Category Archives: performance

Emily Rose at Green Mill

Posted on May 25, 2016 by jyourist

Sunday night we went to the Green Mill for Emily Rose’s promotion of her new poetry book Mouthy. Her presentation was preceded by the weekly poetry slam. The Green Mill is over 100 years old and has an edgy history. … Continue reading →

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Patti Smith

Posted on May 16, 2016 by jyourist

I saw Patti Smith at the Old Town School of Folk Music Saturday night. How awesome to have seen her in such an intimate setting. The piano player, her daughter Jesse Smith, and the guitarist, her son Jackson Smith, accompanied … Continue reading →

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Chiharu Shiota

Posted on December 30, 2015 by jyourist

Chiharu Shiota is a Japanese performance and installation artist born in 1972 who was selected by her country to represent Japan in the recent Venice Biennale. The ceilings and walls of the Japanese Pavillion at the Biennale are covered with … Continue reading →

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Nidaa Badwan

Posted on June 22, 2015 by jyourist

Nidaa Badwan is a Palestinian artist from Gaza. In November 2013, she was harassed by some Hamas officers when she was working with some youth in an arts program and was questioned about why she was hanging out with males and why she … Continue reading →

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Glass Pyrograph drawings

Posted on July 15, 2014 by jyourist

Etsuko Ichikawa uses hot glass to create this very effective and powerful calligraphy. The work in performance is even more riveting. Born in Tokyo (1963), she presently lives and works in Seattle.

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Performance Calligraphy

Posted on January 4, 2014 by jyourist

Performance artist Kotaro “HATCH” Hachinohe from Sapporo Japan, educated in Kyoto, presently living in Brooklyn.

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An intimate Raisin in the Sun

Posted on November 17, 2013 by jyourist

Last night we saw a production of Raisin in the Sun at the Timeline Theater in Chicago, directed by OJ Parsons. It was a spell-binding production in part because of its complete intimacy. Timeline is a small theater and the … Continue reading →

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William Burroughs with a Jack-O-Lantern he carved with a hatchet, October 31, 1996

Posted on October 31, 2013 by jyourist
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War of the Worlds

Posted on October 30, 2013 by jyourist

This Halloween episode of Mercury Theater on the Air, directed and narrated by Orson B. Welles, aired 75 years ago on Oct. 30, 1938.  It was an adaptation of another Wells, H.G. Wells, of his 1898 sci-fi classic, The War of the Worlds. … Continue reading →

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Bodies of Memory

Posted on May 5, 2013 by jyourist

Last night, we saw Bodies of Memory, a performance piece created by a friend of ours, Ginny Sykes. Using dance, film, original and published music (live and recorded), and photographs projected onto a large screen, Bodies of Memory explores how … Continue reading →

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