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Cultural Shift
Via nytimes.com
Jun 3
Richard Serra’s Shift is safe. Threatened by a planned development near King City, Ontario, the work—a stretch of zigzagging concrete wall—has been designated a cultural heritage site by the township council. The 1970-72 work sits on private property.
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Reed Recovering
Via guardian.co.uk
Jun 3
Velvet Underground front man Lou Reed underwent a liver transplant in Cleveland last month, his wife, Laurie Anderson, revealed over the weekend. Reed, 71, “was dying,” she said, but after the life-saving procedure he’s back working.
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luciana achugar: Reclaiming Pleasure and Revealing Labor (Equality)
The Green Room
Jun 3
Uruguayan choreographer luciana achugar believes that dance has the power to do many things. She deliberately chooses to write her name without capital letters in a way to minimize hierarchy. Through her creations and the process of making each one, she deliberately instills philosophies in the dance’s structure and performance qualities to transmit her beliefs. […]
Uruguayan choreographer luciana…
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The Artist Constructs Himself
Verónica Gerber Bicecci
Jun 1
“The artist builds himself and unmakes himself piece by piece; he self-constructs, as if he were a wall where cement is always wet and bricks can be shifted.” Linking her studies with Abraham Cruzvillegas to her grandfather’s unfinished house, left behind when the family fled Argentina’s dictatorship, Verónica Gerber Bicecci muses on paradigms that allow us to “start anew, because nothing is finished.”
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“Note: Performance Contains Joyous Nudity”
The Green Room
May 31
The Walker Performing Arts department has long alerted audience members about adult content or atmospheric irritations like fog or strobe lights in shows it hosts. But in recent years, generic warnings have given way to more creative alerts that better reflect the spirit of each work. Michéle Steinwald discusses the writing process and shares how “joyous nudity” became a department catchphrase.
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How Not to Be Seen
Via rhizome.org
May 31
In her work in the Venice Biennale, Hito Steyerl offers a how-to video on being invisible in an age of image proliferation, with tactics from facepaint that makes one disappear on green-screen to boxes worn on the head to appear “smaller than the size of a pixel.”


