Heterogeneous Spectacles(Jamie Lyons News) ❖ Jamie Lyons

July 9, 2016 · Speculation

wave organ rehearsal…

This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. Alan Watts The stones are wet and the tide’s doing its thing through those organ pipes, some modernist’s fever dream of what happens […]

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July 5, 2016 · Speculation

Roble Gym Rehearsal

Roble Gym Rehearsal, Stanford University with Judy Syrkin-Nikolau The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. Émile Zola

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July 4, 2016 · FalseArt

Documenting Performance and Truth

I’m going to tell you something that’s going to sound like complete bullshit coming from a guy who’s made real money with a camera: I fucking hate documentation. Here I am. Supposedly a photographer, though don’t call me that, seriously, someone who’s shot work for Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Ron Athey, Alonzo King. Someone who ground it […]

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June 21, 2016 · Collusion

The Donkey Show Nobody Asked For

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen’s beauty in a brow of […]

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June 15, 2016 · Speculation

Nausicaä rehearsal: Poseidon vs. Odysseus

rehearsing Sophocles Nausicäa in Stanford TAPS Prosser Studio Poseidon god of the earthquake launched a colossal wave, terrible, murderous, arching over him, pounding down on him, hard as a windstorm blasting piles of dry parched chaff, scattering flying husks… The Odyssey, Robert Fagles trans.

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Nausicaä rehearsal: Poseidon vs. Odysseus

June 10, 2016 · Speculation

Elena working magic at rehearsal

There’s something nobody tells you about being a kid at rehearsal. How the adults stop being adults for a minute. How they shed all that bullshit, the mortgage anxiety, the careful professional face, the parental authority, and become something else entirely. Something rawer. Something that plays. I grew up in rehearsal spaces. Theaters that smelled […]

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May 30, 2016 · Industries

Memorial Auditorium: Where California Sunshine Goes to Die

Built in 1937, Memorial Auditorium squats at the heart of Stanford’s campus, a monument to the dead of World War I that somehow became a venue for everything from visiting orchestras to corporate motivational speakers hawking the next big disruption. The interior is vast and unforgiving. Those hard seats don’t give a damn about my […]

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