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How Do We Free Those Who Are Already Free?

Avatar photo by Emma Forgione October 26, 2022October 26, 2022

African scholars Felwine Sarr and Dorcy Rugamba seek to answer this question with the musical theatre performance Freedom, I’ll have lived your dream until the very last day.

Posted inArt

Is Shadow Puppetry a Dying Art Form?

Avatar photo by Radiyah Chowdhury October 25, 2022October 25, 2022

There are tensions between those who wish to preserve the nature of shadow play and those who want to see it evolve.

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Hope and Agony According to Felwine Sarr

Avatar photo by Minh Le October 23, 2022October 26, 2022

Traces — Speech to African Nations is a spoken word piece with music written by the acclaimed Senegalese scholar and performed by the Burkinabé actor Étienne Minoungou.

Posted inFilm

A Crash Course in Method Acting 

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel July 19, 2022July 20, 2022

Hyperallergic talks to historian Isaac Butler and curator Livia Bloom Ingram about how performance technique evolves and what is and isn’t method acting.

Posted inFilm

The Jackass Series Deserves Serious Recognition as Documentary Art

by Juan Barquin February 6, 2022February 15, 2022

The infamously crude TV and film franchise continues a tradition of cinematic physical comedy going back to the Silent Era.

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Guggenheim Bilbao’s Cleaning Staff Stages Protest-Performance Over Dismal Wages

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia December 13, 2021December 16, 2021

This weekend, artist Lorenzo Bussi collaborated with cleaning workers to protest poor working conditions and low pay at the glitzy contemporary art museum.

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Betsy Damon’s Pioneering Ecofeminist Practice

by Ksenia M. Soboleva November 9, 2021November 10, 2021

Curated by Monika Fabijanska, Betsy Damon — Passages: Rites and Rituals pulls Damon’s performance practice out from oblivion.

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Did Judy Chicago Just Troll Us?

by Larissa Archer October 21, 2021October 21, 2021

Nowhere in the museums’ advertising blitzkrieg for the performance were we told to bring our wildfire-season masks as well as our covid masks, and covid masks don’t prevent smoke inhalation.

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Coco Fusco Enlists Cuban Artists to Recite Heberto Padilla’s Forced Confessions

Avatar photo by Coco Fusco April 27, 2021April 27, 2021

Fifty years ago, poet Heberto Padilla was forced to publicly denounce himself and his friends as counterrevolutionaries.

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Nikita Gale Makes the Labor of Tina Turner’s Performances Visible

Avatar photo by Allison Conner April 25, 2021April 23, 2021

Gale considers the work occurring behind the scenes and how technologies structure our experience of live performances.

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Hanif Abdurraqib on Black Performance and the Joy of Writing his New Book

Avatar photo by Monica Uszerowicz March 30, 2021April 6, 2021

The poet talks to Hyperallergic about A Little Devil in America and the process behind his new music podcast, Object of Sound.

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“I Call It Blaxidermy”: Pamela Council on Their Art and Aesthetic

Avatar photo by Clarity Haynes December 2, 2020December 1, 2020

“As a Black woman artist, I get asked about the political meaning of my work, but I don’t often get asked why it looks the way it does.”

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