2014

Serena Lee: Re-Tuning Cartography

Serena Lee perfroming at Artscape Youngplace

By Alison Cooley Serena Lee begins Layers Channels Paths History by dividing the audience into sections of green, brown and “nothing.” The unexplained designation recalls Jane Elliot’s “Blue Eyes Brown Eyes Exercise,” sets a political tone. Establishing boundaries between audience members, Lee has already begun to map out our relations to each other. Someone shoots …

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Blowing away the smoke and smashing the mirrors: troubling the trickery of capital H-history

Didier Morelli perfroming at Artscape Youngplace

By Jenn Snider When I enter the performance space, Didier Morelli is climbing the wall, rubbing the blackboard with his face. Morelli: “John. John. You didn’t leave me a dry eraser. I’m having to use my face.” He is removing the remnants of John Court’s festival performance from the board. His cheeks and lips are …

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Catch-up

Performance Art Bingo by Alison Cooley

By Alison Cooley As we enter the final day of the festival (and Jenn and I scramble to document the works we’ve seen in the past day), I wanted to share my BINGO process. We have one square left! It’s hard to quantify a lot of these things, so I’ve tried to go with the …

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Small Signals for New Poetries

Ali Al-Fatlawi and Wathiq Al-Ameri performing at Artscape Youngplace

By Alison Cooley I have lost my notes detailing the gathering of small gestures which make up Vanishing Borders, a performance by Switzerland-based Iraqi artists Ali Al-Fatlawi and Wathiq Al-Ameri. I cannot sketch out the procedural building of a relation between these two, whose actions in concert and poetic counteraction with each other betray a …

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Dispatch IV from Radio Equals

Drawing by Alison Cooley in response to claude wittmann's Radio Equals

By Alison Cooley claude wittmann’s performance, Radio Equals, has been recurring daily at 3 pm, and was broadcast on 93.1 fm. The preceding is a short dispatch in response to today’s final session. wittmann’s final action, Landsgemeinde happens today (November 2, 2014) at 4pm.

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