Critical Correspondence

Taking the Imperfect Leap

by Clarinda Mac Low This is the beginning of an investigation. My advance publicity said that I would use this blog to explore the traces that performance leaves behind, both temporary and permanent. The preliminary questions I proposed are “What ideas and shifts in experience do we transmit, knowingly and unknowingly, through performance? How do […]

Responses: The Sixth Borough

by Jonah Bokaer The first thing I hear after exiting the building is a loud police siren. The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia is closing down for the day, and I’m lugging a bunch of props and set objects awkwardly out the front door. I’ve just said goodbye to the curators of the museum, […]