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Collaging with Zoe Strauss at Megawords

The product of somebody’s two hours. Without much anticipatory ado, the super-zine Megawords opened a storefront in Chinatown, and has packed the month with lectures, performances, and other free happenings. Last night, Zoe Strauss “led” a collage session, though her approach was entirely hands-off. She gave neither introduction nor instructions; instead, she supplied mountains of old magazines, scissors and glue sticks, and much praise as participants showed their finished works. When I arrived, she was pinning up a striking industrial landscape (collaged from old National Geographics) which had charitably been left by its maker for show on the rear wall ... More » »

Oedipus at FDR Skatepark–a Philly Fringe event

Post by Jacob Hellman Notes from Oedipus at FDR created by Emmanuelle Delpech-Ramey for Fringe Festival 2008 Cast bowing after performance of Oedipus at FDR Skatepark.  All photos in this post by Jacob Hellman. Pig Iron, our forcefully creative theater company, has multiple presences at this year’s Fringe Festival.  Last night, I let my $25 ticket expire to their headliner, Sweet By-and-By, when a spare one surfaced to the free but long-sold-out Oedipus at FDR.  Emmanuelle Delphech-Ramey, former Pig Iron member, has done here what classics are made for, and re-imagined an old play in the present. By school bus ... More » »

Peregrine’s trial run for Hidden City

Post by Jacob Hellman in Girard College’s Founder’s Hall, photo courtesy Peregrine Arts. Last night, a year in advanced of the much-anticipated May 2009 festival to be known as “Hidden City,” Peregrine Arts produced a trial run — an “essay” — a site-specific sound piece in Girard College‘s Founder’s Hall. LA-based artist Steve Roden gently flooded the third-floor domed chamber with “field” recordings, all made in the derelict rooms of the historic building – or, as his title puts it, “nothing but what is therein contained.” Founders Hall is a building austere in style and imposing in scale. Through giant ... More » »