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ad hoc economy's artistic director notes

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“I’d like to thank the ‘Academy of Cacti’ this honorary award for Cactus Man of the Year. 2020 has been a difficult year - for all of plant life. I’m humbled to be recognized as ‘most prickly pear’, during such a tumultuously dry season..”

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A morning text message from @caseyeconomy shared with me the story of veteran actor, Dean Stockwell (‘Al’ from “Quantum Leap”, 2x Winner ‘Best Actor’ @cannes_filmfestival fame), now creates these dice sculptures. This development makes me slightly regret not voting for “The Dean Stockwell Fan Club”, which was on a shortlist of finalist names for our NYC theatre company, “Ad Hoc Economy” (formerly, ‘Aztec Economy’) we were considering during its formation in Spring 2008. Other near-final names we were juggling: “Ewok A.D.” and “My Little Gumbo”. newyorkisdead.net #adhoceconomy #newyorkisdead #aztececonomy #deanstockwell #nyctheatre #dicesculptures #quantumleap

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Museum Asks People To Recreate Paintings At Home, Gets 30 New Impressive Photos

It appears that boredom lies behind the most creative ideas. That's why quarantine has produced some of the most entertaining activities. One of them is the Getty Museum challenge, that so many of you have already seen in our previous article here.

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Paul Klee

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#TBT THE BATTLE PLAYS TRILOGY (or, 'THE BATTLE PLAYS OF THE REPUBLIC') was the first official #adhoceconomy project premiering a dozen-years ago this month. The three-year / three-part performance installation examined the isolation of the American-psyche-in-crisis through genre, medium, and history. BRING ME THE HEAD OF JOHN FORD, or GOOD BAD UGLY CRAZY (2008, The Brick Theater – Brooklyn) mixed elements of Noh and Greek mystery plays with 4 projector screens and 2 televisions against one speed-addicted video store clerk in a synchronized-riff edit of a classic Spaghetti Western, into which he projects all of his innermost desires and memories in an obsessive ritual set in a trailer park in West, Texas. ANTIGONE WITH THE WIND (2009, Monkey Town – Brooklyn) combined a surround-sound audio book recording of Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel with densely-layered environmental compositions, 70’s femme-disco pop, and a chorus of barking dogs, all as a backdrop for an intricately rehearsed cope-mechanism work-out exercise performed by a little girl locked in a basement by an unknown abductor in suburban Atlanta. MY KIND OF BLOOD (2010, Brooklyn Fire Proof in association with Bushwick Open Studios) took a seminal 50’s Miles Davis Jazz album and re-constructed it with police scanner radio, german burlesque, street crime photos, and hard-boiled pulp to reveal a private eye’s pattern-guide work fetish as he unravels a violent noir-crime mystery in a gritty Brooklyn brownstone apartment. Conceived and developed by Darcie Champagne, Ryan Dorin, Anne Dyas, Michael Mason, Adam Laten Willson, Karl Newman, Casey Wimpee, and Cole Wimpee Contributions from Isaac Byrne, Ishaq Clayton, Jared Culverhouse, Amanda Hamilton, and Amy Lynn Stewart. NEWYORKISDEAD.NET

@ American Place Theatre

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Breathe. Be Kind. Breathe. Be Brave. Breathe. Fail Forward. ...This above all: to thine own self be true...

Four Years ago today, Jeremy O. Torres (1974-2016) took his last big breath... The following are excerpts from some of Jeremy’s favorite plays he directed: 'Kill Devil Hills', 'Angels in America', 'Pontiac Firebird Variations', 'Tibetan Book of the Dead', 'Marfa Lights', 'Kansas City Book of the Dead', & Shakespeare’s sonnets.

Remember to breathe as you read:

"Look Up. Look Up, Prepare the way, the infinite descent, a breath in air floating down. Glory. We’ll mend together. That’s what we’ll do. We’ll mend. The Great Work begins. The messenger has arrived."

Breathe.

"Things are shifting now...shifting. You wanna fly, jack? Everything that rises must fall."

"Through a tunnel now. Brightly..Or some kind of tunnel...soaring like kites...and in the tunnel dream, I’m able to utter things like angel..and give them meaning."

"Your thoughts are like telegraph signals I can hear and the morse code beep - beeping of every little plaintive electromagnetic spark in your mind, rouses me. And the only thing that’s palpable is the sand - and the wind - and the fire - and us.

Breathe.

"They say its heavy but its not, conscience is light, it gives you wings, gives a man pluck - it separates the beasts of the land - will you ever know love without it ? forget it. know what it means to have someone that needs you and to need them back. the feeling moving beyond your own skin, Weak frame, limitation, a gushing spirit what it is. It roosts in your bosom like a sooth-soul bird and crows in the morning and awakens your heart. It redeems any man that keeps it. And to live right you should trust to yourself to live with it or die for it."

Breathe.

"All along the spokes of that great wheel you have what the Buddhist’s call the ‘Bardo’ which is like a gateway state or a kaw river through which them hungry souls can float their way to true reality. All board. So the dharmakaya is the voice of all sounds, the ra ra ra, true words that calleth em over from the fires and the hunger and the bleeding Kansas darkness. Recite your name. Recite. Recite. [Jeremy Oscar Torres, 2016] All Aboard. Ad Infinitum. Behold your hiding place is open. The Gateway state is open. Osiris is open. All Aboard. Infinite space before you without the clucking or crowing - from the ashes of the phonenix the soul takes wing. Infinite mind is before you without center or circumference. From the drum of the ear the feather is plucked. Infinite sound is before you without the bubbling, without the babbling. From the Heart of Death, the Soul bursts forth. Your soul is open - your ear is wide open."

Breathe.

"The forces of attraction in the air between us - all around us - the gravitation pull yoking us together and then yanking us apart."

Breathe.

"Thou knowest tis common all that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity."

Breathe.

"The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard it seems to me most strange that man should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come."

Breathe.

"Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, so do our minuets hasten to their end."

Breathe.

"My friend, The time has come for you to start out. You are going home. Oh nobly born, now is the moment. Before you is mind, open and wide as space, simple, without center or circumference. Now is the moment. Your mind in this moment is total transparency no color no substance empty sparkling, pure and vibrant. A mass of light. Not stopped by any obstacle. It has neither beginning nor end, go toward the light, merge with it, merge with the light. Death has happened, it happens to every one. Death has happened so nothing can hurt you, you can’t die again, don’t be afraid, merge with the light. Merge. Merge."

Breathe in. Breathe out.

(Assembled with Colt W. Keeney May 2016, from excerpts of works by Tony Kushner, Jean Claude Van Itallie, William Shakespeare, and Casey Wimpee)

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"Framework for a New Aesthetic in a Global Pandemic Future" Part 2: Early Lighting Experiments, Failures, Discoveries, & Collaborations #newaesthetics #covid19 #performanceart #interdisciplinary #coronafuture #pandemicfutures #adhoceconomy

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WINTER 2020 ART EXPERIENCES: Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Chinati Foundation in Marfa, a Transitional Homeless Shelter in the Texas Panhandle, Glasbox in El Paso, Irwin House in Marfa.

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ART IN OKLAHOMA CITY

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A butterfly inside on this page of Frank Stanford’s ‘BATTLEFIELD WHERE THE MOON SAYS I LOVE YOU’ at Fayetteville, Arkansas Public Library

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Outside the Mudlark Public theatre in New Orleans

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Los Angeles Hollywood Fringe Festival. Winners “Outstanding Original Full-Length Script / Inkwell Playwright of Promise Award - Casey Wimpee”. Best Ensemble #ButcherHollerHereWeCome #HollywoodFringe

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Space chess is a surprisingly common theme in sci-fi art

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Here, I am narrating a 1 minute clip/excerpt from my performance art piece, 'How to Build a Universe in 2 Days That Doesn't Fall Apart in the Eternal Return ' (20 min - full running time). Friday, May 3rd in West Texas. Based on Nieztche's concept of 'eternal recurrence', Kierkegaard's 'repetition', Deleuze's 'difference', Philip K Dick's 1978 Lecture on 'Time', my attempt was to embody a failed ritual - involving ancient and contemporary myths - that exhibited the philosophical and spiritual inadequacies of 'Being' in contemporary society, immersed with mixed medias; 20th Century commercials, Anthropologic slide projections, and all to a score of the 2nd part from The Fifth Dimension's, 1969 Hit Song, "The Age of Aquarius/ Let the Sunshine in".

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My "Baz Luhrmann" version of self (with dog)