I did not have relational asthmatics with that woman, although I did cough in her lemon grass soup
29/10/09 Maxine Kopsa
In the new issue of METROPOLIS M magazine, Michael Portnoy talks about his performances, including his infamous 'Soy Bomb' stunt at the 1998 Grammy Awards. This item contains several video's of Portnoy's work to date.
Rietveld ignored a performance by Ruth Buchanan
reviews 15.07.09 Sarah Farrar
Utrecht
Casco, Rietveld Schröder huis
18/06/09 - 21/06/09
Ruth Buchanan acts as tourguide to the Rietveld Schröder house in her performance Nothing Is Closed—Lying Freely Part I for Casco.
Read more..A performance with effects
15/06/09 Mark Beasley
As curator for Creative Time, an independent New York centre presenting art in public space, Mark Beasley was responsible for Hey Hey Glossolalia (2008), a series of performances revolving around the voice, featuring Mark Leckey, Frances Stark, Rammellzee, Liam Gillick and others. Here, he gives an impression of the multifaceted role of the voice in art and culture over the past one hundred years.
Read more..'The past does not influence me. I influence the past' An Interview with Adam Pendleton
15/06/09 Krist Gruijthuijsen
The young artist Adam Pendleton is currently making waves with performances, paintings and installations in which he critically examines our interpretation of history and culture. His work is often describe as ‘conceptual’ or even ‘complicated’, thanks to his frequent use of texts both from his own hand and derived from Afro-American literature, music and pop culture. Is Pendleton ridiculing the clichés about black culture, collecting them like a sociologist, or is he trying to initiate a more subtle way of thinking about language and identity? Time to let him speak for himself.
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reviews 24.11.08 Erik van Tuijn
Den Bosch
Artis
13/11/08 - 07/12/08
Video interview with sound artist Aileen Campbell on the occasion of her performance Unthemed Oratorio for many voices and optional soloist(s) at Artis Den Bosch (NL).
A Night of Psicomagia
25/08/08 Danai Anesiadou
Artist and theatre-maker Danai Anesiadou was invited to put on a performance at the recent Berlin Biennial. The following is her report.
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Yvonne Rainer is considered by many to be the most important choreographer of the 1960s. More than Lucinda Childs or Trisha Brown, she is the one who renewed dance and inspired countless visual artists. Her famous choreographies have recently been performed by a new generation of artists. Rainer herself has directed performances in New York and Kassel.
Waiting for a Shadow The City as Tableau Vivant
01/02/08 Nele Wynants
If theatre-makers Lotte van den Berg and Benjamin Verdonck and visual artist Pauline Oltheten have something in common, it is their partiality to street choreography. In the spirit of the Situationists, they discover the poetry of everyday life, which they record and circumspectly imitate or incorporate in a direction of their own.
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Everything is Surface Ian White and Jimmy Robert on their performances
01/02/08 Frédérique Bergholtz
‘Somewhere between Yvonne Rainer and Pina Bausch,’ was how Ian White and Jimmy Robert described their latest performance, which was recently presented in De Brakke Grond. The choreographies of these artists based in Brussels and London seem complex, full of historical references, but ultimately they should be taken surprisingly literally.
01/12/07 Catherine Taft
She is known for being an astute observer of the art world who has assumed the guises of a critical tour guide, a spectator molesting a pillar of the Guggenheim Bilbao, a flamboyant samba dancer and a stripping speaker for an art opening. Since recently Andrea Fraser teaches (very properly) at UCLA, but even there she cannot stop performing. Prompted by her forthcoming exhibition at De Hallen Haarlem, a conversation about the development of her oeuvre.
