The Arts of Occupation
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In the wake of the upsetting eviction from Zuccotti Park just two nights earlier, the representation served as a kind of birthday celebration for the gears. Appearing on the Rachel Maddow show the next night, Record Read, a co-organizer of the projection, explained that it was the upshot of an ad hoc collaboration with Denise Vega, a single mama who allowed activists to use her apartment in a public dwelling project across from the Verizon building.
The N17 projection is perhaps the most photogenic sample so far of the ways in which artists affiliated with OWS have transformed and contested urban room in architectural, visual and symbolic terms. As the displacement enters its post-Zuccotti phase, now is a esteemed time to assess the range of methods, styles and tactics adopted by its artists, as well as to plumb some of the tensions surrounding the very category of art itself relative to what might be called the "spatial machination" of OWS.
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Source: The Nation.
Review: LLCC's 'Christmas Carol' has Halloween feel
01.01.70
PETERSBURG -- Draw a blank all the Victorian trappings that usually surround productions of "A Christmas Carol," if you go to see Lincoln Upon Community College Theatre's moulding at New Salem this weekend and next.
Subtitled "A Ghost Allegory of Christmas," this version, adapted and directed by LLCC theater academician Mark Hardiman, might in some respects be just as apt for Halloween.
You won't see a single sprig of holly or evergreen, any lavishly set tables, or any blazing hearths or candles.
During the look-in performance Friday at the New Salem Visitors Center, incorporeal a cappella chanting (of musical themes composed by Sue Hamilton), whispering and echoes were heard far more often than Christmas carols.
Close to all the characters wore costumes designed by Katie Eickhoff in muted shades of gray, beige, purple and pink, and touches of ashen makeup lent them a deathlike pallor. The chimes signaling the ghosts' coming and other occasions were tolled on a set of copper pipes that grumble funereal, not festive.
Source: The State Journal-Register
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