Very full day of awesome performance art. Performance Notes: Keyon Gaskin “It’s Not A Thing” The description in the guide book is blacked out. I arrive through a large garage door into the Bodyvox space, where people are lining up to get refreshments. Keyon Gaskin is actually serving them, wearing all black- shabby hoodie, combat boots, backpack, […]

Awesome day. I finally saw two great shows. Then headed over to meet Angela at the festival bar, The Works, for some Riot Girl Sing-a-long. The Works is in a very cool old factory. The pic of the dark stage is the pre-show for FOLK-S- you can kind of make out the shapes of the

September 10th, 2014 Im in PORTLAND! Im here for the Time-Based Art Festival, organized by the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art. I’ve heard so many good things about this festival over the years, Im really stoked to finally get to see it. Today was my first full day, and was mostly lost to organization and

Originally posted on www.appliedmechanics.us on August 3rd Sooooo I went to Berlin and the Prague Quadrennial. It was totally rad! I received the 2015 Independence Fellowship in the Arts to attend both the PQ and the TBA Festival. Berlin was a sweet side-trip. I will report on that second leg of my fellowship after it completes

June 27th, 2015 Im sitting at the airport with a 5 hour layover, enjoying the beauty and chaos of Terminal 5. Not a trace of that end-of-vacation fatigue or world-weariness. Im 100% stoked to have experienced the last few weeks of my life and psyched to get back to work. The amount of awesome theater and art I’ve seen on this

June 26th, 2015 Last day!!! I said goodbye to Lisi, who went home to Berlin this morning. Its been an amazing trip to share with such a kindred spirit. She was a great ambassador to Europe. My last show is a 12pm interactive performance for one audience member: Interruptor by The Stranger Gets a Gift Service. I’m super

June 25th, 2015 Ok, so today was pretty nuts. Its started with a massive breakfast of cappuccino, croissants, eggs, sausages, bacon, cheese, cold cuts and yogurt at Café Café. Then I helped my friend Pegi do some last minute shopping for her performance installation about making lemonade. As i waited for her show to start,

June 24th, 2015 Today ruled. Started the day with a workshop taught by Czech lighting and installation artist, Marie Jirásková. Her english was not super great, so she had a rad, spritely, tattooed young student of hers translate. We spent the first hour or so looking at slides of her work- a few of which are

June 23rd, 2015 Today we forego the claustrophobic comfort of the Clam-Gallas Palace of old city in favor of the Bohemian Bone Church of Kutna Hora! Clam Palace——>Bone Church! Field trip!!!! Amped up on potatoes and avocado we scoot over to the train station and take the hour-long journey to Kutna Hora, in the opium-field

June 22nd, 2015 Another whirlwind of a day. Met up with a beautiful artist and friend Kristen Morgan www.kristenmorgandesign.com with whom I have designed numerous shows at Juniata College. We attended a lecture by Andris Freibergs, a famous Latvian Scenographer. Google image search his name if you get the chance- very cool stuff.  A few notes