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Found Art (LES): Unmonumental 27

Found Art (LES): Unmonumental 27, originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive).

 

Found Art (Soho): Unmonumental 26

Found Art (Soho): Unmonumental 26, originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive).

 

Found Art (Soho): Unmonumental 25

Found Art (Soho): Unmonumental 25, originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive).

 

SEX POSITIVE Screening June 6 & 7 @ the New Festival (NYC)

NEWSgrist pal Daryl Wein's feature length documentary SEX POSITIVE, about Richard Berkowitz and the invention of safe sex, will be playing in NYC next weekend on the big screen if you want to check it out!  It's part of the New Festival:

http://www.newfest.org/cgi-bin/iowa/index.html

Here are the times (it's 76 minutes):

Fri, June 6th.  10pm.  Loews 34th st. Theater 9
Sat June 7th. 1:30pm.    Loews 34th st. Theater 10.

Check out the website and trailer for more info:

www.sexpositivethemovie.com

Bauerntheater (Farmer's Theater) Screening, Discussion and Book launch

Bauerntheater: Screening, Discussion and Book launch

06/05/08

7pm

Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany
871 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017
English

Free Admission.

212-439-8700

For Show/Tell 09 the Goethe-Institut New York presents a film screening, book launch and talk between experimental theater director David Levine and art critic Gregory Volk.

Levine's "Bauerntheater" ("Farmer's Theater"), combines elements of durational performance, land art, and theater. In March, 2007, Levine trained an American method actor to play a GDR Farmer in Heiner Mueller's "Die Umsiedlerin" ("The Resettler"). After a month's rehearsal, the actor was flown to Germany, given two acres of land and a ton of potatoes, and asked to be "in character" for 10 hours a day for a month. In asking "how completely can an actor become his character?", Levine’s project raised questions concerning the performance of cultural tradition, the representation of labor, representation as labor, and the relationship of endurance and land art to questions of authenticity. The project, funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, was featured in the New York Times, Theater Heute, Die Zeit, BOMB, and other publications.

For the Show/Tell event, Levine will screen a documentary video of the project, featuring both rehearsal and performance footage.

The Bauerntheater catalogue is a guide to major threads of the project. It includes essays by German theater critic Thomas Irmer, American curator and art historian Maika Pollack, performance scholar Christel Weiler, and social scientist Lars Fischer, as well as an introduction by Daniel Wetzel of the performance-label Rimini Protokoll.