Carolee Schneemann at her home and studio in New Paltz, NY. 2017. Photo: Courtesy Bonnie Marranca. In the Beginning is Drawing Carolee Schneemann in conversation with Bonnie Marranca and Claire MacDonald At this sad occasion…
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Writing and Aging
Writing and Aging from “Ages of the Avant-Garde” Maria Irene Fornes I think that aging has made a difference in my writing in a very important way. Young writers are usually very deeply involved with…
Thinking About
Thinking About Maria Irene Fornes Bonnie Marranca A week before we were preparing to send this issue to press, the sad news of the death of Maria Irene Fornes was announced. One of the most…
Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson Telling Stories in Virtual Reality Laurie Anderson in conversation with Bonnie Marranca As a performer, visual artist, composer, poet, and filmmaker, Laurie Ander- son has been at the forefront in using technology in…
Reza Abdoh Today
Reza Abdoh Today Posthumous Reflections Fifty-Five Years after His Birth Joseph Cermatori It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us. Walter Benjamin Do not give me a…
Hillbilly Tragedy
Hillbilly Tragedy What’s Not Playing in American Theatres in the 2017–18 Season Paul David Young In November 2016, the forgotten, un- or underemployed, white, Christian, heterosexual, working class male of Middle America elected Donald Trump,…
The First Non-Human
The First Non-Human Action Artist Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik in Robot Opera Sophie Landres ORIGINALE ALL OVER AGAIN Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik began their collaboration while Moorman was producing Karlheinz Stockhausen’s…
537 Broadway
537 Broadway Performance and Buildings Agustin Schang I Since 1974, like many other spaces in downtown Manhattan, IL 537-541 Broadway cast-iron building became the headquarters of an artists’ commu- nity that worked outside the conventional…
The Imagination of Catastrophe
The Imagination of Catastrophe Caryl Churchill’s Natural History Lessons Bonnie Marranca The other afternoon I heard a French political analyst on National Public Radio describe the political forces sweeping her country as the “wind of…
Shadow. Eurydice Says
Shadow. Eurydice Says Elfriede Jelinek Translated by Gitta Honegger I don’t know what’s gliding down my leg, NO, it actually seems to come from below, working itself upward, has it reached the heel yet, IL…