Salinas workshop participants (photo Zen Cohen) Perhaps it is right to begin our blog by positing ourselves this way: Like with much in our contemporary lives, The 35th Floor / Another Stor(e)y Above and Beyond Her Fall (35F) is largely informed by our necessity to face the violence that surrounds our bodies, and that other one in need of so much healing, the earthbody of which we are an extension. Perhaps the brutal notion that we are indeed
Photo by Robbie Sweeny.Below is some of our writing about Snake Talk, which is in part inspired by Sianne Ngai's book Our Aesthetic Categories. Specifically, we are investigating what she calls the "zany" aesthetic, allowing it to permeate the structure and physicality of our work. For a more in depth conversation regarding Ngai's research on contemporary aesthetics, read this interview with her in Cabinet magazine. * * * * * Snake Talk is a third-wave feminist proposal nestled within an extreme and often uncomfortable aesthetic
Photo by Ian Douglas Shape Shifting: A conversation with Dana Michel about Yellow Towel with Rob Avila Yellow Towel, the much lauded solo by Montreal-based choreographer-performer Dana Michel, makes its San Francisco debut this weekend. Riffing on a blurred range of black stereotypes, the piece has the effect of unsettling the specific in favor of an investigation of the condition of otherness—a two-way street in which the audience can find itself squirming under the burden of its reflex
Here is a moving article about Homo File by BDSM educator, coach, scholar and advocate Cleo Dubois. What an honor to have had her come see the show two times and to have participated on our panel discussion on June 6th. http://www.leatherati.com/2014/07/pride-and-polaroids/
When I saw my college art instructor Seth Eisen at the Homo File Salon, his greeting was warm and sincere in his thanks for my support. Nevertheless his genuine warmth couldn't hide some genuine curiosity as to my presence. He asked me to come up with a few words as to what Sam Steward's significance was to me as a straight- identified male, and how I saw Sam as bridging our cultures. This is the most concise answer I can
Sam Steward's fascinating life as a shapeshifter linked many disparate worlds: literature, sexual research, academia and tattoo art. For this iteration of Homo File I've taken a dive into researching Steward's life as a tattoo artist. In this world he went by the name Phil Sparrow. I recently read his fascinating and really well written book Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos: A Social History of the Tatoo with Gangs, Sailors and Street-Corner Punks 1950-1965. It's pretty pricey since it is a
Happy Fall. Inspiration abounds. I have exciting news for the immediate and not-so-distant future. First, it is my great honor to announce that I have been selected by the de Young Museum as one of their Artist Fellows for 2012. I am beyond thrilled to have my work recognized, respected and supported in this way. This means so much. One thing it means is that there will be many opportunities in the coming year to see my work at, and
SF Pride Season is upon us, and so far the week has been glorious. I must say, over the past couple of years, my cynicism about this event has been tempered, by, well, PRIDE — in all of my friends and fellow San Francisco citizens, and all of their brave and beautiful endeavors. Let's celebrate! The weekend is packed with Some Thing on Friday, Pink Saturday, walking in the parade with Glamamore as she honors Gertrude Stein, and then the
The Consummate Conversationalist: An Interview with Monique Jenkinson BY KEGAN MARLING Originally published in the April 2011 issue of In Dance, a monthly magazine published by Dancers' Group Conversation comes easy to Monique Jenkinson. We sat down together for dinner at her home in the Mission to talk about her work‚ and nearly four laughter-filled hours later I found myself having only just scratched the surface. Of course, it's exactly this ease with conversation that translates to her ease on
Dear Friends. Spring is finally here, and with it a lot of new and exciting projects to share. I see visons of goddesses, gardens, faerie stories and flowergories... Join me at noon this Friday, April 1, at City Hall as I premiere a brand new, work in Dancers' Group's Rotunda Dance Series. With a costume by the singular talent, Mr. David, Beautility is a site-specific, durational solo playing with layers of symbolism that embellish City Hall's ornately beautiful rotunda. Free.
The year is off to a great start. 2010 was nonstop: Luxury Items at CounterPULSE, Faux Real in London and then at the Climate, A Glamour in Presence curated by Volume at the Torrance Art Museum, a new piece in the Movement Research Festival's program Truly, Madly, Deeply at Judson Memorial Church in NYC, and many performances, dance parties, and panel discussions in-between. Upcoming: I am thrilled to announce that I have been cast in Taylor Mac's Lily's Revenge at
I am honored to be part of a magnificent and eclectic line-up this Monday, November 29th at in the Movement Research Festival at Judson Church. If you are in New York, please join me for this exciting evening. More info is below. MOVEMENT RESEARCH FESTIVAL FALL 2010: TRULY MADLY DEEPLY November 29 - December 4, 2010 Curators: John Jesurun and Jon Kinzel TRULY MADLY DEEPLY are the words that compelled the gathering of this varied but deep group of truly
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