READING 2017

READING IS FUNDAMENTAL

READING 2017 is curated by Ali Rosa-Salas, and offers commissioned essays from Katherine Brewer Ball, Maya Harakawa, Danielle Jackson, Ikechukwu Casmir Onyewuenyi, and Kieran Swann. The pieces situate the festival performance program within an interdisciplinary dialogue and consider the political, conceptual, and aesthetic strategies brought to bare in the work of the festival artists.

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By Danielle Jackson

Between Rage and Love

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By Katherine Brewer Ball

You Can Live, Or You Can Die Trying This

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By Kieran Swann

IF, THEN

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By Maya Harakawa

Performance and Language: On Trajal Harrell’s “Twenty Looks, or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church”

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By Ikechukwu Casmir Onyewuenyi

That Wild Inside of Dana Michel’s “Mercurial George”

By Ben Pryor

On learning from Native American Realness