Dark Times British Theatre after Brexit Aleks Sierz In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times. Bertolt Brecht The UK Referendum vote to leave…
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Performance In the
Performance In the Cabinet of Curiosities Or, The Boy Who Lived in the Tree Johannes Birringer Dedicated to Herbert Blau Celebrating the creative talent of one of the most innovative designers of recent times, Alexander…
Body Surrogates
Body Surrogates Mannequins, Life-Size Dolls, and Avatars Francesco Spampinato One of the tropes of these early years of the twenty-first century is that of the avatar, a virtual representation of a human being used for…
Life and Death Matters
Life and Death Matters Bonnie Marranca Where should I begin? It’s been a difficult stretch in the weeks leading up to completing PAJ 114. Suicide bombings, the Orlando massacre, refugees floating in the sea, Brexit,…
Douglas Dunn
Douglas Dunn Shame at looking with pleasure at shape, color, moves, without demanding to know sense; shame that I would invite significance to obtund the sen- sational intensity of immediate perception. Shame at being an…
CardiovasCular Chopin
CardiovasCular Chopin Ending at the Beginning with Guido Van der Werve Michael Maizels and Jenny Johnson “Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Light of…
Real PRofessionals?
Real PRofessionals? Andy Warhol, Fred Herko, and Dance Paisid Aramphongphan Of all the Judson Dance Theater dancers, Andy Warhol was “absolutely fasci- nated with” Fred Herko, the relatively unknown Judsonite who jumped out of a…
Species Niches performance pavilion. Courtesy Harrison Atelier.
Species Niches performance pavilion. Courtesy Harrison Atelier. performance AND ARCHITECTURE ExpandEd FiElds Architecture/Landscape/Performance Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry At first glance, one might consider architecture and performance to be anti- thetical to one another, in…
Pillars (for DaviD MooDey)
Pillars (for DaviD MooDey) Robert Ashley Created and recorded in October 2007 in New York City at the request of Lines of Sight, Ràdio Web MACBA (Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art). Engineered by Tom Hamilton….
The Room TRick
The Room TRick Sound as Site Manuel Cirauqui Magical halls, still waiting for the right magician. Rudolf Arnheim, Radio Non-visuality and depth are two material aspects intrinsic — though not equally obvious — to any…