Danspace Project presented choreographer DD Dorvillier’s 2005 piece No Charge or “freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill” over the weekend. The space, in Saint Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, isn’t your typical dance space. In an oversized, hollowed-out nave, a white floor and floating wall have been constructed to create a stage. Immediately apparent in the choreography, use [...]
Author Archives: Amanda Valdez
Ann Liv Young’s Cinderella
September 8, 2010 – 1:15 pm
Do you know about Ann Liv Young? The current wild child performance artist took up residence this weekend at the Old American Can Factory’s Issues Project Room. Often she performs as her character Sherry as another character- her latest piece bringing us Cinderella. Her performances usually go something like this: highly developed character monologues, loud [...]
bobrauschenbergamerica
May 12, 2010 – 1:14 pm
The beginning of bobrauschenbergamerica opens with a giant American flag set and a cast of nine characters moving around, coming and going, re-arranging props, roller skating by flirtatiously, making eyes at one another, climbing in boxes and bath tubs- all preparing you for the ruckus ahead. I was struck by a voice-over that seemed to represent [...]
Introducing Ryan McNamara
April 21, 2010 – 3:58 pm
Artist Ryan McNamara has recently joined Elizabeth Dee gallery. When asked to put together a show introducing himself- he did literally just that. For the next three days you can go and spend time with Ryan while he takes you on a visual and narrative tour through his life and maturation as an artist. I [...]
In Conversation with Kiki Smith
April 5, 2010 – 10:49 pm
Walking through Sojourn, Kiki Smith’s new show at The Brooklyn Art Museum, you’re brought into contact with a cast of female characters and objects. Time and women’s space is a central theme through out the show. Prudence Pundreson’s small embroidery at the beginning of the show sets this tone. She depicts four different times in [...]
Louder Than A Bomb
March 29, 2010 – 8:26 am
Chicago’s teen poetry slam, Louder Than A Bomb, just celebrated their 10th anniversary this month, holding the title as the largest teen poetry slam in the country. The documentary about this annual festival, directed by Jon Siskel and Greg Jacobs, just took the Audience Choice Award for best film and the Greg Gund Memorial Standing [...]
Mining the Past in the Present: Haunted at the Guggenheim
March 26, 2010 – 9:59 am
Adam Helms‘s, Untitled Portrait (Santa Fe Trail), 2007, from Haunted Opening today, Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance is the latest show at the Guggenheim to focus on performance-based art. Including photography, sound, and video along with performance, Haunted is a far cry from the Tino Sehgal make-out session of the last 3 months or last year’s THEANYSPACEWHATEVER show. [...]
Big Eater at The Kitchen
March 12, 2010 – 8:27 am
Photo by Paula Court Clearly contemporary art can have anything as its subject matter and can execute it in any form. “Big Eater” does just that, situating a performance piece on David Hasselhoff’s demoralizing video, taped by his young daughter, in which he’s eating a hamburger on the ground completely wasted. Through the device of [...]
Gil Scott-Heron: “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”
March 3, 2010 – 10:04 am
“If you believe in peace, you gotta go to work. If you believe in the things you say, you gotta get to work.” GS-H Revolutionaries, people dreaming, people dissatisfied and joyless–it’s time to get to work. Gil Scott-Heron is performing two nights at the Blue Note. You missed the first night but tonight he’ll be [...]
Steve McQueen at Marian Goodman
February 19, 2010 – 1:38 pm
Giardini, Steve McQueen’s 2 channel video installation shown in the British Pavilion during the Venice Biennale last summer, is a quiet, subtle, and beautiful view of the pavilions that host the Biennale, minus the art world rukus. Giardini is debuting in America along with a new piece Static at Marian Goodman Gallery. The bleak scenes [...]
