MRPJ#7/State of the Body: Extras

“The complaints aired that evening ranged from echoes of the right’s belief that art and politics were oil and water to other voices recalling the feminist porn wars of the early ‘80s. It seemed to be predominately women that spoke. A photo of a vulva taken by a lesbian accompanied by text linking queer issues […]

MRPJ#7/State of the Body: Table of Contents

Fall/Winter 1993 Editors: Cathy Edwards and Guy Yarden From the Editors Arts: Power to the People One Woman’s Spine by Christopher Caines

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  • 11.26.08

MRPJ#7/State of the Body: Editors’ Note

Editors: Cathy Edwards and Guy Yarden As we begin a new season at Movement Research, we want to update readers on the resolution of our battle with the NEA, which began two years ago with the publication of Performance Journal #3: Gender Performance.

MRPJ#7/State of the Body: “Small” by Laurie Weeks

Mom & Dad go to Las Vegas for the weekend. I’m seven, I wander away from the house a few block to a forbidden zone where the kids are strange, like alien beings. They’re not friends with me and my friends, I don’t know them from school.

MRPJ#6/Heroes and Histories: Extras

There are only a few performances, less than a handful really, that have aroused in me a sense of fullness and spirit that Edith Piaf’s did. She gave me the sense that she and I were meeting in a clearing that was beyond either of our personalities, even beyond our person.

MRPJ#6/Heroes and Histories: Table of Contents

Spring/Summer 1993 Editors: Cathy Edwards, Esther Kaplan and Guy Yarden Letter from Editors A Letter to the Editors by Louise Sunshine On Movement Research by Wendell Beavers

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  • 11.13.08

MRPJ#6/Heroes and Histories: Editors’ Note

Editors: Cathy Edwards, Esther Kaplan and Guy Yarden We created this issue in order to provide a forum for people to write about sources of inspiration and influence, and to record alternative histories.

MRPJ#6/Heroes and Histories: “I Want Your Myth” by John Kelly

For the sake of sanity I use “hero” to describe both male and female idols, as well as those of blurred or dubious gender. Hero contains “he” and ‘her’, and heroine has drug and silent movie implications.

MRPJ#4/Speaking Ethnicity: Extras

The attempts by artists “outside the mainstream” to organize alternatives, whether entrepreneurial or cooperative, are forms of resistance. And while such attempts should be supported, monopoly capitalism seriously circumscribes the power of these efforts.

MRPJ#5/Environments: Table of Contents

Winter 1992 Editors: Cathy Edwards, Kate Ramsey and Guy Yarden Editors’ Note The Environment and My Work – A few Quick Notes by Lenora Champagne Carta con Son by Livia Daza-Paris

MRPJ#5/Environments: Editors’ Note

Editors: Cathy Edwards, Kate Ramsey and Guy Yarden We began to solicit articles for this Performance Journal in the wake of the Los Angeles riots and the hype surrounding the Earth Summit in Brazil.

MRPJ#5/Environments: George Bartenieff on the Ecofest

George Bartenieff on the Ecofest, interviewed by Cathy Edwards Cathy Edwards: Can you tell us about the Ecofestival? George Bartenieff: We tried to create a festival that would foster new possible relations, interactions between art disciplines and education and activism.

MRPJ#4/Speaking Ethnicity: Editor’s Note

Guest Editor: Esther Kaplan In this culture we’re born with certain tattoos. Or rather, we’re told that various aspects of our bodies mean certain things, and then we’re encouraged to help make those meanings clearer—how we do our hair, how we talk, or don’t.

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  • 10.22.08

MRPJ#4/Speaking Ethnicity: “Stateless Hybrids” by Coco Fusco

From the gasps of the right and liberal humanists about the decline of civilized social interaction between peoples these days, one might think that the United States, Europe, and Canada were once trouble-free, homogeneous societies recently taken over by furious dark hoards of multiculturalists.

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  • 10.22.08

MRPJ#3/Gender Performance: Editor’s Note

Editor: Tom Kalin Ed Gein was a quiet, hard working farmer living in Plainfield, Wisconsin during the late 1950s, a small framed man with a brush cut and a hunting jacket. He tended, with his brother Henry, the 160 acres left them by their mother who died of a stroke in 1945.

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