Re: The Alibi

2006-11-14 Thread Lucio Agra
What a placeOn 11/14/06, phanero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some shots I found of the Alibi lounge here in Portland.http://thelope.blogspot.com/2006/11/northwest-tiki.html

Re: The Lek: Sex dances for one to four people.

2006-10-08 Thread Lucio Agra
I've been amazed by the recent work of Marina Abramovic called Balkan Erotic Epic, which is in some aspects connected to this discussion. Now the exhibition arrived here in Sao Paulo but I can quote one of its shows in English: http://www.skny.com/lasso-bin/exhibition.lasso?-token.ExID=10209

Re: sexuality in performance and video

2006-09-21 Thread Lucio Agra
. - Alan On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Lucio Agra wrote: After sending I'd also rememebered the concept of liminality proposed by Victor Turner/Richard Scbhechner. Expose itself nude in western societies tends to induce some states of perception analog to the risks concerned to some rituals (like walking

Re: sexuality in performance and video

2006-09-20 Thread Lucio Agra
There's a link uniting performance art, risk, presence and, of course nudity. Not considering the fact that nudity, in various cases, do not attract the issue of sexuality in performance, it is, however, one of the most frequent procedures for it is at the core of any conception of artistic

Re: sexuality in performance and video

2006-09-20 Thread Lucio Agra
After sending I'd also rememebered the concept of liminality proposed by Victor Turner/Richard Scbhechner. Expose itself nude in western societies tends to induce some states of perception analog to the risks concerned to some rituals (like walking on fire, etc.) Lucio On 9/20/06, Lucio Agra

Re: open call

2006-09-18 Thread Lucio Agra
It is incredible how it is an universal problem. I faced some difficult situations in this field months ago, and now I am also looking for a good name. The worst is when you think about a good pun (like I had with the word bauhaus - not the band or the school) and forget it later. BTW, what was

Re: Performance text, 123 Pleasant Street, BIOS conference, after equipment hassles

2006-09-16 Thread Lucio Agra
I found the text miserably great, one of the best things you ever did. Not only because it sustains itself as a poetic text but also it is one of the most accurate depictions of what can happen in a performance - when not maybe happen in the mind of the performer. Mainly when he/she deals with

Re: IMQUADSX2006

2006-08-12 Thread Lucio Agra
Amazing! There is a russian artist, Pavel Filonov, whose work would generate kind of great complexity in this way... best Lucio BROn 8/11/06, mwp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMQUADSX20067 images (with details) from the IMQuadsX2006 series, presented in