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Performance Events this Weekend: |
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by Sascha Meinrath
Email: sascha (nospam) ucimc.org (unverified!) |
22 Jun 2004
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In conjunction with Crossroads in Cultural Studies, The Art Graduate Student Organization and the Independent Media Center (UIUC Chapter) invite you to a series of events investigating performance as cultural resistance. More information on the presenters follows:
Infecting the Sick Society: Cultural Resistance as Virus
Sunday, June 27th, 1 pm, Illini Union 214
a panel discussion with subRosa, Charles Frederick, and Lisa Fay.
Reading The Cathedral Project: Poetry and the Aesthetics of Politics
Saturday, June 26th, 7 pm, 218 W. Main St, Urbana
a reading and discussion with community animation artist Charles Frederick.
Mapping Biopower
Monday, June 28th, 3 pm, Morrow Plots
a guided walk with feminist art collective subRosa. |
In conjunction with Crossroads in Cultural Studies, The Art Graduate Student Organization and the Independent Media Center (UIUC Chapter) invite you to a series of events investigating performance as cultural resistance.
More information on the presenters follows:
Infecting the Sick Society: Cultural Resistance as Virus
Sunday, June 27th, 1 pm, Illini Union 214.
A panel discussion with subRosa, Charles Frederick, and Lisa Fay.
Reading The Cathedral Project: Poetry and the Aesthetics of Politics
Saturday, June 26th, 7 pm, 218 W. Main St, Urbana.
A reading and discussion with community animation artist Charles Frederick.
Mapping Biopower
Monday, June 28th, 3 pm, Morrow Plots.
A guided walk with feminist art collective subRosa.
About the performers:
subRosa is a reproducible cyberfeminist cell of cultural researchers committed to combining art, activism, and politics to explore and critique the intersections of the new information and bio-technologies in women's bodies, lives, and work. SubRosa produces contestational performances, activist campaigns and projects, publications, media interventions, and public forums that make visible the interconnections of technology, gender, and feminism and global capital; new bio and medical technologies; and the changed conditions of labor and reproduction for women in the integrated circuit. subRosa practices a situational embodied feminist politics nourished by conviviality, self-determination, and the desire for affirmative affiliations and coalitions. Find out more about subrosa at www.cyberfeminism.net, and in Domain Errors! Cyberfeminist Practices: A subRosa Book (NY: Autonomedia, 2003) Current subRosa members: Steffi Domike, Laleh Mehran, Lucia Sommer, Faith Wilding, Hyla Willis.
Charles Frederick is a writer and cultural activist, with particular interest in cultural animation as an art and political form for community empowerment and mobilization. He has been active in many struggles in the larger peace and justice movements for three decades on a grass roots level with a constant emphasis on the cultural dimensions of, and strategies for, organizing. He served on the Board of Directors for the national community arts movement, the Alliance for Cultural Democracy and was an editor for its journal, Cultural Democracy. During the period of the Solidarity movements of the early 80s, he designed street demonstrations as community performance forms and for a period of ten years worked in the gay Catholic community in New York, leading AIDS efforts and a cultural animation project called The Cathedral Project to oppose the institutional Church's persecution of gay people. Charles has been an editor of several independent journals and has published poetry, fiction and criticism.
Lisa Fay is a composing and performing movement-based theatre artist, known for applying complex composed structures to ordinary human behavior. Notated movement scores often accompany her productions. Her professional history with her performance partner, Jeff Glassman, includes an NEA Choreography Fellowship, tours and residencies since 1971 in the U.S., Eastern and Western Europe, Mexico and Cuba, and featured performances at national and international festivals including the Copenhagen International Theatre Festival in Denmark and the First International Festival of Mime in Mexico. They appear at theatres and universities around the US, on public television, and as selected roster artists of the Illinois and Missouri arts councils. Awards include two Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship Awards for Choreography. Lisa Fay is the coordinator of 'Inner Voices Social Issues Theater' at the University of Illinois.
Charles Frederick's and subRosa's visits are supported by SORF. For more information, contact Sarah Kanouse at kanouse (at) uiuc.edu |
This work is in the public domain. |
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Re: Performance Events this Weekend: |
by Jack Ryan
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04 Jul 2004
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Wow, all those sound great. You guys are wild. I am sorry I missed all of the fun.
Jack |
