A murder of crows The lichen covered bark Araucaria, my monkey puzzle Forsythia The rich, luscious green A slow drizzle The colorful ladies lined up next to each other – some bright and tidy, others collapsing on their old bones Everything damp To the sound of wind chimes And the rustle of a collar A […]
Category: Art
Living and Working in the Age of Distraction
This weekend the Metropolitan Museum extended their opening hours for visitors to see the Costume Institute’s blockbuster show about Chinese-inspired fashion, China: Through the Looking Glass. I’ve been wanting to see the show since it opened but never seemed to be able to make the time to check it out, so I was excited about […]
Soap time
For years my husband and I have been making lye/oil soap. We were gifted a recipe from my sister Angela that includes a ton of super luxurious oils like avocado, kukui nut, olive, coconut, and palm oil, along with apricot kernel, grape seed and shea butter. The soap always comes out pretty much the same […]
NY Haunts
In 2008, my theater company came to NY from the UK where I was living at the time to perform our show Whisper at PS122. To help my company members get their bearings in NY and to ensure they’d have some good places to eat/experience while in town, I made a map for them. In […]
An Evolutionary Revolution
This week I’ve contributed a blog post to TCG’s Artistic Innovation blog salon, curated by Caridad Svich, as part of the 2013 TCG National Conference: Learn Do Teach. The original blog post is here. I’m really pleased to have been invited to share my thoughts on the ways in which artists might be performing evolutionary […]
Artist-in-Residence in Japan
My friend Gillian shared this with me and I thought it was worth adding here. The Koganecho artist-in-residence program is looking for applicants. This is a snippet from the call: “Koganecho Bazaar” is an art festival hosted by the Koganecho Area Management Center, an NPO that uses art to revitalize the Yokohama City Naka Ward […]
First world
Sometimes the line between the ‘third world’ and the ‘first world’ is extremely porous in New York City. Share Share List
Wise words
“In a culture where the daily human hopes have shrunk to the myriad opiates of self-centered satisfaction, art is more necessary and powerful than ever … Rather than experience life as a shard, art can unite and connect the strands of the universe.” Anne Bogart Share Share List
Photos by Jonas Hummel
Jonas Hummel, a PhD student who is working with MMUle (MMU Laptop Ensemble), has been taking photos of us this week in Glasgow as we get The Good, The God and The Guillotine into shape. Here are a selection of some of his lovely images from rehearsal and from my birthday dinner: Share Share […]
Notes on TGTGATG…
These are the notes I’ve written in preparation for our showing of The Good, The God and The Guillotine, which we are showing as a work-in-progress on Saturday at Tramway. Director’s Notes: I first encountered Camus’ L’Étranger when I was a teenager living in suburban central Florida, a land of flat expanses, beaches, concrete architecture […]