Eilidh and I came across this Funeral Ode when researching the funeral of Old Abe Lincoln.  It hits upon our predilection for hands, in this case evil hands, that cause events to happen.  The hand, after all, is the cutting ...Read More

[caption id="attachment_139" align="alignleft" width="384" caption="As I became invisible, I began to see things that had once been invisible to me. By Jenny Kendler"][/caption] I am very much enjoying the view from Wunderkamer: a journal of environmental art:  http://www.environmentalartblog.com/ And Jenny Kendler's ...Read More

This film's tagline was: The wonder film of the century, about the most romantic figure who ever lived! Judge for yourself. The full film is available online at: http://www.archive.org/details/abraham_lincoln Read More

Looking into Our American Cousin - the play the Lincolns were watching when Abraham was assassinated - I discovered this useful synopsis by Timothy Noah. The full playtext is available on Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3158 ---- Our American Cousin Revisited Was the play that ended Lincoln's ...Read More

Two "gay" male penguins have hatched a chick and are now rearing it as its adoptive parents, says a German zoo. Story from BBC News. The zoo, in Bremerhaven, northern Germany, says the adult males - Z and Vielpunkt - were given ...Read More

More Cheering, more moves, more attitude.  And here are the instructions, broken down real easy like. Read More

I have been enjoying this. Here it is all in order. The audio sync goes out in 4 and 5 but is back again for the end. And, how many languages does she speak...?! OK so it's not ...Read More

When the CD of Act V of Robert Wilson's epic the CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when it is down came out while I was at Dartington I became immediately obsessed by it. I listened to it ...Read More

A great piece of text and a great performance.  Makes me think of the spate of performance apologies and exercises that seemed to be popular a few years ago.  Eilidh and I did one once called Firemaster.  Remember that Eilidh..?  (Well it ...Read More

Is your inbox quiet?  Want some stimulation?  Fancy finding out what's going on in experimental performance accross the country? Why not join a JISC list?  I didn't realise there were so many! I just joined: Live Art, Cyber Theatres, PARIP, PSi, Performance Art, ...Read More