Television

The performance artist aka Dynasty Handbag recounts her journey from the San Francisco DIY scene to New York’s avant-garde theater world and ultimately to Hollywood.

Since the ’70s, the filmmaker, video artist, and pioneer of “media dance” has recorded exceptional bodies in motion—dancers, drag queens, and punk musicians.

Featuring selections by Jaime Manrique, David Grubbs, Molly Surno, Lynn Melnick, Lucio Pozzi, and more.

Wry installations and revelatory sculptures blend art-making and activism in Chin’s unique practice of transformation.

“They own their own image. In a world where image is everything, that’s a very serious kind of ownership.”

Was the Internet intended for you? It’s hard to think about it structurally without throwing personal use into the mix.

Working at opposite ends of the performing-arts spectrum, both carefully constructed public personae to adapt to and assimilate the culture that formed them.
Bob Holman is on the road to save the day

The composer and giant of contemporary music passed away on March 4, 2014. Here he reflects on the 2012 reinterpretation—in Spanish—of his epic opera of the ordinary, Perfect Lives.

In 1978, activist and former ad executive Jerry Mander published the book Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television.