Category: Spoken Word

Kate Bornstein, Feast of Fun (podcast)

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On September 18th, 2006, Kate Bornstein appeared on the Chicago-based LGBTQ comedy podcast, Feast of Fun Podcast #390 – A Fate Better Than Death,  to discuss their book, Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws. In talking with Fausto Ferños and Marc Felion, they briefly discussed my performance work.

“Marsian hails back to a long tradition of artistic fools, who twist the culture around well beyond the regular artistic way of twisting culture around to a point of impossibility and absurdity that makes you rethink all of reality”

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Profiles & Shadows, Providence (performer)

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On May 8th, 2003, Profiles and Shadows, a play with music aimed to stimulate conversation and personal reflection on the practice of profiling, that I was performing in opened at Rites and Reason Theatre in Providence. There were 11 performances over three weekends May 8th-25th, 2003

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Speak Easy – Evening #4, Chicago (curatorial)

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Friday, December 13th, 1996 was the fourth evening of performances of Speak Easy, a text and language series at N.A.M.E. Gallery that I curated with Lorraine Moretti.  The line up featured a selection of Chicago artists who use text and language as a prominent part of their performance practice, including Anna Brown, Pamela Miller, and Maureen Seaton.

Speak Easy – Evening #3, Chicago (curatorial)

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Saturday December 7th, 1996 was the third evening of performances of Speak Easy, a text and language series at N.A.M.E. Gallery that I curated with Lorraine Moretti.  The line up featured a selection of Chicago artists who use text and language as a prominent part of their performance practice, including Doug Stapleton and Beth Tanner, Paul McComas, and the Aluminum Group

Speak Easy – Evening #2, Chicago (curatorial)

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Friday, December 6th, 1996 was the second evening of performances of Speak Easy, a text and language series at N.A.M.E. Gallery that I curated with Lorraine Moretti.  The line up featured a selection of Chicago artists who use text and language as a prominent part of their performance practice, including Iris Moore, Matthew Goulish, Byron Stewart, Elizabeth Salvia, and Robert Wynkoop, PhD.

Speak Easy – Evening #1, Chicago (curatorial)

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1996-11-22-SE-Hori-banner-300dpi Speak Easy, Open Word Slip of the Tongue

On November 22nd, 1996, I organized OpenWord: Slip of the Tongue, as part of Speak Easy, a text and language performance series at N.A.M.E. Gallery in Chicago, curated with Lorraine Moretti. The series included four evenings of performances and a workshop located in the Time Arts Space which was transformed into an  Independent Comic Book and Zine Reading Room curated by Suz Szucs, which included murals by Jessica Able, Carol Jackson, and Lisa Ormerod. Speak Easy corresponded with the opening of word up! in the Exhibition Space at N.A.M.E. Gallery. Speak Easy ran from November 22nd – through December 31, 1996

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What is Your Gender? (video art)

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1994-WIYG-Screenshot-3up What is Your Gender? 1994

On Saturday, December 10, 1994, I screened What is your Gender? a single channel video piece at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as part of the 4-D Extravaganza. What is Your Gender? deconstructed gender as an arbitrary, non-consensual means of identification inflicted upon individuals starting before birth.  Continue reading “What is Your Gender? (video art)” →