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25 Jul, 2012

Stranger in a Strange Land

2016-04-07T01:32:33-07:00By |Categories: Action Hero, CounterPULSE|Tags: , , , |

When James was 9 he wrote a song about his 57 Chevy, cruisin’ down the freeway. I’m not sure exactly how this is relevant to our upcoming workshop residency at CounterPULSE, but somehow it gets right to the heart of it. A child, living in England and never having travelled outside of the UK, decides to write a song. What comes out is a first person description of an experience that is alien to the culture that he lives in,

30 Jul, 2012

Thoughts on Strangerhood: with help from Bruce, Bacon and Baudrillard

2016-04-07T01:32:25-07:00By |Categories: Action Hero, CounterPULSE|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Reading Gemma's post about a European's impression of the US, I immediately thought of Jean Baudrillard’s book “America." Here are some gems from my well-underlined, college copy: “This (The United States) is the only country which gives you the opportunity to be so brutally naïve: things, faces, skies, and deserts are expected to be simply what they are. This is the land of the ‘just as it is’.” “America is neither dream nor reality. It is a hyperreality. It is

26 Dec, 2013

Video highlights of 2013

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