Category: performance
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Even though we balked at spending yet more time online, we ended up taking part in at least 43 art events, both in-person and virtually, in 2021. Here are the… more ›
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For the past few years I’ve tracked all the art events that my partner and I attend together. We are avid supporters of the arts. All of them. In 2020,… more ›
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We have been ardent supporters of the arts since our undergraduate days. Last year around this time, a colleague at TheaterJones wrote about seeing over 100 shows, mostly theater, I… more ›
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As many books about the subject can attest, performance art calls into question passed-down notions of identity and subjectivity. At one extreme, the art attempts to dislocate (if not outright… more ›
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“A figure dressed in white, walks along the white line in the middle of the highway. He becomes visible only when sporadically lit by the headlights of on-coming cars.” From… more ›
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It was years—decades even—from the time I first read Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot before seeing a production of it. In that time, and really since the beginning, I was fascinated with… more ›
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On a rain-splattered Saturday about sixty people made their way to an evening of avant-garde sound and performance art in Exposition Park, Dallas, in order to hear, among other things,… more ›
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Instead of a day without art, I’d like to celebrate two of my favorite artists: David Wojnarowicz and Ron Athey. Both unapologetically queer. Both HIV+. Both demonized by fascist right-wing… more ›
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In 1992, I bought David Wojnarowicz’s Memories That Smell Like Gasoline for $15—a hefty price at the time for someone so underemployed and lost in the world. Later, when I… more ›