Santiago Mostyn’s solo show, The Symapthizer!, is opening tonight at Capricious. An installation based on his travels in Western Norway, the opening will feature hourly performances by Karen Skog Orkester, a Norwegian sound orchestra. The Sympathizer! opens Friday, Oct 15, 7-9 pm at Capricious Space, 103 Broadway, Brooklyn. The exhibition runs through Nov 13.
Category Archives: Performing Arts
Utopia in Four Movements
October 12, 2010 – 10:19 am
“If you’re a filmmaker today you have to accept that people are going to watch your work on a laptop while they’re checking their email,” said Academy Award-nominated director Sam Green before Thursday night’s sold-out opening of his new “live documentary,” Utopia in Four Movements, at The Kitchen in Chelsea. ”I’m still very much attached to the [...]
In Conversation with Jibz Cameron of Dynasty Handbag
July 23, 2010 – 11:57 am
Watching Jibz Cameron perform as her infamous alter-ego, Dynasty Handbag, feels like being invited to a private party in the mind of your artfully delusional great-aunt. Part clown, part id, part Real Housewife of Miami, Dynasty Handbag gracefully dashes between the lines of manic sub-conscious neurosis and external performativity, usually to reeling comedic effect. Frequently [...]
Roller Coaster Butt Ride
July 6, 2010 – 4:40 pm
This is one of the funniest videos I’ve seen in forever. I guess the chorus of this song translates to “hit him in the face with your ass.” You can go on youtube and see lots of folks trying to re-create this at home. Something to do when it’s hot out.
Scarlett Rouge joins Vaginal Davis at PS122
May 28, 2010 – 6:28 pm
Last night our friend Scarlett Rouge presented her film Magic Trauma Sprinkles as part of drag diva Vaginal Davis’s ongoing residency at PS122, “Speaking from the Diaphragm.” Scarlett is the daughter of Rick Owens’s wife Michele Lamy and has known Vag’ since she was in diapers (Davis babysat her when she was a child). According [...]
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 [...]
Malcolm McLaren
April 8, 2010 – 10:43 pm
The incomparable Malcolm McLaren passed away today. Thank you for your sharing your world and for the music. You will be missed.
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 [...]
