Not Reactionary: the "Rise of the Bourgeoisie" paradigm will be attended by the cultural exercise of unusual, indeed striking, neo-metaphysical concepts that challenge the capital-intensive relationship of oppression to production and distribution, and the outcome will invariably advance the progress of the organizational corrective

Space Ships at Angor Wat? - reality removed into visions - an exploratory miscellany

"Was it really a fleet of space ships that came to Angor Wat and removed its population to another planet? Anyway, its people could not have vanished more completely than if this had been a reality!"

The Thesis

Artist or Devotee?

The Outcomes Assessment

June 13th-15th: "Standing in Doorframes" at the WAH Center

From Terrance Lindall:

We're very excited to invite you to the presentation of, Standing in doorframes, June 13th, 14th, & 15th at 8:00pm (doors open at 7:00pm). Tickets: $30

Please join us at the beautiful and historic WAH Center to experience genre defying artists and performers from all corners of the creative world. The WAH's mission is to foster a contemporary audience for fine art, live dance, music and theater performances through unique and thoughtful programming.

Standing in doorframes is a darkly funny and physically-charged dance theater work that explores movement across thresholds of place, time, and life. Each potential step forward, saturated with both hesitation and hope, battles the past behind while confronting the future ahead.

With concept and choreography by Jonathan Royse Windham, and joined in performance by Clinton Edward and Griffin Massey, the piece unfolds through sharp shifts in energy, awkward encounters, and quiet vulnerability. Grief lingers beneath a surface of humor, curiosity, and dynamic physicality. The dancers draw the audience into a world where movement and flow are offered and interrupted, where tension builds in what’s expressed and withheld.

In this new full-length work, originally developed from two shorter pieces commissioned by TanzOrtNord in Lübeck, Germany, the artists invite audiences to lean in, feel the friction and recognize themselves and each other in this intimate and abstract narrative.

Featuring:

Jonathan Royse Windham

A Colorado native, has a BFA from the State University of New York at Purchase, concentrating in ballet, and after spent a season with American Repertory Ballet. After ARB he worked with Gallim Dance touring the continental US as well as Canada and Europe, and was featured on the Fall for Dance advertisements appearing across New York City in 2010, and has been a senior stager of Gallim Dance repertory. He was named one of Dance Magazines “25 to Watch” for 2013. In addition, He has worked with the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Deutsches Nationaltheater and Staatskapelle Weimar, Santa Fe Opera, Company XIV’s Nutcracker Rouge, KAMEA Dance Company, The DASH Ensemble, The Kevin Wynn Collective and has professionally performed works by Twyla Tharp, Roman Oller, Itzik Galli, and Sidi Larbi among others. Jonathan was in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway as part of the original revival company, choreography by Hofesh Shechter. His choreography has been shown throughout the USA, at Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival, multiple times at Dixon Place, Dancers Responding to AIDS at the Cedar Lake Theater (NYC), the American Repertory Ballet choreography workshop, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Staller Center at Stonybrook, South Orange Performing Arts Center, Center for Performance Research, The Hartt Conservatory, Contemporary Dance Wyoming, and is a founding choreographer and former curator at the Current Sessions NYC, TanzOrdNort in Lübeck, Germany, Ankara - Turkey’s 5th SOLO Contemporary Dance Festival, Presenting Denver Dance Festival.

www.jonathanroysewindham.com

Clinton (he/they)

A New York based choreographer, actor, and creator with a diverse resume of experience and specialty in creating unique performances. He received his BFA in Dance with a concentration in choreography from Marymount Manhattan College. Favorite credits include performing at Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City with Tania Perez-Salas Company, Off- Broadway in Queen of the Night, and dancing 2 seasons with the STEPS Repertory Ensemble. They were a co-founder and Resident Artist of MinuteZero, an immersive events company based in NYC whose list of clients included Microsoft, Brooklyn Museum, Rag & Bone, Under Armour & Hulu. Clinton has also worked closely with pop artist PRIMME on several music videos and live shows. He has taught at Peridance Center in NYC, Friends Academy in Long Island, SUNY Purchase, RACE the Space in OKC, and multiple competitive studios in the Greater NYC area. They have set work on students at SUNY Fredonia, Central Missouri State University, Westwood High School in TX, Moore High School in OK, and won choreography awards for their dances made at various competitive studios in Boston, Long Island, and Connecticut. Clinton was associate choreographer and director to Kristen Carcone for her evening length immersive production of Dinner is Served, which had a completely sold out run in Toronto. He is also the resident choreographer for Another Rose on Virgin Voyages, after helping create the show as associate choreographer and associate immersive director. Most recently, they served as assocaite choregrapher for Urinetown at City Center Encores! Clinton is currently on faculty at STEPS on Broadway in NYC and New Canaan Dance Academy in Connecticut.

For more visit: www.clintonedward.com
 

Griffin Massy

A freelance dance artist and teacher based in New York City. Originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, he moved for university and earned his B.F.A. in dance in 2023 from The Juilliard School under Alicia Graf Mack, Dean and Director of the Dance Division, and Mario Alberto Zambrano, Associate Director. While at Juilliard, he had the opportunity to perform works by many personally inspiring artists such as Aszure Barton, Spencer Theberge, Jermaine Spivey, Hofesh Shechter, and many more. He was an apprentice with the Mark Morris Dance Group from 2023 to 2024, as well as performing in operas with The Metropolitan Opera. He became a certified Countertechnique teacher in 2024, and now teaches at various professional dance studios around New York City.

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In addition to the evening's performances, this event will include the opportunity to enjoy drinks and light snacks in the art gallery before and after the show, featuring our latest showcase.

Tickets: https://standingindoorframes.eventbrite.com

About the WAH Center

In late October 1996, Yuko Nii founded the non-profit The WAH Center (Williamsburg Art & Historical Center) based upon her Bridge Concept. That concept envisions a multifaceted, multicultural art center whose mission is to coalesce the diverse artistic community, and create a bridge between local, national and international artists, emerging and established artists, and artists of all disciplines. Thus through the international language of art we come to understand each other to create a more peaceful and integrated world. The WAH Center is a force for peace and understanding and its concept is incorporated in its acronym: “WAH” in Japanese means “peace” or “harmony” or “unity”.

Gallery Hours: Saturdays & Sundays, 1pm to 5pm

Contact:

email: wahcenter@gmail.com

Telephone: (917) 648-4290

Directions:
J train to Marcy Avenue
L train to Bedford Avenue

Big heads do not necessitate high brows, but one can complement the other, and vice versa

Pablo Picasso, Big Heads, 1969

No 16. Lunar Observatory (attractive colors)

Jets, Rockets & Spacemen card series, No 16. Lunar Observatory. 1951.

Animated Lindall

Terrance Lindall's paintings animated with music from his Paradise Lost Opera -- driven by AI.  

"Caste Among Tribes: Tribal Contrasts in the Shadow of the City" by Vitasta Raina

Mural outside a Katkari House at Varosawadi (Katkariwadi)

Vitasta Raina writes:

In the summer of 2022, I rode my bike on the old Mumbai-Pune highway from Pune to Chowk. It took me about half an hour to reach Chowk from the end of the Bhor Ghat, and would take me another two hours to reach Mumbai from Chowk. At approximately the geographical center of the highway between Pune and Mumbai, at the base of the Tooth Mountain and adjacent to Morbe Dam, lies the village of Chowk. Chowk was my case study village for my PhD studies on ‘Rural Housing Schemes in Peri-urban Villages’. It had the right conditions for my study, a village with active rural housing schemes, in close vicinity of real estate townships of the likes of Hiranandani and Godrej, and with a railway station that was getting expanded to join the Mumbai sub-urban rail network.

Click HERE for the rest of the essay.

Vitasta Raina is the author of Writer's Block.  Click HERE.

Highbrow Clickbait: Euler's helix and wave propagation, animated

Source

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Raoul Uba - Penthésilée - 1937

Penthesilea

Epic, Homeric, heroic, vaguely (and not so vaguely) absurdist, but is the humor highbrow?

Highbrow Juxtaposition: Max Ernst, animated; Electrolux vacuum cleaner by Lurelle Guild; Re-packaged, and re-packaged again?

Epitomizing contemporary re-animation

Epitomizing "Streamline Moderne" (1937)

(front view/side view?)

Curious Indeed: Aristotle's Wheel Paradox

 

Click HERE for analysis.

1-772-ASK-Dali

1-772-275-3254

New Measures of Contextual Understanding: #17 The Theatre of Alternative Beauty, or the "Reluctant" Aesthetics of Aesthetic Promotion

Peggy Guggenheim and Max Ernst in the surrealist gallery, Art of This Century, 1942

Art of This Century gallery

Emotional enchantment in color, form, shadow, composition, context (a lambent background and the out-of-doors) and execution

Odilon Redon - Blue Poppies  (ca 1910)

Suggesting an "Ant Tank" underground city from PKD's The Penultimate Truth

  

More? Click HERE.

Reminder: Wave IX

Last November, I announced the publication of Wave IX, a J.G. Ballard-inspired collection of avant-garde fiction, poetry and graphic art. The book includes my fiction piece exercising a fusion of contemporary developments in AI with post-WWII modernist aesthetics, "The Nanopoetic Quest in Theory and Practice." The story reflects a number of Ballardian themes. Yesterday's Highbrow post featuring a mod and swinging Frank Sinatra stepping off a helicopter, drink in hand, is apt.  A recent back-channel message reminded me of this project.  I was also reminded of my intention (for some reason shifted to the back burner) to review the book, piece-by-piece, and post my impressions here.  Watch this space.

Meanwhile, here is the cover image followed by the publisher's description.  The cover image and the title of the book are linked to the sales page.  

Finally, there is an audio project related to the final piece in the book, “A Short History of Parking Structures” by Mark Soden, Jr., and which can be listened too HERE.

 

A tribute to the fictitious magazine Wave IX from J.G. Ballard's 1961 short story "Studio 5, The Stars." In the fictitious version of the magazine Ballard predicts the rise of machine generated poetry; and in this real-world version of Wave IX the current debacle over machine generated works is satirized, battled against, and disregarded with human generated works, tributes to Ballard, works inspired by the story, and more. Wave IX features a multigenerational cast of writers and artists from all over the world.

Featuring stories, poetry, and art from: Eugen Bacon, F.J. Bergmann, Michael Butterworth, Jacques Garnier, Jean-Paul L. Garnier, Carter Kaplan, Jardine Libaire, Jonathan Nevair, Charles Platt, Aaron Sheppard, & Mark Soden Jr.

This anthology is published by Space Cowboy Books, an award-winning brick and mortar bookstore in Joshua Tree, California, an independent publishing house, producer of Simultaneous Times podcast, and event space.

Highbrow Helicopterfest: #4 Hughes 300C

Frank Sinatra stepping off his Hughes 300, photo by Yule Brenner, 1964

Click HERE for the Hughes 269/300 story.

Click HERE for more Highbrow Helicopterfest action.

Bizarre, grotesque, sensational, fun, surreal and they are commercial consumer products... What are the "meanings"? What are the "explanations"? How are such explanations used? What is meant by an explanation?

Form with and without Substance

HMS Snapper