Critical Correspondence
I Can Only Be Me: Ann Liv Young Plays Sherry by Lizzie Feidelson
As part of this year’s American Realness Festival, held from January 10 through 20 at the Abrons Art Center, performer Ann Liv Young made regular appearances outside the venue in her Sherry Truck, offering free Sherapy and pink lattes. Lizzie Feidelson paid a visit to Sherry on the last evening of the festival. Download a […]
Jillian Peña in conversation with Marissa Perel on The Guiding Light
Jillian Pena investigates “light” as a concept, belief and pop symbol with CC co-editor, Marissa Perel. Pena’s new work, The Guiding Light, premiers at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, [BAX] on Friday, April 27 and runs through Sunday, April 29 2012. “My mom was agnostic. She was like, ‘Just hide when they all pray. Just hide.’ They would tell us that our bodies were vessels for Jesus…I like the idea of the vessel, but when you really believe in something it’s like emptying out in order for that to fill you, which is sexy. So, I am interested in that physicality. Religiosity in a physical sense. What that means. What that looks like.”
All Things Seen: Claudia La Rocco in conversation with Marissa Perel
Renowned dance critic Claudia La Rocco discusses her journey into the profession, the culture clash between the dance and visual art worlds, her hunger for discussion about performance and the invention of P-Club, and why the starving artist model is gross. “I feel incredibly, incredibly lucky to have stumbled into performance and the way in which the field has activated my writing and changed it… I think that that doesn’t get acknowledged enough by writers, how there is an immense debt that you owe your subject.”
Queering the Point(e): Katy Pyle in conversation with Marissa Perel
Katy Pyle’s, The Firebird will be presented as part of the Brink series at Dixon Place, curated by Kimberly Brandt, February 28-29th. “I like playing with people. It’s almost like a place in a person that resonates. It’s like an intersection of fear and excitement, to me, laughter. And, confusion and not knowing! There’s a lot of emotion in there. When you hit that chord, something’s actually happening. There’s a real response that’s coming out.”
