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Aphasia: A Stanford music professor's work, with hand gestures and odd sounds, about obsessive attention to ridiculous things<br />
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Mangled vocal samples, random icons and precise hand gestures come together in a mesmerizing performance by Stanford music scholar Mark Applebaum.<br />
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Mark Applebaum's 'Aphasia'<br />
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BY CAMILLE BROWN<br />
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The performer in the video steps onto the stage and sits down in a nondescript chair, his face blank of expression and hands placed squarely on his knees.<br />
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Suddenly, a metallic-sounding "THWUNK!" electrifies the space and with a sharp left-arm gesture the performer strikes his chest, beginning the performance of Aphasia, a composition by Mark Applebaum, associate professor of music at Stanford.iRDMunihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885805731977569538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170713413267579681.post-66901630292523138522012-03-08T10:42:00.000-08:002012-03-08T10:42:09.509-08:00Comedy community comes together to help comedian who suffered stroke<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="main_img"><div class="zoom"><a href="http://cdn.laughspin.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Joe-Deeley-700.jpg" rel="lightbox" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;" title="Comedy community comes together to help comedian who suffered stroke"> <img alt="Comedy community comes together to help comedian who suffered stroke" class="fade_hover" src="http://www.laughspin.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/widezine/thumb.php?src=http://www.laughspin.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Joe-Deeley-700.jpg&w=700&h=290&zc=1&q=80&bid=1" style="opacity: 1;" /> </a></div></div><div class="meta">By <a href="http://www.laughspin.com/author/justin/" title="Posts by Justin Ian Daniels">Justin Ian Daniels</a> | March 5, 2012 at 9:52 am | <a data-disqus-identifier="46154 http://www.laughspin.com/?p=46154" href="http://www.laughspin.com/2012/03/05/comedy-community-comes-together-to-help-comedian-who-suffered-stroke/#disqus_thread">0 Comments</a> | <a href="http://www.laughspin.com/category/feature-slider/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in feature slider">feature slider</a>, <a href="http://www.laughspin.com/category/news/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in News">News</a> | Tags: <a href="http://www.laughspin.com/tag/angelo-bowers/" rel="tag">Angelo Bowers</a>, <a href="http://www.laughspin.com/tag/joe-deeley/" rel="tag">Joe Deeley</a>, <a href="http://www.laughspin.com/tag/josh-adam-meyers/" rel="tag">Josh Adam Meyers</a>, <a href="http://www.laughspin.com/tag/rory-scovel/" rel="tag">rory scovel</a></div>Friends of Washington D.C. comedian Joe Deeley recently received word that he had suffered a stroke that left him with paralysis in his left side, and hospitalized for the foreseeable future. Like many working comedians, Joe does not have health insurance, and is sure to incur some very large hospital bills. A PayPal account has been set up to make donations in order to assist Joe in his recovery, and ease his financial burden. Donations towards Joe’s medical bills can be made to <strong>money4deeley@gmail.com</strong> (organized and monitored by comedian Rory Scovel), and we encourage anyone who can spare a few dollars to please do so.<br />
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As a prelude to the staged program, we are planning to stage a simple game of 'telephone' prior to the session to demonstrate the fallibility of oral transmission and the nature of short-term memory. Each ticket holder will stand on one of the steps of the 108-stepped spiral staircase of the Museum. The guest speaker stands at the base, whispers a short phrase they have prepared to the visitor on the first step, and the phrase would spiral up through the line until it reaches the ear of the scientist. The conversationalists will only reveal the original phrase and the result phrase when on stage in the theater, thus starting the conversation about memory.</span> </h1><em><strong><a href="" name="Mnemonic Art Tour"></a>About the Mnemonic Art Tour </strong></em><br />
Take advantage of a short tour of some paintings in the collection that function as mnemonic devices. The iconography in these paintings serve to reference specific passages in the sutras. That is why most of these works were not meant to be revealed to those who were not already initiates. The tour will include two types of paintings: narratives such as the life of the Buddha, and mandalas which are complex two-dimensional diagrams of one's multi-dimensional state of mind......<a href="http://www.rmanyc.org/brainwave">Next</a><br />
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</h1><div class="image-caption"> <a class="imageWrapper" href="http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/lifestyle/lifestyle-and-leisure-news/stroke_victim_john_wins_national_art_acclaim_1_2989678#resize-image"><img alt="Stroke victim John Trower is exhibiting his artwork in Bluebells Florist and Tea Room in Downham Market. Pictured with John is Stroke support volunteer Tracie Gotheridge." class="editorialSectionImg" src="http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/webimage/mlnf11pt08003_1_2989674%21image/3344927668.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_595/3344927668.jpg" style="display: block; height: 212px; width: 297.5px;" /><span class="resizeIcon"></span></a> Stroke victim John Trower is exhibiting his artwork in Bluebells Florist and Tea Room in Downham Market. Pictured with John is Stroke support volunteer Tracie Gotheridge.<br />
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</div>AMATEUR dramatics enthusiast John Trower was left without speech and with no use in his right arm following a stroke which thrust him into a world of frustration. <br />
His successful business as a driving instructor came to an immediate end, his driving licence was withdrawn and, unable to speak for the next two years, his outlook seemed bleak.<br />
Determined to pick up the pieces, John began using his left arm, making doodles and drawings before venturing into water colours – and now his efforts have won him a national award and an exhibition.<br />
There was a huge cheer for John as he stepped forward to receive the Susie Hulks Memorial Award at a Stroke Association awards evening at Claridges Hotel, in London.<br />
He said: “I used to be so mobile. I had my own business as a driving instructor and I’d also teach people drama and we’d put on plays. <br />
<div class="left" id="1.2989677"><img src="http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/webimage/mlnf11pt08004_1_2989677%21image/1971279780.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_215/1971279780.jpg" width="215" /></div>“You would not believe it to see me now, although there have been improvements.<br />
“My speech, although very stilted, has gradually come back – but it takes so long to get the words the right way round in my head before I can even think about saying them,” said John, who now lives at Southfields, Downham, and is a regular member of the No 13 art group which meets at the Conservative Club....... <a href="http://bit.ly/pHrGkz%20">http://bit.ly/pHrGkz </a></div></div>iRDMunihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885805731977569538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170713413267579681.post-61828295445181608672011-09-27T10:33:00.000-07:002011-09-27T10:33:03.000-07:00Community hub helps make growing old an art<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span id="ctlContentModules"><span id="_ctl7_ctlDocumentContents"></span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNrb1icrZoF6GdGXMa3dmqy2j4ofjcCkTqJk8PJDdtg_qfavcj6lDAoGv8czhU3oUbwBWTZEh0cLTb48mcV5UeU2RnRQI0gSx5ALoYhkp0gN9w_7Q_w0RgtZiBpEcysPcEUOv9gqvDiCg/s1600/453918.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNrb1icrZoF6GdGXMa3dmqy2j4ofjcCkTqJk8PJDdtg_qfavcj6lDAoGv8czhU3oUbwBWTZEh0cLTb48mcV5UeU2RnRQI0gSx5ALoYhkp0gN9w_7Q_w0RgtZiBpEcysPcEUOv9gqvDiCg/s320/453918.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><h5>Retired teacher, Libby Creber, dedicated her MA in counselling dissertation to her late mother's desire to make growing old an art. From this has come a unique, social life-line for carers and those they care for at Wymondham's Cup of Caring. Sandie Shirley reports.<hr /></h5><div><span></span></div><div>Libby knows the heartache and hard-won understanding that comes while caring for two elderly family members. One suffered from senility and a lack of mobility and the other from a loss of coherent language, caused by a stroke. Her empathy and understanding of others was also enlarged during her six case-studies of carers for the <a href="http://bit.ly/o0Qjeh">http://bit.ly/o0Qjeh</a> elderly during her recent <strong>UEA</strong> degree. ...... </div><div><br />
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What began as a steel white, satin, wedding dress has degraded over time, becoming dark and torn.<br />
"I feel like I'm making a textile sculpture where the main ingredient is time," she said, adding it is a project making a statement about commitment and perseverance.<br />
<div class="sidebar"> <div class="sidebar-photo"> <div class="photo-overlay" style="top: 192px; width: 298px;"> <a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/photos/midres/web-594233.jpg">See all 10 photos</a> | <a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/photos/midres/web-594233.jpg">Click to enlarge</a> </div><a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/photos/midres/web-594233.jpg"><img alt="Artist Amy Caron walks into Waves of Mu, her two-room show about mirror neurons, at the University of Utah Film and Media Arts Building on Wednesday, Sep. 14, 2011. She has worked with researchers at the University of Utah Neuroscience Center to construct an artistic look at how the human brain works." src="http://static.deseretnews.com/images/article/sidebar/594233/Artist-Amy-Caron-walks-into-Waves-of-Mu-her.jpg" style="border: 0 solid; height: 213px; margin: 0 0 2px; width: 306px;" /></a> <div class="photo-credit"> Kristin Murphy, Deseret News </div><div class="photo-caption"> Artist Amy Caron walks into Waves of Mu, her two-room show about mirror neurons, at the University of Utah Film and Media Arts Building on Wednesday, Sep. 14, 2011. She has worked with researchers at the University of Utah Neuroscience Center to construct an artistic look at how the human brain works. </div></div></div>"As an artist, I really like to push boundaries," she said, shifting in her tattered dress.<br />
Caron describes herself as an artist who thrives on taking on new challenges. After coming to Utah to be an aerial ski jumper for the U.S. Freestyle Ski team, she enrolled at the University of Utah to earn a bachelor's degree in dance. She then discovered art.<br />
Eager to join a New York art program that encouraged artists to team up with professionals in other areas, Caron entered an ambitious proposal: doing an art exhibit exploring the human brain. She said the idea came to her while watching a BBC program about neuroscientist Dr. V.S. Ramachandran and his work on mirror neurons.<br />
"I kind of just went crazy and cooked up this grand idea. I thought neuroscience sounded impressive, but I knew nothing about it," Caron said.<br />
It took her a year of research, working with some of the world's top researchers in neuroscience from Harvard, University of California at San Diego and researchers in Italy. It took two more years to create the exhibit and write the roles performers play for each part of the brain...... <br />
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The short film “Aphasia,” which tells the true story of a North Carolina man who had a massive stroke at age 44, will be screened at 6:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the East Carolina Heart Institute at East Carolina University, 115 Heart Drive. The movie stars Carl McIntyre of Laurinburg, an actor who had a stroke in 2005. As a result, McIntyre lives with aphasia, an acquired communication disorder that impairs a person's ability to process language but does not affect intelligence. Free. Visit <a href="http://www.aphasiathemovie.com/">www.aphasiathemovie.com</a>. Contact Sherri Winslow at 744-6142 or email <a href="mailto:winslowsh@ecu.edu">winslowsh@ecu.edu</a>. </div>iRDMunihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885805731977569538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170713413267579681.post-6638267595710257952011-04-17T19:17:00.000-07:002011-04-17T19:17:30.621-07:00Brain-injured artists show life's reflections<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="SuperHeading"><b>BRAIN-INJURED ARTISTS SHOW LIFE'S REFLECTIONS</b></div><br />
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It's a scene of calm, of tranquility, captured through Sandra Madden's camera lens. That feeling of peace is what Ms. Madden loves about the photo. That feeling of peace is something she was missing for a while after a bicycle accident nearly five years ago changed her life. <br />
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She was riding her bicycle near her home in Douglas when she lost control for a second. She fell off the bike and onto her back<a href="http://www.telegram.com/article/20110404/NEWS/104040327/1246">. more read...</a></div>iRDMunihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885805731977569538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170713413267579681.post-65823484809871406132011-02-13T07:16:00.000-08:002011-02-13T07:16:33.975-08:00National Aphasia Association: A Night At The Theater To See “Wings”<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT9YaqyfRt2PMZbJ5I4_NfTMWhwbXE-0_uwv07YY2biy7N-vMEzxrU5QSJH4u9UFCLz7wuh393UMiRtdryVQweFZyb3PL-T6qZVUncSAL_0SE7pu3xC3XrlaQE6cBEwHxbZOnlmItnYus/s1600/471px-Second_Stage_Theatre_NYC_exterior_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT9YaqyfRt2PMZbJ5I4_NfTMWhwbXE-0_uwv07YY2biy7N-vMEzxrU5QSJH4u9UFCLz7wuh393UMiRtdryVQweFZyb3PL-T6qZVUncSAL_0SE7pu3xC3XrlaQE6cBEwHxbZOnlmItnYus/s320/471px-Second_Stage_Theatre_NYC_exterior_2.jpg" width="251" /></a></div>A few weeks ago in our Perspectives series we interviewed the Program Director of the Snyder Center for Aphasia Life Enhancement (<a href="http://www.scalebaltimore.org/SCALE_-_Snyder_Center_for_Aphasia_Life_Enhancement/Who_Are_We.html" target="_blank">SCALE</a>) in Baltimore, Denise McCall, and the Technology Coordinator, Jes Porro. That story grew so rich that we set up an interview with Ellayne Ganzfried, Executive Director of the <a href="http://www.aphasia.org/who_we_are/who_we_are.html" target="_blank">National Aphasia Association</a>, which will appear in our next installment of Perspectives. In that interview, Ellayne was especially proud of her association’s work with Second Stage Theater in New York City, which has reprised the 1978 play “Wings,” written by Arthur Kopit. On Tuesday, November 2nd, Second Stage Theater and the NAA have teamed up for an evening of outreach and fundraising through the play<a href="http://mkcreative.net/blog/2010/10/28/national-aphasia-association-fundraiser-a-night-at-the-theater-to-see-wings/">. <u><i><b><span style="color: red;">Next.....</span></b></i></u></a></div>iRDMunihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885805731977569538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170713413267579681.post-34987721502430558042010-08-19T17:21:00.000-07:002010-08-19T17:21:02.147-07:00National Gallery Innovative Art Project For Stroke Suvivors to Restore Creativity | Art Knowledge News<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1187106236" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMsvN49oVM7GKLF1dR1hxq6R9WYV9WRdwKTFkJ0wcMIrB2pZdenvv9NVJGnB9KdMMfaX6ZEVRAFuDQYxEp3jtKQaWSECi0BG_DJdnMNvJBQsw9ow1W8aVM-MXTMoHVFg3O6gkdqhUL_Dc/s320/Ageing-Creatively-Art.jpg" /></a></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1187106236">National Gallery Innovative Art Project For Stroke Suvivors to Restore Creativity | Art Knowledge News</a><br />
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1187106236">LONDON.- An innovative art project developed by the National Gallery is giving a group of stroke survivors the chance to get their creative juices flowing. Ageing Creatively is an outreach programme that aims to make it possible for people who may be isolated, vulnerable or unable to visit the Gallery independently, to access and enjoy the collection. During November, members of the Greenhill Aphasia Group took part in four outreach workshops at the Greenhill Centre in Newham. Aphasia is a difficulty speaking or understanding speech, reading or writing. It occurs following damage to the brain and is most common after a stroke.</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Aphasia is a communication and language impairment which is most commonly caused when a person's brain is damaged by a stroke. Aphasia often makes it difficult to process words, especially in sentences, whether they be written, read or spoken.</span><br />
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But the Ottawa artist quickly discovered that, like him, people with aphasia often rely on a visual language to express themselves. Instead of speaking, reading or writing, they count on pictures to do the talking for them. “I value images very much, as well as the written word and the poetics of language, so I really understand how frustrating it must be to have difficulty with those things,” said Burns.</a>iRDMunihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885805731977569538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170713413267579681.post-41940521580315301972010-04-17T19:14:00.000-07:002010-04-17T19:15:51.286-07:00Fluent Aphasia (Wernicke Aphasia) Symptoms<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT_v1UklGq2CQamCA1OVjOx1IBhHaLLgncEqUAXXmwA2DcyhStr0y4yrOtKuJHIF1L7hmfhBEuVCLehwlE2IfO_oOWmBYvnfbVzp6IqpYr7F1SC8AP9B7p5arXzKQfXa1FOV-_1LG4Jdg/s1600/Aphasia.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT_v1UklGq2CQamCA1OVjOx1IBhHaLLgncEqUAXXmwA2DcyhStr0y4yrOtKuJHIF1L7hmfhBEuVCLehwlE2IfO_oOWmBYvnfbVzp6IqpYr7F1SC8AP9B7p5arXzKQfXa1FOV-_1LG4Jdg/s200/Aphasia.png" width="121" /></a></div><a href="http://www.dramforum.net/2010/04/communication-disorder/">This form of aphasia is caused due to damage to the middle left region of the brain, where the language network exists. It is called fluent aphasia because people suffering from this form of speech disorder have the ability to speak long, complex sentences fluently, however, these sentences often make no logical sense and are strings of inappropriately used or unrecognizable words. They cannot understand what others are saying properly and fail to see that others cannot understand what they are trying to say.Next...</a>iRDMunihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885805731977569538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170713413267579681.post-25062742341997554992009-12-06T12:59:00.000-08:002009-12-06T13:02:15.406-08:00maybe Aphasia ?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNA775-3bofW1pPETRs4tIwZrm-OWfnUT6UzvaiIm1dpdTeMa8eHTCvLcvTt7Wm_eJkZefRAT-XhJmk3B6bc-PZhwxTPAYO9saZKp2MBfKoYLNTyJyEOT7Dv09NH0j8DPAIAy81pZgq3w/s1600-h/Regaine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNA775-3bofW1pPETRs4tIwZrm-OWfnUT6UzvaiIm1dpdTeMa8eHTCvLcvTt7Wm_eJkZefRAT-XhJmk3B6bc-PZhwxTPAYO9saZKp2MBfKoYLNTyJyEOT7Dv09NH0j8DPAIAy81pZgq3w/s320/Regaine.jpg" /></a><br />
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<br />It happens to Claire, the amnesiac in “Fuddy Meers,” David Lindsay-Abaire’s dark farce/mystery opening next Friday at Weber State University.
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<br />“In a way, her amnesia is kind of a blessing to her,” said Stephanie Purcell, 21, an Ogden resident who plays the upbeat heroine. “It takes away any doubts she has about herself. She is the most honest character, with herself and others. She’s not hiding anything, at least consciously. She is open to everything that comes to her.”
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<br /># A foul-mouthed young man, Kenny, who may be her son. next................</a>iRDMunihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885805731977569538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170713413267579681.post-18775455077151057602009-07-19T14:11:00.000-07:002009-07-19T14:12:48.736-07:00Night Sky Grade: C+By Susan Yankowitz. Directed by Daniella Topol. At the Baruch College Performing Arts Cetner. (CLOSED)<br /><br />The only consensus in this show's set of reviews is that Jordan Baker-- last seen in New York in Three Tall Women-- is the tops. Beyond that, reviewers detec <a href="http://criticometer.blogspot.com/2009/06/night-sky.html">NEXT...</a>iRDMunihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885805731977569538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170713413267579681.post-90623320578839233232009-07-17T12:40:00.001-07:002009-07-17T12:41:16.119-07:00Theater Review: 'Night Sky'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9yPUByeJ3I9qLvb98jVu8SZhusmkn6IvkLsAzsnFHE9reIyy_2o2cUVacTOCuXETZVMBBiXnAvcPqHOpccjB8uiX5vriIypqlZt08ezTlzxB6ol_0xvfm89Q1e3PjQRWwLDIGM_fm3lQ/s1600-h/NightSky1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9yPUByeJ3I9qLvb98jVu8SZhusmkn6IvkLsAzsnFHE9reIyy_2o2cUVacTOCuXETZVMBBiXnAvcPqHOpccjB8uiX5vriIypqlZt08ezTlzxB6ol_0xvfm89Q1e3PjQRWwLDIGM_fm3lQ/s400/NightSky1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359516274527612402" /></a><br />NEW YORK—Being trapped inside your own head, unable to let anyone know what you're really thinking is what playwright Susan Yankowitz taps into—this deep and universal fear—in her powerful drama "Night Sky."<br /><br />Anna (Jordan Baker) is a respected astronomer who teaches, publishes, and is always pushing herself to the limit—so much so she sometimes neglects the needs of her family.<br /><br />Said family consists of teenage daughter Jennifer (Lauren Ashley Carter) and longtime live-in opera singer boyfriend Daniel (Jim Stanek). Anna’s continual prodding is also the reason Daniel's career is finally starting to take off.<br /><a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/18654/">NEXT....</a>iRDMunihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885805731977569538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170713413267579681.post-58866843466608758562009-04-29T13:34:00.000-07:002009-04-29T13:35:14.863-07:00NOW I CANNOT SPEAK. I LOST MY VOICE. I'M SPECHLESS AND REDUNDANT.<a href="http://aphasiastic.blogspot.com/2009/03/rain-might-now-taste-like-lemon-but.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rain might now taste like lemon<br />But your eyes are still the same<br />They've still got their demon<br />And I've still got your semen<br />In my mind<br />And in my mouth<br /><br />You put your finger<br />And I like it so much....next...</span></a>iRDMunihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885805731977569538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170713413267579681.post-64704669787827168572009-04-28T20:48:00.001-07:002009-04-28T20:52:01.210-07:00Tate Group Exhibition Explores the Themes of Disruption and Discontinuity within Processes<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxUUO7kD_k6rOINOZ6cHgcXAGVCMEeJLnQ1H7Cjgvob3AisWtYqkEwcM7zR-oChWB60arM9Z9Z-1suTV_Diet8JXpcn4wucM7iTtuPmFwrOWplMtIxyZn2mKZEv7-JhlyQb13p5Vz-yDg/s1600-h/Tate-2ch.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 280px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxUUO7kD_k6rOINOZ6cHgcXAGVCMEeJLnQ1H7Cjgvob3AisWtYqkEwcM7zR-oChWB60arM9Z9Z-1suTV_Diet8JXpcn4wucM7iTtuPmFwrOWplMtIxyZn2mKZEv7-JhlyQb13p5Vz-yDg/s400/Tate-2ch.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329955449054090482" border="0" /></a><br /><table width="956" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=30514"><span align="top" class="pie_g">Anna Barham, Replanted images 2008. Courtesy of the artist. Copyright: the artist. </span><br /><br /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="textomediano" valign="top" width="956"> <a href="http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=30514"><b>LONDON.-</b> Stutter, the latest exhibition in </a><a href="http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=30514" target="_blank">Tate Modern</a><a href="http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=30514">’s Level 2 programme, explores the themes of disruption and discontinuity within processes of thought and language. The group show features works by international contemporary artists Sven Augustijnen, Anna Barham, Dominique Petitgand, Michael Riedel, Will Stuart and Michelangelo Pistoletto and includes a wide range of media, ranging from sculpture, work on paper and video, to performance and sound. The exhibition’s title, Stutter, comes from the onomatopoetic word for an interrupted act of speech.<br /><br />Level 2 is Tate Modern’s space for emerging artists, dedicated to experiment and the latest ideas, themes and trends in international contemporary art.<br /><br />Sven Augustijnen’s films Johan and Francois 2001 are intimate portraits of people suffering from aphasia, the loss of the ability to produce or comprehend language. Augustijnen’s skilfully edited documentaries gradually reveal the thoughts and memories of the patients and allow the viewer to access a world that is shaped by the experience of fragmentation and degradation.<br /><br />The centrepiece of Anna Barham’s contribution to Stutter is a sculpture comprised of fluorescent tubes, orchestrated by computer codes. Creating an infinite number of flickering pulses, A Splintered Game 2008 manipulates ideas of geometry, structures and combinations as a way to illustrate and reveal thought processes. The installation is surrounded by seven of Barham’s drawings that show her interest in the potential of words and anagrams to create elaborate forms and to trigger images and narratives in the viewer’s imagination.<br /><br />In a new spatial configuration, Dominique Petitgand presents Someone on the ground 2005-2006, where recordings of words, pauses, breaths and noise merge into layers of voice and sound, structured by break ups and cuts. Played back from various spaces in the gallery, this installation takes place alongside and simultaneous to other works in the exhibition, overarching and setting them in relation, creating tensions between speech and noise, figuration and abstraction.<br /><br />Will Stuart (Will Holder and Stuart Bailey) present one of Michelangelo Pistoletto's Minus Objects from 1966, Structure for talking while standing. They challenge Pistoletto’s artwork through accompanying texts, exploring the use and significance of Pistoletto’s piece within the context of both the exhibition and Will Stuart’s intervention.<br /><br />Michael Riedel presents an entirely new work, which arises out of an array of gaps, elisions and errors. These result from a complex process of editing video footage of film screenings, recorded over a period of many months, into a frenetic trailer lasting just eight minutes.<br /><br />The exhibition is curated by Nicholas Cullinan and Vanessa Desclaux. next.............<br /></a> <!-- Include virtual='/includes/sitio/guardian.asp'--> </td> </tr> </tbody></table>iRDMunihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885805731977569538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1170713413267579681.post-43144173690510510762009-04-23T10:09:00.000-07:002009-04-23T10:13:25.221-07:00Big Man Tries Beckett<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNuQCvUovnCSXsfZ1JZs2ScWzJJNPAEQQ6h58eePjHaaw2gxyWgrV-z9vZSR31O-ae2ka9OlRQtpQyiYWMgIKeKFGv4LQykTecNGxdiFhtPXQUBCKegEOLuaVmudJSgxR1QPNnQDvuh7c/s1600-h/Godot600.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNuQCvUovnCSXsfZ1JZs2ScWzJJNPAEQQ6h58eePjHaaw2gxyWgrV-z9vZSR31O-ae2ka9OlRQtpQyiYWMgIKeKFGv4LQykTecNGxdiFhtPXQUBCKegEOLuaVmudJSgxR1QPNnQDvuh7c/s400/Godot600.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327936062466838242" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/theater/19mcgr.html"><br />IN his dressing room last week </a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/theater/19mcgr.html" title="">John Goodman</a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/theater/19mcgr.html"> stood up, emitted a long, blaring foghorn blast and then announced in a loudspeaker voice, “Now docking. ...” He was describing his Act I entrance as Pozzo, his first theatrical role in four years, in the </a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/theater/19mcgr.html" title="More articles about Roundabout Theater Co">Roundabout Theater Company</a> production of “Waiting for Godot,” which opens April 30 at Studio 54.<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/theater/19mcgr.html"><br /><br /></a><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/theater/19mcgr.html">Mr. Goodman is a big man — he’s 6 foot 3, and his weight these days hovers around 300 pounds — and in his Pozzo getup he seems even bigger. He wears a derby, boots and a voluminous riding suit with jodhpurs, and when he comes onstage, at the end of a long rope attached to his hapless slave, Lucky (played by </a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/theater/19mcgr.html" title="">John Glover</a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/theater/19mcgr.html">), he does seem a bit like an ocean liner. Vladimir and Estragon (played by </a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/theater/19mcgr.html" title="More articles about Bill Irwin.">Bill Irwin</a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/theater/19mcgr.html"> and </a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/theater/19mcgr.html" title="More articles about Nathan Lane.">Nathan Lane</a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/theater/19mcgr.html">) look astonished, and rightly so.</a></p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/theater/19mcgr.html">Pozzo is the least sympathetic and in some ways the trickiest character in “Godot.” He cruelly mistreats Lucky, and yet he is as lost and vulnerable as all the others. He is “an insecure gasbag who needs to be listened to and have things done for him,” as Mr. Goodman put it. “He’s like the Macy’s blimp no one wants to look at.” Pozzo spouts a lot of fustian and hot air, and Mr. Goodman said he was still trying to figure out the right voice for it. His Pozzo speaks in a deep, Goodmanesque rumble but with a lordly British accent.<br /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/theater/19mcgr.html"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/theater/19mcgr.html">“It’s just a voice I heard in my head,” Mr. Goodman explained, “along with all the other voices there — the barking dogs and the rest. I need to make it more distinctly American, sort of like Bill Buckley. I’m trying to make it more a patrician Yankee voice, but I worry that’s not going to sell. It’s going to sound like a bad English accent. So it’s something I’m still searching for.”</a></p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/theater/19mcgr.html"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/theater/19mcgr.html">.....next...........<br /></a></p>iRDMunihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885805731977569538noreply@blogger.com0