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Guggenheim creates its first mobile app

For Maurizio Cattelan: All, the Guggenheim Museum creates its first mobile app. So, the experience of art that so annoyed theatre director, Anne Bogart back in 2008 (see here) has now become an integral part of the exhibit. I’m looking … Continue reading

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Art 2.0

There’s been quite a bit of outcry in response to Rocco Landesman’s, Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, assessment of the current state of supply and demand for theatre in the US. His address at the New Play … Continue reading

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Karen Finley’s *look*: performance & documentation

At the end of my last post, I wondered about whether documentation, particularly photography, might threaten to replace performance as the event-object itself. This has, I think, relevance to Erika Fischer-Lichte’s book on the ‘performative turn’ to the event as … Continue reading

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PSi 16: performance, publics, & documentation

A good day here in Toronto. For those that are looking to follow the conference from afar, there’s live blogging at performancestudies.org and tweeting @psdotorg. For myself, I attended a panel on “Resisting Audience Assumptions” and chaired a panel on … Continue reading

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