Heterogeneous Spectacles(Jamie Lyons News) ❖ Jamie Lyons

October 23, 2018 · Engineering

Adobe HQ: Croissants in the Machine

San Jose. Adobe headquarters. Glass and steel rising from the valley floor like some techno optimist’s Burning Man epiphany. I get it, these places aren’t designed for humans, not really. They’re designed for productivity, for synergy, for whatever Stanford or Harvard MBA horseshit makes shareholders tingle. But shit, inside these towers, people are actually making […]

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October 21, 2018 · Industries

Anna Halprin: Blank Placard Dance, De Young Museum

Anna Halprin Blank Placard Dance: at the invitation of the De Young Museum, A piece originally performed in 1967 with members of the San Francisco Dancers Workshop in San Francisco as a reaction to the Vietnam War and the growing social unrest of the time. The dance is a walk by some forty dancers who carry […]

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October 9, 2018 · Collusion

Thirty-Five Years, Then This: Common Ground at YBCA

Big name/legendary collaborations are usually a letdown. Two “titans” get in a room together and suddenly everyone’s so fucking precious about their legacy that nothing actually happens, just a lot of careful posturing and committe meeting compromise dressed up in press release language about “exciting new directions” and “boundary-pushing work.” But thirty-five years? Thirty-five years […]

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Thirty-Five Years, Then This: Common Ground at YBCA

October 8, 2018 · Industries

Chasing Ghosts: Photographing Alonzo King’s Handel

I’m not going to pretend I understand what Alonzo sees when he makes a ballet, but I know what it feels like to hunt something elusive with a camera, that split second when bodies in motion become something else entirely. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, October 2018, Alonzo’s remount of his baroque meditation Handel, […]

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October 6, 2018 · Speculation

Backstage LINES Ballet Handel

Standing in the wings at YBCA, Leica in hand, watching Alonzo King’s dancers move through Handel like light through water. When you’re backstage you’re seeing the machinery of transcendence. The sweat. The breath. The moments before and after the magic happens. Brodovitch knew this. Those ballet photographs of his weren’t about perfection, they were about […]

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October 3, 2018 · Speculation

Backstage Pass: Common Ground

I don’t belong here. That’s the first thing I need to understand. This isn’t my world. These aren’t my people. I’m a tourist with a golden ticket, a voyeur granted temporary access to a place most people never see, never even know exists. And I should be grateful for it. It’s three hours before curtain […]

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October 2, 2018 · Industries

North Beach Sutra

We’re not our skin of grime, we’re not our dread bleak dusty imageless locomotive, we’re all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we’re blessed by our own seed & hairy naked accomplishment — bodies growing into mad black formal sunflowers in the sunset, spied on by our eyes under the shadow of the mad locomotive riverbank sunset […]

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