Goat Island (performance group)

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Goat Island was a collaborative performance group based in Chicago, Illinois and founded in 1987. [1] They toured internationally and made nine performance works before disbanding. [2] In 2006 they announced The Lastmaker (2007) would be the last work that they would create as a company, and the final performances were held at Swain Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in February 2009.

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As their final project, they created a film based on The Lastmaker, published under the title A Last, A Quartet a collection of films, [3] which also contained previous films made by Goat Island.

In 2019, the Chicago Cultural Center hosted a cross disciplinary retrospective: goat island archive – we have discovered the performance by making it. [4] The event included an exhibition, archives, a performance series, and symposia. [5]

Members

Goat Island members have included:

Performances

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References

  1. Cull, Laura (2009). Deleuze and performance. Deleuze connections. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University press. pp. 132–146. ISBN   978-0-7486-3504-7.
  2. "Goat Island - Routledge Performance Archive". www.routledgeperformancearchive.com. Retrieved 2024-03-21.
  3. Unbound. "Unbound - Live Art - Books, DVDs and Editions". Unbound. Retrieved 2016-12-02.
  4. "goat island archive – we have discovered the performance by making it". www.chicago.gov. Retrieved 2024-03-21.
  5. Tsatsos, Irene; Dickinson, Joan; Christopher, Karen; Goulish, Matthew; McCain, Greg; McCain, Tim (1991). "Talking with Goat Island: An Interview with Joan Dickinson, Karen Christopher, Matthew Goulish, Greg McCain, and Tim McCain". TDR. 35 (4): 66–74. doi:10.2307/1146163. JSTOR   1146163.

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