Anatomical Theatres of Mixed Reality: The Operature

Anatomical Theatres of Mixed Reality: The Operature

Last year I was invited by performance company ATOM-r (Anatomical Theatres of Mixed Reality) to sit in on several rehearsals while they worked on their latest piece together, The Operature. Since that time, the work has had a showing in York, they have produced a book...
The Rise of the Performance Art Festival in the USA

The Rise of the Performance Art Festival in the USA

Guest Post by Autumn Hays  Over the last few years within the United States a growing interest has arisen in festivals that specialize in Performance Art, that offshoot of the visual Arts, who’s practices center around temporal body-based works. This...
Wandering SF: The Mission

Wandering SF: The Mission

  I recently saw the trailer for Woody Allen’s new movie Blue Jasmine starring Cate Blanchett.  There was an exterior shot of a cafe on the block I live on in the Mission neighborhood of San Francisco.  I pass that cafe almost everyday and I never...
Screens Named: Exhibition Strategies and Moving Images

Screens Named: Exhibition Strategies and Moving Images

I arrived 11 hours late to the movie. I asked the ticket-man if I’d missed anything. Yeah, he said, you missed the really dirty parts. Jesse Cain’s Parts and Labor is 13 hours. It is his hands replacing the engine of a car, piece by piece. The work is shot...