Thomas Bell (sound) + Christina deRoos (video)
Performance Feb 11, 2012 @ Vaudeville Park (Brooklyn, NY)
Part of Performancy Forum XX: Con(Text)

On Saturday, February 11, PERFORMANCY FORUM returns to the series’ fundamental form: back-to-back incendiary performances and copious amounts of Brooklyn beer!

Come sink your claws into the 20th installment of the performance and theory series PERFORMANCY FORUM! This is performance in its natural habitat. It is interdisciplinary, political, passionate, always visceral, not always ‘G’ rated…

For this event, we will focus our analytic efforts in the direction of context, text, and other words with ‘x’ in them:

How and why do performance artists use text/words in their performances?
What is “subtext” in the context of each of these works?
Does text confine/dictate “meaning” and limit the possibilities for multiple interpretations of a performance? Can text be used purely as an aesthetic tool? Asemic vs. literal text vs. musical notation
How does the material (Facebook invite, this kind of blurb, etc) affect the context of the work presented? How do artists contextualize their own work through writing? What is an ‘artist’s statement’ and does it belong to us, or to industry?

PF is curated by Esther Neff, co-director of the Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL).
panoplylab.org/performancy.html