Marusya Bociurkiw with Natalie Olanick: Residency
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. VII, no. 5, p. 9, Summer 1996: The genre of girls’ mystery writing has long been a powerful…
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Results filed under: adaptations
Pandora’s Books
The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. V, no. 3, p. 8, January/February 1994: Pandora’s Books will combine slides and performance to create a live silent…
Mary Medusa
Video production. A description of the work on Finger in the Dyke reads, “Dempsey and Millan’s first video, a re-telling of the classical Medusa myth…
Giving Voice to the Female Nude
A longer rendition of Fowler’s piece presented the year before, entitled Venus, Cupid Time and Folly, incorporating video and adaptation of her script The Naked Looking.
The Story of Feniks and Abdullah
A special production. Abdullah arrives in a city. He phones Feniks. Answering machine. Heart Slash. Passenger. Traveller, Foreigner. Outsider. Tourist. Video poetry adapted from A…
Sybaris
A special production. An adaptation of literal imaginings inspired by descriptions in a short story written by Giorgio de Chirico in 1929 entitled Hebdomeros. Passages in…
Bagdata
Istvan Kantor created a new situation by adapting Monty Cantsin’s open-pop-star persona into his own life and letting his life events get mixed up with…