Substack public notes
BOOKS
Embarrassed of the (W)Hole (experimental philosophy/performance research, March 2023) Ugly Duckling Presse’s playscript series.
Available HERE.
Read a review here.
Institution is a Verb, compendium of materials indexing the past 7 years of PPL operations as a lab site in Brooklyn) published by The Operating System (2021). Print version and Open Source PDF available HERE
FORTHCOMING
“Rocio Bolivar” and “Tania Bruguera” in 50 Key Performance Artists. Edited by T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko and Adriana Disman, Routledge.
OTHER PUBLISHED THINGS
“By Any Means Necessary: Under the Radar” in PAJ (137) (2024)
A Tactical History of World-Building(s): IV Castellanos’s Homage to an Activist Tripod in AM Journal of Art and Media Studies (2023)
“Theatrical Agencies and Performance Principles: MARSH (Materializing & Activating Radical Social Habitus)” in Performance Paradigm, No. 17
“MemonicTheatre: memes as public space for reason(ing)s” in Bard Meme Lab Journal CONTENTS, 1 (2021): 103-122
“Performance Art Economixtures” in The Palgrave Macmillan Handbook to Queer and Trans Feminist Performance, 2021
“Plaguetime Aesthetics: a review of the Exponential Festival,”in PAJ, vol. 31, Fall 2021
“Productivity and Metaphysics” in You Are Here ISSUE 1, third room press, Portland, 2020
“Theatre as if theory,” with Yelena Gluzman, in The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy 2020
“Situating Arendt’s discourse ethics: Speculative Performances by a Thinktank of Passionate ‘Non-Professional Thinkers” in Performance Philosophy: Journal special Arendt issue “Sites of appearance, matters of thought: Hannah Arendt and Performance Philosophy”
Performance Art is Nothing With(out) Criticism in CAESURA Magazine Issue 0, 09/22/2020
Articles on Cultbyte (SERIES on performance art and language) :
Art Worldings at Play: “COUNTERPUBLIC” Triennial of Public Art – St. Louis, MO
Terms of Engagement: Quality, Art Worldings, and How Performativities Work, Part II
Terms of Engagement: Quality, Art-Worlding, and How Performativities Work, Part I
TERMS OF ENGAGEMENT: “Authenticity”
TERMS OF ENGAGEMENT: “Performance Art(ists) and Language(s)”
text/image piece in Plaster Cocktail
Dedication text in (States of Wake) critical writing volume [performance s p a c e] 2019
“Opera as Operations” in Experimental Music Yearbook
Article on the School of Making Thinking’s conference Between Words and [___] in Montreal (culturebot)
Review of Arahmaiani and Ayana Evans at Grace Exhibition Space in Performance is Alive
Good Dog! Bad Dog! Anya Liftig’s Twin High Maintenance Machines (originally published on Peri0d Magazine)
On fear: touring, the privilege of auto-intervention, and scaring oneself (Peri0d Magazine)
Tour Diary blogging on Culturebot, March 2014
Performance Art and You (Hyperallergic)
PUBLIC DISCUSSIONS/ DISCURSIVE PARTICIPATION / Interviews
Temporary Autonomous Theory (TAT) workshop as part of Psi (Performance Studies International) 2024 conference “Assembly” in London
Theatrical Agency and the Tragic Model workshop lead with Noah Ortega as part of the Performance Philosophy conference After Tragedy, University of Texas at Austin, 2024
PSi (Performance Studies International) workshop/presentation, online, 2022
International Federation of Theatre Researchers, New Scholars paper presentation, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2022
Artist as Institution, dialogue/panel with Andrew Freiband and Amy Ritter at the Queen Museum as part of MoreArt Fellowship exhibition Futures, Narratives + Networks
Class Entwines Movement Research Studies Project organized by Lorene Bouboushian
With Jaguar Mary X on Pratt Radio on her show WOKE AMP
Native Art Department “Maintaining Good Relations” at Artists Space
Dominique Duroseau’s Rap on Race with Rice, Smack Mellon
Emergency INDEX launch party at The Kitchen (launch of 9 PROPOSITIONS thinktank project, 2018)
Wendy’s Subway Reading Room at BAM: Documenting and Archiving Performance
A Panel Discussion
Interview with Ayana Evans, have you heard of Esther Neff? in Cultbytes
Interview with Li Cata, In Discussion for Critical Correspondence (Movement Research)
Interview Oscar Mac-Fall, Performance vs. Nature in Monika Magazine
Interview John Thomas for Esther Neff + Panoply Performance Laboratory in Creative Sugar
Allison Klion for Nine Performance Artists in Art Experience NYC
Interview with Laura Flanders for Resisting Commodity, Promoting Democracy on GRITtv
Press (for my/PPL/performance work)
Whitehot Magazine
Daniella LaGaccia review: “Memories of the Body, Tempting Failure Day 6 _ INCIDENT Magazine” on Tempting Failure performance The Scraping Shape of the Socially Cyclomythic Womb
POSTURE
New York Arts
Huffington Post
INCIDENT
The Guardian
Hyperallergic (2012 opera) (2017 opera)
Village Voice
Librettos
Any Size Mirror is a Dictator
NATURE FETISH
The Transformational Grammar of the Institutional Glorybowl Institute_Institut (full recording here)
The Last Dreams of Helene Weigel Or How to Get Rid of The Feminism Once and For All
Workforce/Forced Work
On the Cranial Nerves of Barbarians
The Silviculture Museum
Schooled and Unschooled
Esther Marveta Neff 