Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:43:55 -0500 (EST) From: malgosia askanas <ma-AT-panix.com> Subject: Practice Yes, yes! Let's talk about what kind of art we do. People seem to absolutely never do that on art lists. So I basically do tabletop theatre with objects, and everything I do emerges in cycles, or sub-genres. With my partner in Boston (from whence I recently moved to NY), the excellent puppeteer Sara Peattie, I do short two-person shows always called "News of the Week". We have an incredible amount of junk -- pieces of cloth, bubble wrap, plastic toys/fruit/plants, old hardware, household junk, etc., and we use this to create tabletop tableaux while reciting bizarre tales, supposedly representing the week's news. Another genre is "Circus of Thought", in which I think aloud on various grandly pre-announced topics, such as pliers or gloves, using various objects as thinking-tools and thinking-accessories. I also do object-aided cycles of epic recountings such as "From the Annals of Art" and "From the Annals of Politics". Lately I've been obsessed with doing shadow puppetry with an overhead projector. For this, I've been using found images, which I get xeroxed onto transparencies and make into either backgrounds or moving pieces -- some articulated, some not; and also found and doctored-up texts -- for instance, folktales which I rewrite slightly so as to make them into epic "Annals of one thing or another" pieces. Something that's been in the back of my mind for a long time, but hasn't taken a materializable shape yet, is a cycle called "Museum of the Intellect". This would take the form of a series of talks describing the exhibits of a vast museum dedicated to the workings of the intellect. It would involve miniature "reconstructions" of the exhibits, overhead-projector stuff, and all kinds of other what not. I think of everything I do as street performance, even though lately I've been performing only inddors and even though the overhead projector stuff couldn't possibly be done in any place inhabited by wind. -m --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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