performance art

Lydia Lunch At MWM

(12.5) No-wave, post-punk musician and avant garde spoken word artist Lydia Lunch will perform Horribly True Confessions, a text based multimedia performance with Weasel Walter on live drums, this Friday at Machines With Magnets. HORRIBLY TRUE CONFESSIONS combines the dynamic spoken word histrionics of Lydia Lunch, one of the genres most controversial performers with the …

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BUSINESS AS USUAL by Quintín Rivera-Toro at Yellow Peril Gallery

QUINTÍN RIVERA TORO BUSINESS AS USUAL October 18 – November 11, 2012 Opening Reception: Thursday, October 18, 2012, 5PM – 9PM at Yellow Peril Gallery, 60 Valley St #5, Providence, RI Gallery Hours: Thursday + Friday, 3PM – 8PM Saturday + Sunday, 12PM – 5PM Other days by appointment Yellow Peril Gallery is pleased to …

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‘Table Fights’ Returns With Remote Controlled Furniture Mayhem

Yellow Peril Gallery and Rhode Island State Council for the Arts (RISCA) are pleased to announce the return of Table Fights 2012 to its birthplace in Providence. The furniture performance art event will take place at the Plant Courtyard this Sunday. TABLE FIGHTS is a furniture performance art event. Artists from around the country build …

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Awesome Collective Presents Transfiguration X 5

The Awesome Collective presents its inaugural performance event — TRANSFIGURATION X 5 — at 4pm Sunday, December 12, at Firehouse 13. Born in Spring 2010, the Awesome Collective explores new methods and vocabularies for cross-genre performance and cross-institutional collaboration. In this initial experiment—an artistic game of “telephone”—artists of numerous disciplines divided into collaborative teams. The …

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Jerkus Circus Comes To Providence

Find true love at JERKUS CIRCUS this Saturday, March 20 at the AS220! Comedy, Burlesque, and Freaks! Voted best Neo Vaudeville by the Boston Phoenix in ’09. Produced, Created, and Hosted by the World Famous Steamy Bohemians.

The Wooster Group Visits Brown/RISD

Wooster Group Visits Brown/RISD February 4, 7:30-9pm Metcalf Auditorium at the Chase Center, RISD 20 N. Main St. Providence, RI Free and Open to the Public Influential multimedia theater troupe The Wooster Group visits Brown/RISD as part of The Brown Multimedia and Electronic Music Experiments (MEME) department’s Visiting Artist Series, “Taking Stock: The Challenges and …

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Live Bait: True Stories from Real People

LIVE BAIT: TRUE STORIES FROM REAL PEOPLE It’s all relative – a person connected to another by blood or marriage, an animal or plant related to another by common descent, a subordinate clause qualifying an expressed or implied antecedent. Relative is not absolute or independent; it is comparative, contingent, conditional. There’s relativity and relativism and, …

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