performance

An MIT lecture that gives fairly in-depth instructions on how to give a presentation, but is generally a great primer on how to communicate and can be applied to a lot of other things.

I saw this video from Mike Boyd’s YouTube channel today: And I think it’s a really really compelling gesture and effect. My initial instinct was that I should learn it and put it in a BFF act, but now I’m also thinking about whether it could be adapted for other performance purposes in the future. That reminded me of the pop-up tent throwing in “Heaven On Their Minds” (the Arena Tour version with Tim Minchin): Ultimately those didn’t fully work, but it’s still an interesting idea, and the fact that it works (perhaps more beautifully I think) with umbrellas is provocative....

A pretty amazing juggling performance using clay.

It’s showtime. There is no audience. Waste paper. You are god. Invent. No fear. No pity. Judge it tomorrow. Consider the elbow. From this video (see this page for more information on these 360 degree Q&A videos):

I was leafing through the UCSB MAT program website and checking out some of the students' work there, and randomly clicked on Mengyu Chen’s website. He mostly seems to do things with VR and AR, but I really loved some of his work on “Objects”, particularly the “Misanthropist”. https://www.mengyuchen.com/object/Misanthropist It’s a stool that runs away from you. The video really helps to illustrate it. It’s not perfect, but I think it a brilliant project....

I found out about Steyerl from this New Yorker Article: Hito Steyerl’s Digital Visions. It’s a good read, but the thing that stuck out to me the most was the title of a 2013 work of hers: How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File As of writing, you can watch the whole thing here: https://www.artforum.com/video/hito-steyerl-how-not-to-be-seen-a-fucking-didactic-educational-mov-file-2013-51651. It’s about 16 minutes long. It’s pretty great.