Goat Island (performance group)
Appearance
Goat Island is a collaborative performance group based in Chicago, USA.[1] It was founded in 1987 and consists of the core group members Matthew Goulish, Bryan Saner, Karen Christopher, Mark Jeffrey and Litó Walkey.[1] The group is directed by Lin Hixson.[1]In 2006, Goat Island announced that their ninth performance, The Lastmaker (2007), would be the last work that they would create as a company[2], before individual members went on to pursue new projects and collaborations – such as Goulish and Hixson’s new initiative: Every house has a door.
References
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.
- 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.
- Hixson, Lin and Goulish, Matthew. 2007. "A Lasting Provocation". TDR: The Drama Review - Volume 51, Number 4 (T 196), Winter 2007, pp. 2-3