“To be a performance artist, you have to hate theatre. Theatre is fake: there is a black box, you pay for a ticket, and you sit in the dark and see somebody playing somebody else’s life. The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.”
Tag: 07.20.10
Book Thief With Shopping List Gets 42 Months In Jail
“A Cambridge graduate referred to as the ‘tome raider’ who stole antique books worth £40,000 from a world-famous library was jailed for three-and-a-half years today. William Jacques, who stole £1m of rare books in the late 1990s, drew up a ‘thief’s shopping list’ as he continued his life of crime.”
As Europe Cuts Funding For Culture…
“Europe was different . . . exactly because we had theatres in every town, the best art collections, a sense of history and performance. And now what? We’re shutting it all down to save the equivalent of a kid’s pocket money!”
A Short History Of The Bolshoi
“The Bolshoi is arguably the most famous ballet company in the world; it all but stars in its own epic tale of fortune and failure, a story with more dramatic turns than a pirouetting prima ballerina.”
Edinburgh Festivals Hire Geek-In-Residence
It “aims to be an enabling project, which will help the different festivals to work with technologists, artists, audiences and digital communities. The purpose of such collaborations will be to develop and create prototype digital and technological tools that can improve the festival experience for audiences and participants.”
Russian Curators To Appeal Conviction
“Their conviction followed a year-long trial over an exhibit called Forbidden Art that included images of Jesus with a Mickey Mouse head and a separate work of Christ with his head replaced by an Order of Lenin medal. After the trial, Yerofeyev said he believed Russian leaders Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev were behind the conviction.”
Should Newly Unsealed Kafka Books Be Published?
“Kafka died in 1924 and, if his last wishes had been followed, novels such as The Trial and The Castle would never have seen the light of day.”
Amazon Reports E-Books Outselling Paper
“The company has revealed that it has been selling 143 e-books for every 100 hardcover books over the course of the second quarter of 2010. The outpacing of digital books versus hardbacks is also accelerating, as during the last month alone, Amazon.com has sold 180 Kindle e-books for every 100 hardcovers.”
Movies Anywhere, On Anything
US media companies are “testing a system that will let you watch the movies you buy wherever you are, regardless of formats and other technical hurdles. Like a bank account accessible from all ATMs, your account would follow you, no matter what brand of machine you use.”
Six Artists Shortlisted For Trafalgar Plinth
“The fourth plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square – occupied at the moment by Yinka Shonibare’s Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle – has in the past decade become a stage for works of contemporary art. And six artworks were shortlisted yesterday to be considered to become the next installation on the plinth in time for the 2012 Olympics.”