PAJ: A Journal of Performance and
Art
P.O. Box 260, Village Station, NY, NY 10014
212-243-3885 pajpub@aol.com
Spring 2002
PERFORMANCE IDEAS
A SERIES OF PUBLIC TALKS ON THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS
Curated by Meredith Monk and Bonnie Marranca
Free and Open to the Public at White Box, 526 W. 26th St.,
NY NY 10001, Tel: 212-714-2347
www.whitebox.org
LIVE PERFORMANCE IN THE 21ST CENTURY
TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 7:30 PM
Meredith Monk, Marianne Weems, Blondell Cummings, John Zorn,
Paul Krajniak
Moderator, Bonnie Marranca
CROSS MEDIA: CONTEMPORARY ART AND ITS AUDIENCE
TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 7:30 PM
Meredith Monk, Yvonne Rainer, Paul Kaiser, Joan Jonas, Phil Kline
Moderator, Bonnie Marranca
ART AS SPIRITUAL PRACTICE
TUESDAY, MAY 7, 7:30 PM
Meredith Monk, Richard Foreman, Agnes Denes, Eiko Otake, Shirin Neshat
Moderator, Bonnie Marranca
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Fall 2001
Performance Ideas: A Series of Public Dialogues on the Contemporary
Arts
"Art as Spiritual Practice" Nov. 5, 2001
Panel discussion with Meredith Monk, Alison Knowles, Eleanor Heartney,
Linda Montano. Moderated by Bonnie Marranca
"Myth and the Contemporary," Dec. 11, 2001
Panel discussion with Meredith Monk, John Jesurun, John Kelly, Eiko
Otake, Theodora Skipitares.
View them online at: http://www.location1.org/artists/performance_ideas.html
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May 16, 2001
PUBLIC DISCUSSION - "ART AND PERFORMANCE 2001"
TO CELEBRATE PAJ'S 25TH YEAR ON SATURDAY, MAY 19
AT LOCATION ONE IN SOHO, 26 GREENE ST., NEW YORK CITY
PANELISTS: DARYL CHIN, MICHAEL COUNTS, JENNIFER DALTON,
CHRISTOPHER HO, GILES LYON, MICHAEL RUSH, THEODORA SKIPITARES,
MARIANNE WEEMS, MAC WELLMAN, GREGORY WHITEHEAD
PAJ will celebrate its 25th year of publication, under the editorship
of its founders, Bonnie Marranca and Gautam Dasgupta, with a public
panel discussion—Art and Performance 2001—at the new Soho
media and performance space, Location One, 26 Greene St (between Canal
& Grand), NY NY 10013. Tel. 212-334-3347. It will be broadcast
live on the net from Location One (www.location1.org); admission is
free to the public. PAJ, which began publication in 1976, has been
an influential voice in the contemporary arts, covering performance,
dance, video, music, photography, installations, and new media. The
triannual journal, widely-respected for its critical writing and commentary,
has helped to shape dialogue and debate on the arts here and abroad.
ART AND PERFORMANCE 2001 : PANEL DISCUSSION
12:00 - 2:00 THE IDEA OF THE CONTEMPORARY, moderated
by Gautam Dasgupta
PAJ co-editor and chair of Theatre
Dept. of Skidmore College
Panelists: Mac Wellman, Obie-Award-winning playwright; Michael Counts,
founder/director,
GAle GAtes et al; Marianne Weems, founder/director, The Builders Association;
Giles Lyon, painter, Feigen Contemporary; Theodora Skipitares, director/
writer/puppeteer.
2:00 - 2:30 Lunch Break
2:30 - 4:30 CRITICISM AND THE NEW ARTS, moderated by
Bonnie Marranca
PAJ co-editor
and author of Ecologies of Theatre and Theatrewritings
Panelists: Michael Rush, regular contributor to the New York Times,
director, Palm Beach
Institute of Contemporary Art, and author of New Media in Late-20th
Century Art;
Jennifer Dalton, art critic and painter; Daryl Chin, Associate Editor
of PAJ, playwright, and founder of the Asian-American Film Festival;
Christopher Ho, art historian and visual artist; Gregory Whitehead,
playwright/radio producer/audio artist.
PAJ was founded in 1976 to publish important, original works in the
arts and the critical commentary about them, as an ongoing discourse
between art, artists, and the public. Publishers of the journal and
books, PAJ is internationally recognized as a pioneering force in
arts publishing, influencing the university curriculum, the field
of performance scholarship and documentation, and the theatrical repertoire.
Increasingly, the journal has moved toward bridging the gap between
performance and the visual arts, extending its coverage to new media
and gallery and museum exhibits, in a special section entitled "Art
& Performance Notes."
As an independent publisher, PAJ has been responsible for the publication
of more than 125 books, including volumes which explore the frontiers
of performance, visual, and electronic art; new criticism, historical
studies, documentation of 20th century modern and avant-garde works;
contemporary American plays and performance texts and plays in translation.
Since 1976, PAJ has generated the publication of more than 900 plays
and performance texts, translated from 20 languages.
Artists and critics published/featured in recent issues of PAJ include:
Yvonne Rainer, Douglas Dunn, Mike Kelley, Matthew Ritchie, Lenora
Champagne, Erik Ehn, Witold Gombrowicz, Rainer W. Fassbinder, Mary
Lucier, Heiner Müller, Meredith Monk, Gary Hill, Deborah Hay,
Richard Maxwell, Arakawa/Gins, Eiko and Koma, Wallace Shawn, Seamus
Heaney, Cindy Sherman, Bill Viola, Guillermo Gömez-Peña.
PAJ is a not-for-profit organization. This event is supported by
the New York State Council on the Arts Theatre Program Technical Assistance
Fund, the Creativity and Culture division of the Rockefeller Foundation
and Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.
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2000 Activities
Robert Wilson Video Program
Several evenings of videos devoted to the work of Robert
Wilson at Location One, a Soho gallery, at 26 Greene St., New
York.
Dates: November 9, 10, 11 and November 17, 18, 19 at 7:00
p.m. See Location
One for details.
Robert Wilson on Video
Retrospective of his work in theatre, opera, video, film, installation
November 9, 10, 11 and November 17, 18, 19 at 7:00 p.m.
Location One, 26 Greene St., NY NY 10013 tel:
212-334-3347
For two weekends in November the Soho gallery for performance and
new media, Location One, will host a video program of Robert Wilson
works in theatre, opera, video, film, and art. The internationally-celebrated
theatre and visual artist, Robert Wilson, is also represented in New
York this fall with the Giorgio Armani exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum,
which he designed, and his Stockholm production of Strindberg's
A Dream Play in the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival.
In this wide-ranging video program, which also features documentaries
on Wilson's life and work, the artist is highlighted not only as a
theatre and opera director and visual artist but also as an actor.
Several of his European creations, some little known to American audiences,
will also be shown, including the acclamied music theatre work, The
Black Rider, created with Tom Waits and William Burroughs; his
film, La Mort de Molière; German stagings of Gertrude Stein
texts, Saints and Singing and Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights. Also
part of the program is Memory/Loss which celebrates his Golden Lion
Award for Sculpture at the 1993 Venice Biennale.
American contributions include The Making of a Monologue: Robert
Wilson's Hamlet, his solo interpretation of the classic, and Hamletmachine,
his staging of the Heiner Müller text. Wilson's Houston Grand
Opera production of Four Saints in Three Acts, will also be shown.
Robert Wilson & the CIVIL warS chronicles his uncompleted
multi-nation project.
This is the first program in New York devoted to an extensive
public video presentation of works from Robert Wilson's oeuvre. It
has been curated by theatre critic and PAJ editor, Bonnie Marranca
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Robert Wilson on Video
Selected works in theatre, opera, film, video, and installation
November 9, 10, 11 and November 17, 18, 19
Evenings at 7:00 p.m.
Free Admission
Programs start at 7:00 p.m.
PROGRAM 1 Thursday, November 9
The Black Rider (Theatre, 120 minutes)
Mr. Bojangles' Memory: Og, Son of Fire (Video, 7
minutes)
PROGRAM 2 Friday, November
10
The Making of a Monologue: Robert Wilson's Hamlet (Documentary, 60
minutes)
The Death of King Lear (Video, 5 minutes)
Hamletmachine (Theatre, 60 minute excerpt)
PROGRAM 3 Saturday, November 11
La Mort de Molière (Film, 47 minutes)
La Femme à la Cafetière (Video, 7 minutes)
Stations (Video, 58 minutes)
Mr. Bojangles' Memory: Og, Son of Fire (Film,
7 minutes)
PROGRAM 4 Friday, November 17
Saints and Singing (Theatre, 80 minutes)
Four Saints in Three Acts (Opera, 90 minutes)
PROGRAM 5 Saturday, November 18
Robert Wilson & the CIVIL warS (Documentary,
90 minutes)
The Death of King Lear (Video, 5 minutes)
PROGRAM 6 Sunday, November 19
Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights
(Theatre, 90 minutes)
Mr. Bojangles' Memory: Og, Son of Fire
(Film, 7 minutes)
Memory/Loss (Documentary, 45 minutes)
