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Audition Info for Performance Art SHowcase in Las Vegas

MarcoPolo — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:28:23 GMT

Hi everyone!

Thought you might be interested in this audition info. 10MINUTEMAX will be presented on March 24th in the Aruba Hotel in Vegas. Visit www.dreamcityvegas.com for the flyer. Also feel free to pass this information along to any people in your performance community who may be interested. Thanks!

This showcase is shaping up nicely, already I have many great artists partaking, and the auditions are sure to uncover even more amazing talent. The event will be widely attended and I am inviting media and agencies. I hope you can be part of it! Let me know if you have any questions.

Sincerely,
Marco

Marco Landin Variety Entertainment ----> www.marcolandin.com
Dream City Presents -------------------------> www.dreamcityvegas.com

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Become a part of "bAbeL - art project"

seipone — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:08:27 GMT

Dear brothers and sisters,

i study art therapy in Germany and work on the arty part of my diploma at the moment - and i invite you to support my work “ babel“!
Babel is about the try to cancel the moment of disintegration, it is about identity, community,structure and the basic needs of human beings and it is about you as well, when you join this project;
Please send me one article of your clothing, which you don`t need
anymore (it doesn`t matter if there is a mark on it, a cut in it, the
zipper is not working anymore etc.) and a word (in your language, a
word, which you like, which you don`t like, which you use often or
never, it can be a name, too) to this adress :

Sandra Becker
Hunscheidtstraße 162
44789 Bochum
Germany

in case you like to send me more material - like little messages,
infomation about you, your life, your country,the article of clothing
( maybe there is a story about it - you never liked to wear it, it was
a gift, you wore it in an important moment) - i will be pleased about
it.
my plan is to put all together in a new way - so that there will be one dress and one poem at the end for one performance/ film/installation, but it is not clear how it will be exactly - at least the most important thing depends on you. maybe the dress and the poem will go on a journey again, maybe they will come back to you, maybe you get a message from them, maybe you won´t see them again, maybe....the ideas become more and more with every package i get from you what ever will happen - i let you know. and be sure; whenever you give something - you get something.
the artwork will be shown at the diploma exhibition of the FH Ottersberg (Germany) on march 21th 2008.
you will find a documentation on my tribe-blog.

i hope that it will be possible to support me,
looking forward to get a message from you,

Become a part of babel !
sandruschka

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destruction in art

Iu-Hui — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:10:17 GMT

having a debate with a friend and thought we'd post it for all y'alls to see what other people think.

if art is defined through creation, wherein lies the role of destruction in the process? can an act of destruction ever be construed as "art", since we cannot have creation without destruction? does the intention of creation vs. the product of creation make something "art"? for example, if in destroying an object one creates an empty space of potential (and that is the intention), is that considered an act of art or just an act of violence? hmmm...whatcha thinking?

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public improv on the streets of los angeles....

mishek — Tue, 15 May 2007 12:45:02 GMT

hello, i am experimenting with public improv, would be interested to meet up with other improvisers in the los angeles area while i am in town for the week,
here is the project i am working on, either come and join in or let's just meet and talk sometime.....

Improvising Democracy

Finding a Voice....
Listening to the Body, Re-inventing Public Space.

There are times when what needs to be spoken cannot be done with words. Finding a voice is a process...meanwhile we do have these bodies that often speak for us...
Call it body language or maybe, "starting a movement", there's an immediate ability through movement to communicate with and even change our surroundings, our worlds...
Whether or not you're an improviser, artist or some kind of social creative, you're invited to this series of investigations and experiments in how we communicate, move in and otherwise use Public Space....

Downtown Los Angeles will be the place, during the week of 21st May, for some research and re-discovery of space, place and maybe, the democratic muse?
We start with a warm up and then simply build with whatever improvisational movement/dance and other inspirations come to us (maybe sound, text, theatre...interaction with other creative citizen passers-by?) in a re-creation of public space in the City.
Our first public space exploration begins 4pm, Monday the 21st of May in front of City Hall (W. Temple and Nth Spring st. end of the building). Follow up events/actions/performances will be arranged and announced during the week as we continue to develop our ideas.
If you have some thoughts about public improvisation that you'd like to propose or collaborate in some other way, please contact me at mishek@gmail.com. For those interested some studio time and space can also hopefully be arranged to explore our group collaborations and ideas in a more contained venue.
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Room to Move and Play....

How and where do we make room for who and what we need to be in this world? How do we create Space for ourselves? Places to be heard? Places we might claim for a time? Space to take action? What is within our power to change? Where should we be drawing the line between Public and Personal?
How conscious (and unconscious) are we of the public spaces that we continually pass through each and every day of our lives? Are they simply thoroughfares, or the potential for much more?
What's the purpose of a public square, a park, a lobby, foyer, atrium or other gathering place if we do not only gather, but do not SEE each other? If we are not using the space to it's full potential to bring out our social imagination, to 'speak what is important' to us...to re-create ourselves and expand the potential of the social mind?
It's time to re-imagine the use of Public Space.
....It may begin with a movement, some physical contact, a sound, maybe vocal expression, maybe a conversation or dialogue...
....we move, change and evolve the space as we are moved and others move us...

Michael Dobbie, May 2nd.

PS: You can also ask me for a few pictures of recent actions and experiments in London and Berlin.

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Blasphemy Ball - Saturday March 10th!

Stacy — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:41:35 GMT

Final countdown for Blasphemy Ball on Saturday, March 10th!

Website: http://www.blasphemyball.com

Toast your toes at Dante's inferno - SW 3rd & Burnside, Portland
Dress yourself in perversion of faith!
$8 with costume, $10 without!
Doors at 9pm

Featuring not-for-the-faint-of-heart performances from PURE Cirkus (seattle's famous Modern Cirkus - purecirkus.com), the stunning Domina Betka Schpitz (dangerousfemme.com) and her wicked lovelies staffing the confessional, and DJ's Horrid, ChaotiQueer and Sine Qua Non.

The Blasphemy Ball is big EFF YOU to zealoutry, bigotry and oppression. One big night of heresy and hedonism. One night of focused, therapeutic rebellion. Nothing is sacred at the Blasphemy Ball. Shake your fist at whatever you believe. Shake your fist at whatever you don't. We're shaking ours and we want you with us.

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KLab9 Call for Contributions

synnovemathe — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:22:58 GMT

KLab9 Call for Contributions
From KnowledgeLab
KLab9:Art - Technology, Authorship and Ways of Living
A weekend gathering for collaborative and creative reflection. 5th - 7th October, 2007 tbc.
Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University, North West England.

INTRODUCTION

The Knowledge Lab is an attempt to provide a collective space for anti-capitalist reflection. It is located at the margin of the university, an institution essentially geared towards the production of knowledge as a resource for corporate interest and as justification for particular constellations of power relations.
This knowledge lab will address art and ways of critically thinking about our world. Within this broad region of enquiry, the lab will encompass notions of life and art as a political commitment, the influence art can exert in politics and how political ideas in turn influence art. It will also address new ways of making art and how this relates to technologies and social changes, and the use of art as an anti-capitalist means to change and fight the system.

We hope that the knowledge lab will not merely address, but also show that art can initiate critical thinking in the various guises outlined above. Our expectations, in terms of the event, and its outcome, are that this be a sharing of creative ideas and ideas about creativity. We hope that it will draw together people with a common interest in art and alternative ways of living, but working in different fields. From this collective thinking we hope that people will be incited to realize, or make manifest, some of these ways of living and thinking creatively when they leave: We will learn from each other.

STREAMS

Like previous knowledge labs the day will be divided into four streams, each will take place in a separate room.

STREAM 1: TECHNOLOGY Free software, art spaces and interfaces, hardware, DIY and recycling/reusing.

STREAM 2: WAYS OF LIVING This stream concerns process, moment and performance. It is the political stream where we will consider primarily imaginative resistance and artivism, but also touch on debates surrounding gender issues, community and cultural production, and personal/political. We hope to see papers touching on initiatives in direct democracy; the art of changing that system, and the paradigms of inspiration. We would like to discuss how artivism will change society, possibles networks of artivists, ways of action.

STREAM 3: AUTHORSHIP Copy rights, ownership, patenting, and appropriation. (Creative commons, Copyleft,...)

STREAM 4: THE ART MARKET (new ways of) curating, spaces (physical and virtual) to show art, ways of making money: Marketing, the means of production, market forces and anti-market forces, the art market, and art and ethics.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Each day will be split into two parts. On Saturday and Sunday morning papers will be presented in each of the four streams, each lasting 20-30 minutes. Papers will be followed by a brief question period of 10-15 minutes. The afternoon will be divided into discussion periods in each of the four streams. During the weekend there will also be a separate space for workshops and performances.
There are therefore a variety of ways to contribute to the weekend. See below for details:

ACADEMIC PAPERS

The list of streams is not prescriptive, it simply outlines some of the issues we envisage arising given the general themes.

Please also send papers on other themes, these will be gratefully considered.

Submit an abstract of no more than 500 words. In addition please enclose a brief biography. Try to make this, along with your paper, as accessible as possible.

FACILITATED DISCUSSIONS (INVOLVEMENT AND SKILLS SHARING)

If you have an idea for one of the afternoon discussion topics that links in with one of the four streams then send in a your idea and think about one of the two types of involvement below:

If you'd like to take a more pro-active role during the conference, you might want to ADOPT a session - that is, prepare it in advance (suggest questions, main issues, reading material etc and propose the length of the session), arrive prepared for discussion themselves, attend it, and participate passionately in the debates.

We also need people to FACILITATE sessions - ideally a session should NOT be adopted and facilitated by the same person(s). Consider that facilitators are usually best if experienced in their task. Any which way, please get in touch.

== WORKSHOPS, ARTWORKS, AND PERFORMANCES ==

These will broadly tie in with one of the four streams above. Send a proposal [Max: A single side of A4], elaborate on: What your contribution will be e.g. a workshop, a performance, an artwork. How long you envisage it taking. Do you need any equipment or materials? Do you want to limit the number of participants? If so, how many? What do you hope will be born out of this? How do you propose to arrive at this end?

SATURDAY EVENING

DJ and VJ session: Call for DJs and VJs to send in samples so they might come and contribute to an evening of art in many guises. As well as other music, visual, perfomance, etc artist and Artivist.
Nb. Groups are welcome to contribute workshops, materials for display and/or distribution.

INFORMATION

Anybody is welcome to attend the weekend, get involved in the discussions, and take part in the workshops. HOWEVER, YOU NEED TO REGISTER TO ATTEND AS THE EVENT IS LIMITED TO 100 PEOPLE, SO PLEASE GET IN TOUCH: klab9art@googlemail.com

DEADLINE FOR ALL PROPOSALS May 1st 2007

CONTACT klab9art@googlemail.com
Amy, Ana and Synnove

COSTS AND PRACTICALITIES

Unwaged persons: free Unfunded students/low-paid persons: donation Funded students/Lancaster university staff: £20 Academics/waged persons: £65 This contribution is for the whole weekend and includes Friday and Saturday dinner, Saturday and Sunday breakfast and lunch. All food will be vegan and predominantly organic.

ACCOMODATION

Shared accommodation is available on the floor of the very spacious and friendly Quakers' Meeting House, it is free, but please bring sleeping bag and mat. Get in touch if you have any special requirements, and again, please let us know in advance if you're bringing a child.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Visit respectively the respective sites for the previous knowledgelabs:
http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/FirstKnowledgeLab
http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/SecondKnowledgeLab
http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/ThirdKnowledgeLab

About Klab9:Art
http://knowledgelab.org.uk/wiki/KLab9

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Blasphemy Ball - Saturday March 10th w/ PURE Cirkus!

Stacy — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:39:56 GMT

(x-posted to appropriate communities)

Save the date, you heretics and heathens!

Feats of fire and fetish await you at the Blasphemy Ball on Saturday, March 10th!
Website: http://www.blasphemyball.com
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/blasphemyball
Tribe: http://tribes.tribe.net/blasphemyball
Toast your toes at Dante's inferno - SW 3rd & Burnside, Portland OR
Dress yourself in perversion of faith!
$8 with costume, $10 without!
Doors @ 9pm

We've booked PURE Cirkus - http://www.purecirkus.com who will be providing us with a 45 minute show full of fire spinning, sending up sparks with their grinder suits and creeping us out in the most delightful ways with suspension piercing!

The Blasphemy Ball is big EFF YOU to zealoutry, bigotry and oppression. One big night of heresy and hedonism. One night of focused, therapeutic rebellion. Nothing is sacred at the Blasphemy Ball. Shake your fist at whatever you believe. Shake your fist at whatever you don't. We're shaking ours and we want you with us.

DJs Horrid and Sine Qua Non will be spinning dark beats to keep us dancing.

Drop by the confessional to dish to the delectable Domina Betka Schpitz and, if you're lucky, she'll dish out some pleasurable , or painful, or both - penance! ;)

We'll have Tarot, Palm reading and more!

PURE Cirkus will also be performing at the Vampire Ball on the 24th of March! So you get a chance to see them twice!

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Blasphemy Ball seeks performance artists

Stacy — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:40:57 GMT

Hi there! This seems like an incredily appropriate place to post this. ;)

We're throwing the Blasphemy Ball ( http://www.blasphemyball.com ) on March 10th, and we're looking for fire dancers, fetish performers (suspension/piercing), aerial artists and themed performance artists for the evening's festivities. This will be paid. (not super WELL, but -- y'know..)

The event will be at Dante's! Please email me at stacy (at) stacybias (dawt) net if you're interested!

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freedom...what is it and how do we get it?

Iu-Hui — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:03:48 GMT

hey, doing a project related to freedom, and need responses for the text. anyone who can answer the following questions and is willing to have them used in a performance would be appreciated!

if you feel that you are not free, what are you unwilling to let go off to obtain your freedom?

if you feel free, what have you had to let go of to obtain your freedom?

uh, if you want to express your definition of freedom for yourself, that would be gr8 too.

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What is Live Art?

llewyn — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 19:11:27 GMT

In many movements throughout Europe and Asia, Performance Art became viewed as a genre that has become to tightly defined and rigid... Hence a new concept was needed to challenge the safe boxes of the art world...

I prefer to discus making actions, rather than performances, as it deconstructs the assumptive role of an "audience" and fundamentalizes the work in a way that we can discuss the performative aspect of all the work in ones life without limiting performative acts to performances...

To me, Live Art is the art of action. For me this includes all that I do, specifically gung fu and medicinal practice, movement, organizing, install-actions, cooking and presenting food, explorations in sound and image...

I established this tribe to see if anyone else in this US-based networking site is on the same page (or at least a similar tome).

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Tribe.net Discount for "Last Waltz" - LA Weekly Performance Pick of the Week - Ends Tomorrow!

msakamoto — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 18:15:00 GMT

Hi, just letting you all know that our performance art play, "Last Waltz," is the LA Weekly Performance Pick of the Week. It's a darkly comic love story set in Purgatory and on Earth with a photo-obsessed priest, Betty Crocker-like comfort women, jaded gods, a schizophrenic angel, pop art soldiers and more. Our group's been around for years and has presented works in Mexico, France, Germany, and throughout the USA.

Our run ends tomorow, February 5. If you reserve seats or show up at the box office and mention you heard about the show through Tribe.net, you get the group discount price of $12 per ticket! You can check out the info at www.empireofteeth.org. Reserve seats via email (empire@empireofteeth.org) or phone (310-392-9396).

Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

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new theatre group in L.A.

JoeBorfo — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:08:32 GMT

We are a new theatre group based in Los Angeles.

Our Mission: To develop a dynamic & provocative space where energies come together to create theatre.

Our Vision: TBA

Membership: We believe that anyone who is passionate about doing theatre in an ensemble should be able to join and can remain a member if she or he has; a. Introduced themselves on the message list, b. Met with us (see Calendar for meetings), and c. Put in their share of effort to achieve our goals.

We request that we all express ideas freely while respecting each other in this forum. We request that you contribute by always pursuing your passion

Join at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boardsnpassion/

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LANGUAGE OF DESTRUKTION tomorrow 11/26: Cliche Au Lait, Kiss the Goat, Nequaquam Vacuum, etc.

Noah — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 05:29:29 GMT

http://www.2gyrlz.org/calendar/ELfest05/26NOV.htm

Tomorrow night, Saturday the 26th, is The Language of Destruktion, with The Red King, Nequaquam Vacuum, Synchronicity Frequency, Cliche Au Lait, Hail and Kiss the Goat, Sati Fyre, The TV Smasher, and The Blender of Death.

Nequaquam Vacuum, playing our last Portland show for a few months, invites all attendees to bring along any items you might like to have destroyed in a musical/performance context. Anything at all, so long as you don't need us to get it back to you. Just bring your destroyables along to the show and hand them over to a member of the NV crew, and we guarantee their absolute destruction during our closing set.

Saturday 26 November
Language of Destruktion
Sabala's 4811 SE Hawthorne

Show @ 9 pm
$5 - $15 | Full Bar 21+
Mobility Device Accessible

Indeed.

In this, the penultimate evening of the Fourth Annual EnterActive Language Festival; an avenging mob of musicians, performance artists, and mechanical engineers let slip their long-suppressed nihilist urges in an explosive evening of harrowing destruction. Those of you who have pondered the deeper meaning of "EnterActive" are well-advised to attend. And to bring goggles, as there may be a bit of a mess.
FEATURING Music By:
THE RED KING, NEQUAQUAM VACUUM, and SYNCHRONICITY FREQUENCY
Performances By:
MICAH PERRY, HAIL & KISS THE GOAT, and SATI FIRE
And Engines of Destruction:
ALEX LILY'S TV SMASHER
and JONAS NASH'S BLENDER OF DEATH

The Red King is the neo-classical/black metal performance project of Johann Cleereman, also known for his participation in the highly mysterious nomadic clan Corpus Corax. The Red King combines a composer's musical precision with a deep ritual commitment to his alchemic stage process, which often leads to acts of self-mutilation and the consumption of dangerous chemicals during the course of performing his soul-bearing song cycles. My friend Scott drank a goblet of his blood once, and he couldn't stand or speak for about sixteen hours.
Nequaquam Vacuum is a free post-asiatic ensemble who usually build instruments out of scrap metal and found objects. I say "usually" because tonight they will instead be destroying scrap metal and found objects, but still musically. The Vacuum is elated to have founding member Tyler Armstrong back in the fold, having performed their last few shows with the Golden Age trio of Armstrong/McAlister/Mickens as well as members of the rotating cast who have played with the latter two since the literal disappearance of the former (it turned out he was in Turkey). Tonight's guests include Nolon Ashley, Rale Sidebottom, and multi-instrumentalist "Infamous Dangerous Psychopath".
Synchronicity Frequency is the industrial solo effort of Ryan Olsen, who this evening will be creatively DJ-ing the heaviest of metal.
CLICHE AU LAIT (PDX) is a performance Art group operated by JO CASE AND Micah Perry. Since its inception in 2000. One of their intentions is to allow viewers a transcendent experience with art not signified by static objects alone. CLICHE AU LAIT offers opportunities to intervene, predict, or participate. The resulting cooperative creation process affords participants entrance into the actual realm of the art, RATHER THAN OBSERVING SOMEONE ELSES EXPERIENCE OF ART.
Hail and Kiss the Goat present: War Pigs, excerpts from an unfinished musical.
Hail and Kiss the Goat is at the cross roads of Butoh, German industrial improv, Heavy Metal and political satire.
Short and sweet, this performance version of War Pigs is as poignant as the day Black Sabbath penned it.
Sati Fire are a ritual dance troupe headed by Tamara Yeskel and Zenia Brar, who have performed together since 2002 as part of the Pan-Zen Konspiracy Nettwyrk.
Alex Lily's TV Smasher is a large and dangerous machine designed to destroy television sets.
Jonas Nash's Blender of Death is an immense and even-more-dangerous machine built from lawnmower blades and a Volkswagen engine, dedicated to the destruction of works of art.
Ka-Boom, y'all.
5000. - N.

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So much time, so little art...

llewyn — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 07:52:33 GMT

Seems like the only time I have to post is when my head is full of Beaujolais...

Probably a similar issue for others...

However, my head is indeed occasionally full ov such red.. how about ya'll...? We are all very busy, and yet... a good discussion (even a digital one) can be quite invigorating...

So, let's get it on... what do you think about live art!?!?!?!?

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Pure Natural State

Enrique — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 21:30:24 GMT

"Live art" or rather the concept of
creating happenings, fantastical realities,
surREAL mirages, the act of creating an event
and not symbolically recreating events, has
been a reacurring internal dialogue for me for a
while now. It will be nice to discuss it with
others.
I think it's an idea beyond fad or fashion. For
me it's the idea of tapping, rather
relinquishing to one's pure natural state. A
great way to develop one's intuition, to live a
more progressive, magical and potent existence.
Thanks for asking!
YIX

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a key Live Art link/list

llewyn — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 18:36:02 GMT

Fado http://www.performanceart.ca/

Fado has an announcement list that is key to international performance festivals... a must for anyone who wants to make work around the world, and tap into some brilliant networks

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