Drawn from their investigation of Allen Ginsberg’s poetry, 11 actors animate SFMOMA with a cycle of song, gesture, and movement that challenges the conventions of theater-based performance. Ginsberg’s words flow through blues, rock, pop, opera, and even punk idioms as the performers themselves flow through the audience. Coinciding with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Workcenter, [...]
Jill Magid At Berkeley Art Museum MATRIX
Jill Magid’s recent work explores the intersection of governmental power and current events. For MATRIX, Magid considers a shooting at the Texas State Capitol by Fausto Cardenas in relation to Goethe’s Faust, finding in the obvious but ultimately fruitful association similar tragic themes. By turning the gallery into a stage for the reading of Faust, [...]
Sante Fe Art Institute Presents Laurie Anderson
LAURIE ANDERSON COMES TO THE LENSIC, JUNE 8TH AND 9TH, 2009! The Santa Fe Art Institute is bringing Laurie Anderson, the internationally acclaimed performance artist and musician to Santa Fe to present Burning Leaves: A Retrospective of Song and Stories. Awarded the Gish Prize in 2007, Anderson was cited for her, “outstanding contribution to the [...]
