About Michael
college teacher
culture scholar
performance artist

Michael Peterson teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, writes about contemporary performance, and makes both performance art pieces and "social" performance works.
Bio
c.v.
Barter Amateur Theatre
mutually produced experiences
- a non-monetary exchange of efforts
- scaled for self-organizing ensembles
- exploring implications of face-to-face
- partially a secret
- not necessarily nice
What Else Is Michael Good For?
Michael would love to talk to you about:
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Performance & Popular Culture
--especially Las Vegas -
Non-Human Animals in Performance
--and how ideas about acting work in the artworld, pop culture, etc. -
Teaching Performance Art, Performance Studies, & Cultural Criticism
--where making culture is often a path to critiquing it