Blog Salon #3 – Malfunctions and Degenerations: an interview with Sarlar. By Praba Pilar.
Pilar: Thank you for taking the time off from touring The Cyborg Soap Opera for this interview. I am often asked about your genesis. How did you come to be? Sarlar: What a question! You created me! I should be asking you, why on earth did you feel I,…
Blog Salon #3 – JOIN THE QUEER MILITIA by Mona G Hawd
That spoiled brat Maryam. She feels like collapsing all the time. Things happen around her that make her want to escape into herself and into some other dimension. Collapse is not an option though right now people. So, I have some questions that you can ask yourself, as you…
Blog Salon #3 “Extremely Basic” by Jefferson Pinder
Salty South Carolina coast Sand everywhere. In the grass, in my clothes, in my boots, in my nose, in my food. Steamy, wet hot days of experience and agony. You can smell the tropics in the air. Trying to understand what brought me to this small East Coast Island. It’s…
Blog Salon #3 “Fail or Fall” by Jai Arun Ravine
“Because the queer art of failure is so hot right now” was the tagline to Manish Vaidya’s EPIC FAIL birthday party, which I epically failed to attend. Chicken Run is cute and all, but what’s the T about Jack Halberstam’s book? All of a sudden everyone’s fetishizing failure. (Wow, you…
Blog Salon #3: On Collectivity and Collapse
Intoduction The Prompt Entries Contributing Artists Outro/Summary Intoduction In 1967, amidst uprisings by the globally dispossessed, Barthes proposed the Death of the Author, and creators have since been playing with radical ejection from and ambiguous presence within new work. The notion of collective collapse in performance is another utterance in this…
SF choreographer Jesse Hewit interviews Headlands Center for the Arts resident alumni Melinda Ring about Mouse Auditions.
About Melinda Ring. Melinda’s work is informed as much by the concerns of experimental film, visual art, and theater, as developments in new dance. She is more interested in questioning why and how to make dances than resolving the answer, she’s produced works with titles like Impossible Dance, Hmmm……
Workshop: Life, Art & Choreography with Liz Boubion
Life, Art & Choreography with Liz Boubion An Interdisciplinary Day-Long Workshop blending the Halprin Life-Art Process and movement composition. Saturday July 7th, 10am-4pm - $50 To Register visit the eventbrite page. THEOFFCENTER [**]! SPACE 848 Divisadero Street San Francisco, CA 94117 If your body could speak, what would it say? Step into a deeply rooted…
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