Hey everyone!
Sorry etude has been so slow this year. Everything is a lot isn’t it?
Below is this weeks selections
On Earth by The Loose Collective
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“In an ever more info-tained world, showbiz and capitalistic interests are strongly influencing the world of research and science. Our interest lies in the different performative proposals which translate and reshape scientific facts, thus enabling a reflection about the ways scientific knowledge is packaged and shared today.” (The Loose Collective)
Part I of The Loose Collective’s Feeding Fighting and Fucking – Trilogy goes back to the birth of the Earth and the origins of life on the planet, blending formats of educational science programs and popular-science TV documentaries into a rock concert and dance performance.
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Blue follows a marathon swimmer in the middle of the ocean, and in the middle of a personal crisis. Wrestling with themselves and their past. Looking to the future. A short play for one or more voices. Presented by Fizzy Sherbert.
Art is Reactionary by Carolee Schneemann
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Carolee Schneemann shares the stage with her ideal double. On a stage, the two women start their story using the heralding expression of fairy tales: “Once upon a time...” They speak into the same microphone, their voices combine and each becomes the echo of the other.
Three people stand downstage, like a Classical chorus. A woman flanked by two men dialogues with the two performers through their voices, but also by an alternating play of the black and white of their clothes and skin.
Slides relating to sexuality, close ups of sexual organs, are projected on stage. Schneemann and her double move within the field of projection of the images while reciting a text dealing with the role of women in society and the question of feminism in artistic practice.
A recurrent question marks the works of Carolee Schneemann: “How can I have authority as both an image and an image-maker?”. She explains that the body of a woman is shaped throughout her life through the intervention of religion, social taboos and representations from the history of art.
Kembra Pfahler performance at Auto Body in Miami
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For her performance at Auto Body Miami, New York punk feminist Kembra Pfahler connected with large network of fans and collaborators to organize Miami's Girls of Karen Black. For the first time in public, they collectively recited the 13 Tenets of Future Feminism.
Paradise Now by The Living Theatre
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The Living Theatre, led by Julian Beck and Judith Malina, triumphantly returned to America from years of self-imposed exile in Europe with their theatrical breakthrough Paradise Now. The play introduces the practice of collective creation, dissolving the boundaries of human interactions and forging a harmony between the actors and audience. Of this process, Julian Beck writes, 'Collective creation is the secret weapon of the people ... This play is a voyage from the many to the one and from the one to the many. It's a spiritual voyage and a political voyage, a voyage for the actors and the spectators.
Hope you enjoy
Josh