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Friday, November 19, 2010

DANCE

Sign in a car near BAM
(c)2010, Gerry Gomez Pearlberg

Here's hoping that DANCE gave that driver some extra privileges!

Monday, August 24, 2009

The buzz about Julia Oldham

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Hearty thanks to my friend Gerry Gomez Pearlberg of the Global Swarming Honeybees blog for introducing me to the work of Brooklyn-based video artist Julia Oldham whose "playful anthromorphization" of invertebrates seems to me to have produced some mighty fresh dance. Check out Oldham's videos and drawings here, and also visit her blog, Bee Sting Brose.

A few excerpts from Oldham's Artist's Statement:

I always have been a lover of bugs. My earliest memories are of exploring the woods, overturning rocks to find worms, grubs, and slugs.

I create narratives through movement during my performance, and in the editing process punctuate those movements with sound. The translation from English to Insect always undermines and shifts the story I wish to tell, and illustrates the awkward and tenuous relationship between artist and nature.

My work...is a meditation on the fantasy that humans and invertebrates have a shared set of experiences, accessible through rhythms, patterns, gestures and a relationship with the environment.

Monday, June 16, 2008

Monday, February 11, 2008

More on Thunderbird and insights from poets

My guest for the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers concert was my friend, poet Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, who posted her reflections on her beekeeping blog, Global Swarming Honeybees. I'm particularly intrigued by what poet Gary Snyder has had to say about the act of performance and the role of the artistic performer in the give and take of nature. Click here for more.

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