The film: Daredevils The filmmaker: Stephanie Barber The Artist: Flora Coker The Writer: KimSu Theiler The scene: An interview in a coffee shop, which occupies more than half of the film’s 85 minutes.
Selfie with TV Buddha Last night, I attended an event/talk/performance by Kim Miller, in which she recreated an important (surpassingly important) work by Nam June Paik (the TV Buddha), and read an academic paper about it. Her stimulating talk had a great deal to do with the idea of narcissism, which has led me, in the spirit of open source, to attempt to extend her ideas by offering the following typology:
Leer en español. In the digital world with its millions of cheap copies, theatrical performance has become—or has gone back to being—a pricey thing. When we are entertained by live human beings rather than by projected reproductions or digital streams, the budget is inevitably much higher. And so a ticket to the theatre tends to become a luxury good, a symbol of prestige: by purchasing a ticket, one buys the expensive labor of artists with unusual talents, […]