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Oh how I love a nice big May Day Protest. Though, to be fair, this was not a particularly energetic demonstration in comparison to the last one I took part in, which was may day 2002 in Paris. French people actually get upset when a fascist is a stone’s throw away from being president of […]

Take a look at that picture. When we started our durational performance/installation/creative playground on Saturday, there was no yarn. The volume of yarn that we went through indicates to me that Structures Without Integrity’s first piece “Simultaneous Landscapes” was a success.
If you were able to come and take one (or more) of our tours, I […]

A few photos are now up.

So I was on the phone with Jen from Anti Gravity Surprise earlier and she mentioned that she read my quote in this week’s New City. Intrigued, I promptly went and found the article. Sure enough, there I was. Not once, but twice. It’s a good piece written by a fresh faced cute little guy […]

I went to see the WIP performance of Rock and Roll: Impatience at Lucky Pierre’s space at Damen and Fulton this weekend. I took tsk”a1a” with me. I brought him along because he’s not into performance art and I wanted to know what he thought. I thought he’d like LP because of their silliness. I […]

I helped out with a Bookmaking Field Trip at 826CHI yesterday. The students from Washington Irving School (one class of 7th graders) were great. They all really got into making a story and illustrating it. After everybody had finished making their books (including illustrating the front cover) each story was read (I think that 5 […]

I spent yesterday in Hyde Park with Kath going to the Renaissance Society, the Seminary Co-Op”a1a”, and a reading by Lyn Hejinian presented by Poem Present at the U of C. After the reading, everybody went up to the tea room on the second floor of the SSRB to hob nob with the poet.
The show […]

Wow, that was pretty.
Much gratitude to Sarah for giving me her extra ticket to the show.
I didn’t know if I was going to like Eiko and Koma’s new piece, but I did. The sort of movement that these Japanese-born New York artists use is slow”a1a” and sometimes” a2a” uncomfortable. There were definitely times during the […]

When I think back on all of the people I met at Version this year, I remember that a lot of them were standoffish hipsters lacking good personal hygiene. But those people form a sort of ugly stinky backdrop to the tons of awesome people I did meet. I’ve mentioned Barry from the ABCO ArtSpace […]

Rachel Thorne Germond is a good choregrapher. I learned a bit about her background and process during the workshop taught by Karen Christopher and Litó Walkey at Links Hall back in the fall. I went to see her show “Wonder” at Links right around that time too. That particular show had some great moments, and […]

I know I haven’t posted in a while, but I’ve got a house guest and am preparing to head out of town for an extended period of time. But I promise, when I get back you’ll get to hear all about Sara Wookey, the Indy 500, the most boring baseball game I’ve ever been to […]