Controversial “confrontationalist” legend Lydia Lunch‘s new project is a full-blown collaborative women’s workshop whose effort is “to change the status quo through art and group empowerment.”
Category: Performance
SWEET SUBMERSION — Martynka Wawrzyniak’s Chocolate
In her phenomenal 2010 performance piece, “Chocolate,” Wawrzyniak enlisted her spouse to drown her in chocolate syrup. The resulting 9-minute video provides a simultaneously discomfiting and thrilling viewing experience.
Dead Man Posting – The Thoughtography of Ted Serios
Theodore `Ted´ Judd Serios is a thoughtographer. He can psychically “burn” images from his mind onto photosensitive surfaces. That is a rare ability, and it made Ted famous in the 1960s, when he first performed in a series of experiments supervised by the psychiatrist Jule Eisenbud.
CLITERACY EXCLUSIVE! – Accessing Pleasure with Sophia Wallace
Sophia Wallace demands “Cliteracy,” the truth behind the often misunderstood female sex organ. Through simple, direct visual statements she’s developing a refreshing discourse on the female body, pleasure politics, and human sexuality as a whole.
BRUNO HIBOMBO’S BATTLES – Exclusive Interview & Video Premiere
Bruno Hibombo’s Battles combines ethereal longing with a direct soulfulness that places his debut far beyond his young age of 22
WHOLLY COMMUNION – Peter Whitehead’s 1965 Beat Poetry Film
Peter Whitehead caught the world’s top poetic intellects in what was called Great Britain’s first full-scale “happening.”
GENEVIEVE BELLEVEAU EXCLUSIVE – Navigating Tech Through Solitude in the Mobile Monastery
Known as an internet guru, virtual goddess, and crust-monk, artist Genevieve Belleveau has earned many titles building an already prolific body of work. Considered a leading example of the New Aesthetic, an art movement that interrelates virtual and physical realities, Belleveau explores what it means to be human in the Information Age. She enacts practices…
WHITE FUNGUS GOES GLOBAL – Exclusive Interview with Editor Ron Hanson
WHITE FUNGUS GOES GLOBAL – Exclusive Interview with Editor Ron Hanson Robert Ashley: “Great ones like White Fungus only come along now and then. Get the recent issue and find out.” Carolee Schneemann: “I follow and relish the rich, un-predictable, and consequential span of White Fungus.” Named after a food can found in…
LISTEN AND REPEAT – Installation Work Questions Social Media by Rachel Knoll
Social media is used to connect but concurrently serves as a disconnect from social life outside of the virtual world.
SOUND?? – 1966 FILM JOHN CAGE ROLAND KIRK (+ 1974 Interview w/ Cage, Merce Cunningham, Louise Nevelson)
1966 film from director Dick Fontaine starring Rahshaan Roland Kirk, John Cage, David Tudor, and Merce Cunningham.
AUTOMATIC WRITING as PERFORMANCE – Ron Athey & Sue Fox Discuss GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT
Extreme body artist Ron Athey‘s latest large-scale performance installation, Gifts Of The Spirit: Part 1.