This summer I discovered the work of Melissa Doherty. Immediately taken with the quality and her approach to her work, I began a conversation with her that has spanned many months. Here is the conversation itself: GDT: Can you tell me a little about yourself? What was life like growing up? What are some of […]
[Continued from Part 1.] Q: A bit of a background question—when did you get into performance art? What appealed to you about it? I often feel like I did a lot of spoken word performances in prison back in ’90. Like that’s where I really got my start because it was socially acceptable to just […]
There’s not much science here. I discovered artist Byan Saunders through the ‘45 Drug Portraits‘ link that is still being spread around various social media aggregators, but in looking at the portraits, I knew there was something else going on with Saunders beyond mere drug experimentation. First and foremost, Saunders is a performance artist trying […]
Brittany Spears – eighty pounds of Haitian-American teenage girl, this time – honks out the final chorus in a nasal Queens accent, looking both bored and self-amused at her boredom, the hallmark meta-boredom of New York teenagers on vacation. When the showgirls escort her from the stage in a flurry of feathers and bedazzled capes, […]
[Part 1] ANOBIUM: What strikes me most from what you’ve said about the Grateful Dead in class is the word “community.” When I first learned about the band, one of the strongest points made was the bootlegging culture—the fact that there are recordings of nearly all of their shows. Do you think the Grateful Dead […]
