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LOVE/SICK: A CONVERSATION WITH ANGELA ELLSWORTH

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2012

Extract

Editor's Note: In this previously unpublished conversation from 2007, Tina Takemoto and Angela Ellsworth discuss their collaboration during a period when Ellsworth was diagnosed with and underwent treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma. For those compelling collaborations, the artists confronted the effects of diagnosis and prognosis on the experience of embodiment, the gendered and racialized practices of medical care, and the limits of empathy in communicating across illness/health. In this conversation, Takemoto and Ellsworth reconvene after a crisis in their collaborations to work through the complications that arose for each in their attempts to stage and manage performances that would make a difference in the treatment of cancer. This interview was conducted in New York City on 16 September 2007.

Type
Critical Stages: Edited by Patrick Anderson
Copyright
Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 2012

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Footnotes

Angela Ellsworth is a multidisciplinary artist and Associate Professor in the School of Art at Arizona State University in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. Her solo and collaborative artworks and performances have taken in wide-ranging subjects that include illness, physical fitness, endurance, social ritual, and religious tradition. She has presented work nationally and internationally, including at the Getty Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, the National Review of Live Art, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Phoenix Art Museum. She is represented by Lisa Sette Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ, and Fehily Contemporary in Melbourne, Australia. Her Web site is at www.aellsworth.com.

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Angela Ellsworth is a multidisciplinary artist and Associate Professor in the School of Art at Arizona State University in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. Her solo and collaborative artworks and performances have taken in wide-ranging subjects that include illness, physical fitness, endurance, social ritual, and religious tradition. She has presented work nationally and internationally, including at the Getty Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, the National Review of Live Art, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Phoenix Art Museum. She is represented by Lisa Sette Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ, and Fehily Contemporary in Melbourne, Australia. Her Web site is at www.aellsworth.com.