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Films the Color of Blood: On The Renegades
Genevieve Yue
Dec 2012
“The official cinema all over the world is running out of breath. It is morally corrupt, esthetically obsolete, thematically superficial, temperamentally boring.” So declared the New American Cinema Group in a manifesto sent out in 1962. Fifty years later, Genevieve Yue looks back on a notoriously turbulent decade through the work of underground filmmakers of the day.
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Letters to the Army of Three: Andrea Bowers on Abortion, Then and Now
Brooke Kellaway
Dec 2012
In the years before Roe v. Wade passed in 1973, a trio of activists received a flood of letters from people seeking a list of doctors who provided safe abortions. Recognizing the continuing significance of the work of Rowena Gurner, Patricia Maginnis, and Lana Phelan—dubbed the Army of Three—Andrea Bowers began an activist project of her own, carefully copying the letters by hand, word-for-word.
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Synaesthetic Fantasia: David Breskin and Nels Cline on DIRTY BABY
Doug Benidt & Paul Schmelzer
Nov 2012
“A synaesthetic fantasia, DIRTY BABY marries music to pictures, pictures to poems, and poems to music,” writes David Breskin of the new work he’s orchestrated that combines Ed Ruscha’s paintings, music by Wilco’s Nels Cline, and his own poems, written in the ghazal form. In an e-mail exchange, Breskin and Cline tease out the threads of this transglobal, interdisciplinary, multimedia experience.
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Gardening Between Hope and Doom: Fritz Haeg on Edible Estates
Paul Schmelzer
Nov 2012
Confronting a symbol of the American Dream, Fritz Haeg will visit Minnesota in May to plant a garden in an unlikely place. Situated between “simultaneous, equally valid points of doom and hope,” his Edible Estates will turn a suburban front lawn into a vegetable garden—an optimistic, if possibly “ridiculous,” act. His aim: to explore the “fantastic notion of what the city I want to live in looks like.”
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Deborah Hay: The Outlier as Insider
Michèle Steinwald, as told to Julie Caniglia
Nov 2012
A founding member of the Judson Dance Theater, Deborah Hay went from postmodern dance in Greenwich Village in the 1960s to living virtually off the grid in the 1970s, developing a pioneering practice that transforms the relationship between choreographer and dancer. Once an outlier, Hay is now a quiet but powerful force in dance—a “choreographer’s choreographer” whose work matters to the rest of us.
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Cindy Sherman: Interview with a Chameleon
Kenneth Baker
Nov 2012
For years, Cindy Sherman tried to lose herself in her work, “literally and figuratively, so that I would never be recognized.” But in recent years, she tells the San Francisco Chronicle’s Kenneth Baker, she’s let go of that pressure to hide. “I didn’t want the challenge of constantly trying to reinvent myself or invent new characters; that shouldn’t be the reason why I’m doing what I’m doing.”
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Homesteading: Nick Zammuto on Composing, Decomposing, and Life after The Books
Doug Benidt
Oct 2012
After pop polymath Nick Zammuto ends his current tour at the Walker on November 10, his thoughts will turn from the stage to the definitiveness of winter as he readies his homestead for a season that “gets a little hairy where we are in Vermont.” In a new interview he discusses life after the vaunted experimental duo the Books and how he balances making art and living off the land (and grid).