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Deirdre Towers's Blog – October 2012 Archive (3)

From Peking to Queens to Manipur

If a slim, handsome man or woman waits on you in a Manhattan restaurant, you just assume they are performers. But do you do the same in Chinatown and Flushing? Perhaps you should. Since 1988, Qi Shu Fang, master of Chinese Opera, has been developing her own Peking Opera Company with her husband Ding Mei-kui in Queens. The professional lives of their company resemble…

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Added by Deirdre Towers on October 22, 2012 at 3:53pm — No Comments

Sticking to the essentials: Peter Kubelka

I just spent 4 rewarding hours in the company of Peter Kubelka, courtesy of the filmmaker Martina Kudlacek. He is a Viennese man absolutely sold on his own ideas, so eager to share them, and so charmed by their endless possibilities, that we must dispend any skepticism. Martina Kudlacek, who made the 2002 documentary IN THE MIRROR OF MAYA DEREN, begins her film with Kubelka…

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Added by Deirdre Towers on October 10, 2012 at 6:24pm — No Comments

Jason Akira Somma's "Phosphene Variations"

What does Jason Akira Somma’s installation “Phosphene Variations” recently on exhibit at Soho’s Location One have in common with Snoop Dogg’s performance with Tupac this last April in Coachella? Both are take-offs of Pepper’s Ghost, a centuries old illusion popularized by John Henry Pepper in 1862 in which an image is bounced off the floor onto an invisible…

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Added by Deirdre Towers on October 4, 2012 at 9:30am — No Comments

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