examines the complexity, frailty, and weight of human relationships in contrast with the fluid simplicity of the passage of time. Two performers embody Suniti Dernovsek’s unique movement vocabulary and are captured in their actions by custom electronics, driving a real-time response in sound and video.
Learn moreWhat would have happened if one of the early postmodern choreographers from Judson Church had gone uptown to perform in the ball scene in Harlem? In M2M, three dancers collide the formalism and minimalism of postmodernism with the flamboyance and performativity of voguing.
Learn more“To say that this contemporary dance piece is memorable is an understatement: You can’t forget watching two naked men manipulate each other’s penises in a game of one-upmanship.” —The Globe and Mail
Learn more“...it shakes you to the core [...] Recommended for all generations – those of us who lived through those years, those who saw our children in peril, and those who are only now realizing that history is more than learning dates, parrot style.” —La Segunda
Learn moreMinor Theatres (wrkshp 1) is a project to begin a project. A question of time over the horizon. Emily Roysdon has invited a dynamic array of specialists to talk about TIME- conceptually, abstractly, poetically, practically, materially and performatively.
Learn moreMinor Theatres (wrkshp 1) is a project to begin a project. A question of time over the horizon. Emily Roysdon has invited a dynamic array of specialists to talk about TIME- conceptually, abstractly, poetically, practically, materially and performatively.
Learn moreKhaela Maricich and Melissa Dyne—the collaborating artists and musicians of The Blow—discuss the place of pop music in contemporary art and its value as a performance practice.
Learn morePICA's seventh annual convergence of contemporary performance, dance, music, new media and visual arts projects in Portland, Oregon, USA.
Learn moreIn 1997, riot grrrl legend Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill, Le Tigre) released a solo album under the name Julie Ruin, hoping someday to find a band to play the songs live. She finally assembled her dream team in 2010 as The Julie Ruin...
Learn moreDolan presents a new series of sculptural works which investigate various structural components of everyday life. These mechanics are contrasted with those of games and puzzles, which plainly present their rules.
Learn moreMinor Theatres (wrkshp 1) is a project to begin a project. A question of time over the horizon. Emily Roysdon has invited a dynamic array of specialists to talk about TIME- conceptually, abstractly, poetically, practically, materially and performatively. In symbols, text, stars, characters, and movements.
Learn morei want to know when we started noticing, when we realized, when we Became net artists, internet aware, post-internet, when we stabbed at making and when we finally pwnd understanding and maybe when we found ourselves in the thick of it, disconnected ONLINE
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Learn moreRoom Tone is an instruction piece for voice and electromagnetic tape. It is a live performance involving one operator and an indefinite number of visitors, who may come and go throughout the duration of the piece. The work was created as live homage to composer Alvin Lucier's 1969 recording, I am Sitting in a Room.
Learn moreWorking with fragments of language gathered from everyday encounters and experiences, Tompkins presents a selection of concrete poems and works on paper.
Learn moreA.L. Steiner uses constructions of photography, video, installation, collage, collaboration, writing, performance, and curatorial work as seductive tropes channeled through the sensibility of an activated skeptical queer ecofeminist androgyne.
Learn moreA gathering and discussion about queer performance, art, and culture. A casual and curious space for exploration of history and lineage. A group experiment in dialogue and community.
Learn moreThis workshop will explore the motive behind the creation of language and the creativity from which it originates.
Learn moreA workshop exploring the words we use to describe the people we know, as a process to understand how we identify ourselves. Gayle will introduce the model of personality considered most useful and valid by contemporary personality psychologists, and we will use the space and each others' words to uncover how our personalities are expressed in our daily lives.
Learn moreMany thousands of languages are spoken today across the world. Each language offers a unique perspective, a world view, a window into the mind of its speakers. Language are richly varied and this variation offers insight into what is possible and what is not, and why.
Learn moreThree activities will focus on learning through touch as a language, two with clay as a medium.
Learn moreA workshop comparing ancient cave paintings, hieroglyphics, and cuneiform text to modern day street art, propaganda, and graffiti.
Learn moreA critical conversation on method and madness, knowledge and respect, theory and nascent wonder, ignorance and arrogance, authority and tradition, judgment and distinction, learning and the pleasing of another, sober realism and the rage for justice, in the style of G.K. Chesterton, and drawing on the work of a wide range of interlocutors, including Hannah Arendt, Ivan Illich, John Dewey, Peter Sloterdijk, Jacques Rancière, Bifo, and the Black Mountain Founders, to help us rethink this thing called education, higher and other.
Learn moreThis workshop is devoted to writing with constraints.
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