AARON LANDSMAN

Practices of Belonging

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  • Appointment

    Appointment

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    I’m beginning what I hope will be an ongoing collaborative performance project called Appointment this fall. It’s a series of repeatable 12-15 performances works, created in collaboration with artists, students and other folks, for one audience member and one performer (mostly). Appointment will first be presented at the Prelude Festival here in New York, on…

  • Harry

    Harry

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    Not posting for a while because I’ve been consumed with the arrival of Harold Emmett Landsman. Born July 14, at 3:31AM, weighing in at 8 pounds, 7 ounces. We hope to take him to France for his birthday before he’s too old not to think all the celebrating’s for him. He is delicious and amazing.…

  • Age appropriate

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    When you are 28 and you say you’re re-evaluating whether or not you should give up, people ignore you. At 35 people encourage you to keep at it. At 40 everyone understands where the question is coming from.

  • More Links To Iran

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    I am following Change_for_Iran on Twitter, which is pointing me to some photo sets and other information on what is happening in Iran right now. Here are two links. I don’t entirely know the value of watching – on one hand it feels voyeuristic. I’m hoping the value is to know, and that’s enough to…

  • American Journalist and Filmmaker in Iran

    American Journalist and Filmmaker in Iran

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    My friend James Longley is a documentary filmmaker working in Tehran. I wrote to check in on him today, and he wrote back with an account of what has been happening for him there. June 14, 3:51 pm “About three hours ago I was interviewing people on the street in downtown Tehran with my translator,…

  • Smackdown bears results

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    An artist named Kahlil Almustafa put the advice some of us gave on the Field’s Smackdown panel last month to good use. I’m so happy that what we talked about had a direct impact on him and his working partner. See here: An Honest Conversation About Money

  • TCG Post-show Exchange

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    Morgan v P Pecelli and Andy Horwitz (aka “I’d rather watch the fat kid dance” and “Culturebot”) have a couple posts up in response to this year’s TCG conference. http://culturebot.org http://idratherwatchthefatkiddance.blogspot.com/ I was there for several hours, accepting an award given to ERS for innovation in the field. Taken together, Morgan and Andy’s posts, plus…

  • Text from the Smackdown

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    Here is what I said in my ‘prepared’ statement at The Field’s Smackdown event last week, as a couple people have asked to see it. ** “It used to be that the arts were, or seemed to be, an exceptional and broken economy. So many people were making so much money out there while we…

  • New Economy “Smackdown” is Smackdone

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    I was on a panel that was part of The Field’s New Economy Smackdown last night. It was fun and smart and too long, but there’s a lot to say. An encouraging thing I’m seeing in discussions like this is that they are including many stakeholders at once – from artists to presenters to funders…

  • Mother’s Day Politiku

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    My friend Susanna Speier asked me to write some political haikus for mother’s day, which have been posted on her Huffington Post blog. Please enjoy, Mom. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susanna-speier/politiku-for-mothers-day_b_201060.html