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MRPJ#1/The First Issue: Extras
“The social and critical practice of separating life and work perpetuates the myth that work is autonomous (both individually and bodily), and that life is an inartistic event.” –from Nothin’ Survives but the Way We Live Our Lives, by Jill Johnston
In celebration of Movement Research’s 30th Anniversary, Critical Correspondence is reprinting monthly excerpts from each of the first 30 Performance Journals. We will be featuring representative and relevant articles as well as each of the issues’ editorial note. It is both emboldening and challenging to look at the historical map that precedes our time – the continuity of mission, the diverse attempts to “word” a practice, the voices that have gone and the ones that keep returning, the ongoing rootage of discourse alongside political struggles.
From the first, not yet called Performance Journal, but plainly “Movement Research,” and among writings by Holly Hughes, Richard Schechner, Simone Forti, Sarah Johnson and others, we’ve selected Jim Eigo’s Artwork/AIDSwork and Beyond and Richard Elovich’s first Editor’s Notes.
Many of these Journal issues are available for purchase at Movement Research. As always, we welcome your comments at the end of each reprinted article, or at cc@movementresearch.org. This month’s bookend quotes are from the First Issue.
“Daring is important, but not the daring it takes not to make sense or the daring it takes to attack Dan Quayle in front of an audience filled with your friends. No, real daring is the daring that results from self-examination, from the application of thought, care, and discipline. It is the daring of an artist listening to no demands but those of the work at hand.” –in Talk About Daring, by Michael Sexton