Culturebot’s got the EPHEMERAL EVIDENCE

Arturo Vidich, Sarah A.O. Rosner and Witness Relocation's Dan Safer, Kaz Phillips Safer and Mike Mikos are just a handful of the hardrockers involved in EPHEMERAL EVIDENCE, Culturebot's multifaceted extravaganza at Exit Art.

Ephemeral Evidence consists of a series of collaborative explorations between writers and performing artists to investigate the relationship between practice and skill in performance-making, object-making and context. We propose an experiment in which objects are created directly from the result of the performing artist’s practice--their skilled application of learned techniques. Does the object, existing as residue of the ephemeral event, gain meaning as document or value object in itself? Both? How does the critical dialogue around the performance process and object inform our perception and valuation of the art?

The installations will be durational throughout the day with culminating performances at 5PM.  

Read more here.

Tuesday, April 17-Saturday, April 21

Exit Art
475 Tenth Avenue (at 36th Street), Manhattan
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If performance falls in the forest...

Democracy, Art & Critics, or, What Happens to Important Stuff If There's No One to Call It Important?
by Jeremy M. Barker, Culturebot, November 22, 2011

Barker: Take a real risk

The theater needs to stop condescending to its audiences and accept that maybe that’s why they’re not showing up as much. Theater also needs to get over its knee-jerk reaction to anything that falls outside the proscenium space and stop writing it off as weird or off-putting and accept that there are other ways to make enjoyable, fun, and engaging theatrical experiences for people. --Jeremy M. Barker, Culturebot

Read more in Barker's What's Good for the Kids Is Good for the Grown-Ups here.

US visa policies hurt artists

Why Does the Obama Administration Hate the Arts?
by Jeremy M. Barker, Culturebot, April 2, 2011