“Double consciousness is knowing the particularity of the white world in the face of its enforced claim to universality… Double consciousness, in other words, is knowing a lie while living its contradiction.” – Biko Maura ruminates on white privilege and the mythology of the neutral body.
Michelle Ellsworth brings a real head trip to American Realness 2018.
Day 1 of the Festival of Festivals or January Feast: Based on last night’s opening works by Will Rawls, Meg Stuart and Dana Michel I’d say the American Realness focus on the “breakdown of white-supremacist hierarchies” and on the practice of “realness as resistance,” is helping us all define which America(s) we mean to stand our ground for in the coming days.
Keith Hennessy, Empress Jupiter, Anna Martine Whitehead & Ruairí Donovan interviewed by Marin Sander-Holzman
Last chance to catch “Storing the Winter” tonight
Maria Hassabi is, in my experience, a divisive artist: You sort of either love her work or you don’t, without a lot of middle ground. Seeing SHOW this afternoon, at Abrons where it’s part of American Realness (you have one more shot tomorrow to see
Michael Dwyer contributes this essay on Juggalos and fan culture in the context of Neal Medlyn’s “Wicked Clown Love” at American Realness 2013.
Jeanine Durning interviewed by Marin Sander-Holzman for AMERICAN REALNESS 2013
One of San Francisco’s most exciting young choreographers is bringing her lauded 2010 work “Hot Wings” to American Realness
The American Realness Festival: Luciana Achugar’s “Puro Deseo,” and selections from John Jasperse, Faye Driscoll, and Miguel Gutierrez
After a compelling opening scene in which the powerful Michelle Boulé delivers a grieving and unintelligible monologue into a microphone while slumped over in a chair and dressed in a James Dean blonde wig, blue jeans, white t-shirt and red jacket, the 90-minute Last Meadow
Just read about this over at the Contemporary Performance site – the american realness festival. most of it is taking place at Abrons Arts Center from January 8-11, some of it is at New Museum and at Japan Society. The festival website is here and