“terrorized in my bed with Artaud fast asleep” cf. I ache in the places where i used to play, of Leonard Cohen
and the late discovery of the Artaudian ghosting… (Leonard Cohen singing “Tower of Song” here.)
Simon Taylor
Tel Quel/Artaud: les risques enormes et les experiences aesthetiques limites + glossolalie politique; cf. my mother’s paranoia was politically inspired, Ghetto Life 101
it takes extremely fragile and extremely solid people to risk and even gain from the encounter with madness without succumbing or being taken by it to destruction and death
(here’s the link for reference to Ghetto Life 101, the radio diary of LeAlan Jones, then thirteen, and Lloyd Newman,
JK in reluctant blue
the pitiless repetition of cruel and crude acts of representation to extract maximum virtual profit
However widespread and ubiquitous its effects, virtualization today is almost always and everywhere construed and undertaken from the perspective of actuality. … In the Theatre of Cruelty, by contrast, action can never be measured, either positively or negatively, in terms of actuality. Virtualization, as a defining characteristic of the plague, no
critique of theatre: a representation of theatre as essentially colonial, its crisis
The critique would run like this: the New Zealand theatre is an aspect, a symptom, and an emblem, of colonial culture. In a way, it’s worse than poetry, because it’s expensive. It costs more money for its ephemeral productions than it does to publish the slim volume of
in the key of red
Thoughtfully tucked away in The Business Herald insert, The Insider reports:
Lessons for politicians, No. 1: Learn a little about your audience before you open your mouth. When John Key and National’s Manurewa candidate, Cam Calder, visited the former Homai College (now the Blind and Low Vision Education Network)
The Social Studio is where what happens happened
Artur Żmijewski’s show is covered by we make money not art. The blog talks about two works by the Polish artist. One is a recreation of a scientific study at Stanford to find out what happens to good people in an evil environment. Students volunteered to act, some playing