The rules break like a thermometer,
quicksilver spills across the charted systems,
we’re out in a country that has no language
no laws, we’re chasing the raven and the wren
through gorges unexplored since dawn
whatever we do together is pure invention
the maps they gave us were out of date
by years… we’re driving through the desert
wondering if the water will hold out
the hallucinations turn to simple villages
the music on the radio comes clear—
neither Rosenkavalier nor Götterdämmerung
but a woman’s voice singing old songs
with new words, with a quiet bass, a flute
plucked and fingered by women outside the law.

Adrienne Rich

Posted on April 18, 2012

Afternoon inspiration.

Posted on April 18, 2012

To curate, in this sense, is to refuse static arrangements and permanent alignments and instead to enable conversations and relations. Generating these kinds of links is an essential part of what it means to curate, as is disseminating new knowledge, new thinking, and new artworks in a way that can seed future cross-disciplinary inspirations.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist from This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking, edited by John Brockman

Posted on February 19, 2012

Source: brainpickings.org

Ah, just what I needed.

Posted on February 13, 2012

Source: eastvillagearts.org

Posted on February 7, 2012

This Woman is Changing the Way We See Art

“Wary of the ever-expanding ecosystem of collectors, magazine editors, curators, museum directors, donors, hipsters, advisers and all of their various hangers-on, Pasternak says she’s tried not to join the art world establishment. Instead, she’s played by her own rules, supporting large-scale projects that others would deem too risky, wading through a bureaucratic network that’s murkier than mud.”

Posted on February 3, 2012

My response to Tom Laughlin’s outrageous post about theatre being FOR white people

ronrussellepic:

Tom! I wanted to thank you for your recent post “The Great Whiter-Than-Ever Way,” (http://www.apoorplayer.net/2012/01/the-great-whiter-than-ever-way) which is now being commonly referred to as the “Is it so bad to admit that theatre is for white people?” post. It’s a brilliant expose of the banal, but still incredibly insidious, dangerous, modern-day racism that lies beneath the innocent-looking façade of your average friendly, innocuous, white university professor chairing a third-rate theatre department in the middle of nowhere. I’m blown away by the courage it must have taken to reveal not only your native disdain for all cultures, races, and concepts besides your own, but also your incredible intellectual barren-ness – what some would even call thunderous stupidity! And to think – you’re a college professor! You work with impressionable young minds EVERY DAY! It’s just incredibly brave to reveal that you’re living your life half-asleep - something that could, in fact, SHOULD, cost you your job! Bravo, sir.

I only have one quibble with your post. When you use the word “admit” in what has become the de facto title of your post, I think you may have overstepped your bounds, even within the huge leeway you give yourself. You see, an “admission” is generally a revelation of a hidden fact – now, that fact can of course be your personal opinion, as in “I admit that I feel like black people are beneath me culturally” – but the fact you purport to reveal is that the theatre is for white people.

This, unfortunately, is not a fact.

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