Author: Yvonne Rainer Publisher: ISBN: 9781936440108 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 71
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From her work in dance and choreography to her films and writings, Yvonne Rainer (born 1934) has established herself as one of the America's greatest living artists. This first collection of her poems, which were written from the late 1990s onwards and have never before been published, affirms her ability to endow words with corporeality, propulsion and swift-moving narrative. Full of wit and candor, Rainer's poems evoke the rhythm of an urban landscape peopled with old friends and colleagues, trying to make art or simply trying to make ends meet. Memories entangle with news headlines and conversations overheard on the subway, making the poems feel both intimate yet social. Accompanying the poems is a selection of black-and-white images curated by Rainer, varying from news clippings to intimate photographs from Rainer's personal archive. Poet and critic Tim Griffin contributes an introduction.
Author: Yvonne Rainer Publisher: MIT Press (MA) ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 504
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If you're interested in Plato, you're reading the wrong book. If you're interested in difficult childhoods, sexual misadventures, aesthetics, cultural history, and the reasons that a club sandwich and other meals--including breakfast--have remained in the memory of the present writer, keep reading. --from Feelings Are Facts In this memoir, dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer traces her personal and artistic coming of age. Feelings Are Facts(the title comes from a dictum by Rainer's one-time psychotherapist) uses diary entries, letters, program notes, excerpts from film scripts, snapshots, and film frame enlargements to present a vivid portrait of an extraordinary artist and woman in postwar America. Rainer tells of a California childhood in which she was farmed out by her parents to foster families and orphanages, of sexual and intellectual initiations in San Francisco and Berkeley, and of artistic discoveries and accomplishments in the New York City dance world. Rainer studied with Martha Graham (and heard Graham declare, "when you accept yourself as a woman, you will have turn-out"--that is, achieve proper ballet position) and Merce Cunningham in the late 1950s and early 1960s, cofounded the Judson Dance Theater in 1962 (dancing with Trisha Brown, Steve Paxton, David Gordon, and Lucinda Childs), hobnobbed with New York artists including Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Morris (her lover and partner for several years), and Yoko Ono, and became involved with feminist and anti-war causes in the 1970s and 1980s. Rainer writes about how she constructed her dances--including The Mind Is a Muscleand its famous section, Trio A, as well as the recent After Many a Summer Dies the Swan--and about turning from dance to film and back to dance. And she writes about meeting her longtime partner Martha Gever and discovering the pleasures of domestic life. The mosaic-like construction of Feelings Are Factsrecalls the composition-by-juxtaposition of Rainer's work in film and dance, displaying prismatic variations from what she calls her "reckless past" for our amazement and appreciation.
Author: Yvonne Rainer Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 9780253116222 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 246
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"To read Rainer's screenplays is to rediscover, even reinvent, the films all over again, but more importantly to realize that images and mise-en-scà ̈ne are as key to how Rainer's films work as is language." -- The Independent "The scripts record the unique structure of [Rainer's] films, the stresses, strains, and crackling of voices layering over and into one another. Their publication is an important moment for feminist film." -- Cineaste "Rainer's films are not highly accessible but are important to the critical imagination as an example of the sustained exploration of political and feminist theory." -- Choice "Rainer's important work in the area of avant-garde filmmaking in the seventies and eighties is amply recorded in this book... " -- Cantrills Filmnotes' The scripts of Rainer's five films, presented here along with essays, an interview, and bibliography, demonstrate the evolution of her political consciousness as well as her creative engagement with the contemporary film and cultural scene. These texts challenge the illusionist and ideological presumptions of mainstream culture and cinema.
Author: Ralph Lemon Publisher: ISBN: 9780984734665 Category : Aesthetics Languages : en Pages : 0
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On Value is a collaboration between Triple Canopy and choreographer/artist Ralph Lemon. The book is a multifarious conversation about the value of artworks and the labor and bodies that make them, especially as defined by institutions with whom artists have often had fraught relationships. In essays, poems, interviews and artworks, 19 contributors consider artworks that resist institutional parameters; how and why performers, choreographers and dancers might go about making art institutions into proper venues for their works; and how race figures into assessments of value. On Value emerges from Value Talks, a series of private conversations organized by Lemon in 2013 and 2014 at MoMA.
Author: Lynne Sachs Publisher: ISBN: 9780927920209 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 64
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Poetry. Film. When filmmaker Lynne Sachs turned fifty, she dedicated herself to writing a poem for every year of her life, so far. Each of the fifty poems investigates the relationship between a singular event in Sachs' life and the swirl of events beyond her domestic universe. Published by Tender Buttons Press, YEAR BY YEAR POEMS juxtaposes Sachs' finished poems, which move from her birth in 1961 to her half-century marker in 2011, with her original handwritten first drafts. In this way, she reveals her process of navigating within and alongside historical events such as the Moon Landing, the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., streaking, the Anita Hill hearings, the Columbine shootings, and controversies around universal health care. In YEAR BY YEAR POEMS, Lynne Sachs realizes the long anticipated leap from her extraordinary career in filmmaking to this, her first book of poems. With an introduction by Paolo Javier, former Queens poet laureate and author of the book Court of the Dragon. "The whole arc of a life is sketched movingly in this singular collection. These poems have both delicacy and grit. With the sensitive eye for details that she has long brought to her films, Lynne Sachs shares, this time on the page, her uncanny observations of moments on the fly, filled with longings, misses, joys and mysterious glimpses of a pattern of meaning underneath it all."�Phillip Lopate "The highly acclaimed filmmaker Lynne Sachs is also a captivating and surprising poet. YEAR BY YEAR distills five decades into lyric, a lustrous tapestry woven of memory, wisdom, cultural apprehension and the delicate specificities of lived life."�Claire Messud "In YEAR BY YEAR, Lynne Sachs selects and distills from larger fields of notation, acute scenes representing her life and the world she was born into. Her measured, spare account brings her to an understanding and acceptance of the terrible and beautiful fact that history both moves us and moves through us, and, more significantly, how by contending with its uncompromising force, we define an ethics that guides our fate."�Michael Collier
Author: Nora Alter Publisher: ISBN: 9781735230504 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Renée Green: Pacing explores the artist's two-year engagement with the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, including her major exhibition Within Living Memory, and chronicles a series of Green's interlinked exhibitions and events that took place during that time period in Cambridge, US (Pacing); Toronto, Canada (Facing); Como, Italy (Tracing); Berlin, Germany (Placing); and Lisbon, Portugal (Spacing). Renée Green: Pacing puts these projects into dialog with extensive documentation of and critical responses to her exhibitions and public programs staged at the Carpenter Center between 2016 - 2018. In doing so, the publication focuses on questions of process across a network of histories and actions, dwelling in literature, poetry, mathematics, color, architecture, cinema, sound, voices, conversations, and written exchanges.Renée Green: Pacing features these works collected in Within Living Memory, including her new work Americas : Veritas (2018); commissioned by the Carpenter Center, Americas : Veritas is a short film inspired by materials found in Harvard libraries and archives, positioning Le Corbusier's Cambridge-situated Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts in dialogue with his Casa Curutchet, located in La Plata, Argentina, as the architect's only two built structures in the Americas. The book collects the scripts of Green's re- cent essay films ED/HF (2017), Walking in NYL (2016), and Begin Again, Begin Again (2015). Renée Green: Pacing advances new linkages between diverse international gures and sites, spanning Asia, Europe, North America, and South America, connecting Viennese émigré architect Rudolf M. Schindler, literary luminaries Gertrude Stein, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Muriel Rukeyser, and polymaths and activists Albert Einstein, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Paul Robeson.In addition to a newly commissioned essay by art historian Gloria Sutton, and a new text by poet and scholar Fred Moten, Renée Green: Pacing brings together a series of never-before-published dialogs between the artist and a multidisciplinary group of leading practitioners including choreographer Yvonne Rainer, film and media scholar Nora Alter, and critic Mason Leaver-Yap. The publication will also collect recently published conversations with Nicholas Korody and William S. Smith, and an introduction by Carpenter Center director, Dan Byers.
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