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11 Jun, 2015

legacy, layers and California (by Monique)

2016-03-18T21:32:40-07:00By xchange|Categories: (X)Change, CounterPULSE|

First, I have so enjoyed reading everyone's posts so far. Witches! California! Feminism! Flappers! So in my thinking about the next work I want to make, I am thinking a lot about layers, about simultaneity, and about holding conflict and opposition in one body mind. That which is 'problematic' sometimes enriches, that which is un-feminist sometimes empowers. I just came out of a short run of my cabaret show, in which I premiered a few new stories and bits, many

27 May, 2015

Lost and Full

2016-03-02T01:55:34-08:00By xchange|Categories: (X)Change, CounterPULSE|

I am a bit lost with the blog as I have very little time to read the messages of others and when I am trying to write it all goes queer ;-) I just finished a book by a swiss writer, long time dead by now, Blaise Cendrars "Sutter's Gold"; The story of a swiss men who emigrates to the San fransisco bay area just a litlle time before the Gold Rush, makes a lot of money and looses everything

21 May, 2015

hipster

2016-03-02T01:56:37-08:00By xchange|Categories: (X)Change|

The work i am interested in has been inspired by the roaring twenties was the birth of a new woman. She defied society’s standards of what its women were supposed to do, say, wear, act like and be. She wore shorter skirts, more dramatic makeup, and cut her hair. She flaunted her sexuality. She drank, smoked, and danced in clubs. She was a flapper and today she is called a HIPSTER! - 'An unwashed and ungroomed person who hates corporations

13 May, 2015

Reading and More

2016-03-18T21:33:22-07:00By xchange|Categories: (X)Change, Mica Sigourney|

I finished the Witches book yesterday (thank you Nils). I've been reading two books about time, technology and the future: River of Shadows by Solnit (describing the development of the American railroad, westward expansion and the man who developed quick photography, leading to film) as well as After the Future by Biffo Berardi (theory book about the disintegration of the idea of the FUTURE, and the economic mythologies and realities that supported Futurism and then destroyed it). In relating to

12 May, 2015

Mica Quote of the day

2016-03-18T21:33:39-07:00By xchange|Categories: (X)Change, CounterPULSE, Mica Sigourney|

"The supernatural is nowadays often seen as opposed to technologies, but the technologies of the era often seemed supernatural themselves. In the well-known words of science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." It is only becuase nature no longer seems so strong and immutable a force that changes no longer seem uncanny. In the beginning electricity seemed spiritual, a form of the life force...The changed brougth about by technology seemed supernatural at first, and photography was

12 May, 2015

from mc

2016-03-02T01:57:04-08:00By xchange|Categories: CounterPULSE|

I just took out a card from Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt Oblique Strategies, it came out: Use somebody nearby as a model. Which makes me think of appropriation and Mica's proposal. Yes for that! Otherwise I like to share a training I am used to do at the beginning of the day, an one hour session of a kind of kundalini I adapted for my needs, It includes shaking, authentic movement, circular mouvement with breathing and automatic writing. I

11 May, 2015

RIOT

2016-03-18T21:34:05-07:00By xchange|Categories: (X)Change, CounterPULSE, Mica Sigourney|Tags: CounterPULSE, Dance, Performance, san francisco|

"A riot literally tears the city apart. It is a striation...like a skater from the days before skateparks, it sketches invisible trajectories in the urban motif. A shapeless event that eludes reification, even if it relates to rituals, and thus summons the repertoire of tricks and knowledge accumulated by a provisional community bound by a transgressive dynamic." Withches: Hunted, Appropriated, Queered ed. Anna Colin, The Rioter and the Witch by Olivier Marboeuf

6 May, 2015

A proposal- Mica

2016-03-18T21:34:29-07:00By xchange|Categories: (X)Change, CounterPULSE, Mica Sigourney|Tags: CounterPULSE|

Hello Other (X)Changers, I have a proposal for our process. I'm usually drawn to the obvious, or blatant. I am also fascinated by impersonation, doubling and repetition (not just as a compositional tool but also as a process). I propose that our exchange be direct, meaning each of us recreates a work by another in the group. This will provide us with a solid structure and process within to work (rehearsals, learning each others work), and coupled with group conversations

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