Dec 20, 2009

SPACE SPACE SPACE

I am holding a workshop this January/February for the first phase in the creation of a new performance piece that I am writing and directing in collaboration with the ensemble that will form.

I am currently searching for a space to hold rehearsals in. I basically need a room that is decently sized, heated and fairly empty with bathroom access. If anyone has any ideas please let me know.

Madonna/Whore


I have long been an admirer of Vanessa Beecroft's artwork. She primarily stages performances of live models in elaborate tableaus that are visually arresting, brilliantly simple and strangely uncomfortable. The models are often nude, vaguely bored and fetishistically fashion bound, the spectator observes voyeuristically. I have one of her artist monographs, and I once read all her writing in it, her personal statements and journal entries. From her writer voice I interpreted her as a bit of a fascist, neurotic, obsessive, domineering. She struggles with bulimia and is the type of person who takes no pleasure in food - completely controlling. There was no photo, so I imagined her as someone older, German, with crazy Vivienne Westwood hair. someone not beautiful yet obsessed with beauty.

I watched the documentary The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins by Pietra Brettkelly tonight. I had not heard about it, I found it randomly at Movie Madness. It chronicles Beecroft's attempt to adopt a pair of Sudanese twins that she meets in an orphanage and then attempts to adopt without first telling her husband. She is neither old nor German, although her hair is a bit crazy. She is in fact beautiful, with a lilting Italian voice and a large magnetic smile. Who knew?? Yes she is artistically eccentric, and manipulative, but mostly emboldened in her own self-absorption, she is not nearly as commanding as I imagined. Her demands and behavior are childlike in their naivitee, despite being selfish and potentially cruel. The focus Brettkelly shines on her only amplifies this disconnect.

At any rate, I still love her work.


Dec 10, 2009

Dec 8, 2009

IN MEMORY OF A FREE FESTIVAL, OR, THE GLITTERHEARTS TAKE PWNW

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I was much pleased.
It was one of those moments Saturday night when I felt like the people I knew were the people I was always meant to know, the things I was doing the things I always wanted to be doing. It was radical nostalgia in the making. I hope we have a second coming. The paintings at Valentine's got super crooked on my behalf.
Find full set of pictures HERE.
P.S. Someone said they wanted their kid's kindergarten class to see us - my kind of compliment.
Also, a little bird was watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer yesterday and but what song should come on in the background??

(Sorry about the cropping... I resized and everything and still couldn't get everyone in!)

In the Closet




Jess did some performance art in my closet.
Also known as FOLK FENG SHUI.

MJ


This is a reminder to New Yorkers to go see I Fucked Mariah. This weekend! It features this beaut of a puppet.

Dec 4, 2009

THIRD SIDE

TONIGHT + TOMORROW



PERFORMANCE WORKS NORTHWEST, 67th between Holgate and Foster
8:00 PM


THE
GLITTERHEARTS

CORRINA REPP, vocals + guitar
ERIN PERRY, guitar classique
LINDSAY KAPLAN, keyz
EMMA LIPP, le bell

CHORUS:
KATY ALEXANDER
MICHAEL BUNSEN
JOCELYN FOX
JESS HIRSCH
NICKI ITTNER
MARIAH MAINES
JACQUELINE MENTION
ANDREA RAIJER

SING IT WITH US:
THE SUN MACHINE
IS COMING DOWN,
AND WE’RE GONNA
HAVE A PARTY.