We knew we loved UBU WEB, the unmatched archive of avant-garde sound, poetics, and beyond. How else were we going to hear those old recordings of the Dadaists? But now that UBU is offering experimental film and video, we thought a reminder was due about this amazing - okay - mind-blowing resource. Bookmark this. And then reinvigorate everything you’re doing right now by getting up close and digital with Laurie Anderson, Pina Bausch, Samuel Beckett, Robert Ashley, Richard Foreman, Meredith Monk, Jack Smith, The Wooster Group, Yoko Ono and about a hundred other artists. And yes, the Dadaists!  We at Paper Theatre hope to start offering more video content that speaks to artists working with text. What better way to kick off that project than going back to the source. And now we’re not getting any writing done because we’re watching video art. When you get sucked in too, write us a comment telling us your favorites.

Come hear PT Publisher/Editor Sally Oswald speak this Friday at 7pm as part of Independent Production NYC 2008 Part One: Reimagining the Establishment curated by Jonathan Berger at Soho’s KIOSK. The evening focuses on four creative endeavors which reinvent and redefine the function of the ‘institution’ or ‘venue’ in relation to their work. The minds directing these projects have built their own establishments—each a unique, often hybrid context or space designed specifically for engaging with and distributing the work they wish to do. Oswald will speak about the impetus behind Play A Journal of Plays and Device alongside Rebecca Clemen of Electronic Arts Intermix, Monica Von Thun Calderon of Grandaisy Bakery, and Dennis ‘Citizen’ Kane. Curator Jonathan Berger’s work Noble Fir was featured in the Puppetry portfolio of PJP #2.