In October 2013, while working as an individual artist on a new project funded by the Houston Arts Alliance, I stumbled upon a MOOC offered by Stanford University’s NovoEd platform, Practice Based Research in the Arts. Because I needed a … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2014
Playlist for What’s on [My] Mind?
Since 1993, I’ve been playing music with three awesome guys — Gino Guerrero, Kevin Jefferies and Todd Leger. We wrote our own songs; we also covered gems like X’s “The New World. In the 90s, our legendary band Shag regularly … Continue reading
#1850charla
As part of the What’s on [My] Mind? project, @xtaforster and @YsidoraPico are joined by other time travelers (including @mediciprincess, @PJSweetman, @YellowFever and more!) in a Twitter chat — #1850charla — on February 28, 2014 from 11am to 12pm CST (5pm UTC). For people wanting to read … Continue reading
Intergenerational Identity
What’s on [My] Mind? is a multi-platform (transmedia) performance project investigating the terrain of intergenerational identity. Working in multiple mediums — monologues, music, social media, virtual worlds, and blogs — Christa Forster explores how race, identity, kinship and annexation conspire … Continue reading