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Posted by Spiny Norman
on 7/8/2009, 11:37 pm, in reply to "Re: OMG is't still here!?!!"
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Humans are such interesting creatures.
--Previous Message--
: That was easier to find than I expected! I
: searched facebook for "spice" and
: came up with over 500 results... I was
: worried... but there it was on pg 2. Thank
: goodness.
:
: It's funny to try to describe the sort of
: performance I studied because it's the sort
: of thing where descriptions seem boring,
: loony, or... well...
:
: Any way, as of last year I've got my Master
: of Fine Arts and have focused on Performance
: Art for the last 6(ish?) years. The
: wikipedia (though it doesn't tell you what
: odd things I've been doing for the last 6ish
: years) actually has an alright general
: description of " performance art
: ", and there's a HUGE spread of what
: happens under that term.
:
: As a grad student I taught a class on DADA
: and was recommending watching Monty Python's
: Flying Circus as an example of something
: more recent done with a somewhat similar
: spirit. Sadly I did not actually get to
: watch Monty Python with the students. Oh
: well.
:
: One of the cool things about it is that I've
: been able to travel (on the school's dime)
: to Belarus (1st time out of the US) and
: Indonesia (2nd time out of the US) for
: festivals. Sadly though, one doesn't often
: make money making the art, so I'm hoping to
: one day find a job teaching it. In the mean
: time my goal is to get to at least one
: international festival a year, and more if I
: can somehow afford it. For whatever
: reason(s) the type of work I do isn't very
: common in the US, but there is an active
: international community.
:
: So, yeah. This summer I'll be going to
: Beijing, where I don't think I'm allowed to
: mention Tianamen Square, and definitely NOT
: the Dalai Lama, unless I really want to get
: arrested. And if I keep on this trend of
: traveling I, just as my advisor does, will
: be getting funny looks each time some US
: official looks at my passport. She's had
: more than funny looks.
:
: But I didn't actually say what I do...
: Umm... RUN AWAY!!! I ought to put more
: documantation of my work online, because
: it's both diverse and related, and I'm not
: always so good at summing it up. Usually I
: start rambling on telling stories or clam up
: and get awkward depending on who I'm talking
: to. The one video I have up is here:
: elapse festival piece It's of a 30 hour
: piece - condensed into under 1 hour! If
: you're interested in looking at it, I
: recommend letting it load so you can further
: speed it up, or skip ahead as desired. The
: other video I have up on that site, I
: haven't looked at since I was working on my
: thesis show, so I don't know anymore how
: embarrassed I'll be by others
: watching/listening to it. For my thesis
: show I had done some performance work at my
: grandparents' mostly abandoned farm and
: reworked the video documentation into an
: installation.
:
: Ok... I'm done for tonight.
:
:
: --Previous Message--
: Hi flower! Yes, the old group is still here,
: just not quite as vocal as we used to be.
: We're also on facebook, look for the group
: Spice. What sort of performing did you
: study?
:
: KD
:
: --Previous Message--
: The spouses have outlived the email address
: I
: used to use as a spouse! Oh my goodness!
: (stupid hotmail - indigoflower@hotmail.com
: is no longer mine).
:
: I've been engulfed in schooling for the last
: 8 years and now am technically a performance
: artist of sorts (who, sadly is making a
: living as a florist right now, oh the
: irony!)
:
: Any who, I'm very glad to see this is not
: dead yet!
:
: -flower (who is also being watched by the
: government via facebook)
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