The performative event as a letter asking to be read: Thoughts about “Listening to the Planets” by Ari Teperberg

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When Teperberg shares with us the sound of the grating pipes in the first part of Holst’s work, “Mars: Bringer of War,” he makes us wonder what war actually sounds like. Moreover, he makes us try to measure how far away or close we actually are to the battlefield, both mentally and physically.Read more

Lee Nahat Shalom on And My Heart Almost Stood Still by Ari Teperberg

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When the end catches you by the throat
In utter darkness
Choking a tear
Buttons come undone on a shirt and the heart bursts out- pounding and beating.Read more