Tag Archive "performance-art"
Unsanctioned Art for the Public: A review of two books
Carlo McCormack in collaboration with Wooster Collective’s Marc and Sara Schiller, Trespass; A history of uncommissioned public art (Cologne: Taschen, 2010) ISBN978-3-8365-0964-0 Urban Interventions; Personal projects in public spaces, Robert Klanten and Matthias Hübner, eds. (Berlin: Gestalten Verlag, 2010) ISBN 978-3-89955-291-1 Both of these large, profusely-illustrated books address the same general phenomenon: artists’ uninvited interventions in the urban environment.
Monographs on Birgit Jürgenssen, Nancy Spero and Hannah Wilke
It’s welcome to see increasing numbers of serious books on women artists, even if all three discussed here are posthumous. The volumes on Spero and Wilke pay sustained attention to two Americans who are well-known and widely reproduced; the book on the Austrian, Birgit Jürgenssen (1949-2003), is an introduction to a fascinating artist whose work is all but unknown in the U.S. Gabriele Schor and Abigail Solomon-Godeau Birgit Jürgenssen (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz and Vienna: Sammlung Verbund, 2009) ISBN 978-3-7757–2461-6 (English edition) Birgit Jürgenssen’s education, teaching career and exhibitions took place primarily in the very small and in-bred art community of ... More » »
Leslie Rogers on performance art – now on artblog radio
This episode sponsored by Fleisher Art Memorial Leslie Rogers sews like a dream and makes costumes she wears in performances that are about gender roles and sometimes are gender bending. She talks about her role in PuppeTyranny, doing puppet shows in her mouth, in which a male collaborator inserts a variety of tiny objects into her mouth and she interacts with them (chewing, spitting out, etc). Exhibitionism, voyeurism and creepy are all on the table for Leslie, who, by the way, has a great laugh and wonderful sense of humor. Below is the 25-second sample clip. Click “read more” for ... More » »
Next week on artblog radio–puppet and performance artist Leslie Rogers
When performance artist Leslie Rogers came to town she began stirring up a cyclone of events with a variety of collaborators. As part of the group PuppeTyranny she performed with her mouth wide open at Vox Populi. And she donned the naked fat suit of a lumpy middle-aged man to perform on a trapeze at Extra Extra. Below is a sample from our interview with her. 25-second sample–Leslie Rogers Tune in for the the full podcast–the 8th episode of artblog radio–Monday, Oct. 25.
Endurance and exhibitionism–Jacolby Satterwhite’s performance
The promise that Jacolby Satterwhite showed at his performance a week ago at Jolie Laide had more to do with costuming and video than performance itself.
Queer Voices at the ICA
Queer Voice, at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA ), University of Pennsylvania through August 1, 2010 is an exhibition organized around an idea: that a number of artists since the 1960s have created narrative or performance-based work that emphasizes the voice, the voice distorted or manipulated such that gender is divorced from sex and/or gender is undistinguishable: a queer voice. And this queer voice, in turn, establishes a queer or de-familiarized space for the audience. That the work of the nine artists does not clearly support this thesis, or that the thesis misses the most significant aspects of the ... More » »
