In Dark Rooms

The Feeling of Doing

An intimate performance about theatricality and cruelty, The Feeling of Doing requires a single willing co-performer, one spectator, and a kitchen. The current "Barter Amateur Theatre" project--as seen in Europe, North Africa, and the US--is now available for booking in Australia.

Other Performance Works

Information about other recent and on-going projects and work-in-progress.

Criticism

Writing about performance, cruelty, human rights, food, animals, and social practice art/performance.

Spatula&Barcode

Michael also collaborates with Laurie Beth Clark under the name Spatula&Barcode to make social practice performance works, usually involving food and the grammar of hospitality.

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.

• a non-monetary exchange of efforts
• scaled for self-organizing ensembles
• exploring implications of face-to-face
• partially a secret
• not necessarily nice

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  Performance & Popular Culture

  --especially Las Vegas
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  Non-Human Animals in Performance

  --and how ideas about acting work in the artworld, pop culture, etc.
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  Teaching Performance Art, Performance Studies, & Cultural Criticism

  --where making culture is often a path to critiquing it