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Performance artists Caleb and Camille Fang dedicated themselves to making great art. But when an artist's work lies in subverting normality, it can be difficult to raise well-adjusted children. Just ask Buster and Annie Fang. For as long as they can remember, they starred (unwillingly) in their parents' madcap pieces. but now that they are grown up, the chaos of their childhood has made it difficult to cope with life outside the fishbowl of their...
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A celebration in words and pictures, 20@OMI offers a vivid portrait of a renowned international, nonprofit arts center in upstate New York. This handsome, lavishly illustrated volume recounts how Art Omi grew from its modest beginnings as an artists' residency program in a converted barn into a thriving arts center boasting four artists residency programs, a sculpture park, a spectacular new visitors' center and year-round arts education for local...
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Hablar del entrenamiento vocal del actor es hablar de la condición humana. De esto sabe Kristin Linklater, creadora del método conocido como freeing the natural voice.
A pesar de desobedecer la sugerencia de su maestra en cuanto a nunca escribir sobre el tema, porque cada individuo que experimenta con su voz y cada clase, son experiencias únicas, Kristin comprendió que había de compartir su vasto conocimiento sobre la voz hablada del actor y...
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El sonido se ha instalado intensa y cualitativamente en todos los ámbitos de la vida, siendo actualmente valorado como un renovado material con una enorme disponibilidad plástica. Con las invenciones en las últimas décadas del siglo XIX y principios del XX de los medios audio-mecánicos y electro-acústicos, y los desarrollos en tecnologías audio-numéricas de la segunda mitad del siglo XX y principios del XXI, hemos avanzado en su comprensión...
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There are countless books out there teaching the nuts and bolts of acting; the craft, the business and so on. However, as a young actor, just starting out on my path, I wanted something more. Life as an artist is unlike that of any other career path. There's no straight line to achieving your goals. And being an artist is not the type of job you can simply leave at the office come 5 o'clock. It's so much a part of who you are and seeps into every...
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Strings Attached is a lavishly illustrated book containing four (4) essays by noted experts that trace the tradition of Czech puppetry and discuss its relationship to America puppetry. Included are essays discussing the National Museum, Prague, and puppet theaters, museums, collections, organizations, and publications in the Czech Republic. The book accompanied an exhibition of the same name, held at the Columbus (Ohio) Museum of Art from March 8...
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Enfrentados a la noción de progreso y al umbral evolutivo de la inteligencia artificial que alimentan los imaginarios sobre nuestro futuro, las reflexiones y los ensayos que reúne este libro buscan fundar un nuevo paisaje crítico, en la zona donde se encuentran el arte, la teoría crítica y la tecnología. Un paisaje lleno de innovación, profundamente latinoamericano, ensamblado con los artefactos de vanguardia del presente, donde la obra de...
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In this ground-breaking collection of critical essays, 15 writers explore the experimental, interdisciplinary and radically transgressive field of contemporary live art in South Africa.
Set against a contemporary South African society that is chronologically 'post' apartheid, but one that continues to grapple with material redress, land redistribution and systemic racism, Acts of Transgression finds a representation of the complexity of this moment...
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Digesting Recipes: The Art of Culinary Notation scrutinizes the form of the recipe, using it as a means to explore a multitude of subjects in post-war Western art and culture, including industrial mass-production, consumerism, hidden labour, and art engaged with the everyday. Each chapter is presented as a dish in a nine-course meal, drawing on examples from published cookbooks and the work of artists such as Alison Knowles, Yoko Ono, Annette Messager,...
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Find the confidence to rock out to your own beat in this big-hearted middle grade novel. Not to be missed by fans of Raina Telgemeier's Drama and Tim Federle's Better Nate Than Ever ! Melly only joined the school band because her best friend, Olivia, begged her to. But to her surprise, quiet Melly loves playing the drums. It's the only time she doesn't feel like a mouse. Now she and Olivia are about to spend the next two weeks at Camp Rockaway, jamming...
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En un ejercicio de recuperación de prácticas performáticas chilenas,
Sebastián Valenzuela-Valdivia nos invita a reconsiderar los criterios
curatoriales y archivísticos para definir nuevas categorías de análisis
atingentes a la experimentación del cuerpo y el uso de medios como la
fotografía, el video y el libro-perfomance. Así, Del cuerpo al archivo
contribuye a cómo pensar esta experimentación en el marco de la
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When he was five years old, Chad V. Holtkamp declared he wanted to be a songwriter like John Denver.
Like many things a child says, it was quickly replaced by some other occupation, like being a pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals.
At seventeen, Chad wrote his first song. Over the course of the next dozen years, he went on to write many more sets of lyrics, along with a litany of poems and other ideas.
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Sonosyntactics introduces the reader to over forty-five years of Paul Dutton's diverse and inventive poetry, ranging from lyrics, prose poems, and visual work to performance texts and scores. Perhaps best known for his acclaimed solo sound performances and his contributions to the iconic sound poetry group The Four Horsemen, Dutton is a surprising, witty, sensitive, and innovative explorer of language and of the human. This volume gathers a representative...
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In the midst of the Occupy Wall Street movement, a writer and academic from New York named Barbara Andersen begins spamming people indiscriminately with ukulele covers of sentimental songs. A series of inappropriate intimacies ensues, including an erotically charged correspondence and then collaboration with an extraordinarily gifted and troubled musician living in Germany.
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Taiwan's specific situation in Asia is the source of its thorn past. Situated in the South East of China, Taiwan was at the crossroads of many maritime routes and squeezed between its neighbors, China and Japan. After centuries of foreign occupation, Taiwan has a unique history. Taiwan, Art and Civilization sheds light on Taiwan's beautiful scenery as well as its colorful history in the form of a true initiatory trip. Through magnificent illustrations,...
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Immerse yourself in Shakespeare's magical world, filled with supernatural encounters with faeries, ghosts and witches. Frolic with royalty, wander through forests, and experience love layered with enchantment. The Bard' s use of these fantastical phenomena has had a tremendous and enduring influence on authors and audiences for more than four centuries. But what are their origins? Explore the folk beliefs and literary sources that influenced...
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Louis V. Moten presents his first collection of poetry in this second edition of the 2002 classic. Moten is a founding member of The Black Poets Collective of Kansas City, MO where he and several others birthed the modern spoken word movement in KC. Here, readers get to witness Moten as the master of wordplay, jest, introspection and a wake up call to the masses. This is collection features his famous, "The House that Blacks Built", "Khemitstry" and...
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La presente obra constituye el primer esfuerzo riguroso y omniabarcador por desarrollar un relato histórico de la performance desde las experiencias que salpicaron las vanguardias hasta las formulaciones más contemporáneas.En primer lugar, se ofrece un amplio análisis sobre la presencia que las estrategias performativas tuvieron en las vanguardias históricas. Identifica después aquellas rupturas que se produjeron en el seno de la «modernidad»...
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