Essays:
Pioneer Works Broadcast, The Radiant and The Grim
New Inquiry, Voyeur Reality
"Virtual Reality satisfies Western voyeurism without consequence. It will not blunt the global fervor to hinder the movement of bodies."
New Inquiry, Hospitality and the Hairworm
"When most people think about bugs, it’s usually about how to get rid of them. Applying the metaphor of a bug to a human scales them down to a realm where death is quotidian and inconsequential."
New Inquiry, Armed Words, An Interview With Yassin Al Haj Saleh
Exeunt, Remembering To Forget, An Interview with Richard Maxwell
Culturebot, Punchdrunk and the Politics of Spectatorship
"Every piece of performance, whether intentionally or not, creates its own model for the relationship between the spectator and the performer. There is a long history of experimentation with that relationship, and developments are often co-incident with challenges to, or re-imaginings of, political and societal systems."
Culturebot, The Curators piece
"A piece that puts art on trial, with the historical baggage that entails, has a responsibility to use language with precision."
Culturebot, Romeo Castellucci’s “Four Seasons Restaurant” at the Festival d’Avignon
"Grace and beauty are delivered in the same phrase as insane excess–dogs eating tongues, death by whipped cream, gold painted guns, and girls giving birth to each other from a mass of bodies."
Culturebot, Jérôme Bel/Theater HORA’s “Disabled Theater” at Festival d’Avignon
"Bel and Theater HORA also skirt this line, pulling us back and forward, shifting the locus of power and agency from stage to auditorium and back again. In doing so they indulge and then question the most complex responses and impressions we have of disability. "
Culturebot, Complicite’s “Master and Margarita” at the Festival d’Avignon
“There is a kind of fascism in art like this which gives no agency to the viewer and leaves no space for interpretation. It’s a dictatorship of image and imagination. Unwittingly, McBurney has created a piece that in its form does the thing its content is fighting against.”