Tag: Politics
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A Valid Way to Care
Discussing a discussion of an ancient play.
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The subjectivity of good: Ayad Ahktar’s The Invisible Hand
A long form interview about Ayad Ahktar’s The Invisible Hand
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Ensemble Pi on the intersection of music and politics
Ensemble Pi, a new chamber music ensemble, talks about how they bring together music and political activism on the occasion of their Ninth Annual Peace Project.
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Five Lectures on Performance Now Online
Andy’s “Five Lectures on Performance” are now online at Vimeo, SoundCloud and iTunes.
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Five Lectures on Live Performance
From May 5 – June 9, 2014 Culturebot founder Andy Horwitz will offer five lectures on live performance in the 21st century.
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The DIY Commune Kit
Response to the Brooklyn Commune has been so great, we’re building a DIY Commune Kit.
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Politics and Aesthetics and Social Movements! (A How-To Guide, Extracted from the Brain of Jacques Rancière)
Nick Benacerraf kicks the knowledge about Jacques Rancière, aesthetics and the politics of spectatorship, among other things.
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Culture Blogger Seeks MBA for Good Times and LTR.
So now that I’ve discovered flyover i’m starting to get addicted. my original vision for Culturebot was to have this site be a portal/aggregator for a series of regional blogs (like the Gothamist family of blogs) but I’ve never been able to get the funding to make it happen. If any out of work MBAs…
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United States Secretary of the Arts
Just got this email: People – Would you take a minute to sign in support of Quincy Jones’ brilliant idea for a US Secretary of the Arts? Quincy Jones has started a petition to ask President-Elect Obama to appoint a Secretary of the Arts. While many other countries have had Ministers of Art or Culture…
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Identity, Place and Mediation
A few quick thoughts: On Mediation and Live Experience As mediated experience (mobile phones, internet, chat, Second Life) becomes normalized – how do we, as artists, address the unmediated experience? I didn’t get to see the Living Theater’s new piece but it got me thinking about the thrilling immediacy and intimacy of non-4th-wall performative engagement.…