RAT day without art

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hi rats. 

yes, this dramaturgy discussion has been interesting; made me glad to be on the list. Paul: I don't THINK you can get Howard Barker's essays online. Re: Wilson' Dream Play: Yes, funny you should feel its coldness; I thought it was the warmest, most living piece he's made since The Black Rider. I mean, the amazing thing about his work is that the performers have equal value as the objects, the lights, the stage composition. Cause of this, I think, his work is often called "visual" (there's a book about him called, I think, Theater of Visions, written by Stefan Brecht, Bertolt's son). Because of this flattening out of actors (to be another element in the visual and vocal composition), his work may seem "cold" or lacking in emotion (ie the emotions of the actors). But, in A Dream Play, I thought this was perfect, astonishing even. So much of the text popped for me, the parts about Purity and the destruction of purity by the very human mechanisms of sight and sound and love and ma!
rriage and memory and work. I thought the performers were amazing, struggling to connect within the rigid geometry of their world, within repetitions and displacements. Oh boy, I'm still reeling from it. 

Also, (and this is for EVERYONE), I wanted to post a reminder that today is World AIDS Day / Day Without Art. I sometimes do research and editorial assistance for an online journal called artery: the aids/arts forum, which chronicles the arts made as reactions to teh AIDS pandemic. I thought the new issue may be of interest, since it includes 2 of Sarah Schulman's new plays. the url is: www.artistswithaids.org, and (for those of you who want more info) i'll paste the press release below. Feel free to forward it to others.

thanks, everyone.
--yelena

For Immediate Release

THE DECEMBER 1 ISSUE of "ARTERY: THE AIDS-ARTS FORUM"
(www.artistswithaids.org/artery) DEVOTED TO ACTIVISM; FEATURES PREMIER
PUBLICATION OF NEW SARAH SCHULMAN PLAY AND MUCH MORE

Contact: Editor Robert Atkins, artery@allianceforarts.org, 212.662.2961


Artery: The AIDS-Arts Forum, created earlier this year by the Estate Project
for Artists With AIDS, is the most acclaimed resource for examining the
ever-changing face of the AIDS crisis as reflected in the arts. Part zine,
part data base, and part conversational forum, Artery is also sponsoring the
ONLY international events calendar of cultural activities for WORLD AIDS DAY/DAY WITH(OUT) ART on DECEMBER 1. (Events can be posted via email at
artery@allianceforarts.org.)

Arteryıs December 1 theme is ACTIVISM approached from a fresh, stimulating,
and accessible perspective. Features include:
--A special section devoted to writer Sarah Schulman presenting the premier
publications of both her play "The Child" and two essays including "Through
the Looking Glass," which will be published next year by University of
Wisconsin Press in the anthology "Loss Within Loss," sponsored by the Estate
Project and edited by Edmund White;
--Jeff Weinsteinıs ode to the pleasures of activism and citizenship;
--Michael Bronskiıs surprising interviews with two dozen subjects--including
filmmaker Jennie Livingston, transgendered performer Kate Bornstein,
comedian Kate Clinton, Lambda Legal Defense Director Kevin Cathcart, and
NAMBLA head Bill Andriette--on the origins of their activism;
--Jim Hubbardıs catalog essay on AIDS-activist video for the "Fever in the
Archive" exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum opening on December 1;  
--Don Sheweyıs interview with community-health activist and educator Eric
Rofes; and many other features, interviews, reviews, and a round-table discussion.

Previews of the issue may be seen online by arrangement with the editor,
prior to uploading, the last week of November.

Additionally, note that the fall issue of Artery, IN MEMORIAM, is devoted to
the memorial impulse. For this informative and sometimes surprisingly
irreverent issue, Artery presents a smorgasbord of materials ranging from
opinion and commentary, interviews and artworks in a variety of media
(including Arteryıs first audio-work), to feature-articles-cum-data-bases
about AIDS music, AIDS memorials, and memorial services. The last is a
sampling of personal anecdotes about funerals and memorial services both
absurd and sublime by writers including Dorothy Alison and Christopher Bram.
In addition, this issue offers an incisive and surprising look at what
happens to the prices of an artistıs work after he or she dies, an angry  "postcard from grief" by Craig Lucas, as well as reports from the
International AIDS Conference in Durban, Provincetown, reviews of plays,
films, and much, much more.  


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