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9 Scripts from a Nation at War
Via vimeo.com
Apr 19
During her Saturday Walker visit, Sharon Hayes will reflect on this project (made with David Thorne, Katya Sander, Andrea Geyer, and Ashley Hunt), which looks at the state of exception and questions language’s use politically.
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Beuys’ Blackboard
Via atisma.com
Apr 19
Ahead of the “blackboard conversations” we’re hosting this Saturday by Avery Gordon and Sharon Hayes, we recall Joseph Beuys, who used dramatic actions and lectures in an attempt to change consciousness.
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“Gitmo Is Killing Me”
Via emptywheel.net
Apr 18
“I’ve been detained at Guantánamo for 11 years and three months. I have never been charged with any crime. I have never received a trial.” Is it any wonder that 35-year-old Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel would give up hope and choose to starve himself to death?
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Free Talha
Via freetalha.org
Apr 18
The extradition of UK citizen and poet Talha Hassan to a US supermax prison without any evidence has fallen out of the news, but we feel the discussion around who gets to speak and who gets to be heard needs to still be highlighted.
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Limits of Translation
Via youtube.com
Apr 18
Ahead of our collective performance of The Exception and the Rule tonight, we present this video of Bertolt Brecht in 1947 defending his position in the House Committee on Un-American Activities. In so doing, he simultaneously speaks on the limits of translation.
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Blogs
Magnetic Force: Remembering Tim Carr
The Green Room
Apr 18
Record label exec and music curator Tim Carr’s successes on the national level are well known: as an A&R rep for Capitol, Warner Bros., and Dreamworks he worked with bands from David Byrne to Megadeth to Cibbo Matto and, most famously, he’s credited with signing the Beastie Boys to Capitol. But news of Carr’s death in […]
Record label exec and music curator Tim Carr’s successes on the national level are…
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Entering The Exception and the Rule
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Apr 18
If your name is a sound, what does it move like? On Saturday April 6, fourteen people gathered in the Walker’s Barnes conference room for the first of four days working on radical political theatre practices in preparation for a performance piece applying working methods of Augusto Boal to Bertolt’s Brecht’s 1929 learning play The […]
If your name is a sound, what does it move like?
On Saturday April 6…
