100 Issues of PAJ @ CUNY Grad Center

I will be participating in this panel next week with Bonnie Marranca, editor of PAJ, and Claire MacDonald:

http://centerforthehumanities.org/events/100-Issues-of-PAJ-and-the-Future-of-Performance-Art-Criticism

Mar 28, 2012, 6:30pm | Martin E. Segal Theatre

What is the state of performance in art criticism today? Performance Art Journal has provided a history of performance art in print since its founding in 1976 and continues to be the leading voice for the field and the public. How does today’s critical writing assess current debates in performance art, and who are the new voices and venues for this writing? Join critics and curators Bonnie Marranca (editor, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art), Claire MacDonald (University of the Arts London/Central St. Martins); Thom Donovan (writer and critic) and others for a panel discussion on the specific characteristics of critical writing about performance art and its recent coalescence into a form of public discourse.

Enframing the Brink Part 3 (with Brandon Brown, at BOMBLOG)

http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/6497

I also really valued your sense that, on the brink of despair, you feel this simultaneous and “very different feeling” towards the community that one defines oneself in. I mean, I think this is a truly perverse orientation, although I’m not versed enough in psychoanalysis to say that precisely. But the hedonia, the ecstasy that we both experience in our relations (along with the hells of them, of course) does seem impossible with the unbelievable derangement of current conditions. There is perhaps nothing more important to me than this pleasure, and I too think of it as a real balm against realistic morbidities.