i'd rather watch the fat kid dance - writings from contemporary performanceIn 2005, I saw a show at Performance Space 122 that changed the way I encounter art. It was a complete failure of a show, just utterly terrible. Everyone who saw it agreed about this fact. It was shockingly bad. And yet no one walked out in the middle. Perhaps it was because we have all been trained into docile politically correct robots, or perhaps it was because every once in a while he would shine the lights in our eyes and look out at us, as if to say - "I know you hate this, but I am trying my damnedest here." And it was clear that he was in fact putting everything he had into it. Anyway, for some unknown reason I found myself in the weeks after asking after every show I saw: "Would I rather watch the fat kid dance?" The Fat Kid aesthetic crticism and challenges to the field posts try to "dance" this question.
other longer form writing, papers and such activity....2009 Lost Boxes:Landscape Plays and Right Angled Parallelipipeds - excerpts 2008 Between the Black Box and the White Cube (pdf) Flesh Under the Influence: Material Knowing and Dances of Death 2007 "Untitled” : some
inital ideas on the importance of studying the non-performative events of performing artists’ lives. |
