Gallery of images from party celebrating 40 years of PAJ @ Robert Wilson Loft in Midtown (2016).
Gallery of images from party celebrating PAJ 100 @ Location One in SoHo (2012).
Current Issue: PAJ 115
Inside PAJ 115
- Bonnie Marranca, The Artist in the World
- Aleks Sierz, Dark Times: British Theatre After Brexit
- John Jesurun interview with Christophe Collard
- Michael Maizels, "Steve Reich, Richard Serra, and the Discovery of Process"
- Kelly Aliano on Taylor Mac
- Elfriede Jelinek, Shadow.Eurydice Says. Gitta Honegger, trans., on Jelinek
- Brooke Carlson on performance/drawing
- Janet Werther on the Ballez company's Sleeping Beauty & the Beast
- Joseph Cermatori on Arvo Part/Robert Wilson Adam's Passion
- Anja Foerschner on Belgrade artist Marta Jovanović
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Inside PAJ 114
- Bonnie Marranca, "Life and Death Matters"
- James M. Harding, spiritual vanguardism
- Johannes Birringer, Alexander McQueen fashion
- Andrea Kleine on DD Dorvillier
- Michal Kobialka, Tadeusz Kantor centenary
- Wendy Perron on Simone Forti
- Aleister Crowley's play The Savior
- Manuel Cirauqui, sound and the trace
Inside PAJ 113
- Francesco Spampinato, "Body Surrogates: Mannequins, Life-Size Dolls, and Avatars"
- William Kentridge, Lulu Drawings
- Linda Montano, Dad Art
- Gianina Cărbunariu play, Mihaela, the Tiger of Our Town
- George Hunka, books on Brecht
- Adam Weinert, The Reaccession of Ted Shawn
- Annie-B. Parson, David Bowie
- Interview with Vaginal Davis
Inside PAJ 112
- Bonnie Marranca, "Present Tense"
- Richard Maxwell Play - Isolde
- Carol Becker on Utopia
- Douglas Dunn on Shame
- Eric Bentley, "Writing For a Political Theatre"
- Tom Walker, Living Theatre Memoir
- Oana Cajal, "Posters For Unwritten Plays"
- Book Reviews and Festival Reports
Inside PAJ 111
- Michael Maizels and Jenny Johnson "Cardiovascular Chopin"
- Special Section: Water and Performance edited by visual artist Daniel Rothbart, featuring work by Lisa Park, Peter Fend, Klaus Daven, and the artist
- (A)pollonia: Twenty-First-Century Polish Drama and texts for the Stage reviewed by Krystyna Lipińska Illakowicz
- Doing Nothing / Nothin' Doin'!: Revisiting a Minimalist Approach to Performance Yvonne Rainer
Inside PAJ 110
- Paisid Aramphongphan "Andy Warhol, Fred Herko, and Dance"
- Urban Dramaturgies
- Neil Harbisson and Moon Ribas, Hyphen Hub at The Red Door, New York City Ellen Pearman
- Soviet Mass Spectacles and the Paris Commune Daniel C. Gerould
Inside PAJ 109
- Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry
"Expanded Fields: Architecture/Landscape/Performance" - Ten design portfolios featuring installations, robotics, ecological projects and immersive spaces
- Interview with Bernard Tschumi
- Sun Farm: Body, Self, Universe Daniela Bertol, Performance in the Age of Neoliberalism George Hunka, The Dictator Issam Mahfouz
- Manuel Ciraqui “The Room Trick: Sound as Site”
- Roundtable for the 2013-14 theatre season, with Joseph Cermatori, Miriam Felton-Dansky, Ryan Anthony Hatch
- Kenneth King writes on his early years at Warhol’s Factory
- Alexandra Ripp’s commentary on Chilean Theatre in 2013
- Robert Ashley’s Pillars
Inside PAJ 107 — Performance Drawing available on Kindle
- Tony Orrico, Jonah Bokaer, Caroline Bergvall, Romeo Castellucci, George Quasha, Clifford Owens, Carolee Schneemann, Warren Neidich, and others — 17 portfolios featuring a text and drawings by each artist
- Interview with Joan Jonas, U.S. artist in 2015 Venice Biennale
- Graphis scores by Dick Higgins
PAJ 100 — Performance New York available on Kindle
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Several generations of artists, curators, critics, and presenters–a who's who of downtown performance–respond to the main themes of the issue: Belief, Being Contemporary, Performance and Science, Writing and Performance. Also includes artist portfolios by Laurie Anderson, John Kelly, Julie Mehretu, Ralph Lemon, and Brian Dewan. Three group dialogues on curating, producing, and working.
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Performance Ideas explores performance that crosses boundaries of all live art forms and media. In this series PAJ Publications extends its long-standing editorial commitment to bringing together the histories of performance in theatre and visual arts.
Seventy artists engaged in art as performance say what art is in these intimate portraits, accompanied by single-frame images. Artists in the volume include Marina Abramović, Carolee Schneemann, Robert Wilson, Laurie Anderson, Jonah Bokaer, Robert Ashley, Pauline Oliveros,Thurston Moore, Gary Hill, Vito Acconci, Archie Shepp, Joan Jonas, Anthony Braxton, Ann Hamilton, Yayoi Kusama, Joy Mboya, Caroline Bergvall, and many more.
One of the hotly discussed issues of today is the turn by visual artists to theatre. Many artists have become interested in the collaborative processes of theatre, auditions and rehearsals, dramatic texts, and the use of professional actors. newARTtheatre by Paul David Young explores the important strategies that artists are using in performance, painting, video, sculpture, photography, installation, and conceptual projects.
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Conversations with Meredith Monk presents a richly detailed portrait of the internationally renowned composer, performer, direction, and filmmaker who has helped to create the new vocabularies of contemporary performance. Reflecting on her body of work in music, performance, and film over five decades, Monk offers fascinating insights into how she works, the questions she asks herself as an artist, and the deeply held personal views of art practice as spiritual practice fundamental to her artistic process.
PAJ was founded in 1976 by Bonnie Marranca and Gautam Dasgupta to publish important, original works in the arts and the critical commentary about them, as an ongoing dialogue between art, artists, and the public. PAJ is internationally recognized as a pioneering force in arts publishing, influencing the university curriculum, performance scholarship and documentation, and the theatrical repertoire. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (formerly called Performing Arts Journal) is a tri-annual periodical under the editorship of Bonnie Marranca. PAJ is committed to serious, innovative thinking on performance, dance, video, writing, technology, sound, and music, focusing all live arts in provocative cultural dialogue. PAJ issues bring to an engaged global readership a forum of critical essays, artists' writings, interviews, notations, and plays, with extended coverage of performances, festivals, and books. Podcasts, video and audio clips appear on PAJ's online home. The journal is published by special arrangement with MIT Press Journals and is distributed worldwide in a print version and online in color at www.mitpressjournals.org/paj
PAJ Publications – More than 150 titles in drama, criticism, and history have appeared under the PAJ imprint. Since its inception PAJ has published more than 1000 plays and performance texts, translated from 20 languages. PAJ titles are widely represented in all major university and national library collections, and arts archives around the world. Its international readership of critics, scholars, and artists crosses the borders between art forms, and the arts and humanities and science/technology. Titles can be ordered through Theatre Communications Group. In 2016, PAJ Publications will celebrate 40 years of journal and book publishing.
Book Series in Special Interest Areas: Performance Ideas – explores performance that crosses boundaries of all live art forms and media in titles on themes or individual artists, Art+Performance – focuses on major contemporary figures whose work in performance, video, installation, dance, music, and filmmaking explore the frontiers of performance, visual, and electronic art. The heavily illustrated volumes, edited by major critics, include a selection of critical writing and interviews covering the artist’s career, writings by the artist, chronology, and bibliographic material. Drama Contemporary – features new plays in translation, organized by country or region. Modernist Performance – texts and documents from the modern and avant-garde European repertoire, covering major movements and artists, and linking the fields of theatre, visual arts, and writing. Criticism/History –volumes of criticism, historical studies, documents on 20th century performance and the drama. Plays and Performance texts– single volumes and anthologies of important plays by American authors and dramatists from the world repertoire in translation. Includes six volumes of the Wordplays series.