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Astro Artz
Astro Artz was an American publishing company founded by Susanna Dakin in the early 1980s. History The company was most notable for its partnership with '' High Performance'', an art magazine founded by Linda Frye Burnham. In 1980, Dakin met Burnham—who was struggling to keep ''High Performance'' afloat at the time—and offered to fund the magazine. Dakin and Burnham then established a publishing partnership, Astro Artz/High Performance, and maintained it for many years. Apart from ''High Performance,'' Astro Artz published many other works such as ''Art in Everyday Life'' by Linda Montano, ''Initiation Dream'' by Pauline Oliveros and Becky Cohen, ''The Amazing Decade: Women and Performance Art 1970-1980'' edited by Moira Roth, and ''Dressing Our Wounds in Warm Clothes'' by Donna Henes."Astro Artz." Printed Matter Inc. https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/publisher/184 Astro Artz gained its non-profit, tax-exempt status in 1984 and became eligible to receive grants. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Performance Magazine
''High Performance'' was a quarterly arts magazine based out of Los Angeles founded in 1978 and published until 1997. Its editorial mission was to provide support and a critical context for new, innovative and unrecognized work in the arts. ''High Performance'' started out covering exclusively performance art and gradually grew to include video, sound, and public art. It dealt with viewing the arts in the larger context of contemporary life, examining how the arts contribute in addressing social and cultural concerns, and also how those concerns impact the arts. In 1994, ''High Performance'' received the Alternative Press Award for Cultural Coverage from the ''Utne Reader'', and was nominated three other times for the same award. Editors and publishers Linda Frye Burnham served as the magazine's founding editor from 1978 to 1985. Steven Durland was the editor from 1986 until its end in 1997. From 1983 to 1995, ''High Performance'' was published by Astro Artz (renamed 18th Street ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Frye Burnham
Linda Frye Burnham (born 1940) is an American writer whose work and research focuses on performance art, community art, education and activism. In 1978 she was the founding editor of High Performance Magazine and later served as co-editor with Steven Durland until 1997. She has served as a staff writer for Artforum magazine, contributor to The Drama Review, among other publications. As an arts organizer Burnham co-founded in Santa Monica, California, the 18th Street Arts Center 18th Street Arts Center is a nonprofit arts center in Santa Monica, California. It was founded in 1988 and is the longest running artist residency center in Southern California. 18th Street Arts Center’s residency program hosts 60 or more Ameri ... (1988 with Susanna Dakin), and Highways Performance Space (1989 with Tim Miller). In 1995 she cofounded Art in the Public Interest with Steven Durland in North Carolina, as well as cofounding the Community Arts Network in 1999 with Steven Durland, Rober ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Montano
Linda Mary Montano (born January 18, 1942, Saugerties (town), New York, Saugerties, New York (state), New York) is an American performance artist. Early life Montano was raised in a devoutly Roman Catholic household, partly Irish and partly Italian, surrounded by artistic activity. Both her parents played in an orchestra but Linda's fascination with Catholic ritual and desire to do humanitarian service led her to join the novitiate of the Maryknoll Sisters after one year studying at the College of New Rochelle. After two years with the order, however, Montano was suffering from severe Anorexia nervosa, anorexia, and she left to return to her former college, from which she graduated in 1965 as a sculptor. Work Performance art During the rest of the 1960s, Montano continued to study and began performing, and by 1971 she was devoting herself exclusively to performance art. Around this time she married the photographer Mitchell Payne. During this period, Montano drifted away from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music. She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the 1960s, and served as its director. She taught music at Mills College, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Oliveros authored books, formulated new music theories, and investigated new ways to focus attention on music including her concepts of "deep listening" and "sonic awareness", drawing on metaphors from cybernetics. She was an Eyebeam resident. Early life and career Oliveros was born in Houston, Texas. She started to play music as early as kindergarten, and at nine years of age she began to play the accordion, received from her mother, a pianist, because of its popularity in the 1940s.Baker, Alan"An interview with Pauline Oliveros" January 2003. '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Becky Cohen
Becky or Beckie is a feminine given name, often a short form (hypocorism) of Rebecca. It may refer to: People * Rebecca Allison (born 1946), American cardiologist and transgender activist * Rebecca Becky Anderson (born 1967), British journalist and news anchor * Becky Ann Baker (born 1953), American actress * Rebecca Becky Bell (1971–1988), American teenager who died as the result of an abortion * Rebecca Becky Carney (born 1944), American politician * Rebecca Becky Downie (born 1992), British artistic gymnast * Rebecca Becky Easton (born 1974), English footballer * Rebecca Becky Edelsohn (1892–1973), American anarchist and hunger striker * Becky Edwards (other) * Rebecca Foon (born 1978), Canadian cellist, vocalist and composer * Rebecca Becky Hill (born 1994), English singer and songwriter * Becky Hobbs (born 1950), American country singer, songwriter and pianist * Beckie Middleton (born 1986), English international field hockey player * Rebecca Quick (born 1972), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moira Roth
Moira Roth was a feminist art historian and art critic who was Trefethen Professor of Art History at Mills College in Oakland, California from 1985 to 2017. She taught at the University of California, San Diego from 1974 to 1985. She was educated at the London School of Economics in England, and received a B.A. in sociology and an M.A. from New York University and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974. She wrote extensively on contemporary art, editing ''The Amazing Decade: Women and Performance Art in America 1970-1980, A Source Book'', published by Astro Artz (1983). Her collection of essays, ''Difference/Indifference: Musings on Postmodernism, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage'', was published, with a commentary by Jonathan David Katz, Jonathan D. Katz, by Psychology Press (1998), exploring the construction of masculinity and conflicting identities. She received a Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women's Cauc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donna Henes
Donna Henes (born September 19, 1945) is a ceremonial artist, urban shaman, ritual expert and consultant, speaker, workshop leader and award-winning writer. Henes is originally from Cleveland, Ohio. Biography Since 1972, Henes – known as Mama Donna – has designed and led multi-cultural, non-denominational celebrations, using ancient, traditional rituals and contemporary ceremonies. 2010 is the fifth anniversary of Henes' book, ''The Queen of My Self: Stepping Into Sovereignty in Midlife'' (Monarch Press 2005). She has also written three others, ''The Moon Watcher's Companion'' (Marlowe & Co. 2004); ''Celestially Auspicious Occasions: Seasons, Cycles and Celebrations'' (Perigree: Penguin/Putnam 1996); and ''Dressing Our Wounds In Warm Clothes'' (Astro Artz 1982); as well as a quarterly journal, ''Always In Season: Living in Sync with the Cycles.'' She publishes a monthly Ezine''The Queen's Chronicles''and also writes columns for The Huffington Post, Beliefnet and U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18th Street Arts Center
18th Street Arts Center is a nonprofit arts center in Santa Monica, California. It was founded in 1988 and is the longest running artist residency center in Southern California. 18th Street Arts Center’s residency program hosts 60 or more American and international artists and curators a year. History 18th Street Arts Center was founded by writer Linda Frye Burnham and Susanna Bixby Dakin, a visual artist and publisher of High Performance Magazine. In 1988, Dakin purchased the former production studio of Judy Chicago's ''The Dinner Party ''The Dinner Party'' is an installation artwork by feminist artist Judy Chicago. Widely regarded as the first epic feminist artwork, it functions as a symbolic history of women in civilization. There are 39 elaborate place settings on a triangul ...'' and four other adjacent buildings in Santa Monica and launched the nonprofit. In 1998 Dakin sold the buildings to the nonprofit 18th Street Arts Center. References External links18th Street ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
