Performative-lectures,
perfect for summer learning!
Undergroundzero’s Intrinsic Value performative-lecture series
pairs performance artists with hard scientists to discover the
inherent worth of both fields in today’s market-driven society.
By Megan Guerber
Contributor
Manhattan’s undergroundzero festival show-
cases innovative, labor-of-love performance art
created with little to no budget. This year it focuses on site-specific pieces throughout the city.
During its two-week run from July 7–20, 2014,
performance artists will gather to create theater
and dance using little more than a lot of hard
work and ingenuity.
The 2014 festival will also host its second series
of performative-lectures, an inventive approach
to the presentation of critical ideas that combines performance art with traditional lecture
techniques. This series, titled “Intrinsic Value,”
continues the festival’s exploration of creativity
apart from the framework of modern economics
by searching for art’s cultural worth. In a unique
twist, performance artists are paired up with hard
scientists in order to search for a common language to define the inherent value of both fields.
The theme arose from a crisis that many artists undergo. Struggling to fund his own work,
undergroundzero founder and director Paul
Bargetto realized that as a society, we have almost
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