Posts tagged Mark Beasley
Hennesy Youngman’s ART THOUGHTZ on performance art, based on his performance at Performa Ha!, curated by Mark Beasley.
The Performa Interview: Mike Kelley and Lee Ranaldo
Interview by Mark Beasley
Mark Beasley: In 1977, the composer and writer R. Murray Schafer described “noise” as any unwanted or unmusical sound. What do the terms “noise” and “experimental music” mean to both of you?
Curator Mark Beasley Speaks to Robert Ashley About the Remounting of his Legendary Opera, That Morning Thing
Interview by Mark Beasley
A remounting of Robert Ashley’s legendary opera, That Morning Thing (1967), premieres tonight as part of Performa 11. That Morning Thing was performed only three times in the late 1960s, but acquired its reputation through rumor and the famous recordings of two sections, “Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon”and “She Was A Visitor” (released by Lovely Music). In three distinct acts plus an epilogue, the opera presents the sociopolitical climate of the times. Below, curator Mark Beasley spoke to Ashley about this exciting re-creation.
Nathaniel Mellors on Trying to “Not Make Work Like an Art-Schooled Artist”
Interview by Performa 11 Staff
British artist and musician Nathaniel Mellors is known for making films and installations that deal with the vicissitudes of language through absurdist scripts, psychedelic theatre, film, video, performance, collage and sculpture. His Performa 11 Premiere, Ourhouse (November 16th and 17th, 2011), is a surreal six-part video series that combines sculpture, language and power dynamics in an upper-class home. He will join curator Mark Beasley for an artist class at the Performa Hub to discuss the serious nonsense and surreal side of humor and language. In the meantime, we bring you our own seriously surreal interview with Mellors:
Performa Ha! – A Night of Conceptual Stand-up Comedy
By Lindsay C. Harris
“They said it was comedy,” New York-based comedian Dina Seiden repeated into the microphone as she took the stage Sunday night at the HA! Comedy Club. The first night of Performa Ha!, curated by Mark Beasley featuring Reggie Watts, Dina Seiden, Bedwyr Williams and Lumberob, proved to be a night of incest, beatboxing, fake British accents, miming, Donald Sutherland and lasagna – conceptually-oriented stand-up, both funny and weird.
A Review of Frances Stark’s Put a Song in Your Thing
By Lumi Tan
The screen is ever- present in both life and art, and even when being used as a tool of information or communication, one is generally hiding behind it. Frances Stark spends the majority of her performance Put a Song in Your Thing (curated by Mark Beasley), behind a screen, but still manages to reveal quite a bit. Her vulnerability is a constant focus, whether it be in her self-consciously sexy online chats (which are further explored in her video My Best Thing, currently on view at MoMA PS1), her surrender to the unrelenting bass of Mark Leckey’s onstage sculpture BogBOxSoftSculptureTelephoneAction, or her willingness to be “daggered” by a master of the dance move, Skerrit Bwoy.
Skerrit Bwoy with Frances Stark
