Jesper Just by RoseLee Goldberg
PERFORMA05 founder RoseLee Goldberg talks with Danish artist Jesper Just about his first-ever opera, True Love Is Yet to Come, which premiered this past spring in New York.

“Art encompasses philosophy, psychology, humor, politics, physics—a way of being able to talk about anything, while at the same time involving this thrill of perception.” Liz Larner

“Many people who study composition start out as improvisers in jazz or rock, working in bands on music that is not particularly notated. They hear some crazy and wild music and they want to figure out how it works; they hear a piece by Charles Ives or Cage or whatever, and then they want to be able to do that, but it comes out of a visceral impulse.” Anthony Coleman

“I was writing 16-hour days. The real difficulty was writing the fractured language. My tendency is to make everything beautiful.”

“There’s so much talk in America about families, and it’s a tragedy if it’s American families, but if it’s families in other countries, it’s not as tragic. Perhaps it’s compassion fatigue.” William Forsythe

“Even though my films don’t deal with any specific political agenda, the reason I have this through-line of violence is due to the events I witnessed as a college student, and the fear and pain I felt during those times.” Park Chanwook
Feelings are Facts by Yvonne Rainer
In December 1964 Dick Higgins produced an opera, Hruslk, at the Cafe au Go Go.
In the slave yard, it sets a standard. Desperate folks demonstrating who is hardier, or more foolish.
HOMECOMING. There’s something so elegiac about this trip to New Orleans. Traveling alone, to my childhood home, a home recently shattered and in ruins. I’ve been feeling ill and out of sorts. I am underslept. My head and back hurt. My stomach is sour. I cannot stop the thought, morbid, that I am returning home to die.
The blue lights flippes on. Smoky haze drifted above the tables.
“Introducing, from Paris, zazou dancer Rachel K!”
Nicolás Guagnini by John Miller
John Miller on how Nicolás Guagnini’s photography explores the repression and monotony implicit in everyday life.

Dona Nelson on how Steven Charles’s nearsightedness aids and inspires the creation of his swarming, colorful, jam-packed abstracts.
William Christenberry by Lucy Raven
The 1966 evening William Christenberry borrowed a 35mm camera from his friend William Eggleston was warm enough for Christenberry to keep his jacket open.

Whether sneaking into maximum-security prisons or leading unauthorized expeditions to secret military bases, Trevor Paglen combines rigorous research with aesthetic savvy.

Ruins fit William Basinski well—in his compositions, grand melodies, and classical structures are reduced to ghosts.

Last year, it became clear that the new crop of boy bands had quit harmonizing on stools in fedoras and line dancing in their videos, and had started picking up guitars.

On April 30th Jennifer Montgomery screened Threads of Belonging, her 2003 feature-length experimental video on the anti-psychiatry movement embodied in a fictive therapeutic community, at Orchard Gallery on New York’s Lower East Side. Montgomery’s first feature, Art for Teachers of Children, chronicled a boarding-school student’s affair with her photography teacher that bore a stark resemblance in spirit and history to Jock Sturges and Montgomery herself.
When viewing the 11 DVDs that make up Point of View, it is important to remember that this is only the most recent chapter in a century of artists’ engagement in experimental filmmaking.

Dear Young Artist,
Twenty-three diversely established artists have responded to your letter seeking advice about art and life in Nuevo York.

In his new collection of critical essays, writer Alan Gilbert leads a probing, borderless investigation into countless contemporary moments in aesthetics that recognize, inhabit, resist, essentially interact with the realm of the social.

There is something inexhaustible in Homer’s Odyssey that makes us want to go back to it, to the archetype of a hero’s going forth and arduous return, of bravery and cunning, and, finally, of the test of a wife’s fidelity.
At the height of the war in Vietnam, Robert Duncan, and Denise Levertov articulated the best of radically different political practices.