Heterogeneous Spectacles(Jamie Lyons News) ❖ Jamie Lyons

June 21, 2017 · Individualism

Lindsey Dillon at Ars Technica

Resistance: Ars Technica editors Annalee Newitz and Joe Mullin speak to UC Santa Cruz sociology professor Lindsey Dillon about how the Trump administration has been removing scientific and environmental data from the Web.

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June 13, 2017 · Resistance

California Interstate 5 (I-5)

The Fifth Circle Interstate 5. The great American scar tissue running through California’s gut. You want to know what we are? What we’ve become? It’s all right here, stretched out under that merciless Central Valley sun for mile after goddamn mile. You smell them before you see them. That’s the thing nobody tells you. The […]

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June 12, 2017 · Wanderlust

This lamp will last 10,000 years.

Here’s the thing about Burden’s forest of castiron streetlamps standing there like some municipal graveyard outside LACMA: it’s the kind of gorgeous, stupid, absolutely necessary gesture that makes you want to laugh and weep simultaneously. Two hundred and two vintage lampposts salvaged from the gutted streets of Los Angeles, arranged in rows like soldiers who’ve […]

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May 29, 2017 · Engineering

OEDIPUS IN A MOTHERFUCKING CHAPEL: On Fate, Fort Mason, and Why Greek Tragedy Still Kicks Your Ass

John Warren Travis’ Design for Oedipus Rag There’s something absolutely primal, something that cuts through all the academic horseshit, about staging Sophocles in a chapel at Fort Mason. I’ve seen Greek tragedy done in every godforsaken venue from The Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus to prosceniums that smell like 1950s cigarettes to black box theaters where […]

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May 23, 2017 · Collusion

Ghosts and Gold Leaf: Chocolate Heads in Memorial Church

I’ve seen a lot of weird shit in sacred spaces, but Aleta Hayes’ Chocolate Heads turning Stanford’s Memorial Church into some kind of Byzantine hallucination hits different when that same building held my father’s memorial service. When my brother, who hated Stanford with a kind of pure contempt that honestly scared me, inexplicably chose to […]

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Ghosts and Gold Leaf: Chocolate Heads in Memorial Church

May 17, 2017 · Speculation

Oedipus and Tiresias

Oedipus and Tiresias (Nathaniel Justiniano and Tonyanna Borkovi) rehearsing for a site specific staged reading of Anthony Burgess’ adaptation of Sophocles’ Oedipus The King to be performed in the Fort Mason Chapel for the San Francisco International Art Festival and produced by the Museum of Performance and Design Oedipus and Tiresias walk into a Japantown […]

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May 7, 2017 · Collusion

Contamination at Pace

The Chocolate Heads came slithering through Pace Gallery’s pristine white corridors like they’d been unleashed from some wild ritual, all limbs and fabric swaddling their skulls, moving against David Hockney‘s lurid iPad Yosemites like beautiful vandals crashing a country club. This wasn’t some precious dance meets art dialogue. This was collision, the kind where you can’t […]

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