Dark, small, confined place. One spectator to enter the performance space. Female voice saying the text using different rhythms and degrees of volume. Words and sentences can be repeated at random. Different ways of screaming at random. Intermittent video projected images (of anything, preferably home movies) on various fluid surfaces, at least […]
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Unfinished. Business . Confession. Accidents. Waiting. To. Happen. What’s the use? To be different ? You have always loved ambiguity. It made you feel superior. More subtle. Self-mutilation. The autopsy of ambiguity. Who am I, really? What do you believe in? Are you here? Are you alive? What will you do after you finish? […]
Alternative Memory:
alternative(m)emory Dear O, I gathered yellow water in my fists. I placed my hand inside the middle of the earth, onto the other shore… Dear O, I wore my green dress and my red hair and obsessively played the piano… Dear O, I read Cartarescu and did Theatre studies. I filled the […]
POSTMODERN LITERATURE:
BECKETT AND MORGAN – TWO PERSPECTIVES ON POSTMODERNISM It may be that some rough beast will slouch again toward Bethlehem. It may be that some natural cataclysm, or extraterrestrial intelligence will shock the Earth into some sane planetary awareness of its destiny. I have no prophecy in me, only some slight […]
Open Source is Big Business
NUREMBERG, Germany Nuremberg enjoyed its first snow of winter this evening, but across town at its gleaming CongressCenter, entrepreneurs celebrated a different triumph. "Open source has crossed the chasm," proclaimed Alexander Bruhl, of VC firm Atlas Venture. Referring to the 1991 tech marketing book by Geoffrey A. Moore, Bruhl argued that Open Source is more […]
Sports, Destruction, and Community
The Saints didn’t make it to the SuperBowl again this year. New Orleanians are used to disappointment, and sadly, we’ve also gotten used to living among the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina and the flood. While we look forward to Mardi Gras, we can’t help but wonder if Chicago fans will again engage in riotous […]