Daily Archives: August 7, 2008

grants & fundraising, theater

NEAspeak

The NEA language is a perverse class of speech all its own, but after working with it for weeks, I find I’m starting to sound like this myself.

“The “Attachments Form” is not a form in the conventional sense. Rather, it is a place to attach documents that you have completed and saved elsewhere on your computer.”

And, my favorite: “Use clear language that can be understood readily.”

It’d be fun, or maybe it’d be perverse, to create a grant application for a grant that doesn’t exist, and through this application to tell the story of a society that no longer exists, either. I’d like to see what grant applications looked like in the CCP.

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location, travel

proverb of place

Welcome to Chicago (and to my weblog, if you’re new here.)
I will try to keep it interesting.

I didn’t know I was coming here till just a few weeks ago, but I’m glad to be here. The place feels like Ithaca, with thunderstorms rippling through the trees. The air breathes with you.

In honor of the move, which now feels official since we signed a lease on Tuesday, here’s William Blake on the unbelievable:

Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.

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art, theater

jump in

Tonight, riding my bike home along Montrose Avenue, I go by a tiny art gallery, Swimming Pool Project Space, which is lit and set up to look like it’s actually a pool. It’s a really intriguing front – the idea of there being a swimming pool in a storefront on a busy street made me pull over. This description of the interior makes it seem like the entire thing is as visually whimsical. Astroturf and so on. I want to be part of a theater like that – that you can’t help but get off your bike to look at.

I think this is the kind of thing I was trying to do with the x restrung cortex reading in LA – a free reading, combined with music, with people dressing up – something very funny and absurdist. Something enjoyable. The same play three times. People giggling like little girls. Fun. Makes you remember why you love theater.

I wonder if SPPC would be interested in some performance art too. I wouldn’t mind restaging the x restrung cortex experiment exactly as it was – 3 readings of the play interspersed with songs from a jazz/poetry band. I think that could work well in this city. Isn’t that what performance artists do, anyway – restage works? Why not?

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