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“NEA 4 in Residence” + “Performing Beyond Funding” @NewMuseum

from travis chamberlain: “I am very pleased to introduce the resident artists for “Performing Beyond Funding Limits: Research in Practice,” a companion project to “NEA 4 in Residence.” The PBFL residents are Tobaron Waxman, Salley May, Brigham Mosley, and Erin Markey. These artists will engage in a series of self-directed group research sessions under the collaborative mentorship of the NEA 4, et al. to develop radical “business plans” for better sustaining their own solo performance practices and to imagine new strategies beyond the limits of available funding. A series of Final Presentations on Saturday, May 5 (FREE) is preceded by a shared bill of new short performance works by these artists on Friday, May 4 at 7pm. 

The PBFL residents were chosen by the NEA 4 in collaboration four curators (selected by the NEA 4) who supported their work during the culture wars of the early ’90s. To follow this project and participate in the research, please join our community page at NEA 4 in Residence - New Museum.”

HOLLY HUGHES IN RESIDENCE: DISCIPLINE AND LEGACY IN QUEER PERFORMANCE

Holly Hughes quarries queer strategies for teaching queer performance and performing queer histories.

May 5 – Queer(ing) Performance Pedagogy: Roundtable with Holly Hughes

May 10 – Expanded forms of Reenactment in Queer Performance: Holly Hughes and Cindy Carr in Conversation

Go Wolverines!

I have alot of inner animals but b ball brings out the WOLVERINE. It’s nuts how excited I was about the game last night. I seriously considered face paint as an option. My inner wolverine is unleashed. I will return to being a normal human being in a day or two. 

Louisville was great. And we lost.

Paul Robeson

Happy birthday, Paul Robeson, a courageous American hero.

Animal Acts, Beasts of the Northern Wild

Tonight I’m performing in Ann Arbor for the first time in many many years - 6:30 at the Dude, as part of Animal Acts, Beasts of the Northern Wild… I’ll be sharing the stage with Kim Marra, Carmelita Tropicana and Joseph Keckler. 

I’m opening. I’m not an idiot, no way I could follow that lineup!!!!

Hosted by the amazing Amanda Krugliak!

at the Duderstadt Cente!

2281 Bonisteel Boulevard Ann Arbor, Michigan

I should just point out we SOLD OUT last night, not that it costs anything but we ran out of seating, even with the Film festival, Ken Burns, the Motorola Lecture, etc etc We have people from Ohio State, from Bowling Green, from MSU, and Indiana and the CUNY Grad center who came in for the festival! So come early, parking is tricky on North!

Complete schedule: http://art-design.umich.edu/news/beasts_of_the_northern_wild_performing_species_today/

Dog & Pony, coming to Oberlin! @oberlincollege 

7:30pm Warner Main Space. Bring your own pony…

Private versus public

Dear Cyber Public

A post I had intended for a private internet forum was reposted here yesterday.   I forget that I have this more public platform that anyone can see.     My friend who reposted the entry was just trying to provide a forum for how to teaching provocative material, but of course, some of my students saw this piece and were quite upset.

The original post was put into cyberspace in part to ask for help from other teachers who teach controversial material.    I didn’t feel like I handled the situation in class very well because I had gotten upset, I felt that I didn’t help the student gain a deeper understanding of the issue, I had shut them down.

In the other venue, a place that I police carefully to make sure that my students are never part of, I got lots of help about how to do a better job.    But things have been made much worse by this inadvertant (and misspelled) reposting.

I hope that all accept my apologies for a series of errors.   This is isn’t a forum I wish to use to talk about work issues of any complexity.    I love my students - that is not too large a claim - and hope that trust can be repaired.

Congrats C Carr

Congratulations to dear friend, Cynthia Carr, for getting a big mention in the NY Times - her latest “Fire In the Belly,” a biography of David Wojnarowicz, was listed as one of the top art books of the past year! It’s beautifully written, as all of Carr’s work is, and very compelling. So great to see someone who is such a brilliant writer, wonderful human but utterly unself-promoting, get some long overdue attention!

Maybe someone can lure me across the bridge with a cheeseburger?

Lilo, my younger, though not young dog, is prone to doggie stage fright, i.e, ‘ring nerves.’ Like mother, like daughter. and for months, her bete noire has been the weave poles.

As someone who suffers panic attacks, I can completely sympathize. I have terrible anxiety driving across bridges, for one. Like Lilo, when we approach the trigger of our anxiety, we slow down.

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Call me cranky, but…

So I just completed the most annoying, uninformative and unhelpful survey on sustainability imaginable.

I consider climate change one of the biggest challenges our planet faces but this was an idiotic survey designed by the type of environmentalists that make me want to buy the biggest truck, fill it with cheeseburgers and drive it across the country with the windows open and the AC raging.

If environmental concerns are ever going to be embraced by the country - if - a big if - they have to be expressed in ways that consider all the intersectional analysis of the past thirty years -

One question was about how often I bug my friends to bike or walk to work, buy a hybrid, get a more efficient appliance, attend an event called “Recycle Mania.”

And the answer is I have too few friends to further alienate them. And I have friends who have no money. I have disabled friends.

And Ann Arbor is full of self righteous people who are always offering unsolicited advice so someone else will do this.

I can just be the lesbian crank on the corner.

Horse Race Pt 2

I’m an undecided voter. Do I vote for guy who calls his opponent a bullshiter, or do I vote for guy who thinks 47 percent of the country are losers? It’s really tough…name calling or writing off half the country? What about rape, am I pro or con? Hmmm.