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Performance art as minor act of resistance to the State. A new wrinkle on performance and everyday life: performing the everyday life of a performer as “not not” a performer! Resist! courageous puffers!
From an AP story titled “If only actors can smoke, everyone’s a star: Bar customers thwart Minnesota law with costumes, funny accents”
A new state ban on smoking in restaurants and other nightspots contains an exception for performers in theatrical productions. So some bars are getting around the ban by printing up playbills, encouraging customers to come in costume, and pronouncing them “actors.”
The customers are playing right along, merrily puffing away — and sometimes speaking in funny accents and doing a little improvisation, too.
read full article here.
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The Life and Times of King Kong
Wednesday, October 31 through Saturday, November 3 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, November 4 at 2:30 pm
Conceived and directed by Tracy Stephenson Shaffer
The HopKins Black Box theatre at Louisiana State University continues its 2007-2008 season with Dr. Tracy Stephenson Shaffer’s The Life and Times of King Kong. Opening on Halloween night, […]
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See Elizabeth at Dixon Place
in NYC on November 1st!
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read his “Forgetting the Summer of Love.“
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Call for lyrics (CFL): Hedrick and LeVan have been scouring their spam mail for inspirational song titles for upcoming Beefle projects. Please submit lyrics for the following songs:
Lesbian Assessment Data
Better World Theory
Confirmation Bear
Betsy Ross Book Drive
Mutant Flight
Oops Menu
Yo Shoes!
Zombie Board Packet
Sarcasm Bookings
The Theremin Agenda
Loretta Tease
My Gender Absence
Bimonthly Harrowing
Lump Sum Report Card
Gloominess Library
Second Largest City […]
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Jerzey sent this from Rekombinant.org. They claim they don’t need communication, they need creation. Methinks they are trafficking in false dichotomies: Communication is creation.
Ten Theses on Non-Democratic Electronics
Organized Networks Updated
By Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter
Welcome to the politics of diversion. There is a growing paradox
between the real existing looseness, the ‘tyranny of
structurelessness’ on the […]
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For some time now, Jonathan Lethem has been fostering his “promiscuous materials project” in which he makes available several of his writings for creative adaptation. He has several stories that can be adapted as short films, one-act plays, or other types of performance, as well as song lyrics that can be arranged however one sees […]
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GBV + performance art + Brooklyn = a salty salute to Bee Thousand.
On June 9th at Don Pedro’s in East Williamsburg there will be a performance party celebrating the release of the 33-1/3 book about Guided by Voices’s classic Bee Thousand album. Robert Pollard and Tobin Sprout will be in attendance. The festivities include:
World […]
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Jerzey’s review of Snakes on a Plane and the Post-9/11 American Mind, at Metaphilm.
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from Craig:
Found this interesting article on “The Aesthetics of Failure,” particularly in the context of the computer music genre “glitch.” While the article itself is great, the site is amazing. Just discovered it today, so haven’t made it into the depths of the archives yet, but it seems to be a kind of DIY meeting […]
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This post (from the cult-stud list) is related to the kind of paradigm shift in academic publishing we’re all about:
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:11:57 +0000
From: Gary Hall
Subject: [cultstud-l] Culture Machine: call for contributions
To: Cultural Studies
Message-ID: <45E6FB4D.104B5047@connectfree.co.uk>
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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
CULTURE MACHINE
http://www.culturemachine.net
http://www.culturemachine.net/csearch
Open access publishing has been operating successfully […]