Community Bulletin Board updated Feb. 1, 2008 Feb 2, 2008
Acoustic musicians, performance artists and local authors who would like to participate can contact the corresponding secretary at 785-3521 or e-mail. Reader Messages. (Courier Publications, ME)
Berlin's Panorama adds four docs Jan 23, 2008
Julian Cole's U.K. doc "With Gilbert e" traces the lives of the famed performance artists from their humble beginnings through four decades of their artistic career. The Berlinale runs Feb. 7-17. (Variety)
Work of young Fallbrook artists on display next month Dec 23, 2007
FALLBROOK - Young painters, sculptors and performance artists will have their 14 days of fame when the "Art of Today, Artists of Tomorrow" exhibition opens Jan. 13 at the Art Center at Fallbrook, officials said. Inspired by Brooke Thom, an 18-year-old Fallbrook artist who died after a car accident in San Bernardino County in 1999, the art show will feature between 150 and 200 pieces from about 70 high school-age artists, said gallery director Mary Perhacs. (North County Times)
Performance artist Abramovic purchases Community Theater Dec 18, 2007
HUDSON - Marina Abramovic, one of the world's most renowned performance artists, has bought the former Community Theater/Community Tennis Courts building at Seventh and Columbia streets and plans to turn it into a foundation for the preservation of performance art. To get the rest of the story every day, subscribe to the Register Star. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
Evel Knievel, 1938 2007 Dec 9, 2007
Little did he know what he would set in motion, and you d better believe he was one of the biggest fans around of the motorcycle performance artists who wow the Evel Days crowds every year with their amazing stunts. But although Knievel launched a whole new sports genre and was a hero to many, he was no saint, nor did he ever pretend to be. (Montana Standard, MT)
Erotica 07: Women dominate fair Nov 24, 2007
You come here and you've got your burlesques and your performance artists and your sex toys and your hardcore DVDs - something for everyone. "Indeed there is: extreme footwear, bondage tape and lubricants, fetish whips from Russia, the Pocket Rocket remote control vibrator, the Monkey Spanker, even marshmallow willies selling at 2 each.One thigh-boot salesman was explaining earnestly to a customer: "We go to size 16 in all our shoes. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Rev. Billy says 'Stop shopping!' Nov 23, 2007
Cooper calls the day an open source event for all types of performance artists and activists. Any effort that generates thought about shopping and consumption is encouraged. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Crowds the key to museum's funding push Oct 18, 2007
So far only the Sydney performance artists the Kingpins have been confirmed for the show but the director of the San Diego MCA, Hugh Davies, is also looking at work from artists such as TV Moore and Shaun Gladwell. "Australian artists are just starting to develop an international following," Macgregor says. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Salamone nabs Bleecker theaters Oct 18, 2007
Calvin Wynter will manage the smaller downstairs theater, which will focus on comics, musicians and performance artists. The venue at 45 Bleecker Street had been regularly occupied by the Culture Project, which moved to another downtown space this year. (Variety)
Hip Hop Opera Tackles Britain's Gun Crime Oct 9, 2007
It was the brainchild of producer Raymond Stevenson, who was looking for a way to bring together Brixton's musical and performance artists in one project. Gun crime was the obvious choice for a focus to the work. (Sky News)
Air Guitar Nation Sep 27, 2007
They are performance artists whose practice is self-sufficient, entertaining, whole-hearted and fleeting. They are simultaneously self-dramatising and self-effacing. (The Age)
Rufus Wainwright could go on singing Garland tunes at Hollywood Bowl Sep 25, 2007
Wainwright's campier gestures and wilder vocal turns recalled the radical drag of performance artists including John Kelly and Justin Bond, whose work critiques traditional gay culture by going "over the top" in new ways (Kelly chooses unusual subjects, like Joni Mitchell, while Bond turns cabaret into punk). His waggish self-awareness also showed the influence of musical peers such as Joanna Newsom or his friend Antony, who explore similarly archaic forms while remaining totally contempor- ary. (Los Angeles Times)
BJC to bring big names to valley Aug 28, 2007
In addition to musical acts, Punt said the BJC is in the process of bringing in other performance artists, including dance troupes and stand-up comedians. Punt said they are trying to bring comedian Sarah Silverman to the BJC on Nov. 2 and are working on a student ticket deal of $10 for the act. (Daily Collegian, PA)
American Indian artists offer contrast of old and new at fall Heard exhibit Aug 21, 2007
Artist Franco Mondini-Ruiz, a Tejano of Mexican American and Italian stock, will create and sell his work as a performance artists with his paintings and sculptures created from tchotchkies found in thrift and souvenir shops. The exhibit will debut Oct. 6 and head to the Smithsonian's George Gustav Heye Center in New York in May 2008. (Phoenix Business Journal, AZ)
Eclectic mix to fill the streets of SoNo Aug 2, 2007
In addition to the glass and wood creations, sculptures, performance artists and musicians such as Dar Williams and Mystic Bowie and the Pallbearers, the event will feature about 300 puppets guided by people ages 4 to 82. Advertisement The puppets and their handlers will lead a 20-minute parade down Washington Street at 3 p.m. Sunday. (Stamford Advocate)
RADIO HIGHLIGHTS Jul 13, 2007
Interviews with actors, directors and performance artists. 1 p.m. KALW-FM (91. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Underbelly of creativity Jul 3, 2007
au website as the CarriageWorks foyer is overrun by rollerskating performance artists and puppets. Spoken-word artist Jess Cook, 23, likes the idea of art evolving through interaction with the public. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Greg Gutfeld: Can We Make Terrorists Less Angry? Jul 3, 2007
If a bomb would have gone off in New York City, imagine all the injured performance artists and stand up comics who'd end up rejected from the E.R.. (Story continues below). (Fox News)
Oh, Canada! Your lilacs are moose-free! Jul 1, 2007
One of the perks of gardening in Alaska is the large sculptures, which move from bush to bush, like performance artists bent on getting a reaction from their audience. Our visiting friends and relatives oh. (Wasilla Frontiersman, AK)
Health Meets Art In The Heart of Corona Jun 22, 2007
Friday June 22, 2007. (Robert Trotta) Xaviera Simmons takes a portrait of a child in Corona Plaza Saturday as part of “Corona Plaza: Center of Everywhere” a group art installation in progress. (Queens Chronicle, NY)
6/21: SMoCA Nights: 'Sputnik' Jun 19, 2007
Since 2003, its been a fixture of Valley art life and regularly draws crowds of more than 600 four times a year with themed art and fashion shows, live music, DJs and performance artists. As such, the people watching is often as good as the actual performances. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Group seeks radio airplay pay for performers Jun 14, 2007
"In exchange for airplay for music on the radio, performance artists generate tens of millions of dollars and there should be no reason broadcasters have to pay a tax," he said. A spokesman for musicFIRST deferred comment until the group's formal announcement Thursday. (USA Today -- Life)
Art-activated vigor Jun 7, 2007
Exhibitors Robin Hewlett and Jennifer Gooch are performance artists, not otherwise represented in the exhibition, who will present "Cell Phone Meet Up" from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. today and "Market Square Dance" from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Friday. Both performances will be given in the pedestrian passageway between Market Square and PPG Plaza. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Cannibal Corpse May 29, 2007
No matter the time or place, frustration's merely a ritual among people who'd grow up to become writers, musicians, and performance artists. The excised and extended interviews are better than the chopped-up bits in the pic; so too are the circa-'50s sex-is-bad-bad-bad short films. (City Pages)
Mentos Sets Guinness World Record for 'Most Mentos and Soda Fountains' May 25, 2007
CINCINNATI, May 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Mentos(R) and the performance artists of Eepybird have made Mentos Geyser history in Cincinnati with a big splash. Eepybird, with the help of about 500 Greater Cincinnatians equipped with the new "Mentos Geyser Loading Tube," launched the largest number of Mentos Geysers ever to be set off all at once in one location, setting a world record. (PR Newswire)
Artists break free from unbearable coupling act May 24, 2007
Chinese performance artists Hairong Tiantian (right) and Ye Fu enjoy the fresh air after breaking out of the glass room where they had lived together for a month, on Tuesday, May 22, 2007 ... BEIJING, May 24 -- Wielding big hammers, performance artists Hairong Tiantian and Ye Fu broke out of the tiny glass room in which they had been imprisoned for one month as an unmarried couple. (Xinhuanet, China)
Teacher's last day May 19, 2007
" She's also a noted storyteller. She has a notebook of 659 stories from her life, and each one comes out during the course of the school year. She starts with story number one, "The Cat in the Clothes Dryer," and continues on to life lessons her grandmother taught her, to the story of the hieroglyphics her friend brought her from Egypt, and on and on. "Teachers are like performance artists in a way. We have to stand up, get your attention and make you excited about things that are sometimes as... (The St. Augustine Record)
Uni and Her Ukelele This solo act is the centerpiece of a monthly variety show at Space Gallery that features music and roller skating May 18, 2007
Uni and Her Ukelele / This solo act is the centerpiece of a monthly variety show at Space Gallery that features music and roller skating. I felt connected to it. (San Francisco Chronicle)
CAID Seeks Executive Director May 8, 2007
org, an online radio station that will be based in Detroit, and heard around the world will broadcast music, lectures, and live concerts and events held at CAID, as well as, a wide range of interviews with visual and performance artists, authors, cultural leaders, and many others. Our diverse music programming will feature local and international artists, providing listeners with an opportunity to hear the sound of our global community. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Artist David Avalos. The hidden heart May 7, 2007
When politicians were railing about Art Rebate, he wryly quipped, The politicians are acting like performance artists while we're trying to be political. Still passionate. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Art in bloom May 1, 2007
Artomatic, an annual D.C.-area arts showcase, continues through May 20 with its 600 visual and performance artists filling about 90,000 square feet of space in the old U.S. Patent and Trademark Building (2121 Crystal Drive, Arlington). Today, the exhibition -- which features bold cartoonlike paintings, elegant landscape photography, massive sculpture, artsy film, live fire arts, dance, poetry and musical performances -- is open from noon until 10 p.m. Call 703/842-1849 or visit www. (Washington Times, DC)
Wacky photo captions Apr 18, 2007
Performance artists stand amongst faces sculpted in the earth during a patriotic performance art event in Zhengzhou, in China's central Henan Province, Tuesday, March 27, 2007. Around 3000 people took part in the performance art activity, with the participants yelling patriotic slogans around faces sculpted in the earth. (Montana Standard, MT)
Dublin no-go flats attract the art gang Apr 1, 2007
A group of performance artists persuaded Dublin Corporation and the Ballymun Regeneration Company last October to keep the flats open and transform them into a temporary hotel until the end of this month. The result has been a flood of bookings from curious tourists who want to experience life in what used to be one of the toughest neighbourhoods in western Europe. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
‘Spotlight on Teens’ talent show held at Tibbits Opera House ... City: Chain-link fences not allowed in front yards; Huntley, Ortiz, Clark vote to allow them ... County looks at more efficicient operation ... UC Village begins negotiations with Laux ... Public urged to plan ahead for severe weather ... Isaman gets minimum of 18 years, nine months in prison for CSC charge ... BACC culinary students do well at competition ... City, former employee enter arbitration ... Probation given to man who bought cocaine from informant ... Two men facing drug charges ... ';var marqueewidth="350px";var marqueeheight="20px";var marqueebgcolor="#FFFFFF";////NO NEED TO EDIT BELOW THIS LINE////////////var pauseit=1;var marqueespeed=1 //slow speed down by 1 for NSvar copyspeed=marqueespeedvar pausespeed=(pauseit==0)? copyspeed: 0var iedom=document.all||document.getElementByIdif (iedom)document.write(''+marqueecontent+'')var actualwidth=''var cross_marquee, ns_marqueefunction populate(){if (iedom){cross_marquee=document.getElementById? document.getElementById("iemarquee") : document.all.iemarqueecross_marquee.style.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8+"px"cross_marquee.innerHTML=marqueecontentactualwidth=document.all? temp.offsetWidth : document.getElementById("temp").offsetWidth}else if (document.layers){ns_marquee=document.ns_marquee.document.ns_marquee2ns_marquee.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8ns_marquee.document.write(marqueecontent)ns_marquee.document.close()actualwidth=ns_marquee.document.width}lefttime=setInterval("scrollmarquee()",20)}window.onload=populate;function scrollmarquee(){if (iedom){if (parseInt(cross_marquee.style.left)>(actualwidth*(-1)+8))cross_marquee.style.left=parseInt(cross_marquee.style.left)-copyspeed+"px"elsecross_marquee.style.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8+"px"}else if (document.layers){if (ns_marquee.left>(actualwidth*(-1)+8))ns_marquee.left-=copyspeedelsens_marquee.left=parseInt(marqueewidth)+8}}if (iedom||document.layers){with (document){document.write('')if (iedom){write('')write('')write('')write('')}else if (document.layers){write('')write('')write('')}document.write('')}}Wednesday, March 28, 2007 Mark Rogers / The ReporterAbove, Tori Shapow and Pansy Goheen perform. ‘Spotlight on Teens’ talent show held at Tibbits Opera House Mar 28, 2007
T-Tabbers were involved with all backstage work, publicity and performance artists at the talent show. T-TAB members include: Sarah Abe, Jason Delaney, Kayla Dove, Betty Dunn, Makayla Eppel, Chamus Gilbert, Chelsea Hart, Austin Littley, Cody Littley, Jaycie Littley, Mariah Littley, Nicholas Spencer and Sarah Wilson. (Coldwater Daily Reporter, MI)
Beijing finally embraces modern British art Mar 20, 2007
After a period in the US he returned to China and helped to formed the "East Village" community of performance artists. Despite a life spent challenging authority, he is now the consultant for the spectacular "Bird's Nest" stadium that will stage the opening ceremony of next year's Olympic Games. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Nudes Posed With Threatened Trees In Berkeley Mar 19, 2007
But that's what nearly 80 protesters and performance artists did in Berkeley this weekend to try to save a grove of oaks slated to be chopped down as part of University of California's expansion plans. Some of the 78 bare-bottomed tree-sitters were first-timers, and some were lifelong nudists. (NBC 11, CA)
South Dakota Art Center Stops French Performance Involving Vomiting, Simulated Sex Mar 11, 2007
RAPID CITY, South Dakota A show where French performance artists vomited, simulated sex and threw fake feces was stopped by the promoter, who quickly apologized ... "I was told they were performance artists from France and were highly recommended. I think I was told wrong," said promoter Kevin Dorsman, who stopped the show. (Fox News -- Views)
A Warholian warming trend Mar 8, 2007
It has two "SurvivaBalls," fake global warming survival suits that performance artists The Yes Men presented at a real (and unsuspecting) insurance conference in Florida. A crochet version of Australia's dying Great Barrier Reef called "Crochet Hyperbolic Coral Reef: Coral and Anemone Garden."Click photo for larger image. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
- Germaine Greer Feb 26, 2007
Most performance artists allow themselves to live as well as perform, but according to their press, Gilbert and George are never not working. The performance has become their life. (Guardian Unlimited)
Microsoft kicks the tires on Revver Feb 22, 2007
Dangling dollars drew some well-known amateurs, including the performance artists who created the popular clip known as "The Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments." Then others began to doll out cash, including Metacafe and Break. com. (TechRepublic)
Foppish Kinnear Peps Up `Man of Mode' for Our Times: Matt Wolf Feb 10, 2007
Newly returned home from Paris, a troupe of dancers-cum- performance artists in tow, Kinnear's Fopling lifts a staging that has its fair share of listless patches; before long, his every exit and some entrances are prompting applause. My clothes are my creatures,'' notes Fopling, which immediately distinguishes him from Dorimant, whom Hardy plays in what would seem to be a state of perpetual undress. (Bloomberg)
Bad hair day in Boston Feb 3, 2007
He was, certainly, but responded, shrugging, "They're performance artists.". Perfect. (Boston Globe)
Artists search for boundaries of obscenity Feb 1, 2007
While it might have been unclear for some passersby what was taking place, the performance artists who set up the three exhibits at the library had one question they were trying to answer: "What is obscene?". Wednesday's performances were arranged by the Institute of Obscenity, a group composed of two UI students and one UI faculty member. (Daily Iowan, IA)
Waterloo native peace marches in D.C. with daughter Jan 28, 2007
She was struck by dramatic displays by performance artists during the march ... "The performance artists' pieces gave you time to reflect. But overall it was more about a spirit of solidarity," Burt said. (Waterloo Courier, IO)
Party round the world in 2007 Jan 15, 2007
Its not the ideal place to party temperatures can exceed 38C (100F) by day but the thousands of anarchists, deviants, mad scientists, techno-heads, dancers and freakish performance artists that arrive here from all over the world certainly give it their best shot. Fantasy Fest, Florida, USA. (Guardian Unlimited -- Travel)
New Year's parties, from silly to somber Jan 2, 2007
Reminiscent of the annual Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert, the Concourse Exhibition Center was the scene of a party with performance artists, bands and 8,000 costumed guests. "I came for this beautiful community of friends and family. I couldn't see spending New Year's with anyone else," said Randie Silverstein of Denver. (San Francisco Chronicle)
