Tehching Hsieh’s “One Year Performance, No. 2″ [source]
Tehching Hsieh punched a time clock in his studio every hour on the hour for a year, completing a piece called “One Year Performance.” He performed the piece twice, and the video above is documentation of the second of these performances. I’d read about this piece, but hadn’t […]
The Stalin vs. Martians trailer. [source]
One of my colleagues posted about Stalin vs. Martians on Twitter, and now I’m obsessed. Even if you’re not real big into video games, the web site for the game is great post-communist humor.
I got back from Houston on Saturday. I guest lectured in a class on youth cultures […]
I’m going to be in Houston from this evening through Saturday to give a guest lecture at my alma mater (more on that later), visit with some folks and some artworks, and generally indulge in one of my favorite cities.
Dennis Oppenheim, “Theme for a Major Hit,” 1974. [source]
I am especially looking forward to having […]
Most of the time, I feel privileged to get to work with undergraduates. I think education is really inspiring and magical, and I value that I get to spend so much of my time learning and teaching. In past semesters, I’ve taught a lot of writing, but this academic year, I’ve been teaching a lot […]
The Homosexuals at End of an Ear.
SXSW is a lot of fun, but being local, I find it an endurance test that’s often more than taxing. Yesterday, desperate to catch up on some work — including a talk I’m supposed to be giving on Thursday — I met up with a friend at a coffee […]