It’s always great to see the lunatics take over the asylum and that’s exactly what Joanna Furnans and Hope Goldman’s Performance Response Journal attempts: dance artists writing about each other’s performances. Unedited and published open-submission, it’s as democratic as it gets and circumvents any pesky notions of dispassionate criticality or, at times, even coherent sentence structure. But, while ultimately the long-term issue to avoid for such publications is the crises of reader confidence that comes from friends writing about other friends’ work, hearing from the artists themselves about the challenges, joys and struggles of the process is in itself a worthwhile pursuit. Kicking off the effort with a panoply of reprints and first-person accounts, including that of N. Sharp’s personal essay describing the joys of exploring her sexuality by wearing a strap-on in public at the recent The Fly Honey Show, makes for a dishy, intimate read.
Today in the Culture: March 17, 2021 | EXPO CHGO online lineup | Wiener Circle | Pritzker Architecture Prize ART Art fair online, redux EXPO CHGO ONLINE announced its lineup of eighty-one galleries for its virtual fair, running April 8-12, plus a slate of virtual programming, including solo sets by Jeff Tweedy, Glenn Kotche and Nels Cline of Wilco; a program with Ken Vandermark, Rosa Barba and Chicago Architecture Biennial Artistic Director David Brown and a program led by artist Theaster Gates.…
