Miriam Katz
Amanda Palmer
Amanda Palmer on her Kickstarter campaign and new work
August 2012
Last April former lead singer of the Dresden Dolls Amanda Palmer launched a month-long Kickstarter campaign to fund an album, a book, an art exhibition, and a live music tour. Here, the performer discusses the successes of the campaign, which… READ ON
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Funny Business
The 30th Just for Laughs festival
August 2012 MONTREAL
“IF YOU WERE being raped and you saw a shooting star, would you use your wish to stop the rape? Or would you look at the bigger picture?” The question came courtesy of twenty-four-year-old LA-based comedian Jerrod Carmichael during his… READ ON
DIARY
William Wegman
William Wegman discusses “Hello Nature”
July 2012
Throughout his career, William Wegman has consistently created drawings, paintings, photographs, and videos about and within the natural world. From July 13 to October 21, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art will present “Hello Nature,” an… READ ON
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Ann Liv Young
Ann Liv Young talks about Sherry
December 2011
Since graduating from Hollins University’s dance program in 2003, Ann Liv Young has riled and thrilled audiences with her performances. Integrating music, movement, and direct engagement, in recent years Young has begun to make work that … READ ON
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Nathalie Djurberg
September 2011
In Nathalie Djurberg’s frenzied stop-motion animations, even innocuous actions—a kiss, a lick— quickly turn violent.… READ ON
PREVIEWS
Clifford Owens
Clifford Owens talks about his current work
June 2011
Clifford Owens’s upcoming exhibition at MoMA PS1 comes out of his long-standing interest in what he considers to be underacknowledged histories of performance art. Rather than reperforming works or simply exhibiting documentation, Owens … READ ON
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Reggie Watts
Reggie Watts discusses improvisation
June 2010
Reggie Watts’s comedic-musical performances tend to confound his audiences for long stretches of time, leaving them anchorless as he futzes senselessly with sound equipment, or morphs from one absurdist character to another. Here, Watts … READ ON
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Ronnie Bass
Ronnie Bass discusses his exhibition at Marginal Utility
December 2009
Ronnie Bass’s exhibition “The Astronomer, Part 1: Departure from Shed” at Marginal Utility in Philadelphia comprises a video, a sculpture of a fountain, and a live performance, which relay a narrative about an astronomer, his assistant,… READ ON
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Carey Young
Carey Young discusses her exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
May 2009
Employing the structures and tropes of corporate and legal systems, Carey Young frequently implicates viewers in playful yet unnerving participatory actions. To enter her 2005 exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery, visitors were required to sign… READ ON
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Wynne Greenwood
Wynne Greenwood talks about her new performance
April 2009
Infused with a solid dose of humor and feminist theory, Wynne Greenwood’s sculptures, videos, and live performances collapse sonic, linguistic, and visual hierarchies in an effort to incite personal and political transformation. Here the … READ ON