On LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner’s Metamodern Performance Art
Abigail Ann Schwarz experiences Shia LaBeouf’s #IAMSORRY performance exhibit in Los Angeles and the surrounding media coverage.
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The Selvage of Incoherence
Examining how Padgett Powell’s treatment of literary devices in ‘The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?’ situates the text in the realm of Metamodernism. The edge of incoherence is a strong position . . .
Meet the two artists behind Shia LaBeouf’s #IAMSORRY
Notes on Metamodernism co-editor Luke Turner and performance artist Nastja Rönkkö talk to Dazed about their artistic collaboration.
“I agree to this”: Third Angel and the Price of Fame
Hi. My name is Rachel. I’m 36 years old, I’m happily married and I agree to this.[1] These words, a recorded sound bite voiced over a motionless studio stage, open Third Angel’s latest production The Life and Loves of a Nobody, which began its international tour in Sheffield, UK, last week. These opening words are, …
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Levitated Mass
It has been almost two years since Michael Heizer’s 340-ton quarry boulder was delivered to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and exalted as “Levitated Mass.” The media buzz is long gone. What is left to say about it? Well, the on-ground oglers talk about it every day, and if Heizer has his way, …
Poetry and the Price of Milk
Literary scholar Jennifer Ashton – author of the canonical study From Modernism to Postmodernism: American Poetry and Theory in the Twentieth Century – has published a very interesting critical appraisal of metamodern poetry and the work of Dana Ward over at NonSite. In his poem ‘Things the Baby Liked, A-Z’, Ward invokes the figure of Bertolt Brecht, noting …