Tag Archives: Performance Works

Bobby McFerrin’s Improv-Inspired ‘Vocabularies’

I was listening to NPR the other day, weekend edition and they were interviewing one of my absolute favorite musical artist. This man has always inspired me with his methodology, his dedication to new styles of music, using technology in music. If you are only familiar with “Don’t Worry be Happy” and the theme to [...]

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Jane McGonigal

Jane McGonigal is a game researcher known for her organization of flash mobs and other games for massively scaled communities.  From her web site:
“[McGonigal] has created and deployed games and missions in more than 30 countries on six continents. She specializes in games that help gamers enjoy their real lives more — and games that challenge players to [...]

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Tehching Hsieh

In my curious desire to design and implement a one-year performance piece I found Hsieh.  This man is unbelievable.  Please check out his six works and comment up a storm!  –slou

“One Year Performance 1980-1981 — Hsieh punched a time clock every hour on the hour. Can you know about this piece without thinking of drudgery?  [...]

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Duke Riley

I found Duke Riley in the most recent edition of ARTnews among a group of artists labeled “artists to watch”. I will bring the magazine to class tonight for any and all interested in reading the article, ARTnews does not have a digital version of it. He is credited to have done multiple “madcap” aquatic [...]

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Milosh Luczynski

http://miloshluczynski.com/Paris
I hope he has not been posted yet. I apologize if he has but this video was pretty cool.
Here is a website:
http://miloshluczynski.com/
Born 1973 in Carpats – Poland. Visual and intermedia artist, VJ, video director, performer, designer, painter… – Milosh Luczynski lives and works in Paris since 2001. After culture anthropology study at the Jagiellonian [...]

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Terence Koh

Terence Koh on Art Talk

Terence Koh is provocative artist that I keep running across in my research.  I found this interview of him on Art Talk VBS.TV that is worth watching.   Anyway, it is only six minutes.

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Rachel Rosenthal

Rachel Rosenthal by Annie Leibowitz
Rachel Rosenthal is the grande dame of the West Coast performance art scene.  She is best known for her solo performances and her DbD (“Do by Doing”) training technique.  Her span of her work stretches from early training with Hans Hoffmann, Merce Cunningham, Erwin Piscator, and Jean-Louis Barrault to the continuing output [...]

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Susan Hiller

Susan Hiller b. 1940, Tallahassee, Florida
Lives and works in London and Berlin
The work of Susan Hiller has long been recognized for its excavation of everyday phenomena that lie within the recesses, byways and blind spots of our cultural surround. In a distinguished career of more than 30 years, Hiller has drawn upon sources as diverse [...]

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Ana Mendieta

Untitled (Grass on Woman), 1972

Film still: Untitled (Blood and Feathers #2), 1974
Text and images linked from http://hirshhorn.si.edu/visit/in_depth.asp?key=33&subkey=57:
Ana Mendieta (American, born Cuba 1948–1985) is an artist whose career can be distinguished in part by her experimentation with a diverse range of artistic media. As a student at the University of Iowa in Hans Breder’s intermedia program, Mendieta [...]

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Goat Island

 
Goat Island is a germinal, Chigago-based performance collective  in the process of ending its collaboration.  Matthew Goulish, the author of the influential text, 39 Microlectures: In Proximity of Performance,  is a founding member.  From their site:
 “Characteristically we attempt to establish a spatial relationship with audiences, other than the usual proscenium theater situation, which may suggest a [...]

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