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In addition to special panels addressing a variety of critical issues facing today’s contemporary the-
ater and performance landscape, PRELUDE 09 continues its Artists in Conversation series. The informal sessions will close each day of the festival and are a rare chance for you to hear your favorite (and soon-to-be favorite) Prelude artists speak about what guides their work alongside their peers. Come for the art, stay for the conversation!
ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION: DIGITAL
8-9:30pm | Segal Theatre
From prestidigitation to wall-sized projections, from sleight-of-hand to mediated environments, artists have used the digital arts - in both senses of the word - to amaze audiences, heighten and transform our perception. Whether the illusion is created by video, computer, or by hand the notion of "the digital" remains central to many artists' presentational aesthetics. Join us in a conversation on the uses of the digital in building imaginative space and informing performance practice.
Moderator
Andy Horwitz,
founder CULTUREBOT.ORG
Prelude 09 Co-Curator
Artists
Steve Cuiffo
John Jesurun
William Cusick
David Michalek
ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION: HYBRID
8:15-9:45pm | Elebash Hall
In our modernist imaginations everything has a place, everything fits into tidy categories with clearly defined rational lines, like the pictures in Ikea catalogs of nicely organized closets. Sadly we have not only clearly never been so modern and rational or so neat, but we ourselves participate in hybrid, un-categorical, un-categorizable events, things, and relationships everyday. And yet when it comes to our art, we still seem to cling to clearly delineated boundaries. What happens to art that is not quite theater, not quite dance, not quite performance art, and at the same time all of them rolled up into one?
Moderator
Morgan von Prelle Pecelli,
Director of Development, Performance Space 122
+ PRELUDE 09 Co-Curator
Artists
Adrienne Truscott, Choreographer
Dan Safer, Director, Witness Relocation
Brian Rogers, Co-Founder The Chocolate Factory
Phil Soltanoff, Director, Mad Dog Experimental
ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION: POLITICAL
8:15-9:30pm | Elebash Hall
Aristotle once wrote that the ”human being is by nature a political animal." In its very politics, the artists in this group offer a critique and questioning of our relations as humans, while avoiding the clichés of “Political Art”. What is it about them that makes their work both operate fully entrenched in this “political” as human nature sort of way and at the same time transcends the word Political as it is so often understood in modern notions of nation-states and identity?
Moderator
Claire Bishop, Art Historian & Critic
Artists
Marina Abramovic
The Bruce High Quality Foundation
Aaron Landsman
David Levine
Andrew Dinwiddie
Claire Bishop is an art historian and critic based at CUNY Graduate Center, New York; she is also Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Art, London. Her publications include Installation Art: A Critical History (Tate, 2005) and Participation (Whitechapel/MIT Press, 2006). Last year she co-curated (with Mark Sladen) Double Agent at the ICA, London, an exhibition of 'delegated' performance art, and a publication relating to the show came out earlier this year. She is a regular contributor to Artforum and other magazines, and is currently working on a history and theory of socially-engaged art.
ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION: BRICOLAGE
8-9:30pm | Elebash Hall
Schizophrenia and anarchy. According to much of contemporary philosophy, this moment in history is defined, critiqued, and reproduced by them. And their mode of production is so often bricolage: the practice of being skilled at a large number of diverse tasks, working with a limited set of materials, and continually rearranging those materials into new and different, in this case, performance machines. How do these particular artists both epitomize and frustrate our own everyday encounters with schizophrenia and anarchy? And how do their practices stand as models of bricolage for contemporary performance?
Moderator
Sarah Benson,
Artistic Director, Soho Rep.
Artists
Jay Scheib
Brooke O'Harra
Kara Feely
Judith Malina
Eric Dyer
ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION: POETICS
7:45-9:15pm | Segal Theatre
Conversation around the blogosphere heated up this summer when The Lark Play Development Center drafted playwright Theresa Rebeck to respond to the question of whether craft and creativity can live together on stage and she responded with a question of her own: "In the current environment, when young writers are being encouraged to stay away from anything “conventional” are we perhaps falling in love with a kind of playwriting that frankly just doesn’t work?” Are we judging too harshly plays that do work? And how does the audience fit into this discussion? Does it?
Moderators
Geoffrey Scott,
Literary Associate, New York Theatre Workshop
Prelude 09 Co-Curator
Panelists
Erin Courtney
Kristen Kosmas
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Christina Masciotti
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