Wang Chong and the Theatre of Immediacy: Technology, Performance, and Intimacy in Crisis

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Tarryn Li-Min Chun
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Personal Safety ◽  
The Public ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
Chinese Theatre ◽  
Solo Show ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Waiting For Godot ◽  
Made In China ◽  
Made In

In early January 2020, when Chinese theatre director Wang Chong (b. 1982) arrived in New York to remount his production of Nick Payne's Constellations for the Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival, he couldn't have predicted that this would be the last time for months that he would watch his actors from the middle of a full house. By the time his work-in-progress solo show, Made in China 2.0, opened at the Asia TOPA Festival in Melbourne, Australia, at the end of that February, it was clear that there would be no live theatre in Wang's hometown of Beijing for some time. All of China was on lockdown as the disease now tragically familiar as COVID-19 swept the country. Then, as Wang returned to Beijing in early March, businesses around the globe were shuttering, theatres were going dark, and theatre artists were confronting an unprecedented challenge to their personal safety, livelihoods, and ability to make meaningful art. In short order, some well-resourced theatre institutions began to stream performance recordings and reconfigure their seasons for online platforms. Only a month after returning home, Wang Chong joined this mass online movement with his production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, streamed live on 5–6 April 2020 as Dengdai Geduo.

THE PEDIATRICIAN AND THE PUBLIC

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1948 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 731-733
Author(s):  
PAUL HARPER
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
State University ◽  
Federal Funds ◽  
The Public ◽  
Louisiana State University ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Made In ◽  
September Issue

OUR attention has been called to two corrections which should be made in the letter of Dr. Thomas O. Gamble as it appeared in this column in the September issue of Pediatrics Dr. Gamble writes: "On page 365 I quoted the first objective of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. Quotation marks should have been placed at the end of the two sentences which are enclosed in parentheses. Anyone reading my letter might assume that the last two sentences represented my interpretation of the first objective. So, while I agree entirely with the objective and its interpretation, I should not be given credit for something which belongs to the A.A.P.S." The second correction is made in the letter from Dr. William J. Orr, Buffalo, New York, which is published below. Dr. Myron E. Wegman and Dr. Ralph V. Platou, Professor and Head, Department of Pediatrics, respectively of Louisiana State University of Medicine and Tulane University School of Medicine have polled the professors of pediatrics throughout the country to ascertain their experience with federal funds. The results of this survey are summarized in their letter.

Sensory Ethnography, Part 2

2019 ◽  
pp. 451-494
Author(s):  
Scott MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Single Shot ◽  
Public Park ◽  
Sensory Ethnography ◽  
Made In China ◽  
Made In

This follow-up to “Sensory Ethnography, Part 1” (published by Oxford in Avant-Doc, 2015) is a set of interviews with veterans of Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab. J. P. Sniadecki, Stephanie Spray, and Véréna Paravel discuss their experiences with the SEL and director Lucien Castaing-Taylor. Sniadecki and Spray discuss their early films, made in China and Nepal respectively; and Sniadecki discusses his more recent work. “Sensory Ethnography, Part 2” concludes with discussions with Sniadecki and Paravel on their Foreign Parts (2010), about an automobile junkyard in Queens, New York; with Sniadecki and Libbie Dina Cohn on People’s Park (2012), a single-shot excursion through a popular public park in Chengdu, China; and with Sniadecki and Joshua Bonnetta on El Mar La Mar (2017), a visual evocation of the border territory between Sonora and Arizona.

Hospitals: N.Y. Appellate Court Denies Move to Privatize Public Hospital

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-203
Author(s):  
Robert Chatham
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Public Health System ◽  
Municipal Hospital ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Benefit Corporation ◽  
The City

The Court of Appeals of New York held, in Council of the City of New York u. Giuliani, slip op. 02634, 1999 WL 179257 (N.Y. Mar. 30, 1999), that New York City may not privatize a public city hospital without state statutory authorization. The court found invalid a sublease of a municipal hospital operated by a public benefit corporation to a private, for-profit entity. The court reasoned that the controlling statute prescribed the operation of a municipal hospital as a government function that must be fulfilled by the public benefit corporation as long as it exists, and nothing short of legislative action could put an end to the corporation's existence.In 1969, the New York State legislature enacted the Health and Hospitals Corporation Act (HHCA), establishing the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) as an attempt to improve the New York City public health system. Thirty years later, on a renewed perception that the public health system was once again lacking, the city administration approved a sublease of Coney Island Hospital from HHC to PHS New York, Inc. (PHS), a private, for-profit entity.

Doctors ’Made in China’ – Locally Trained, Globally Excellent

Praxis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 109 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Ewelina Biskup ◽  
Feng Li ◽  
Shixian Dong ◽  
Yan Wo
Keyword(s):  
Made In China ◽  
Made In

Settler Colonialism and the Revolutionary War

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-35
Author(s):  
Andrea Lynn Smith
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Revolutionary War ◽  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
150Th Anniversary ◽  
End Point ◽  
Indian Land ◽  
Indian Relations ◽  
Major General

The centerpiece of New York State’s 150th anniversary of the Sullivan Expedition of 1779 was a pageant, the “Pageant of Decision.” Major General John Sullivan’s Revolutionary War expedition was designed to eliminate the threat posed by Iroquois allied with the British. It was a genocidal operation that involved the destruction of over forty Indian villages. This article explores the motivations and tactics of state officials as they endeavored to engage the public in this past in pageant form. The pageant was widely popular, and served the state in fixing the expedition as the end point in settler-Indian relations in New York, removing from view decades of expropriations of Indian land that occurred well after Sullivan’s troops left.

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