Archive for May, 2011

MTAA – Day 11Rush Job

MTAA – Day 11Rush Job

T.Whid: Hello and welcome to MTAA’s final week of couch surfing at Lee’s Blog. M.River: This week, we’re in a rush and waaaaayyyyy behind on deadlines. T.Whid: …and this can mean only one thing to an artist today (and by today, we mean Tuesday May 31, 2011.) M.River: Yup that’s right. It’s ye ole photoshopy [...]

The Economic Realities of Being An Artist

The Economic Realities of Being An Artist

Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert: The Economic Realities of Being an ArtistPosted on May 27, 2011 by Suzanne As a post-script to the suite of Shop Talk conversations, I wanted to leave you with artist team Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert’s PowerPoint presentation from the closing evening of discussion. The question we focused on that night—and there [...]

Performance: The Body Politic

Performance: The Body Politic

Originally Posted HERE at Art Practical by Christina Linden Image: Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics (New York: Routledge, 2011). Art Practical‘s Christina Linden talks with Shannon Jackson, UC Berkeley Professor of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies and Rhetoric, about her forthcoming book Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics (Routledge, 2011) and the symposium “Curating People,” which she [...]

MTAA – Day 10 Wide Wide World

MTAA – Day 10 Wide Wide World

T.Whid: Hi and welcome to Friday’s post. M.River: This week we’ve been doing some Deep Ego Surfing and one thing you learn when you dive down deep into a ego driven Google search it that YOU…ARE…NOT…ALONE (that was be read with lots of re-verb and one of those omniscient narrator voices) T. Whid: Yes, over [...]

MTAA – Day 9 SUMMEr oF HTML

MTAA – Day 9 SUMMEr oF HTML

T.Whid: Hello and welcome back to week 2 of MTAA’s couch surfing at Lee Walton’s blog. M.River: Today is Thursday May 26, 2011 and that means Cory Archangel’s solo show at the Whitney “Pro Tools” is now open to the the public. T.Whid: So, to celebrate Cory’s show and to continue this week’s theme of [...]

MTAA – Day 8 Black (Soap) Box

MTAA – Day 8 Black (Soap) Box

T.Whid: Heya. Welcome back to MTAA’s ego surfing week at Lee’s blog. M.River: It’s always good idea, when you are doing some deep ego surfing, to toss in a few interesting key words next to your name. For example – “Sucks” T.Whid: Which is the method we used to find this next forgotten MTAA classic: [...]

MTAA – Day 7 Restless Crowd Control

MTAA – Day 7 Restless Crowd Control

T.Whid: Hi and welcome back to week 2 of MTAA’s couch surfing at Lee Walton’s blog. M.River: This week we’re ego surfing for the lost gems and quasi classics pulled from deep Google search queries. T.Whid: Looking around the 10th or 15th page of a Google Video search for ‘MTAA’ we came across this classic [...]

MTAA – Day 6 Hot Heads

MTAA – Day 6 Hot Heads

T.Whid: Welcome back to MTAA’s couch surfing at Lee Walton’s blog. M.River: Last week we searched the backwaters of the interweb for the the Most Awesome Post-War Artwork of All Time…Ever (MAPWAOATE). This week we will be doing some deep ego surfing for the rare, forgotten and even fake MTAA artworks T.Whid: We’ll kick the [...]

How To Kill A Chicken

How To Kill A Chicken

Skills No Longer Needed in Contemporary Life or Foxfire Lessons is a series of performances/videos that is a collaboration between Mary Burge and her father. This is the second video in the series, How to Kill a Chicken. Mary Burge is a current Super G Experiential Resident with Scarlet Electric. Skills No Longer Needed in [...]

Scarlet Electric at the Super G

Scarlet Electric at the Super G

Scarlet Electric at Super G – today they are giving FREE Aerobic Sessions at 3:30 and 5:00pm.