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Territorial Pissings
When I read Sara Scribner’s essay “Generation X Gets Really Old: How do Slackers have a midlife crisis?” on Salon.com, I nearly tore my still luxurious head of curly brown (though admittedly now...
View ArticleBeing There
oh my god! I’m NOT kidding!!!! A plane just ran into the World Trade Center!!! Those are the first words of the blog post I wrote from my office on the 21st floor of the Woolworth Building at 9:20AM on...
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Politics and Aesthetics and Social Movements! (A How-To Guide, Extracted from...
Image from the cover of Rancière’s “The Emancipated Spectator” Jacques Rancière is a political philosopher who is all the rage in art circles right now. His theories are geared to help emancipate the...
View ArticleCorporate Influence and the Innovation Agenda
Corporate Influence and the Innovation Agenda is the third in a series of six essays taking a critical look at innovation culture, its assumptions, influences and impact. It is certainly not new...
View ArticleSeeing Value In The Arts
Seeing Value In the Arts is the fourth in a series of six essays taking a critical look at innovation culture, its assumptions, influences and impact. If one of the fundamental flaws of the Innovation...
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Business As Usual In The Innovation Industry
Business As Usual In The Innovation Industry is the fifth in a series of six essays taking a critical look at innovation culture, its assumptions, influences and impact. BEGINNING TO SEE THE LIGHT In...
View ArticleInvention, Innovation & Creating Real Change
Invention, Innovation & Creating Real Change is the last in a series of six essays taking a critical look at innovation culture, its assumptions, influences and impact. Some of the ideas proposed...
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notes on dance performance
I imagine that much of this essay could be about live arts in general, not excluding music, theater, and performance art, because I wrote it to discuss the experience of a total scene in which all...
View ArticleCollective Insourcing and ArtsPool
Collective Insourcing: A Systemic Approach to Nonprofit Arts Management was written by Guy Yarden and Sarah Maxfield in 2011 as a concept paper proposing an approach to arts administration that...
View ArticleI Am Not Asking You For Money
Dear Culturebot Reader, My name is Andy Horwitz and I’m the founder of Culturebot Arts & Media, Inc., an arts organization for the 21st Century (and beyond!). Culturebot Arts & Media started as...
View ArticleShould I Stay or Should I Go?
After 4 seasons, 50 episodes and 100 artist interviews MADE HERE is coming to an end. This crucial audio-visual archive of the performing arts will prove an invaluable educational tool for decades to...
View ArticleEnlist in Budget Bootcamp (Or, Every Budget Tells A Story)
This discussion has been happening on Facebook (see below) and elsewhere, it is at the root of why we started The Brooklyn Commune Project and is at the very center of having a lifelong, sustainable...
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In Conversation With David White
David White. (Photo by Peter Simon) Kyoung H. Park, The Brooklyn Commune’s Cultural Democracy and Representation team coordinator, interviewed David White, Artistic and Executive Director of the Yard,...
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ACTIONS! and Other Art Worker Tales
On September 28, 2013 I attended conceptual artist Simon Leung’s collaboratively created performance event ACTIONS! at The Kitchen. I was initially attracted by the question he posed in the project...
View ArticleThe View From Here: The Brooklyn Commune Project’s Report
THE BROOKLYN COMMUNE PROJECT REPORT IS IN! Read it here or download it and take it with you. Go to BrooklynCommune.org to find out more, download more info, check out the short version and find out...
View ArticleConsidering Alastair, Questioning Realness
Judging from the Facebook chatter, the tweets, emails and all the rest of the outrage and vitriol swirling around the fishbowl of the “downtown” dance and performance world, you’d think Alastair...
View ArticleThe BKCP Report On Working Outside The Institution
The Brooklyn Commune Project is a grassroots initiative organized by Culturebot.org and The Invisible Dog Art Center to educate, activate and unify performing artists of all disciplines to work...
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Meet The BKCP
The BKCP Coordinating Committee The BKCP report is the culmination of eight months of hard work. In numeric terms it represents about 3165 person-hours of labor and a combined cost of more than $130K...
View ArticleKeith Hennessy Responds
I have to admit I was floored by the response to the Alastair/AR post, as I often feel as if I’m writing in a vacuum, reciting to a half-empty room. I assumed I would let off some steam, a few people...
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P is for Puppet: It’s Good Enough For Me
“Salt of the Earth” by PuppetCinema (Photo by Boaz Freund) I’m a puppet person and proud of it. Sort of. I do consider myself a ‘recovering’ puppeteer, a puppetry advocate, a professor of puppetry, a...
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