http://ryantacata.com Ryan Tacata Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:29:47 +0000 http://ryantacata.com en http://ryantacata.com/UPCOMING-1 http://ryantacata.com/following/ryantacata.com/UPCOMING-1 Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:29:47 +0000 Ryan Tacata 3025528 click image for ticket sales <img src="http://payload36.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/3025528/HIFP_Poster_640.jpg" width="640" height="989" width_o="1584" height_o="2448" src_o="http://payload36.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/3025528/HIFP_Poster_o.jpg" data-mid="16381535" border="0" align="left"/> click image for ticket sales http://ryantacata.com/CV-1 http://ryantacata.com/following/ryantacata.com/CV-1 Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:29:01 +0000 Ryan Tacata 3025525 RYAN TACATA | 514 LAGUNA ST SAN FRANCISCO CA | RTACATA@STANFORD.EDU EDUCATION Stanford University | PhD student Drama | Palo Alto, CA | 2009 - Current Experimental Performance Institute | (partial) MFA Performance | San Francisco, CA | 2007 School of the Art Institute of Chicago | BFA Performance | Chicago, IL | 2005 –2007 California State University Fresno | AA Theatre Arts/Deaf Studies | Fresno, CA | 2003 –2005 RESIDENCIES Mini-Research | Live Art Development Agency | London, UK | 06/11 Think Like a Mountain | w/ Ann Carlson & Marry Ellen Strom | Basin, MT | 2010 Abandoned Practices | School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL | 2010 DIY Performance | Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory | San Francisco, CA | 2007 Goat Island Summer Residency | School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL | 2006 AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS/GRANTS Stanford University | Graduate Fellowship | 2009 School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Portfolio Recognition Scholarship Award | 2005 American College Theatre Festival | Experimental Theatre Scholarship | 2004 California State University Fresno | Theatre Art Scholarship | 2003 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Conceptual Mapping Lab: Praxis Performance | Stanford University | 2012 On Contemporary Queer Performance | Guest Lecturer | De Paul University, Chicago IL | 04/08 Who Stole the Peacock Jewel | Performative Writing for Youth (ages 5-10) | 826 CHI | Chicago, IL | 05/06 RECENT PAPERS AND CONFERENCES The Wyly Theater as Gesamtkunstwerk | SupraSpace | Tel Aviv University | Summer 2012 Body, Place, Memory | Stanford University | Event Organizer | 10/11 Vitruvius on Theater: Taking Shelter | PQ11/IFTR | Prague, CZ | 06/11 Light Approaches to Site Specific Work | TLM | Stanford University | Palo Alto, Ca | 09/10 RECENT PERFORMANCE WORK Home in Five Parts | Director | Stanford University | Current Robert Whitman’s American Moon | Directed by Robert Whitman | Performer | 2012 The Jasper Ridge Project | Directed by Ann Carlson | Performer | 2012 The Lazy Hunter | w/Brad Callahan | Performer | The Living Theater | New York, NY | 2012 14 Lines | w/Curious and Hugo Glendenning | Assistant | Royal Shakespeare Company | 2011 RYAN TACATA | 514 LAGUNA ST SAN FRANCISCO CA | RTACATA@STANFORD.EDU EDUCATION Stanford University | PhD student Drama | Palo Alto, CA | 2009 - Current ... http://ryantacata.com/ABOUT-1 http://ryantacata.com/following/ryantacata.com/ABOUT-1 Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:28:39 +0000 Ryan Tacata 3025523 <img src="http://payload36.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/3025523/Ryan_HugoGD.jpg" width="640" height="960" width_o="640" height_o="960" src_o="http://payload36.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/3025523/Ryan_HugoGD_o.jpg" data-mid="15428401" border="0" align="left"/> Photo by: Hugo Glendinning Ryan Tacata holds a BFA (2007) from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and studied briefly at the Experimental Performance Institute with an emphasis in queer activist performance. He is currently a PhD student in the Department of Drama at Stanford University. He has performed at Links Hall (Chicago), the Voice Factory (San Francisco), Duckie (London), The Living Theater (New York) and elsewhere across the US. Most recently, he as worked for/with artists: Ann Carlson, Marry Ellen Strom, Leslie Hill and Helen Paris (Curious), Robert Whitman, and Hugo Glendinning. His current research is at the intersections of performance and architecture and he is writing about the performing body in conceptual architecture from 1965 - 1985. Photo by: Hugo Glendinning Ryan Tacata holds a BFA (2007) from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and studied briefly at the Experimental Performance... http://ryantacata.com/Making-Do http://ryantacata.com/following/ryantacata.com/Making-Do Sun, 08 May 2011 20:13:56 +0000 Ryan Tacata 1415582 Making Do: Studio Sketches <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1415582/155393_1713685960302_1182758696_31893649_6896034_n.jpeg" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1415582/155393_1713685960302_1182758696_31893649_6896034_n_o.jpeg" data-mid="15427136" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1415582/156664_1713683080230_1182758696_31893645_6379966_n.jpeg" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1415582/156664_1713683080230_1182758696_31893645_6379966_n_o.jpeg" data-mid="15427137" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1415582/stanfordarch.jpeg" width="640" height="512" width_o="640" height_o="512" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1415582/stanfordarch_o.jpeg" data-mid="15427141" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1415582/4756383707_96a73645e8_b.jpeg" width="640" height="854" width_o="640" height_o="854" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1415582/4756383707_96a73645e8_b_o.jpeg" data-mid="15427138" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1415582/snowman.jpg" width="640" height="414" width_o="640" height_o="414" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1415582/snowman_o.jpg" data-mid="15427139" border="0" align="left"/> Making Do: Studio Sketches http://ryantacata.com/Neptune-s-Pollywogs http://ryantacata.com/following/ryantacata.com/Neptune-s-Pollywogs Sat, 07 May 2011 03:28:44 +0000 Ryan Tacata 1410509 Neptune's Pollywogs: A Sailor's Baptism and Other Songs of Transgression 2007 | BFA Thesis Show | The School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL Directors: Ryan Tacata and Leone Reeves <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410509/0Pg0FAyc.jpeg" width="640" height="247" width_o="640" height_o="247" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410509/0Pg0FAyc_o.jpeg" data-mid="15427065" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410509/7eUmEzM7.jpeg" width="640" height="420" width_o="640" height_o="420" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410509/7eUmEzM7_o.jpeg" data-mid="15427066" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410509/7K55Sk9j.jpeg" width="640" height="420" width_o="640" height_o="420" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410509/7K55Sk9j_o.jpeg" data-mid="15427067" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410509/BjHE84Ny.jpeg" width="640" height="331" width_o="640" height_o="331" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410509/BjHE84Ny_o.jpeg" data-mid="15427069" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410509/fOcSXNsc.jpeg" width="640" height="420" width_o="640" height_o="420" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410509/fOcSXNsc_o.jpeg" data-mid="15427070" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410509/FZ3JCOkk.jpeg" width="640" height="339" width_o="640" height_o="339" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410509/FZ3JCOkk_o.jpeg" data-mid="15427071" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410509/HR2R1nng.jpeg" width="640" height="420" width_o="640" height_o="420" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410509/HR2R1nng_o.jpeg" data-mid="15427073" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410509/NP_1.jpg" width="640" height="420" width_o="640" height_o="420" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410509/NP_1_o.jpg" data-mid="15427074" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410509/opIyw2qS.jpeg" width="640" height="420" width_o="640" height_o="420" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410509/opIyw2qS_o.jpeg" data-mid="15427076" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410509/tpx1hV73.jpeg" width="640" height="420" width_o="640" height_o="420" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410509/tpx1hV73_o.jpeg" data-mid="15427077" border="0" align="left"/> Photos by: John Ssion Jr. and Jared Madera Neptune's Pollywogs is a Queer Rock Musical written and directed in collaboration with Leone Anne Reeves. Utilizing devices from musical theater, we investigated our notions of gender performativity and criticized our own critique of heteronormativity. Drawing from a vast pool of sources, we designed our set/costumes/movements/text from Judith Butler's Gender Trouble, the field of Cryptozoology, Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle, Abercrombie and Fitch and love stories from our very own sordid pasts. Spectators experienced: a broken narrative, a Werewolf Vagina, a Mr./Mrs. Potato Head Anus, a cast of sea creatures and cowboys, hardcore dancing and a glittered set that could barely stand on its own. Neptune's Pollywogs: A Sailor's Baptism and Other Songs of Transgression 2007 | BFA Thesis Show | The School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL ... http://ryantacata.com/Aesthetic-of-the-Pathetic http://ryantacata.com/following/ryantacata.com/Aesthetic-of-the-Pathetic Sat, 07 May 2011 02:56:09 +0000 Ryan Tacata 1410483 Aesthetic of the Pathetic 2009 | MYTHMAKERS | Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410483/owsaOAif.jpg" width="359" height="480" width_o="359" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410483/owsaOAif_o.jpg" data-mid="6863524" border="0" align="left"/> Photo by: Megan Mantia A time based cardboard manifesto. Aesthetic of the Pathetic 2009 | MYTHMAKERS | Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City Photo by: Megan Mantia A time based cardboard manifesto. http://ryantacata.com/Home-in-Five-Parts http://ryantacata.com/following/ryantacata.com/Home-in-Five-Parts Sat, 07 May 2011 02:39:21 +0000 Ryan Tacata 1410460 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410460/HIFP_Poster_640.jpg" width="640" height="989" width_o="1584" height_o="2448" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410460/HIFP_Poster_o.jpg" data-mid="16381963" border="0" align="left"/> click image for ticket sales photo by: Adam Katseff design by: Kyle B. Macy Five performers dance five sections of a home. A boy tiles himself through the city. An agoraphobic implement artist gives us Bette Davis at her worst. A love letter to Ginger Rogers is danced in the flooring section of Ikea. A woman exorcises dust mites from her room. We began with a simple prompt: Dance a Mobile Home. We’ve used found text from craigslist, recycled building materials from San Francisco houses and secrets from our sordid pasts to build our performance. Audience members will see us dance our home, in five parts, in 45 minutes. Prompt # 7 Carolyn, an elderly Japanese woman, hides in accountant’s closet for eleven months. Create a two minute soundscape in response to the image and prompt above. The soundscape should include five distinct sounds found in your home. Consider: ghost hunting, Victorian spiritualist séance and construction sites. Home in Five Parts 2011 | video sketch Director: Ryan Tacata Dancer: Ellery Alloysha Wulczyn click image for ticket sales photo by: Adam Katseff design by: Kyle B. Macy Five performers dance five sections of a home. A boy tiles himself through the city.... http://ryantacata.com/An-Exercise-in-Anal-Excavation-Number-One http://ryantacata.com/following/ryantacata.com/An-Exercise-in-Anal-Excavation-Number-One Sat, 07 May 2011 02:08:52 +0000 Ryan Tacata 1410387 An Exercise in Anal Excavation Number One 2007 | TREMORS Performance Festival | San Francisco Director: Ryan Tacata Performers: Rivin, Nyx, Wendy, Elizabeth Shaheen, Pryia Campbell, Marcus, Kristina, Tavi Clark, Ryan Tacata <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410387/893ETWQ9.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410387/893ETWQ9_o.jpg" data-mid="6863228" border="0" align="left"/>An Exercise in Anal Excavation #1 was devised under my direction with a group of Queer performers from San Francisco. Through workshops, play and conversations about the anus, we arrived at a piece that included: movement, a broken narrative, a spelling bee, a tableaux vivant and a sexual act. An Exercise in Anal Excavation Number One 2007 | TREMORS Performance Festival | San Francisco Director: Ryan Tacata Performers: Rivin, Nyx, Wendy, Elizabeth... http://ryantacata.com/Anal-Foreclosure http://ryantacata.com/following/ryantacata.com/Anal-Foreclosure Sat, 07 May 2011 01:37:24 +0000 Ryan Tacata 1410290 Anal Foreclosure 2008 | Mama Calizo's Voice Factory, San Francisco Director: Ryan Tacata Performers: Ryan Tacata, Becky Balon, Liz Shaheen, Wendy, Micah Stanek, Anna Duke, Priya Campbell <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410290/9aXhHwdE.jpg" width="640" height="424" width_o="640" height_o="424" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410290/9aXhHwdE_o.jpg" data-mid="6862764" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410290/T1QoxyYC_2.jpg" width="640" height="424" width_o="640" height_o="424" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410290/T1QoxyYC_2_o.jpg" data-mid="6862808" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410290/hxMhYjzC.jpg" width="640" height="424" width_o="640" height_o="424" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410290/hxMhYjzC_o.jpg" data-mid="6862821" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410290/AF_1.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410290/AF_1_o.jpg" data-mid="15426166" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410290/GeuXbWtO.jpg" width="640" height="424" width_o="640" height_o="424" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410290/GeuXbWtO_o.jpg" data-mid="6862824" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410290/JWa1i0fe.jpg" width="640" height="424" width_o="640" height_o="424" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410290/JWa1i0fe_o.jpg" data-mid="6862844" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410290/AF_3.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410290/AF_3_o.jpg" data-mid="15426169" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410290/xYS1J35O.jpg" width="640" height="424" width_o="640" height_o="424" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410290/xYS1J35O_o.jpg" data-mid="6862854" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410290/NcACTpck.jpg" width="640" height="424" width_o="640" height_o="424" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410290/NcACTpck_o.jpg" data-mid="6862870" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410290/AF_2.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410290/AF_2_o.jpg" data-mid="15426167" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410290/w3d1QN6V.jpg" width="640" height="424" width_o="640" height_o="424" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410290/w3d1QN6V_o.jpg" data-mid="6862873" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410290/VCBcVGfY.jpg" width="640" height="424" width_o="640" height_o="424" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410290/VCBcVGfY_o.jpg" data-mid="6862875" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410290/j8EazVqp.jpg" width="640" height="424" width_o="640" height_o="424" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410290/j8EazVqp_o.jpg" data-mid="6862881" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410290/gErN0sdL.jpg" width="640" height="424" width_o="640" height_o="424" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410290/gErN0sdL_o.jpg" data-mid="6862898" border="0" align="left"/> Photos by: John Blackwell Anal Foreclosure is part demolition part exorcism. From below ground up we’ve built a space through which the audience will tour, much like a model home. After excavating the multitudes of sentiment surrounding legalized gay marriage in California, we have found the following: foreclosure party games, sequenced anal ghosts, the master’s bedroom, bathroom dances and anal divinations. We speak through games; committing our selves to win, fail or simply walk away. Through this we’ve found new possibilities for addressing the mundane failures of everyday relationships as well as those not-yet languaged. Anal Foreclosure utilizes counter-ergonomics such as piles, messes and aggregation to flesh out our relationship to space and to (re)imagine the family house for those families not-yet but soon imagined. "When the sirens were deafening and those lights caused us to retract, I grabbed your hand and tapped in your palm the following: If these are the last words, for us, then let them be: fuck fried bawling trespass uprise intervene glorified excess liberated hypocritical tragedy under over highfive lowfive tonight." A product of Mama Calizo's DIY Artist in Residency Program 2008 Anal Foreclosure 2008 | Mama Calizo's Voice Factory, San Francisco Director: Ryan Tacata Performers: Ryan Tacata, Becky Balon, Liz Shaheen, Wendy, Micah Stanek,... http://ryantacata.com/Hardcore-Dance-Retrospective http://ryantacata.com/following/ryantacata.com/Hardcore-Dance-Retrospective Sat, 07 May 2011 00:06:16 +0000 Ryan Tacata 1410114 Hardcore Dance 2007 | Links Hall | Chicago, IL Performed by: Ryan Tacata and Leone Reeves <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410114/V4gMjvu2.jpeg" width="640" height="420" width_o="640" height_o="420" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410114/V4gMjvu2_o.jpeg" data-mid="15426983" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410114/3thK0fpm.jpeg" width="640" height="420" width_o="640" height_o="420" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410114/3thK0fpm_o.jpeg" data-mid="15426978" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410114/DsGfJ7Rz.jpeg" width="640" height="420" width_o="640" height_o="420" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410114/DsGfJ7Rz_o.jpeg" data-mid="15426979" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410114/lVOKzLjh.jpeg" width="640" height="283" width_o="640" height_o="283" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410114/lVOKzLjh_o.jpeg" data-mid="15426980" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410114/tOPHUWaS.jpeg" width="640" height="420" width_o="640" height_o="420" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/109527/1410114/tOPHUWaS_o.jpeg" data-mid="15426982" border="0" align="left"/> Photos by: John W. Sisson Jr. Hardcore Dance as Social Dance 1. Play "Cutsman" by Horse the Band 2. Pick up the pennies 3. Make a windmill 4. Punch the air 5. Too much metal for one hand Hardcore Dance 2007 | Links Hall | Chicago, IL Performed by: Ryan Tacata and Leone Reeves Photos by: John W. Sisson Jr. Hardcore Dance as Social Dance 1. Play...