Critical Correspondence
I Can Only Be Me: Ann Liv Young Plays Sherry by Lizzie Feidelson
As part of this year’s American Realness Festival, held from January 10 through 20 at the Abrons Art Center, performer Ann Liv Young made regular appearances outside the venue in her Sherry Truck, offering free Sherapy and pink lattes. Lizzie Feidelson paid a visit to Sherry on the last evening of the festival. Download a […]
Ann Liv Young in conversation with Christine Elmo
Christine Elmo: Let’s talk about Sherry. She seems to do lots of different performances. The other day I was watching Sherry and Naomi. Watching her, I really feel like she has a purpose. With Naomi, she is playing therapist. Ann Liv Young: For sure Christine: Preacher, a little bit. Ann Liv: I made her for […]
Dark Matter
by Clarinda Mac Low On the eve of International Women’s Day I just happened to be reading an excerpt from Judith Butler’s book Bodies that Matter (1993) in an anthology called Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life. In her feminist philosophical inquiry, Dr. Butler questioned the “material irreducibility of sex” that […]
