Goat Island Summer School Symposium
Saturday, July 26 2008
10.00 AM – 9.00 PM
280 S. Columbus Drive; 012 Performance Space
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Free and open to the public
This July features the tenth and final Goat Island Summer School hosted by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. To mark the conclusion of this decade-long ecstatic experiment in collaborative performance practices, to end properly, and simply to celebrate, this year's session will conclude with a free public one-day symposium. Stephen Bottoms (University of Leeds, UK) will present the keynote on The Avant-garde and the Midwest. Panelists Carol Becker (Columbia University), Abhay Ghiara (DeVry University, Berkeley, CA), Marin Blazevic (University of Zagreb, Croatia), and Judd Morrissey (SAIC) will address the subject Community without Unity; and panelists/Summer School alumni Rebecca Groves, Judith Leemann, and Jorge Lucero will address the statement What I have learned cannot be generalized, but it can be shared. Goat Island members will present a collaborative lecture, and artist and Summer School alumna Sara Schnadt will present a performative installation. Lunch will be provided. In the evening, a program of work by artists and Summer School alumni will feature video by Dani Leventhal, and live performances by Deva Eveland, and Brian Torrey Scott and friends. Please join us for this singular event.
Sponsored in part by the Performance Department at SAIC.
For more information contact John Rich: goatislandperformance@gmail.com
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The Lastmaker Upcoming Tour Dates
22-24 May 2008
Battersea Arts Center, London, England
www.bac.org.uk
30-31 May 2008
Arnolfini, Bristol, England
www.arnolfini.org.uk
5-6 June 2008
Contact Theatre, Manchester, England
www.contact-theatre.org
19-20 June 2008
IN TRANSIT Festival
House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
www.hkw.de
25-26 June 2008
Eurokaz Festival
Teatar &TD, Zagreb, Croatia
view previous tour dates
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Goat Island 1-Day Workshops
18 May 2008
Independent Dance, London, England
www.independentdance.co.uk
19 May 2008 -- Pending, to be confirmed
Roehampton University, London England
Goat Island Summer School 2008
7-26 July 2008: M-F, 9am - 4:30pm
Includes 2-Day Goat Island Symposium, July 25th and 26th
Goat Island : Lastness, raiding the archive, and pedagogical practices
Goat Island will present their tenth and final Artist-in-Residence Workshop at the School of the Art Institute. Directed by the interests of the participants as well as those of the instructors, the intensive workshop will examine disciplines of performance, installation, writing, movement, music research, publication, and documentation in various forms and combinations. Sessions will combine "theory" and "practice", investigating forms of thought and presentation, styles of collaboration, historical and philosophical perspectives, and methods of individual and collective expression and creativity.
For further information on the Goat Island Summer School and Symposium please contact Mark Jeffery, Goat Island member and Performance Faculty mjeffe at saic. dot edu.
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Small Acts of Repair: Performance, Ecology and Goat Island (2007), edited by Stephen Bottoms and Matthew Goulish, published by Routledge. Available 21 September, 2007.
Please see further details in publications.
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The Last Performance
A web-based writing, archiving, and text-visualization project created by Judd Morrissey to evolve alongside the creation and performance of The Lastmaker. The work is being collectively authored by Goat Island, invited artists and critics, the Goat Island community-at-large, and the general public.
www.thelastperformance.org
Curtain Call (working title)
For our last film we intend to make a multi-screen work which will play performatively with space and time and which will not only draw on The Lastmaker performance but also open up new endings towards as yet unknown beginnings. The working title for our final film is Curtain Call and will involve shooting in several different locations on S16mm film beginning in early 2009. We invite you to support our last film by making a financial contribution.
Click here for more infomation or to offer support.
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