Performance Art

Chris Burden: A Twenty-Year Survey, Newport Harbor Art Museum – A Video Portrait (1989)

01.01.2010 Videos You'll Just Love
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Chris Burden (b. 1946) A Twenty-Year Survey, Newport Harbor Art Museum – A Video Portrait (1989) Directed and Edited by Peter Kirby Director of Photography: Dan Zimbaldi Co-production of Newport Harbor Art Museum Media Art Services Zona Productions length 27:45

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the physics of languishing language

05.17.2009 Installation Sightings
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Good things this weekend at the Motion Graphics Festival in Austin. With all the talk about post-screenal interfaces and ubiquitous computing, I felt transported back to my old Georgia Tech classes and labs. Not a bad feeling, but I couldn’t help but think of how far I’ve strayed from notions of the digital. I mean, [...]

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Review: A Convenient Woman by Teresa Chapman and Leslie Scates

04.08.2009 Dance Reviews
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Let me not forget A Convenient Woman, a dance-theater piece by Teresa Chapman and Leslie Scates. I went last Friday and quite enjoyed it. I will not give you the play by play because Nancy Wozny has already cleared the way for me. I just want to offer some freak applause where ol’ Nanc might [...]

Tagged as: Dance Reviews, Diverseworks, H-town, Performance Art

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Review: The Objectification of Things

03.25.2009 Performance Art Reviews
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I can’t help but smile when I think about the performance I saw at DiverseWorks on Friday night. Michelle Ellsworth and two sidekicks performed “The Objectification of Things,” a snarky little romp about the thing-ness of the hamburger. And snarky it definitely was. The piece began with the Unveiling of the Hamburger which took quite [...]

Tagged as: Diverseworks, H-town, Performance Art

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