{"title":"Seeing Puppetry: Winter Report from New York City","authors":"Kate Brehm","doi":"10.1162/pajj_a_00638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/pajj_a_00638","url":null,"abstract":"It was February 2022 and I was standing in a crowd in the lobby of St. Ann’s Warehouse watching an elegant performance unfold: a three-dimensional, 20-inch-tall, faceless figure, manipulated by the hands of three people, walked silently across a suspended tabletop while interacting obliquely with a picture frame, also suspended in mid-air. From behind me, I heard a voice quietly exclaim, “That’s not what you think of when you hear puppetry.” Indeed, I thought, the legs and flats of the feet were being manipulated from the hips with some sort of interior mechanism. Typically, the foot puppeteer holds them near the ankles. But I don’t think that’s what my fellow spectator had in mind.","PeriodicalId":42437,"journal":{"name":"PAJ-A JOURNAL OF PERFORMANCE AND ART","volume":"36 1","pages":"22-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85362012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Landscapes to Projection Drama","authors":"Antoine Wagner, Philip Cluff","doi":"10.1162/pajj_a_00644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/pajj_a_00644","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42437,"journal":{"name":"PAJ-A JOURNAL OF PERFORMANCE AND ART","volume":"99 1","pages":"76-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73812677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the Toes Up","authors":"Paul Bedard","doi":"10.1162/pajj_a_00641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/pajj_a_00641","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42437,"journal":{"name":"PAJ-A JOURNAL OF PERFORMANCE AND ART","volume":"34 3 1","pages":"52-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72932381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ivo van Hove and Almodóvar: Remixing The Human Voice","authors":"M. Dilek","doi":"10.1162/pajj_a_00636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/pajj_a_00636","url":null,"abstract":"At the opening of La Machine infernale [The Infernal Machine], Jean Cocteau’s 1934 retelling of the Oedipus myth, a voice labels the imminent drama as a “fully wound machine,” whose spring will slowly unwind during its performance. The play’s tragic set-up, we are told, “is one of the most perfect machines devised by the infernal gods for the mathematical annihilation of a mortal.”1 In comparing his tragic dramaturgy to a technical apparatus designed to wreck those embroiled in it, Cocteau—the preeminent multi-hyphenate artist of twentiethcentury France—also looks back on his previous play, La Voix humaine [The Human Voice]. First staged in 1930 at the Comédie-Française, this earlier work has as its keystone the device of the manual telephone, complete with its many idiosyncrasies. As Cocteau’s unnamed female protagonist, on a farewell call with the lover who has left her, finds herself nearing the “annihilation” of a relationship, her anxious resort to the telephone mirrors the play’s witting reliance on that same machine’s theatrical potential.","PeriodicalId":42437,"journal":{"name":"PAJ-A JOURNAL OF PERFORMANCE AND ART","volume":"C-32 1","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84446256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Something Beautiful and Powerful: Politics, Art, and Bread and Puppet Theater","authors":"John Bell","doi":"10.1162/pajj_a_00639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/pajj_a_00639","url":null,"abstract":"The Bread and Puppet Theater was founded in 1963, and in 2022, is one year away from its sixtieth anniversary, making it one of the oldest theatre companies in the United States. Its founder and director, Peter Schumann— now eighty-seven—discovered an inspiring and flourishing performance world in early 1960s New York, where his dreams of a masked dance theatre troupe became a reality in downtown Manhattan. The rise of ensemble theatre companies like the Living Theatre, the Open Theater, and the Performance Group, alongside the interdisciplinary world of Happenings, dance, and music centered around Judson Church, created a fertile and supportive environment in which Schumann found like-minded and willing collaborators to realize his visions of ritualist dance theatre with puppets and objects. The influence of visionary artist Richard Tyler (founder of the Uranian Phalanstery in a disused Hungarian synagogue on East 4th Street), and activist novelist Grace Paley led Schumann away from loft performances and art-world happenings, and onto the streets and sidewalks of New York where Schumann could present crankie scroll performances and create giant puppet happenings as part of parades organized by the burgeoning anti-Vietnam War movement.","PeriodicalId":42437,"journal":{"name":"PAJ-A JOURNAL OF PERFORMANCE AND ART","volume":"47 1","pages":"34-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80547705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"I’m Free Because I’m a Fugitive—I’m a Fugitive Because I’m Not Free","authors":"D. Wilson, J. Fairfield","doi":"10.1162/pajj_a_00645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/pajj_a_00645","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42437,"journal":{"name":"PAJ-A JOURNAL OF PERFORMANCE AND ART","volume":"197 1","pages":"81-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75297952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uploading into Eternity","authors":"E. Pearlman","doi":"10.1162/pajj_a_00649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/pajj_a_00649","url":null,"abstract":"Michael van der Aa’s Upload adroitly presents humankind’s inextricable woes as it embraces the spate of technological innovations that humanity might experience in the foreseeable future—if we, the human species, survive the climate emergency and the specter of nuclear annihilation. The opera focuses on the conundrum of uploading one’s consciousness to the computing cloud and the complexities of maintaining a digitized rebirth after death. This transformation lassoes a host of troubling ethical, moral, and psychological controversies into the fray, including the core existential question: “to be or not to be?” Once the main character, the Father, uploads his consciousness to the cloud—does he exist—or not exist?","PeriodicalId":42437,"journal":{"name":"PAJ-A JOURNAL OF PERFORMANCE AND ART","volume":"35 1","pages":"104-107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87596791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conversation Pit","authors":"Janine DeFeo","doi":"10.1162/pajj_a_00647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/pajj_a_00647","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42437,"journal":{"name":"PAJ-A JOURNAL OF PERFORMANCE AND ART","volume":"38 8","pages":"95-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72371687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jan Sawka: Theatre of Image and Metaphor","authors":"Kathleen M. Cioffi","doi":"10.1162/pajj_a_00643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1162/pajj_a_00643","url":null,"abstract":"The visual artist Jan Sawka (1946–2012) is best known for his painting and printmaking: his works are in the collections of over sixty international museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. holds a collection of his intaglio prints, the largest by any single artist in the fine print section of the library. While interest in Sawka’s art has remained strong in the years since his death, it seems to have especially grown in the last two years, with solo exhibitions in 2020 at the Samuel Dorsky Museum at the State University of New York–New Paltz and at the Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art at California State University, San Bernardino. In conjunction with these two shows, a number of events have generated a continuing presence online. Some were among the earliest art exhibitions to respond to the Covid shutdown with virtual walkthroughs and an online symposium on the work of Sawka, a video of which can still be viewed on the CSUSB website. In 2021, the Ossolineum National Archival Institute in Wrocław, Poland, organized an exhibition of art from the earliest part of Sawka’s career. Moreover, in 2022, an exhibition at the Wende Museum of the Cold War in Culver City, California, on display from April to October, has featured works by Sawka.","PeriodicalId":42437,"journal":{"name":"PAJ-A JOURNAL OF PERFORMANCE AND ART","volume":"14 1","pages":"64-75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75280505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}