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Galileo in America 2012
I'm just under three months from premiering this original performance work with director Robert Allen. The hard work on my script is done; work on the video environment is under way. It will take place at the Experimental Media Performance Lab at UC Irvine, a brand-new high-tech black-box space in the just-opened Contemporary Art Center.
Performances will take place on the weekends of Feb. 23-25 and Mar. 1-3. Tickets can be purchased online.
And please check out our fundraising campaign on IndieGoGo!
Galileo in America is part of "By & About Brecht": a mini festival. The Drama and Studio Art departments at UC Irvine have teamed up to present a pair of works created and inspired by the seminal German playwright and theorist Bretolt Brecht. Galileo in America leads off, followed in April by a production of Brecht's powerful play Mother Courage and Her Children. The "By & About Brecht" festival is a timely theatrical confrontation with our national disquiet over the realities of war, the price of success, and the erosion of civil liberties.
Tickets for the two "By & About Brecht" productions are available at a discount when purchased as a package.
For more about this project, please check out our project website.
February-March 2012
A new performance project for 2012 is in the works; the website is now up, and you can buy tickets online for performances Feb. 23-25 and Mar. 1-3.
And we've just launched a fundraising campaign on IndieGogo:
Nov. 9, 2011, 5-8 pm
I installed a version of this piece as part of the celebrations for the grand opening of our new Contemporary Art Center at UC Irvine. The grand opening turned into a big party, with celebrations of art on every floor of the new building.
Fall 2011
The LA Weekly's annual "best of" issue tags the Institute of Cultural Inquiry as "best place to figure some shit out." As a longtime Associate of the ICI and unindicted coconspirator on a lot of its projects, I cheer this assessment. Check out its "open-minded and offbeat" programs for yourself.
March 20-30 2011
This installation at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry resulted from delving into their archives. It's the second in a series of 10 speed-curated shows that the ICI is putting on in which curators are given a very short time (10 days, start to finish) to assemble something from the archives. Knowing what a challenge this would be, I chose to work with a partner, writer Ruth Coppens. The exhibition revolves around the little-known early 20th century designer Louise Brigham, who worked with recycled materials. For more information, see my blog essay on the project or visit the ICI website.
Quote of the Day
November, 2011
A classic statement by the renegade Jungian analyst James Hillman, who died this year: "Psychoanalysis has to get out of the consulting room and analyze all kinds of things. You have to see that the buildings are anorexic, you have to see that the language is schizogenic, that 'normalcy' is manic, and medicine and business are paranoid."