Arthur J. Sabatini
Writer/Academic
Professor Emeritus
Arizona State University
Founding Member of the Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance
PhD, Performance Studies, New York University
B.A. & M.A. (Cutler Fellow, English,) Ohio University
Other Employment
Drexel University, Philadelphia Colleges of the Arts, Trenton High School
N.E.H. Fellowships: Borges and the Latin American Novel (Princeton, w/James Irby); Performance Theory. (Univ of Wisconsin, w/Herbert Blau)
Notable Publications:
2023. "Robert Ashley: Language, Texts, Performance." In Studien Zur Wertungsforschung. Critical Research Studies in Music. Wein, London. 5-93.
2015. "Philadelphia's Musico-Sonic-Optical Unconscious." 383-420. In America and the Musical Unconscious. Greve & Röhlmann. NY: Atropos Pr.
2002. "The Dialogics of Pedagogy and Performance." In Teaching Performance: Theory, Practices, Pedagogy. Carbondale: Southern Illinois U Pr. 259-285.
1989. "Silent Performances: On Reading John Cage." Bucknell Review: John Cage at 75. Fleming, and Duckworth, eds. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press. 74-96.
1983. Annson Kenney: Luminous Tubing. Catalogue and Exhibition. Philadelphia: Moore College of Art.
This website references past and present projects and writing, with some personal history, images and various links and lists. It cites publications, productions and performances, websites. References writers, scholars, poets, dancers, composers, musicians, theatre artists and companies I have written about, known or collaborated with over the years. My work has been about contemporaries, though many are no longer around. It has been meaningful, right for the times, life affirming, complicated, with things left to do...I continue to write about and work with writers and artists and feel forever grateful to everyone…
Career Summary
From The Bronx, NYC. HS in New Jersey. Decades of free-lance writing, parttime teaching, other support through grants, fellowships arts administration and correctional education consulting positions.
Philadelphia and New York-based: worked with then experimental interdisciplinary performance and music artists and groups; events, festivals, broadcast series.
At ASU, created and taught courses on 20-21st century avant-gardes, myths & tales, verbal art, performance, aesthetic research, writing. Co-produced theatre, installation and exhibitions.
AJ Sabatini
Writer/Author/Performer/Collaborator
Arts, Culture, Books, Journalism; Proposals/Grants, Catalogues, Essays: Performance Series, Events/Festivals, Conferences, Exhibitions, Radio, Podcasts, etc.
The Cathedral Band 2001-2012 (William Duckworth and Nora Farrell) and iOrpheus Productions (2007) (as The Chronicler) in performance.
Author
Certain Explanations/Magical Walkings, One Act, Theater; Who Walks, dance/video/voice/sound; The Walkings - Multimedia Installation; Readings of The Walkings, solo and with piano.
