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Collecting Performance
Susannah Schouweiler
Dec 2011
Performance is by nature slippery—the work exists only in the moment of its enactment; later, as something remembered or recounted in stories, it’s filtered through someone’s lens. So, if you’re a museum like the Walker that “collects” performing arts, where does this leave you? With plenty of questions and access to top thinkers in the field.
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Coolhunting Bither
Via coolhunting.com
Dec 2011
Citing work with artists as diverse as Young Jean Lee, Bill T. Jones and Laurie Anderson, Coolhunting profiles the Walker’s Philip Bither, “one of the most progressive curators of the interdisciplinary arts.” News to us: His grandfather was a jazz banjo player.
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Performance v. Performance Art
via culturebot.net
Dec 2011
“[I]t seems that many of the visual arts curators currently working to promote visual arts performance lack knowledge in contemporary performance,” writes Andy Horwitz, “and I think this presents a problem, as well as a challenge.”
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A Tragicomedy for All Seasons
Julie Caniglia
Oct 2011
Video projections, a beer-swigging Herakles, a sample from the movie His Girl Friday: Big Dance Theater’s Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar discuss the choices they made in adapting Euripides’ 438 BC tragicomedy Alkestis to give it resonance today.
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Art Works in Minnesota
via nea.gov
Oct 2011
A new NEA survey finds there of 2.1 million artists in the U.S. workforce, some 42,000 living here in the Land o’ Lakes. Other findings: Minnesota leads the nation in the concentration of jobs in book publishing, and the Twin Cities’ concentration of theater jobs is twice the national average.