Recent Performances and Lectures/Workshops
The Summer and Fall of 2016 was a pretty active time...besides 25 radio appearances in support of the new Tactical Performance book, I was able to travel a bit and give a few talks. More are planned for 2017, announcement coming soon.
April 16: Yerba Buena Arts Center, San Francisco: I performed "Exit 11," a strange monologue about growing up in New Jersey, toxic waste, green rabbits, corporate impunity, Superfund sites and self-soothing through Vivaldi, chanting, and whalesong. This was part of the "Green-Collar Comedy," one of the events of the Arts & Ecology Residency Showcase.
May 28: Performed "The Panopticock: An Immodest Proposal," with J. Stahl and Leslie Dreyer, a neo-Foucouldian satire of the surveillance state, as part of La Pocha Nostra's OAKLAND VERSUS SAN FRANCISCO event, for the San Francisco International Arts Festival: http://www.sfiaf.org/la_pocha_nostra. I also performed a new piece, A WORD FROM OUR SPONSORS, a satire of corporate sponsorship that turns strange and existential by the end.June 8, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: As an opening act for Guillermo Gómez-Peña, I performed "A WORD FROM OUR SPONSORS."
July 13: Book talk and lecture at the "Hiedra" arts space, Buenos AiresJuly 15 performance of Economusic, using the new electronic-absurd ECONOMUSIC APP (!), and some professional opera singers in the audience who didn't know I was going to call on them to sing, but who were good sports and performed splendidly. At Club Matienzo, Buenos Aires.July 18 performance of PANOPTICOCK: An Immodest Proposal, with J. Stahl, at the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics' Encuentro, Santiago, Chile.
July 20: Performative presentation of ECONOMUSIC for my workgroup, organized by Diana Taylor, Santiago, Chile.
July 26: Performance of my new monologue/slide showA NOTE FROM OUR SPONSORS, Valaparaiso, Chile.
September 22: Tactical Performance talk at NYU, Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics.September 23 Tactical Performance book launch event, Bluestockings Books, New York City.
September 24: Adaptation of Non-Fiction Texts to Performance Workshop at Queens Museum, New York.
September 26: Tactical Performance presentation, Bard College. Sponsored by the Human Rights Project, Theatre and PerformanceProgram, and Experimental Humanities.
October 3: Tactical Performance presentation at Ryerson University, Toronto.October 5 Tactical Performance presentation at York University, Toronto.
October 17: presentation and workshop for Rupa Marya and activist doctors and interns at UCSF medical school, San Francisco.October 18: at CIIS in SF as part of their "Dancing With The So Called Dead: festival, I co-performed with Guillermo Gómez-Peña a series of our original monologues and duets. https://www.facebook.com/events/1735465340009349/
October 24: workshop for The Graduates, a group of formerly incarcerated women working on a performance critical of the prison-industrial complex, at ArtSpot Productions, New Orleans.October 26, Tactical Performance workshop for theatre artists at ArtSpot Productions, New Orleans.
October 28: performance of my play, COINTELSHOW: A PATRIOT ACT, at ArtSpot Productions, New Orleans.November 2nd...once again I tried my hand at telling a personal story at THE MOTH storyslam in Berkeley. Always a good time.
November 10: STREET THEATRE at the invitation of, and in support of, a coalition of progressive unions, in solidarity with Standing Rock, at the Wells Fargo bank in downtown Oakland. The performance was good fun, and my shtick was simple (and once again I was typecast as the bad guy). The turnout was wonderful--hundreds of diverse union members from a wide array of unions who made an effective connection between Wells Fargo policy, climate justice, and indigenous sovereignty.
November 14: Guest Lecture on Carnivalesque Protest at U.C. Berkeley.
December 1: West Coast Book Launch Event at the great old City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco. What a pleasure to present at this hallowed space with the old Beats looming over us. Thanks to Peter Maravelis.
December 4: on a panel at the Howard Zinn Book Fair in San Francisco with my dear old New York City comrades from Reclaim the Streets and other misadventures, Ben Shepard and Ron Hayduk.
