Belgian Artist Francis Alys on Fox News

GUEST BLOGGER: Filip Gilissen, PERFORMA

This broadcast includes footage of ‘Nightwatch’ at the National Portrait Gallery, “Guards” performed in London and a performance called ‘Railing’ also performed in London.

Posted by PERFORMA | Monday, July 30th, 2007 | 0 comments

Marcel Duchamp’s birthday

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Following I AM 120 (Marcel Duchamp’s birthday) hosted by Will Holder to close Alex Waterman’s AGAP?? AGAPE series at Miguel Abreu Gallery.

Posted by Defne | Friday, July 27th, 2007 | 0 comments

scratches, riffs, music.

GUEST BLOGGER: Filip Gilissen, PERFORMA

Scratch a record and you’re talking hip-hop. Or you’re talking Christian Marclay. Marclay, a visual artist and composer, has been repurposing vinyl and turntables since disco days.

He was in the news recently because his 1995 film Telephones, uh, let’s say inspired Apple’s ad for the new iPhone — in both cases, it’s a montage of actors answering the phone. Telephones is not in the public domain, but you can see a bit of it in this mini-docu on Marclay.

Listen to excerpst of his compositions on Itunes.

Posted by PERFORMA | Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 | 1 comments

Protected: Documentation of an event that may or may not occur

Posted by Guest Blogger | Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 | 0 comments

PrizeWriter blog kicks up with Jesus Beltran Interview

GUEST BLOGGER: Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud, PERFORMA
PrizeWriter: Today’s Words with Tomorrow’s Heavyweights, is a new interview-based blog. PrizeWriter features conversations with dynamic filmmakers, artists, and writers, with a predilection for those who showcase the flair and rich inner lives of struggling/working-class folks worldwide.

This Independence Day launch features an in-depth conversation with Jesus Beltran, whose first short film, The Grass Grows Green, was an Official Selection at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
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Posted by Guest Blogger | Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 | 0 comments

PICA’s TBA Festival announces artists

GUEST BLOGGER: Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud, PERFORMA
PICA in Portland, Oregon announces its lineup of artists for its upcoming Time-Based Arts Festival, September 6-16th:

10 Tiny Dances, Aki Onda/Kanta Hiro/Fuyuki Yamakawa/Atsuhiro Ito, Andrew Dickson, Anna Oxygen/Cloud-Eye Coordination, Arnold Joseph Kemp, BARR aka Brendan Fowler, Cartune Xprez, Charlotte Vanden Eynde, Claude Wampler, Cristi??n Silva, Donna Uchizono Company, Elevator Repair Service, Fred Frith/Zeena Perkins/Ikue Mori, Gary Wiseman, Greasy Kid Stuff, Guido van der Werve, Haircuts by Children, Hand2Mouth Theatre, Holcombe Waller, Ina Archer, Kassys, Larry Bamburg, Larry Krone, Las Chicas del 3.5 Floppies, Liz Haley, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Marko Lulic, Melia Donovan, Mirah/Spectratone International, Nature Theater of Oklahoma, Peter Kreider, Regina Silveira, Rinde Eckert, Ryan W. Paulson, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Sincerely, John Head, Taylor Mac, tEEth, URBANHONKING, Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, YACHT, Zoe Scofield & Juniper Shuey,

Posted by Guest Blogger | Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 | 0 comments

From Vito Acconci to Zubi Zuva, Ubu.com ? A great find!

GUEST BLOGGER: Filip Gilissen, PERFORMA

UbuWeb is a completely independent and free audio & visual resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts. This gorgeous online archive serves an impressing large collection, of rare and out-of-print film, video and mp3.

Included categories are Dadaism, Futurism, early 20th century experiments, musique concrete, electronic music, Fluxus, Beat sound works, minimalist and process works, performance art, plunderphonics and sampling, and digital glitch works, to name just a few. All artists are listed alphabetically instead of categorically.

Posted by Guest Blogger | Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 | 0 comments

Edward Yang RIP

Edward Yang, one of Taiwan’s greatest filmmakers, passed away last week at the age of 59.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Manohla Dargis, and Godfrey Cheshire have all written pieces memorializing this wonderful director, whose films were unfortunately seldom screened in the United States.

A fitting eulogy from the final scene of his last and best known film, YI YI (2000):

Posted by Lana | Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 | 0 comments