Performance Art Videos

9-minute microdocumentary I made for school, discussing the influence of cinema on NYC performance art. Featuring Rev Jen, Robert Prichard and Velocity Chyalld.

9-minute microdocumentary I made for school, discussing the influence of cinema on NYC performance art. Featuring Rev Jen, Robert Prichard and Velocity Chyalld.

The question, whether an object, image or artifact is art or not, cannot be decided either by one single object, image or artifact, let alone by an individual. Art is after all a practice rather than a product, a verb rather than a noun, but more importantly a social agreement, a title that s been decreed and continuously awarded by specific communities, particular institutions, or a group of representatives, placeholders of the world of culture and the industry of art. Nonetheless, there s a common drive in public conversations to raise questions about the legitimacy of certain objects and negotiate them in regard of their status as to what level something is art or not, which I find both, compulsively obsessive and strikingly playful. I can t believe it s not art refers to the popular childhood game with daisies in which we fervently try to decide through a ritual of petal picking whether somebody s feelings are in or against our favor. She loves me, she loves me not cannot be decided by wishful thinking unless it is whimsical to begin with. However, the ritual follows a function: it marks our courting and tries to raise our odds the more so as performed in front of the adored. I can t believe it s not butter is the name of a well-known American brand. To extend the phrase into the field of arts expands the play with daisies into the realm of words. Branding, it shows, is not just a challenging task for companies but artists as well, see Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, Naomi Klein, etc.

The stars may not be so bright in the sky but in the city, at night, there are other lights to guide your way. Tonight we´re stepping on to the bitumen, pacing down the concrete footpaths and committing ourselves to the big smoke, through documentaries uploaded to our media sharing site Pool, as part of the City Nights project. The City Nights project called for tales of the city at night, in any media, including photography, video, documentary, text and spoken word poetry. Over 360 pieces came in from which we curated a selection of audio for the Night Air. Works included in the program: Invisible Bird by Sherre Delys, Dark Room 3, by Virginia Madsen, Echoes of Eternity by Robyn Ravlich The Graveyard Ghost, both by Robyn Ravlich, Lunatic Road by Imogen Cranna Goulds at Night by Ross Steel, Breathe by James Laidler and Don Steward, Terrors in the night by Patrick Wright, The city at Night from Ciaran MacLennan and Scott Spresser, Where are you Going to Love? by X Press Radio, Melbourne Noir by Michael Trott and Matthew Mckay, Buddha Belly by Cameron Semmens and Rod Gear as 'Chevrelet', Black Coffee Nights by Komninos Extra Anchovies by Ainslie Crabbe David Willey in Tripoli, Let´s Go Dancing by Sue Daniel, Pig City, by Tony Collins, The Townhouse, by Cath Dwyer, McBride and his Men by Keith Smith, Castlereigh St Ghost by John Potts Back Lanes by Nicole Steinke

Dean and Britta -- Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips -- are presenting their music and songs for 13 of Andy Warhol's screen tests at the 2009 Melbourne International Arts Festival.

In anticipation of the upcoming performance of The Abattoir Pages, Joseph Matheny in conversation with John Harrigan about anything and everything that comes to their mind. All music provided by Veil of Thorns Songs, in order: And the Beast of the Vision Still Roams in Dream Intellectual Institutional Object Thought Pollution Evolution In Your Ear: Reviewing Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story Guerrilla Zoo and FoolishPeople present The Abattoir Pages, a terrifying immersive Halloween experience, hosted in a vast, secret subterranean landscape that was once one of London s largest abattoirs. The Abattoir Pages combines immersive performance, art installation, haunting and treasure hunt-style activity to form a labyrinth of mystery and horror, exposing the earliest Gaelic and Pagan rites. Once inside, audience members will be free to explore the abandoned underground chambers, join the secret party or may be caught in the middle of the most terrifying of puzzles. This Hallowe’en, the infamous horror author Helen Mayer will hold court at a debauched secret party. She will share the perverse and warped research conducted inside the old abandoned abattoir, which was the genesis of her greatest work. In this dark playground, the very nature of human terror has been tested, abused and fed into the living story The Forest . The author invites you to solve the puzzle and unlock the terrifying history within the old and powerful pages hidden throughout the slaughterhouse. Each holds a key to learning the truth of an ancient tale, which will ensure your survival. Tonight, a debt will be repaid to blood dishonoured. An eternal nightmare rises up from the depths of the dark boreal forest, in the shadow of the mountain. It comes to feed on new meat inside an old abattoir. http://www.apocryphon.org/

Elephant and Castles is a record label investigating and cultivating a field in between documentary, field recording, unusual sound practices and delicate music. Curator Cédric Anglaret is our sound guide. Using reality as a raw material, always oscillating between the extremely concrete and the abstract creating imaginary places through a non-pictorial narration, getting close to what could be a cinema of sensations where images are made up by the public's own imagination. Image by Gilles Freluche of Soyouz Design http://soyouz.design.free.fr/

Jazz-elle's performance art of her original song, "The Cover Up", at the Santa Cruz Film Festival, May 2009.