Archive for the “Performance” category
Artforum Accident by Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau
by Travis Jeppesen on December 2, 2011
1 tub goat milk 1 whole goat 1 packet spearmint-flavored chewing gum 7 medium-sized eggs 8 ounces strawberry ice cream 2 cans minced clams and juice ½ carafe red wine (sweet) ½ cup mustard 3 cups corn meal ½ cup (…)
The Art of Deception: Lazlo Pearlman & Fake Orgasm
by Travis Jeppesen on October 30, 2011
It’s like Deleuze and Guattari put it in the opening pages of Anti-Oedipus – it eats, it shits, it fucks, it’s everywhere – you can’t avoid it, and yet you’re taught to both embrace and avoid it. They were talking (…)
GG Allin Hails a Cab
by Travis Jeppesen on October 14, 2011
First he got high enough to taste the ceiling. Poster announces live murder onstage. The city is a wild animal – voice of the police broadcast on shortwave frequency. Paranoia wears leopard-print pants. My friends address me as asshole. They (…)
Discosalope
by Travis Jeppesen on January 27, 2010
TONIGHT, 27 January, SLUM presents DISCOSALOPE, a performance by Marc-Andre Casavant DISCOSALOPE is not completely a man and not exactly a woman. Refreshing, amusing and disturbing…Marc-Andre Casavant’s spoken word-interactive-theatrical performance about the craziness of over-consumption in society will not leave (…)
A Star is Born: Tennessee Claflin at STYX Project Space
by Travis Jeppesen on September 30, 2008
Last Friday night, Tennessee Claflin gave his first ever public performance in Berlin at STYX Project Space. Entitled Sunday Morning, the piece took as its departure point the passage from Genesis 2:7, And then the LORD God formed man from (…)
You’ll Know What to Do: Vaginal Davis Guides Us into Summer
by Travis Jeppesen on May 26, 2008
The maverick terrorist drag artist Vaginal Davis was recently enlisted by the Berlin art academy at Weissensee to submit a select group of students to a sort of week-long avant-garde boot camp, the result of which was a one-off performance, (…)