Linger Longers

Candy Chang - Before I Die (2011-ongoing)

It’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day and forget what really matters to you. After Artist Candy Chang lost someone she loved very much, she thought about death a lot. The project is helped clarify her life, the people she wants to be with, and the things she wants to do, but she struggled to maintain perspective. She wondered if other people felt the same way. So with help from old and new friends, she painted the side of an abandoned house in her neighborhood in New Orleans with chalkboard paint and stenciled it with a grid of the sentence “Before I die I want to _______.” Anyone walking by could pick up a piece of chalk, reflect on their lives, and share their personal aspirations in public space.

Will Be, 2010 by Tim Etchells

Watch Tonight’s “Performance Art and Activism” Livestream Here

http://new.livestream.com/accounts/8720916/events/3535027/player?width=560&height=315&autoPlay=true&mute=false

You can watch tonight’s panel live here: new.livestream.com/LivestreamPublic

Crossing Brooklyn ArtTalks: Performance and Activism

Tuesday, November 18, 2014, 7–9pm Livestream Public, 195 Morgan Avenue, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Performance and activism are intertwined more than ever…

"Dance of the Witches in Front of Chicago Federal Building, Oct. 31 1969."

Discovered this amazing feminist group called, “Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell” or shortly entitled, “W.I.T.C.H” while reading about the Weathermen the other day. They mixed street theater and protests which usually included witch costumes and chanting hexes. 

I’m really surprised Tumblr doesn’t talk about this group more so you can read a little bit more HERE. 

“WITCH lives and laughs in every woman.  She is the free part of each of us, beneath the shy smiles, the acquiescence to absurd male domination, the make-up or flesh-suffocating clothes our sick society demands.  There is no “joining” WITCH.  If you are a woman and dare to look within yourself, you are a WITCH.  You make your own rules.”

"People are perfectly happy to see women as sex objects, but the actual biologic of our bodies is apparently gross and unmentionable."