...Mark Jeffery Mark Jeffery introduces the generative process behind the 2019 convening of in>time, an annual festival of Chicago’s tight-knit experimental performance scene. in>time closed the decade by celebrating the history of Goat Island, the ground-breaking company that itself formally...

...Stephen Scott-Bottoms 63 Stephen Scott- Bottoms How Do We Proceed? Thinking with Goat Island s Archive The text below was presented as a reading on June 15, 2019, at the Chicago Cultural Center. Its collaged structure was intended as an homage to the performance- assemblage practice of Goat Island...

...Nicholas Lowe Nicholas Lowe, curator of goat island archive—we have discovered the performance by making it , a retrospective held ten years after the twenty-three-year run of the company Goat Island, explains how his concept of archival performance developed in response to Goat Island’s past...

...Erin Manning Erin Manning, a participant in goat island archive—we have discovered the performance by making it , suggests the concept of “anarchive” as a new approach to understanding the archive. She argues that the anarchival “follow[s] the logic not of originality or wholeness, but of emergent...

... examines whether Amer- ican drama is now abandoning its long- held emphases on secular values, making room for the expression of faith as it opens in other ways. And the curators of the major 2019 exhibition commemorating the Chicago performance group Goat Island ask what it means to document the many...

...; the Roadside Theater, located in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Goat Island’s Kentucky; and Junebug Productions, an African American organization based in New It’s an Earthquake Orleans. Promise of a Love Song plays...

...; the Roadside Theater, located in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Goat Island’s Kentucky; and Junebug Productions, an African American organization based in New It’s an Earthquake Orleans. Promise of a Love Song plays...

...; the Roadside Theater, located in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Goat Island’s Kentucky; and Junebug Productions, an African American organization based in New It’s an Earthquake Orleans. Promise of a Love Song plays...

...; the Roadside Theater, located in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Goat Island’s Kentucky; and Junebug Productions, an African American organization based in New It’s an Earthquake Orleans. Promise of a Love Song plays...

...; the Roadside Theater, located in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Goat Island’s Kentucky; and Junebug Productions, an African American organization based in New It’s an Earthquake Orleans. Promise of a Love Song plays...

... OsoŽsan’ s Tegonni, Edward Kamua and plays that draw inspiration from classical Brathwaite’s Odale’s Choice , Sylvian Bemba’s Greek drama. In particular, Wetmore is inter- Black Wedding Candles for Blessed Antigone , and ested in “the relationship between African The Island...

... OsoŽsan’ s Tegonni, Edward Kamua and plays that draw inspiration from classical Brathwaite’s Odale’s Choice , Sylvian Bemba’s Greek drama. In particular, Wetmore is inter- Black Wedding Candles for Blessed Antigone , and ested in “the relationship between African The Island...

... by Polish companies — Teatr zar and Teatr Pieśń Kozła (Song of the Goat The- ater) — and one by a Ukrainian company, Maisternia Pisni (Workshop of Song). All three groups are, or have been, associated with the Grotowski Institute. Theater Caesarean Section...

... of Grotowski’s work and thought were three from the “Eastern Line” program of the festival, two by Polish companies — Teatr zar and Teatr Pieśń Kozła (Song of the Goat The- ater) — and one by a Ukrainian company, Maisternia Pisni (Workshop of Song). All three groups are, or have been...

... of Grotowski’s work and thought were three from the “Eastern Line” program of the festival, two by Polish companies — Teatr zar and Teatr Pieśń Kozła (Song of the Goat The- ater) — and one by a Ukrainian company, Maisternia Pisni (Workshop of Song). All three groups are, or have been...

..., in the sea. The dog doesn t want to walk. The same sea that surrounds an island the same island where desire is forbidden. the absolute and obscene isle-b­ ody, almost always half-n­ aked, repeating itself. Marien Fernández Castillo s song Vóce é un perrito chino is playing.2 The song drives her crazy...

... goes on expecting — and perhaps yearning for — more. Notes 1. Sara Jane Bailes, Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure: Forced Entertainment, Goat Island, Elevator Repair Service (London: Routledge, 2011), 2. 2. Yvonne Rainer, “The Mind Is a Muscle,” in A Woman Who...

... by the gods,” where Ekine members who are both foreign elements, as several foreign critics have ob- chorus and stage hands present Ikaki with a drum served. After seeing Song of a Goat and The Mas- and help him and his children into a boat. From the querade during the Commonwealth Arts Festival...

..., that s what you do in gatherings such as these. This person wants to fit in, or, at the very least, be part of some tradition. This person was told once that theatre started round a campfire, somewhere on an island far away where people ate olives and drank clear liquor that knocked out their senses...

.... A corrupt government, a collapsed economy, a dysfunctional school system, climate changes with crushing consequences for this island nation, and citizens departing the country for opportunities elsewhere, leaving Sri Lanka without a substantive middle class, are a few of the issues facing young people...