Internet and virtual worlds (defined both as communication tools – email, messenger, chat rooms, electronic libraries, electronic audio-visual libraries – and artistic media of expression) represent the trademark of the contemporary times, molding implicitly the cultural and social practices as we speak. Since the feminism revolution and the post structuralism movement, there has not […]
The Dobbs Ferry (Pharmacy) Party Strikes Back !
Dobbs Ferry, January 28, 2007 – Smarting from its surprise defeat in the November election to the Democratic ticket, the Dobbs Ferry (Pharmacy) Party struck back with the only weapon left in their quiver – a referendum to move the election date back to March. By way of background, the Dobbs Ferry Party had dominated […]
Rahsaan as Orpheus
City Bell, Argentina — "That’s what freedom’s all about; learnin’ somethin’ then throwin’ it away." Rahsaan Roland Kirk One afternoon, about two years ago, I was sitting in my bedroom with a view of a strange, new city, listening to a piece on NPR about dreams and art. It was a cold day and […]
PETER BROOK AND HIS INDIA
Motto: Le théâtre est un art dont les grands achetypes existentiales doivent être mis en discussion. Je croix dans un théâtre qui est capable a perturber l’équilibre quotidien au bout de renvoyer l’être humain dans un équilibre de rapports avec TOUT : la vie et la mort, la tradition et l’universel. (Aureliu Manea, Les énergies du […]
ROBERT WILSON’S THEATRE
L’acteur est son corps dans la mise en scène de Robert Wilson Je voudrais commencer cette analyse à partir d’un sentiment d’étrangeté que j’aie ressenti, après avoir quitte le Théâtre de L’Odéon du Paris, ou j’ai vu mon troisième spectacle (les premiers deux, Deafman Glance et Black Rider, sur des vidéocassettes) mis en scène par […]
PARIS ART EVENT
Imagine: Untitled (1954): oils, paper, textile, newspaper, cotton, print, wood, colored glass, electric light. Odalisk (1958) : oils, ink, carbon, crayons, paper, pencils, textile, photos, newspapers, metal, glass, grass, steel, a pillow, wooden pole, electric light, stuffed rooster. Monogram (1959): oils, paper, textile, magazines, metal, wood, one heel shoe, a tennis ball, on […]