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'''Goat Island''' is a [[Collaboration|collaborative]] [[Performance art|performance]] group based in [[Chicago]], USA.<ref name=c133>Cull (2009, 133).</ref> It was founded in 1987 and consists of the core group members Matthew Goulish, Bryan Saner, Karen Christopher, Mark Jeffrey and Litó Walkey.<ref name=c133/> The group is directed by Lin Hixson.<ref name=c133/>In 2006, Goat Island announced that their ninth performance, ''The Lastmaker'' (2007), would be the last work that they would create as a company<ref>Hixson & Goulish (2007, 2)</ref>, before individual members went on to pursue new projects and collaborations – such as Goulish and Hixson’s new initiative: Every house has a door.
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'''Goat Island''' was a [[Collaboration|collaborative]] [[Performance art|performance]] group based in [[Chicago]], Illinois and founded in 1987.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cull |first=Laura |title=Deleuze and performance |date=2009 |publisher=Edinburgh University press |isbn=978-0-7486-3504-7 |series=Deleuze connections |location=Edinburgh |pages=132-146}}</ref> They toured internationally and made nine performance works before disbanding.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Goat Island - Routledge Performance Archive |url=https://www.routledgeperformancearchive.com/browse/practitioners/goat-island |access-date=2024-03-21 |website=www.routledgeperformancearchive.com}}</ref> 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.

As their final project, they created a film based on ''The Lastmaker'', published under the title ''A Last, A Quartet a collection of films'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thisisunbound.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_book_info&products_id=342|title=Unbound - Live Art - Books, DVDs and Editions|last=Unbound|website=Unbound|access-date=2016-12-02}}</ref> 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.''<ref>{{Cite web |title=goat island archive – we have discovered the performance by making it |url=https://www.chicago.gov/content/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/goat_island.html |access-date=2024-03-21 |website=www.chicago.gov |language=en}}</ref> The event included an exhibition, archives, a performance series, and symposia.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tsatsos |first1=Irene |last2=Dickinson |first2=Joan |last3=Christopher |first3=Karen |last4=Goulish |first4=Matthew |last5=McCain |first5=Greg |last6=McCain |first6=Tim |year=1991 |title=Talking with Goat Island: An Interview with Joan Dickinson, Karen Christopher, Matthew Goulish, Greg McCain, and Tim McCain |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1146163 |journal=TDR |volume=35 |issue=4 |pages=66–74 |doi=10.2307/1146163 |jstor=1146163}}</ref>

== Members ==
Goat Island members have included:

* Karen Christopher (1990-2009)
* [[Joan Dickinson]] (1988-1990)
* Matthew Goulish (1987-2009)
* Lin Hixson (director, 1997-2009)
* Mark Jeffery (1996-2009)
* Greg McCain (1987-1995)
* Timothy McCain (1987-1995)
* Antonio Poppe (1995-1996)
* Bryan Saner (1995-2009)
* Charissa Tolentino (2008)
* Litó Walkey (2002-2009)

==Performances==
*Soldier, Child, Tortured Man (1987)
*We Got A Date (1989)
*Can't Take Johnny to the Funeral (1991)
*It's Shifting, Hank (1993)
*How Dear To Me the Hour When Daylight Dies (1996)
*The Sea & Poison (1998)
*It's an Earthquake in My Heart (2001)
*When will the September roses bloom? Last night was only a comedy (2004)
*The Lastmaker (2007)


==References==
==References==
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==Sources==
==Sources==
* Bottoms, Stephen J., and Matthew Goulish, eds. 2007. ''Small Acts of Repair: Performance, Ecology, and Goat Island''. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415365154.
* Bottoms, Stephen J., and Matthew Goulish, eds. 2007. ''Small Acts of Repair: Performance, Ecology, and Goat Island''. London and New York: Routledge. {{ISBN|978-0-415-36515-4}}.
* Goat Island, 2000. "School Book 2: Goat Island." Chicago: Goat Island and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
* Cull, Laura. 2009. "Goat Island, Deleuze's Bergonism and the Experience of Duration." In ''Deleuze and Performance''. Ed. Laura Cull. Deleuze Connections ser. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP. ISBN 9780748635047. 132-146.
* Goulish, Matthew. 2000. ''39 Microlectures: In Proximity of Performance''. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415213936.
* Goulish, Matthew. 2000. ''39 Microlectures: In Proximity of Performance''. London and New York: Routledge. {{ISBN|978-0-415-21393-6}}.
* Hixson, Lin and Goulish, Matthew. 2007. "A Lasting Provocation". TDR: The Drama Review - Volume 51, Number 4 (T 196), Winter 2007, pp. 2-3
* Hixson, Lin and Goulish, Matthew. 2007. "A Lasting Provocation". ''TDR: The Drama Review'' 51.4 (T 196 Winter): 2-3.
* Lowe, Nicholas, and Skaggs, Sarah, 2020 (editor Mike Vanden Heuvel) "Goat Island". American Theatre Ensembles Volume 1. Post-1970: Theatre X, Mabou Mines, Goat Island, Lookingglass Theatre, Elevator Repair Service, and SITI Company. Methuen Drama/Bloomsbury Press, London, UK. {{ISBN|978-1-350-05154-6}} 129-221.


==External links==
==External links==
*[http://brooklynrail.org/2011/12/theater/lin-hixson-and-matthew-goulish-with-carol-becker Brooklyn Rail Conversation with Lin Hixson and Matthew Goulish]
* [http://www.goatislandperformance.org/ Official website]
* [http://www.goatislandperformance.org/ Official website]
* [http://everyhousehasadoor.org/ Every house has a door homepage]


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Latest revision as of 21:35, 21 March 2024

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.

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

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Goat Island members have included:

  • Karen Christopher (1990-2009)
  • Joan Dickinson (1988-1990)
  • Matthew Goulish (1987-2009)
  • Lin Hixson (director, 1997-2009)
  • Mark Jeffery (1996-2009)
  • Greg McCain (1987-1995)
  • Timothy McCain (1987-1995)
  • Antonio Poppe (1995-1996)
  • Bryan Saner (1995-2009)
  • Charissa Tolentino (2008)
  • Litó Walkey (2002-2009)

Performances

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  • Soldier, Child, Tortured Man (1987)
  • We Got A Date (1989)
  • Can't Take Johnny to the Funeral (1991)
  • It's Shifting, Hank (1993)
  • How Dear To Me the Hour When Daylight Dies (1996)
  • The Sea & Poison (1998)
  • It's an Earthquake in My Heart (2001)
  • When will the September roses bloom? Last night was only a comedy (2004)
  • The Lastmaker (2007)

References

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  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.

Sources

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  • Bottoms, Stephen J., and Matthew Goulish, eds. 2007. Small Acts of Repair: Performance, Ecology, and Goat Island. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-36515-4.
  • Goat Island, 2000. "School Book 2: Goat Island." Chicago: Goat Island and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
  • Goulish, Matthew. 2000. 39 Microlectures: In Proximity of Performance. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-21393-6.
  • Hixson, Lin and Goulish, Matthew. 2007. "A Lasting Provocation". TDR: The Drama Review 51.4 (T 196 Winter): 2-3.
  • Lowe, Nicholas, and Skaggs, Sarah, 2020 (editor Mike Vanden Heuvel) "Goat Island". American Theatre Ensembles Volume 1. Post-1970: Theatre X, Mabou Mines, Goat Island, Lookingglass Theatre, Elevator Repair Service, and SITI Company. Methuen Drama/Bloomsbury Press, London, UK. ISBN 978-1-350-05154-6 129-221.
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