Heterogeneous Spectacles(Jamie Lyons News) ❖ Jamie Lyons

July 5, 2013 · Industries

PSi 19

Performance Studies Stanford University hosting the Performance Studies international conference #19. I was very careful not to use film or video to record most of the performances, because I think most people, then, were not sophisticated enough to look at a video or film and necessarily understand that they were not seeing the real thing, […]

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July 5, 2013 · Industries

The Perfect O: On Tolentino’s Honey

I’ve seen a lot of people try to stare down the void and most of them blink, but performance artist Julie Tolentino doesn’t blink, she opens her mouth, that perfect O, same shape your lips make when you’re about to come or about to die (which might be the same fucking thing), and she just […]

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July 1, 2013 · Industries

Piano, Plush Toys, and the Performance Nobody Expected

There’s this guy Luciano Chessa, Italian, classically trained at Bologna’s conservatory, PhD from UC Davis, teaches at the San Francisco Conservatory, and he’s here at the Performance Studies International conference making a goddamn piano sing like it’s possessed by the ghost of Luigi Russolo himself. He’s performing Variazioni su un Oggetto di Scena, Variations on […]

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Piano, Plush Toys, and the Performance Nobody Expected

June 30, 2013 · Industries

Guillermo Gomez-Peña at PSi

What the hell are you supposed to say about photographing Guillermo Gomez-Peña that doesn’t immediately become part of the problem? The minute you start explaining, contextualizing, footnoting the fucking thing, you’re doing exactly what his work exists to detonate, the impulse to contain, to translate, to make the raw and impossible thing safe for academic […]

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June 29, 2013 · Absolute Solipsism

PSi 19 downtime

Solipsism at Performance Studies international, Stanford University It is wrong to oppose to objects an isolated ego-subject, without seeing in the Dasein the basic constitution of being-in-the-world; but it is equally wrong to suppose that the problem is seen in principle and progress made toward answering it if the solipsism of the isolated ego is […]

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June 27, 2013 · Collusion

John Cage Lecture on Nothing

I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry as I need it. John Cage Collected Works John Cage Lecture on Nothing. PSi, Stanford Michael Hunter and Derek Phillips did John Cage‘s Lecture on Nothing at the Performance Studies International conference. Stanford’s Roble Gym. The old fencing studio, before they […]

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June 8, 2013 · Individualism

Grandma

Look at Brian Yarish. Six-foot-five in his stockings, but he’s not wearing stockings tonight, he’s wearing five, maybe six inches of platform heel that would break my ankle in three places just looking at them. He’s working his way down Franconia like he owns the concrete, like he invented concrete, and you know what? Maybe […]

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