whew. Coming down from the nausea of performance anxiety. My performance at the Prelude Festival went well. Many thanks to Kate Hartman for helping out running the software and Frank, Ruth, and Andy for making things run so smoothly. Below is a link to the pseudo-documentation of Retrograde02.

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Unfortunately, I was unable to actually document this thing properly. The first four minutes of the video show what I actually performed on stage. When the first four minutes is done I actually run out of the space and across the street to buy the audience milk and cookies that we end up sharing after the performance. That’s what the second screen is about. The first four minutes of the performance is projected in reverse on the screen behind me while the close-circuit footage is played on the television. This particular performance’s timing worked out especially well.  As I ran back into the room, the reversed piece was just ending.  the audience applause forced a second bow for me, which eventually allowed for a reversed third bow in the original video, since it’s the first thing I actually do on stage.  Worked out quite perfectly.  There’s another documentation from a performance of this piece two years ago at P.S.122 that captures this a bit better here.

Nerrrrvous. I’ll be performing a wondrous phonetically-backwards performance piece about everything-in-my-life-ever to kick off the Prelude Festival at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (located at The Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34 Street)) on Wednesday the 26th around 8:00pm. The night starts at 6:30 with “a discussion on the process of bringing challenging new work to broader audiences and the effects this process has on artists and institutions. Panelists include: Sarah Benson, Adam Bock, Jim Nicola, and Alex Timbers with moderator David Cote.” My short performance is to follow the discussion. A reception with then follow me. Looks like 31Down and The Laboratory Theater will both have work in the festival this year. The whole thing is free! .ereht uoy ees ot epoh. try it…

The Solar Bikini is now in the hands of the Greylock Arts Gallery in Adams, MA as part of the Sustainable Energy Art show there along with several other sustainable ITP projects. Journalist John E. Mitchell of the North Adams Transcript wrote what I think is hands-down the best article on the Bikini yet (link). In other news(papers), MaryJane Weedman (yes) of the WSJ or Washington Square Jounal wrote up this little article on the Bikini this weekend as well. Thanks journalists! I can’t wait to see where the bikini will end up next. The South American Rainforests? The rumors may be true.

andsoyesherewego. I started my job at The Wooster Group yesterday. Hey alright. I’m nervous, excited, and sad. I am working at Paltalk and doing some free lance with the HotelSavant. I am proposing a class, and riding my bike and taking pictures and sleeping on couches, and kicking off the Prelude Festival with a short reprisal of Retrograde. Hey alright. Let’s go.

I picked up this sweet stripped down machine from a great guy in Greenpoint. I’m in love.