Multimedia artist Luca Berkley (AKA Jack Lope, Jenn Deere, and Piper Pelligrini) critiques narratives surrounding white American ranching through cheeky yet reverent performance, online as well as on stage. The post Obsession: Luca Berkley appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
Artist Taylor Engel’s varied and chaotic artworks envelop viewers in a shared experience of all-consuming obsession, codependency, and repetition. The post Obsession: Taylor Engel appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
In Step After Step at Kimball Art Center, artists leave their studios behind to claim the moving body as a revolutionary artistic method. The post To Affect Social Change, These Artists Put One Foot in Front of the Other appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
★★★★☆ Timestamp is a part-theremin, part-dance exploration of womanhood, expectation, and time. Brought to the Edinburgh Fringe after a successful run in New York City by Emilee Lord and Karen Cecilia, it unpacks, in an hour, the ways in which the performers have dealt with being held to certain standards in their own lives, and […] The post ‘Timestamp’ at the Fringe: Existing in the ‘now’ appeared first on Cherwell.| Cherwell
Timestamp, by Emilee Lord and Karen Cecilia, is a part-theremin, part-dance exploration of womanhood, expectation, and time.| Cherwell
The DC Jazz Festival, DC JazzFest for short, has been a District-wide happening from the get-go. Musicians performed at 18 venues during the inaugural| The Georgetowner
Jasmina Tumbas, I am Jugoslovenka! Feminist performance politics during and after Yugoslav Socialism (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022), 344 pp. Reading the first chapter of Jasmina Tumbas’ publication I am Jugoslovenka! made me smile and think of my mother. The author cites Bojana Pejić talking about wearing original Levi’s jeans. My mother grew up in socialist—explicitly not communist—Poland, and moved to the Netherlands in the 1980s, when she was in her twenties. When...| ARTMargins
As Michelle Henning points out in her book Photography: The Unfettered Image (2018), “from its inception, photography was a means to set images free, to allow them to go traveling, to transfer, to be projected, translated, fragmented, reconstituted and reversed, to be reimagined and re-embodied.”(Michelle Henning, Photography: The Unfettered Image (New York: Routledge, 2018), p. xi.) How does this perspective contribute to understanding the medium beyond its treatment in art museums, whic...| ARTMargins