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Stormy Weather The view from my office window at the New Works...

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:08:28 -0700

Stormy Weather

The view from my office window at the New Works office, taken by Clancy Dennehy on May 14, 2013.

I’m going to miss this place.

Last days at the castle: the bench on 15th & Main. (at...

Tue, 07 May 2013 15:43:59 -0700

Last days at the castle: the bench on 15th & Main. (at Heritage Hall)

Last days at the castle: Meeting with Amber (at Heritage Hall)

Tue, 07 May 2013 15:42:18 -0700

Last days at the castle: Meeting with Amber (at Heritage Hall)

Braised Chicken With Tomatoes, Olives and Capers

Mon, 06 May 2013 13:00:57 -0700

Braised Chicken With Tomatoes, Olives and Capers:

RECIPES | May 5, 2013 | Braised Chicken With Tomatoes, Olives and Capers | By MARK BITTMAN

Burdock & Co. (at Burdock and Co)

Sat, 04 May 2013 19:22:40 -0700

Burdock & Co. (at Burdock and Co)

"After learning my flight was detained 4 hours, I heard the announcement: If anyone in the vicinity..."

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:24:19 -0700

“

After learning my flight was detained 4 hours,
I heard the announcement:
If anyone in the vicinity of gate 4-A understands any Arabic,
Please come to the gate immediately.

Well—one pauses these days. Gate 4-A was my own gate. I went there.
An older woman in full traditional Palestinian dress,
Just like my grandma wore, was crumpled to the floor, wailing loudly.
Help, said the flight service person. Talk to her. What is her
Problem? we told her the flight was going to be four hours late and she
Did this.

I put my arm around her and spoke to her haltingly.
Shu dow-a, shu- biduck habibti, stani stani schway, min fadlick,
Sho bit se-wee?

The minute she heard any words she knew—however poorly used—
She stopped crying.

She thought our flight had been canceled entirely.
She needed to be in El Paso for some major medical treatment the
Following day. I said no, no, we’re fine, you’ll get there, just late,

Who is picking you up? Let’s call him and tell him.
We called her son and I spoke with him in English.
I told him I would stay with his mother till we got on the plane and
Would ride next to her—Southwest.

She talked to him. Then we called her other sons just for the fun of it.

Then we called my dad and he and she spoke for a while in Arabic and
Found out of course they had ten shared friends.

Then I thought just for the heck of it why not call some Palestinian
Poets I know and let them chat with her. This all took up about 2 hours.

She was laughing a lot by then. Telling about her life. Answering
Questions.

She had pulled a sack of homemade mamool cookies—little powdered
Sugar crumbly mounds stuffed with dates and nuts—out of her bag—
And was offering them to all the women at the gate.

To my amazement, not a single woman declined one. It was like a
Sacrament. The traveler from Argentina, the traveler from California,
The lovely woman from Laredo—we were all covered with the same
Powdered sugar. And smiling. There are no better cookies.

And then the airline broke out the free beverages from huge coolers—
Non-alcoholic—and the two little girls for our flight, one African
American, one Mexican American—ran around serving us all apple juice
And lemonade and they were covered with powdered sugar too.

And I noticed my new best friend—by now we were holding hands—
Had a potted plant poking out of her bag, some medicinal thing,

With green furry leaves. Such an old country traveling tradition. Always
Carry a plant. Always stay rooted to somewhere.

And I looked around that gate of late and weary ones and thought,
This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.

Not a single person in this gate—once the crying of confusion stopped
—has seemed apprehensive about any other person.

They took the cookies. I wanted to hug all those other women too.
This can still happen anywhere.

Not everything is lost.

”

- Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952), “Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal.” I think this poem may be making the rounds, this week, but that’s as it should be. (via oliviacirce)

http://www.scottandscott.ca/

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:28:47 -0700

http://www.scottandscott.ca/

oktheater: This week we are visited by our friend and curator,...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:40:27 -0700

oktheater:

This week we are visited by our friend and curator, Mark Russell.

oktheater: Nature Theater of Oklahoma looks backward (and...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:40:02 -0700

oktheater:

Nature Theater of Oklahoma looks backward (and forward!) in theater time with curator Mark Russell of Under the Radar Festival in New York City. Join us as we chat with Mark about his early years in the Austin, TX music scene, his tenure at PS122, the invention of UTR, and hopes and fears about his upcoming move to Lausanne, Switzerland. Together we talk about drilling down, burning out, and branching out, and still somehow keeping one foot in the city we all love.

To read something about the history of the Filmore East and NYC’s East Village, go to: http://www.boweryboogie.com/2012/03/live-at-the-fillmore-east-a-history-of-105-2nd-avenue/

For a crash course in the US Culture Wars of the 1990s and the artists known as the NEA Four: http://www.franklinfurnace.org/research/essays/nea4/ayers.html

For more about the AIDS crisis, ACT UP, and the film Mark mentions: “How to Survive a Plague” go to: http://surviveaplague.com

(FYI: the weird heavy burbled breathing you hear in the background about 9 minutes in to this podcast is not one of us – it’s actually Ancho the cat purring on Kelly’s lap - a little too close to the mic.)

free-parking: Judy Chicago, Suzanne Lacy, Sandra Orgel, Aviva...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:38:55 -0700

free-parking:

Judy Chicago, Suzanne Lacy, Sandra Orgel, Aviva Rashmani presented Ablutions in a Venice, California studio in June of 1972. The piece was created at the culmination of the Feminist Art Program at CalArts after Womanhouse was dismantled. It was one of the first pieces to treat the subject of rape, breaking the silence around the taboo subject and giving voice to women survivors. Ablutions depicted the violent victimisation of women through a sequence of images of bondage, abuse and cleansing. [via]

Suzanne Lacy describes the work:

A woman was tied into chair and then tied to everything else in the vast room…after being ‘bathed’ in raw eggs, earth, blood. The sound was a tape recording of women telling about their rapes. At the end of the piece the last voice repeated over and over ‘I felt so helpless all I could do was lie there and cry’.

On Social Practice & Performance

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:35:32 -0700

On Social Practice & Performance:

via Culturebot

Clothes Make the Man (and Woman)…Smarter

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:42:18 -0700

Clothes Make the Man (and Woman)…Smarter:

Fun article via Etsy which I think my dancer friends will appreciate for its reference to embodied cognition.

The social purpose of an arts organization

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:22:05 -0700

The social purpose of an arts organization

"We’re hiding from each other and real relationships…We get to edit, and that means we get to delete,..."

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 11:13:12 -0800

“We’re hiding from each other and real relationships…We get to edit, and that means we get to delete, and that means we get to retouch. Human relationships are rich and they’re messy and demanding. And we clean them up with technology.”

- Sherry Turkle at TED | Put Down the Phone and Learn to Be Alone (via culturite)

British Gastronomy Typographical Print

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 11:11:35 -0800

British Gastronomy Typographical Print:

I first met Justine Chambers in 2008

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:29:51 -0800

I was trying to remember what year it was for a grant application. I know that I first met Justine when I was a guest curator for 12 Minutes Max, which was in 2008. Google is a handy tool! I had no idea that this podcast was made. Great to read that people appreciate having the curators talk about the work and why it was chosen.

http://www.plankmagazine.com/review/vancouver-plank-panel-go-twelve-minutes-max

What I'm reading with my coffee this morning...

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:51:55 -0800

What I'm reading with my coffee this morning...:

Leaders from the UK dance from the ballet, contemporary & commercial sectors debating on the future of dance in the face of spending cuts in their country.

Mr Cameron, it's time to get the designers in | Art and design | guardian.co.uk

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:34:26 -0700

Mr Cameron, it's time to get the designers in | Art and design | guardian.co.uk

Beyoncé accused of 'stealing' dance moves in new video | Stage | guardian.co.uk

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:47:00 -0700

Beyoncé accused of 'stealing' dance moves in new video | Stage | guardian.co.uk:

As sanjoyroy says in the comments to this article, “If she liked it, then she shoulda put a ring on it”.

Even better, this comment, apparently posted on Facebook by Jerome Bel.

Video

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:34:50 -0700