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Idiom at the 2010 NoPassport Conference
by Idiom February 24, 2010
2010 NoPassport Conference: Between Art and Theater: Genealogies of Performance
Featuring Joel Bassin, Shawn-Marie Garrett, Jesse Aron Green and Andrea Merkx
Moderated by Stephen Squibb1pm on February 27th at the Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe – 236 East 3rd St
Conference Registration required: $25.
Pre-registration available online now
Venue has limited seating. Early registration online Recommended.
For further information contact NoPassportPress@aol.comThe arrival of widespread interest in performance amongst contemporary artists has not immediately translated into an expanded interdisciplinary interest in that other, classically time-based medium, the theater. Nor has the theater, broadly speaking, seen fit to expand its categories to correspond with the sudden promiscuity of its traditional methodology. What is the nature of this reciprocal ignorance? Is it simply a question of incompatible constituencies? No doubt there is a deep divide in each community’s respective method of production – but are we so determined? This panel aims to examine the recent history of performance as it relates to current patterns of production and dissemination, with special consideration given to the divide between contemporary art and theater.
Joel Bassin is an Assistant Professor at Hunter College. Credits include: Managing Director, The Wooster Group; Associate Producer, Accinosco’s The Success of Failure…or, The Failure of Success; Company Manager, Mabou Mines; Marketing and Tour Director, Theatre de la Jeune Lune; Company Manager, Solo Voyages, directed by Joseph Chaikin, produced by Women’s Interart Theatre and the American National Theatre at the Kennedy Center.
Shawn-Marie Garrett is Assistant Professor at Barnard College, a theater scholar and critic, a Contributing Editor at Theater, and a professional dramaturg, director, and script developer. She holds D.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama and a B.A. in English from Duke. She has worked in various capacities on dozens of professional and university theatrical productions as well as on films in development in the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
Jesse Aron Green was born in 1979 in Boston, MA. He received his MFA from UCLA and his BA from Harvard University. His recent exhibitions include a project in the Oil Tanks at Tate Modern and the 2010 Whitney Biennial. He was an artist in residence at the CCA Kitakyushu, Japan for 2008/9 as a Henry Luce Foundation Scholar, and he is currently an artist in residence at the a-i-r Laboratory at the CCA Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland.
Andrea Merkx is an artist and musician living in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA from the University of New Mexico in 2000, and her MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York in 2006. Merkx worked as a curator of movement and time based performance at Starr Street Projects from 2006-2007. She has exhibited and performed at venues such as the Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art, the Armory Show, Jack Tilton Gallery, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, as well as the Bowery Ballroom and Irving Plaza.
