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Contemporary Performance TXTS - Evan Johnson
My name is Evan Johnson I am the co-founder of 1 1 11 Art Group and I am currently living in San Francisco,…
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"Contemporary Performance TXTS - gruppo nanou
gruppo nanou: was born in Ravenna on July 2004, as the place of comparison and improvement of skills, research interests and activities of an artists group. The participation at the final night of Premio Scenario (2003) sets the artistic association among the group’s founder elements Marco Valerio Amico, Rhuena Bracci, Roberto Rettura.
gruppo nanou tackles, through the sharing of its features,…
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Contemporary Performance TXTS - Philip Fryer
I am a performance and installation artist currently living and working in Boston Massachusetts (soon to be Portland, Oregon). I work primarily in live performance work and have been moving towards incorporating sound in recent months. My work is focused and meditative and tends to have only a few…
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Contemporary Performance TXTS - L. Gabrielle Penabaz
L. Gabrielle Penabaz
NYC interdisciplinary artist – writer/filmmaker/performer
I call my latest work “cinematic theatre” because the live action is goaded by the films. It isn't theatre with added video. My performative concerns are to touch the audience emotionally or intellectually, often with humor, and underline it with haunting imagery. Video allows the work to be "bigger" and add actors who couldn't otherwise be at the venue.
I prepare for the live shows…
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Contemporary Performance TXTS-Martine Viale
I am a Montreal based performance artist. Pursuing a reflection on the sense of time and on presence as a place of commitment, I create mainly durational works, which establish liminal zones between inside and outside, directing attention to the space "in between things". I have been actively presenting my work internationaly in the context of galleries, site-specific works as well as performance art festivals since 2001. …
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Contemporary Performance TXTS - Sophia Ribeiro
Sophia Ribeiro is a Swiss - Portuguese dancer-performer, researcher with Brazillian roots. Graduated in 2007 from Laban, London, with a BA(Hons) Dance Theatre.
In 2009 has worked with Pichet Klunchun and Lisa Nelson during, Island No.8 Muses.Masters.Monsters Festival, Tanzquartier Vienna, directed by Mathilde…
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Contemporary Performance TXTS –Tiger and Bear
Write a very brief introduction to you and your work (i.e. where are you from, what kind of media do you work in, what are some of your performative concerns)
British artists James Topple (AKA Tiger) and Colin Riddle (Bear) have been living and working in South Korea since 2008.
Their collaborations began in 2005 with a project centering on a conceptual art character by the Name of Das…
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Contemporary Performance TXTS - Sven Goyvaerts
1) "... where are you from, what kind of media do you work in, what are some of your performative concerns ..."
Sven Goyvaerts (°1984, Antwerp) graduated as a documentary filmmaker and has written a paper on how to document a piece of live performance art, focusing on the work of the artist Marina Abramović. His final documentary project about her work evolved into an installation,…
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Contemporary Performance TXTS - Claudia Escobar
claudia escobar
claudia escobar is a colombian artist currently living in melbourne, australia. escobar's artwork has been internationally catalogued as effective and deeply provocative. she has devised and directed performances, theatre works, film and visual arts projects with…
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Contemporary Performance TXTS - Ben Spatz
I am a practitioner-researcher of embodied performance working at the intersection of song, action, and poetry. My work is entirely body-based and does not depend on any technologies or specific locations. The primary goal of my work is to develop technique in specific areas of embodiment that could be useful not only to performers but also to others who care about individual and group exploration through structured…
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Contemporary Performance TXTS - Sandrine Schaefer
"Lean" from "Adventures in Being (small)" series, 2010
I am a Boston-based Artist, Writer,…
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Contemporary Performance TXTS - Genevieve Belleveau
Genevieve Belleveau (b. Bemidji, MN USA ) currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. She studied visual art, voice and theatre at Bennington College. She explores self…
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Contemporary Performance TXTS - Margaret Dragu
1. I work in performance art, video, installation, and both web-based and printed book publication.
2. My performances span relational, durational, interventionist and community-based practices. I work in galleries, on the street, on the web, in site-specific locations. I started as a dancer/choreographer working in discipline of contemporary dance and showing in theatres as well as in discipline of burlesque and working in nightclubs. Movement and the body (still) inform my work. I…
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Marine Biton Chrysostome a imaginé une première forme des Débordements de Roussalka O la Fuente Gloriosa Nueva en janvier 2008 à Toulouse, au cours d’un workshop avec Rodrigo Garcia. Pour El Silencio, la comédienne, munie de son accordéon, explore le rapport entre corps et image, intérieur et extérieur. Dans le silence,…
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Contemporary Performance TXTS - Daniel Landau
i live in Tel Aviv [Israel] - where i create performance and film work. i'm interested in the convergence of documentary and fiction and use various media to explore their interchangeable qualities.
I've been developing in the past years a performance platform that enables me to create work fusing cinematic and stage techniques.
The One Dimensional Man Project is an innovative research & performance platform conceived and directed by…
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Year of the Rabbit - With a Juniper
This Juniper grows on Harakka island, south of Helsinki. I am the person standing next to the bush, an artist, researcher and a pedagogue living and working in Helsinki Finland. My artwork since 2000 is mainly concerned with performing landscape by means of video or recorded voice. I used to work with text twenty…
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Contemporary Performance TXTS - Jeanine Oleson
A performance concerning language and communication based on the confluence of nature and culture with singing, physical interaction and tragicomedy. This is a 7 minute excerpt of a 30 minute performance at X-Initiative, January 14, 2010.
This transcript was compiled as a means of representing a dense collage of texts, but in no way replaces the physical nature of the work. In fact, that's what…
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Contemporary Performance TXTS - X_STREET [AUDIOBOOK] by réaltympanica
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