Salon NOTEBOOK: Grisha Coleman
March 9, 2010 · Posted by trailerpilot ·
Grisha Coleman, left, and a design concept for echo::system.
Salon NOTEBOOK: Grisha Coleman, February 28, 2010
by Zachary Whittenburg
Information pours forth from Grisha Coleman in discussion of her work at approximately the same rate it enters and is chewed up by her data-driven, multidisciplinary performance pieces. I struggled to keep pace with pen on paper as Coleman burned vocal rubber through a breakdown of parallel reality streams, diversions into aboriginal Australian practices, and explication of the lasting impact of being an Urban Bush Woman. Coleman is currently Professor of Movement, Computation and Digital Media in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering ...
Salon NOTEBOOK: Asimina Chremos
December 23, 2009 · Posted by trailerpilot ·
Salon NOTEBOOK: Asimina Chremos, December 14, 2009
by Zachary Whittenburg
Asimina Chremos. Photo by William Frederking.
With a soft welcome to her home and studio, Asimina Chremos kicked off the last CDF Salon of 2009. “Each one of us is the creator of our own life,” she reminded us, underlining the point by recounting her decision, inspired by a website about feng shui, to paint her front door green. In the space that attendees of the Salon series have come to know as an uncommonly homey venue, Chremos explained how her Wicker Park loft is a mirror not only of her goals as ...
Salon NOTEBOOK: Diego Piñón
December 1, 2009 · Posted by trailerpilot ·
Diego Piñón in "Eksua Itsi" at New York's Theater for the New City.
Salon NOTEBOOK: Diego Piñón, November 23, 2009
by Zachary Whittenburg
Perched excitably at the edge of his blue chair like a concert pianist tearing through the final seconds of Beethoven’s Pathétique, Diego Piñon alternated video of his work with passionate speeches about the nature and responsibility of art. This Mexico City-born Butoh performer and teacher’s engine idles where most redline, but as often as he’s tearing through space—with words or with movement—he leaves his shifter in neutral, in coiled stillness redolent of explosive power just a dropped clutch away. Click ...
