----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------I slept in a box in the back of the Singer Gazelle station-wagon, between Christchurch, Auckland, Wellington, later Dunedin, New Zealand, grew up in theatre, usually under the rostra, wrote, was educated in languages, French, German, Russian, short times in Germany, France, wrote a thesis on dandyism and Dorian Gray, wrote lyrics for a band, Colony, performed spoken word, Repeater, started a theatre company, Stronghold, directed, designed, dramaturged, waged theatre against theatre being unwaged, wrote, managed a café , Café Brazil, directed music videos, about one a year, and finding no publisher, sometimes no stage, often no screen and never any money for what I wrote, I made squarewhiteworld.com, closed a café, Stronghold ended, I founded a start-up, the idea burns brightly but funding fizzled - company- under the aegis of Little Elephant Ltd., wrote, nursed my parents, now turn, turning again, towards
renewed academic engagement with theatre. In the broadest of senses, from its atomisation in the performance of identity, the public private drama, to the amnesiac break, the interval that has seemed to separate theatre from itself as an art form, the curtain closing, opening ever after on the blank whiteness of a screen.
I have questions about this, no solutions, since it seems itself solvent, whatever one's own solvency or anxiety, and want to engage in the exchange that possibly remains a solitary political recourse.
I am looking for support from the institution to do this work while there is still an institution able.
a little more linked here: http://about.me/squarewhteworld and about company here: https://gust.com/c/littleelephantltd best, Simon Taylor
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