On June 25th in Paris I witnessed a tenderly moving performance by the artist Nicola (no last name, but not to be confused with the Nicola, no last name, who sang “Don't Break My Heart” at Romania 2003live Eurovision http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYw4Ze1nK2k). Our Nicola fashioned here a group occurrence entitled "La Cape du Blues" (The Cape of Blues) at Place Saint-Sulpice as part of "Les artistes cassent la baraque" (with the assistance of Galerie Patricia Dorfmann). Some of you may be familiar with Nicola’s late-1960s/early-1970s group street performances such as Red Coat: Same Skin For Everybody and the outstanding 1975 piece Rug. This performance was very much in the same vein, this time involving 12 performers, 1 saxophonist, and Nicola herself, who directed the event - with a crowd of around 50 people all watching and walking along following the pageant.

Richard Foreman's new mixed-media play WAKE UP MR. SLEEPY! YOUR UNCONSCIOUS MIND IS DEAD! purports to be a response to a world in which visionary sages and poets are being replaced by specialists who make platitudes out of the immediately observable. Supposedly here the unconscious fights back to life in a shape resembling "the stone that rolls up the hill backwards" (the evil one) and from such "evil", life renews itself.

"Quand les Ondes Balancent"
Une Exposition de Brett Ian Balogh
Vernissage mardi 5 décembre à 17h
Exposition du 5 au 11 décembre de 15h à 19h
Ecole d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence
1 Rue Emile Tavan
13100 Aix-en-ProvenceBrett Ian Balogh - Spectrum

Brett Balogh, artiste américain vivant à Chicago, prépare actuellement un MBA à la School of the Art Institute of Chicago au sein du Département art et nouvelles technologies. Il est depuis quelques mois en résidence en France à l’École Supérieure d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence dans le cadre du programme d’échange culturel franco-américain FACE.

11/19/06 11:45 AM
Bare life, subject, exposure, recuperation: ‘bare life’ on –empyre- soft-skinned space (Sydney, July 2006)A report(also known as THE THING because it was a monster to write!) by Christina McPhee, participant, documenta 12 magazine project for –empyre- soft-skinned space, Sydney; on the occasion of the documenta 12 transregional meeting on November 11 to 13, 2006, Goethe Institute, Cairo, Egypt.