“Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries, Vol. 1” by Michael Workman; Book Design by Lauren Dacy

Contemporary ArtLiterary StudiesDancePhilosophy
Written By Michael Workman

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Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries is a philosophical study of equality as binding principle by art-makers across disciplines, and how they view their work situated across unrestricted spectrums of social and ideological value. As source material for the tropes and themes of Workman’s interactionist and instructional choreographic work, they are intended as a recovery of under-represented discourses, scholarly research volumes, and critic’s “selected works.” It also aspires to trace the contours of what more life-like art may be present — or imagined — in today’s shifting social imaginaries.

Includes interviews with: 
Kurt Vonnegut
Jenn Freeman (aka Po’Chop)
Ayako Kato
Shirin Neshat
Jamal “Lightbulb” Oliver
Michelle Kranicke
Jose Santiago Perez
Karen Finley
Ginger Krebs
Precious Jennings
Pidgeon Pagonis
John Waters
Jacinda Ratcliffe
Bill Ayers
Jeez Loueez
Daniel Bozutzky
Rosé Hernandez
Young Jean Lee
Claire Tancons
Darling Shear
Laurie Anderson
J’Sun Howard
Allen Moore
Bebe Miller
Nic Kay
Aaron Hughes & Amber Ginsburg
Deborah Hay
Joshua Ishmon
Carole McCurdy
Kiam Marcello Junio
Kerry James Marshall

Michael Workman

Michael Workman is a choreographer, language, visual and movement artist, dance and performance artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere, Workman is also Director of Bridge, an artistic collective and 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization (bridge-chicago.org). His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries Vol. 1, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Most recently, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing.

https://michaelworkmanstudio.com
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