#performance
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American Theatre in the Twenty-First Century
Two short plays published in American Theatre in the Twenty-First Century: a farcical, dark comedy about astronauts, Party Planet; and The Piece of Real Estate at the Top of the Tallest Building on Earth, a mouthful of a title set in a too-fast near-future.
What’s the Catch? at Artscape
My performance routine, What’s the Catch? was featured on stage with Cardinal Space, at the Prints and Multiples Fair as part of Artscape 2019 in Baltimore, Maryland. Artscape is America’s largest free arts festival, attracting 350000+ attendees each year
Natural Order: An Exhibition of Lists
Interactive collaboration with artists, audience and typewriter. Accompanying exhibition and publication. This was the inaugural event for the Cardinal art space. Baltimore, Maryland. 2017.
Sun Ra Jazz Listening Party
How do you talk about a musician from another planet, anyway?
Spoken Word
Here is a colelction of information about the literature of spoken word, from oral traditions to slam poetry, and beyond. Know something that should be here? Please share it in the comments.
States and Drives II
Performance inspired by the composer John Cage.
Composing with Words like John Cage
In about two days, I plan to get on stage to perform a written work in front of a live audience and read, not from a script, but from something more like a score. I’m not the only person engaging in this literary experiment. There are about a dozen of us. What are we doing?
Towards a Safer Reading
The Rah! Rah! Roundup has an overview of a conversation that began recently at the Poetry Project in New York City. The Poetry Project hosted a panel discussion . The topic was “What is a reading? What should it be? What is read there? And to whom?” During the discussion of literary readings, their culture, etc., poet Eileen Myles described “personal instances of assault and harassment,” according to one of the other panelists, Jennifer Tamayo.
LitScape
Performance at a day long festival to celebrate the greater Baltimore literary community. 2014.
Federal Dust
Featured reading at the Federal Dust series. Baltimore, Maryland. 2014.
No Air Radio Presents
I performed two pieces at the storied Pilot Light venue in Knoxville, entitled Coming Soon to Videocassette and Canned Laughter. I’m pretty sure the crowd was bewildered.
More Things Not To Do At A Literary Reading
Cliché has no place in poetry, because it isn’t artful.
Ten Things Not to Do at a Literary Reading
Literary events, like any live performance, are bound to have some glitches here and there. Some of those glitches are easily avoided.
Left of the Bank
Spoken word performance by Dylan Kinnett at the 10th Annual Left of the Bank fundraiser reading for the Shepherdstown Public Library in West Virginia. Friends of Shepherdstown Library presented an evening of poetry readings and music on Friday, April 11, 2014. The Left of the Bank event featured music by Don Oehser and Friends. Ed Zahniser served as Master of Ceremonies, introducing local and regional writers Tom Donlon, Dylan Kinnett and Sue Silver.
What’s the Catch?
Performance art featuring an array of constantly ringing analogue telephones and an overhead transparency projector.
Party Planet
A farcical, dark comedy about astronauts.
Copycat Sessions
A unique & enjoyable lo-fi ambient experience.
False Start by Jonah Bokaer
Jonah Bokaer is a choreographer who experiments with computer models of the human body. By simulating iterations of movements until they verge upon the impossible, he is able to find new movements that are possible, with training.
A Flamboyance of Flamingos
update: This show was a disaster. The management double-booked a reading with a moustache competition, which would have been fine except for the noise. It was impossible to hear the reading over that noise, and the obscene heckling didn’t help either. Frazier’s is not a literary venue, nor was it a welcoming one on this occasion. At least the proceeds went to a goodTcause.
WORMS
WORMS is a reading series described as an interactive literary magazine in 3-D. I was a featured performer there, in October 2010. I shared the stage with Lauren Bender, co-founder of Narrow House, a publisher of experimental literature; Erin Gleeson, co-creator of the Showbeast puppet series; Rachel Monroe; and Chris Toll.
Speak Your Piece!
My performance involved a fluxus machine. It was made of 12 old, plastic telephones and a script involving many voices. I arranged the telephones on the table and answered the telephones randomly, reading fragments from voices, hanging up, answering others, and so on.
A Piano Made of Telephones
This is a Fluxus score. Fluxus is a type of performance art. A Fluxus score, like a musical score, is a sort of recipe for a performance. For more information, read The Fluxus Performance Workbook.
Performances at Sonic Circuits
Lead vocals for an audio/visual collective of musicians and performers.
Second Land
Second Land is an audio/visual collective. We use vintage tape machines, acoustic instruments and electronic devices to create improvisational performances.
Second Land at Pyramid Atlantic
An experimental music performance by Second Land. My musical instrument was a short wave radio, and I performed spoken word through a delay petal at low volume.
Ed Schrader Show
Staged reading of a script for one actor and an array of telephones.
Cambridge Community Television
A televised reading of new poems.