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Aliza Shvarts
Aliza Shvarts (born 1986) is an artist and writer who works in performance, video, and installation. Her art and writing explore queer and feminist understandings of reproduction and duration, and use these themes to affirm abjection, failure, and "decreation". Simone Weils idea of decreation has been described as "a mystical passage from the created to the uncreated" and "a spiritual exercise of mystical passage: across a threshold, from created to uncreated". Shvarts' 2008 performance '' Untitled enior Thesis 2008'' generated an international debate. The work explores ideas of fiction and doubt, and engages feminist inquiries into the medical, political, and legal frameworks of gender and reproduction. Her subsequent works ''Non-consensual Collaborations'' (2012–ongoing) and ''How does it feel to be a fiction'' (2017) have expanded on such themes as consent, narrative, and doubt. Shvarts holds a BA from Yale University, and a PhD in Performance Studies from New York Universit ...
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Performance Art
Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a public in a fine art context in an interdisciplinary mode. Also known as ''artistic action'', it has been developed through the years as a genre of its own in which art is presented live. It had an important and fundamental role in 20th century avant-garde art. It involves four basic elements: time, space, body, and presence of the artist, and the relation between the creator and the public. The actions, generally developed in art galleries and museums, can take place in the street, any kind of setting or space and during any time period. Its goal is to generate a reaction, sometimes with the support of improvisation and a sense of aesthetics. The themes are commonly linked to life experiences of the artist themselves, or the need of denunci ...
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Performance Studies
Performance studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that uses performance as a lens and a tool to study the world. The term ''performance'' is broad, and can include artistic and aesthetic performances like concerts, theatrical events, and performance art; sporting events; social, political and religious events like rituals, ceremonies, proclamations and public decisions; certain kinds of language use; and those components of identity which require someone to do, rather than just be, something. Performance studies draws from theories and methods of the performing arts, anthropology, sociology, literary theory, cultural studies, speech communication, and others. Performance studies tends to concentrate on a mix of research methods. The application of practice-led or practice-based research methods has become a widespread phenomenon not just in the anglophone world. As such research projects integrate established methods like literature research and oral history with perfo ...
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Recess Activities
Recess Art is a publicly accessible nonprofit artist work and exhibition space located in a street-level storefront at 46 Washington Avenue in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, New York City. Free of charge and open to the public, Recess facilitates everyday interactions between artists and the community in order to promote the productive space of the working artist as a site of valuable visual and intellectual interactions. History Recess was formed in May 2009 to address concerns that emerging artists cannot afford to live or work in proximity to exhibition communities. Recess "functions neither exclusively as a gallery nor a studio space, but instead gives artists the ability to set the terms of their work in a store-front location that is open to the public. The nature of this setting creates a shared space for artists, viewers, and the work." Artists in Session Once a year, Recess has an open call for applications for artists interested in Recess's artist in residence Artist-i ...
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Viral Phenomenon
Viral phenomena or viral sensation are objects or patterns that are able to replicate themselves or convert other objects into copies of themselves when these objects are exposed to them. Analogous to the way in which viruses propagate, the term ''viral'' pertains to a video, image, or written content spreading to numerous online users within a short time period. This concept has become a common way to describe how thoughts, information, and trends move into and through a human population. The popularity of viral media has been fueled by the rapid rise of social network sites, wherein audiences—who are metaphorically described as experiencing "infection" and "contamination"—play as passive carriers rather than an active role to 'spread' content, making such content "go viral". The term ''viral media'' differs from '' spreadable media'' as the latter refers to the ''potential'' of content to become viral. Memes are one known example of informational viral patterns. History ...
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Fake News
Fake news is false or misleading information presented as news. Fake news often has the aim of damaging the reputation of a person or entity, or making money through advertising revenue.Schlesinger, Robert (April 14, 2017)"Fake news in reality" '' U.S. News & World Report''. Although false news has always been spread throughout history, the term "fake news" was first used in the 1890s when sensational reports in newspapers were common."The real story of 'fake news': The term seems to have emerged around the end of the 19th century"
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Truthiness
Truthiness is the belief or assertion that a particular statement is true based on the intuition (knowledge), intuition or perceptions of some individual or individuals, without regard to evidence, logic, Intelligence, intellectual examination, or facts. Truthiness can range from ignorant assertions of falsehoods to deliberate duplicity or propaganda intended to sway opinions. The concept of truthiness has emerged as a major subject of discussion surrounding Politics of the United States, U.S. politics during the Information Age, late 20th and early 21st centuries because of the perception among some observers of a rise in propaganda and a growing hostility toward factual reporting and fact-based discussion. American television comedian Stephen Colbert coined the term ''truthiness'' in this meaning as the subject of a segment called "Recurring segments on The Colbert Report#The Wørd, The Wørd" during the pilot episode of his political satire program ''The Colbert Report'' on Oc ...
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The 8th Floor
The 8th Floor is an exhibition and event space established by Donald and Shelley Rubin in 2010. It is located at 17 West 17th Street in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood in the same building as the Rubin Museum The Rubin Museum of Art, also known as the Rubin Museum is a museum dedicated to the collection, display, and preservation of the art and cultures of the Himalayas, the Indian subcontinent, Central Asia and other regions within Eurasia, with a per .... The space features a rotating selection of artists and exhibitions, many with a focus on social justice. In 2019 they launched a series of two-year exhibits under the theme ''Revolutionary Cycles''. References External links * Organizations established in 2010 Chelsea, Manhattan Art museums and galleries in New York City {{DEFAULTSORT:8th Floor ...
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Hemispheric Institute Of Performance And Politics
Diana Taylor (born 1950) is an American academic. She is a professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at New York University' s Tisch School of the Arts and the founding director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. She is also the president of the Modern Language Association (MLA) in 2017-2018. Her work focuses on Latin American and U.S. theatre and performance, performance and politics, feminist theatre and performance in the Americas, Hemispheric studies, and trauma studies. She is married to Eric Manheimer, former New York Bellevue Hospital medical director and current producer of the NBC television show New Amsterdam. Early life Taylor graduated from the Universidad de las Américas, A.C. in Mexico, where she earned a bachelor of arts degree in creative writing in 1971, and another degree from Aix-Marseille University in France. She earned a master's degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1974 and a PhD from the University of W ...
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Artforum
''Artforum'' is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art. The magazine is distinguished from other magazines by its unique 10½ x 10½ inch square format, with each cover often devoted to the work of an artist. Notably, the ''Artforum'' logo is a bold and condensed iteration of the Akzidenz-Grotesk font, a feat for an American publication to have considering how challenging it was to obtain fonts favored by the Swiss school via local European foundries in the 1960s. John P. Irwin, Jr named the magazine after the ancient Roman word ''forum'' hoping to capture the similarity of the Roman marketplace to the art world's lively engagement with public debate and commercial exchange. The magazine features in-depth articles and reviews of contemporary art, as well as book reviews, columns on cinema and popular culture, personal essays, commissioned artworks and essays, and numerous full-page advertisements from prominent galleries around the world. History ' ...
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Texte Zur Kunst
''Texte zur Kunst'' is a German contemporary art magazine. History ''Texte zur Kunst'' was founded in 1990 in Cologne by art historian Stefan Germer and art critic Isabelle Graw. It has been published in Berlin since 2000. Since the death of Stefan Germer in 1998, Graw has acted as publication's sole publisher. Contents ''Texte zur Kunst'' is published in the small journal format of 166 x 230 mm and contains approximately 300 pages. Issues are thematic and feature essays, interviews, and round-table discussions that address culture-sector questions relating to contemporary art, socio-political theory, and cultural policy from an art historical and sociological perspective. Themes focus on areas of art, institutional critique, feminism, media criticism and theory of subjectivity. The magazine is influenced by the journal ''October'', but differentiates itself by also covering pop-culture. Unlike other art magazines, it aims to critically examine rather than promo ...
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Artspace, New Haven
Artspace is a contemporary art gallery and non-profit organization located in downtown New Haven, Connecticut. Artspace presents gallery exhibitions, outdoor installations, a major annual Open Studios festival, and a teen education program. Artspace has been recognized for its artistic merit by the National Endowment for the Arts, the LEF Foundation, and the Tremaine and Warhol foundations. The Artspace gallery, located at 50 Orange St., New Haven, houses of a storefront in the Ninth Square neighborhood for exhibitions, workshops, and staff offices. History Artspace was conceived as early as 1984, by a group of New Haven-based visual and performing artists in response to the elimination of a promised gallery space dedicated to local artists in the Shubert, a prominent local theater. The name Artspace originally described the permanent space and black box reserved for local artists and performers that were promised but never delivered by the Shubert. In its next incarnation ...
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Jennifer Doyle
Jennifer Doyle is a Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is a queer theorist, art critic and sports writer. Doyle is the author of ''Campus Sex, Campus Security'' (2015), which explores the intersection of discourse on sexual harassment and campus security, ''Hold it Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art'' (2013), which examines how artists work with emotion, and ''Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire'' (2006), which considers how artworks are about sex. Along with José Esteban Muñoz and Jonathan Flatley, Doyle is co-editor of ''Pop Out: Queer Warhol'' (1996). She is also widely known for her feminist sports blogs, "From a Left Wing" (2007–2013) and "The Sports Spectacle." She was a co-host for KPFK Los Angeles'sThe People's Game" a daily podcast for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and wrote online commentary for Fox Soccer during the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. From 2002 to 2005 she DJ'd for Vaginal Davis's weekly club ...
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