Category: Words and Things

A piece I wrote while in Oaxaca was published by the always interesting contactprojectjournal. Thanks, guys. Link here.  

In Conversation with Adam Curtis, Part I | e-flux.     I first read the name Adam Curtis in an article about Punchdrunk Theatre. Punchdrunk is the British company responsible for one of the most buzzed-about shows in NYC in the last several years–Sleep No More. No, I haven’t seen it (yet). Yes, I am…

originally written for Open Source magazine   That patriotism is a trope most successfully deployed by right-wing interests in this country can hardly be debated. The credit goes not so much to conservative politicians as to cultural producers like Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and Chuck Norris.   What I’m…

April 19, 2011 The Guthrie Theater announced its next season today. Of the fourteen plays that the Guthrie will produce in 2011-2012, every single piece was written by a male playwright. There remain several TBA directors, but as of the announcement today, only one director is a woman–Marcela Lorca, Head of Movement at the Guthrie,…

    When I reflect on the work that I see, I think about the ways in which I’m affected on a few levels. As an artist, I think about whatever I see in terms of its part within a dialogue in which I’d like to be engaged, an ongoing negotiation of what performance is…