Arthur Sabatini

Courtesy Affiliate, Emeritus Professor

FAB N 241 PHOENIX, AZ 85069-2151
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Long Bio

Arthur J. Sabatini earned a bachelor's degree in humanities and a master's degree in English at The Ohio University. In 1994, Sabatini completed his doctorate in performance studies through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at New York University. He has also worked as an arts writer and in arts administration.

Sabatini has taught at NYU, as well as Drexel University and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, before coming to ASU’s West campus in 1992. He was one of the faculty members who designed New College’s interdisciplinary arts and performance program and the Masters of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies.

Sabatini’s current research focus examines how contemporary artists, arts groups and arts institutions research, investigate and produce interdisciplinary artwork.

As both a scholar and a performer and writer, Sabatini is currently expanding his one-act, multimedia play, “Certain Explanation/Magical Walking.” The play was performed in 2008. He also has performed as The Chronicler in live performance/webcasts of “iOrpheus: An iPod Opera” in Brisbane, Australia (see http://www.iorpheus.com/) and “Orpheus: The Myth Retold” with the Cathedral Band in Phoenix and internationally.

At the West campus, Sabatini teaches classes including 20th and 21st Century Art, Media and Performance, Language, Culture and Performance, Art and Knowledge, and The Critical Artist.

Education

Ph.D. Performance Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University
M.A. English, The Ohio University.
B.A. Humanities, The Ohio University

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

Beckett, Samuel and Moton Feldman (composer). "Words and Music". (2015).
Sabatini, Arthur. 1. "Fury’s Flaws" 2. "Soren Kierkegaard and Stephen Colbert: A parting shot at Stephen Colbert's irony". Broad Street Review (2014).
Sabatini, Arthur. "Orpheus and Eurydice in Performance in the 21st Century." Myths Revisited. Istanbul 2ndAnnual International Aksit Gorturk Conference Papers.". Myths Revisited: Istanbul 2nd Annual International Aksit Gorturk Conference Papers (2014).
Arthur J. Sabatini. "The Walkings". (2013).
Performed by ASU Contemporary Percussion Ensemble and Guest Artists. "The City Wears a Slouch Hat" by John Cage. Role: "The Voice". (2012).
William Duckworth (music) Arthur J Sabatini (text). "For Satie". (2012).
Sabatini, Arthur. "Daniel Lentz". Grove Dictionary of American Music (2011).
Sabatini, Arthur J. "Museums and New Aesthetic Practices". Museums and Social Issues (2011).
Sabatini, Arthur J. Umberto Eco's "The Prague Cemetery" (novel). The Philadelphia Inquirer (2011).
. . Review of: Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery (novel) (2011).
Lerman, Liz. ORIGINS. (2011).
Romulous Francheschini. "Trying To Get It Together: Notes from a Composer's Life in Philadelphia" by Romulous Francheschini. (2011).
Sabatini, Arthur J. Author/Director (director with Robert Kilman, Peter Price, Megan Bridge and dancers). "Who Walks". (2011).
Sabatini, Arthur J. BLOG for "It's not just black and white" Exhibition, ASU Art Museum. (2011).
Arthur Sabatini. Richard Lerman. Grove Dictionary of American Music (2010).
Arthur Sabatini (as AJ Sabatini). "They couldn’t talk, but they could hum: On "The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body," Stephen Mithen. The Broad Street Review (2010).
Arthur Sabatini (as AJ Sabatini). "Timeless Myth, Psychological Puzzle: Gluck's "Orphée et Eurydice" at The Philadelphia Opera Company. The Broad Street Review (2010).
Arthur Sabatini as AJ Sabatini. "Art, Politics and Humanity: Václav Havel, in Theory and Practice". The Broad Street Review (2010).
Arthur Sabatini as AJ Sabatini. "From Freud to Film: What Do Dreams Really Tell Us?. The Broad Street Review (2010).
. . Review of: The New Music Theater: Seeing the Voice, Hearing the Body (2010).
AJ Sabatini, Author/performer/development/direction of collaboration of original production, with Fidget productions (Philadelphia). WHO WALKS (theater/dance/music/media). (2010).
Arthur J. Sabatini. The Bowler Hat Project. (2010).
Arthur Sabatini (as AJ Sabatini). John Cage's "How to Get Started" (Solo Performance, 12/20/10). (2010).
Laura Kuhn, Aaron Levy and Arthur J. Sabatini (co-curators). John Cage's "How to Get Started" A Permanent Installation. (2010).
Will Bond and Marianne Kim. "CRASH". (2010).
Sabatini, Arthur J. "Approaching knowledge, research, performance, and the arts,". Mapping Landscapes in Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies (2009).
Sabatini, Arthur J. Aesthetic Research Website Development. (2009).
Sabatini, Arthur J. Osvaldo Golijov’s "Ainadama" at The Phoenix Symphony. Hearsight (2008).
Sabatini, Arthur J. "Anna Devere Smith: The Arizona Project: Women, Justice and the Law". Hearsight (2008).
Sabatini, Arthur J. "Obama, the Arts and You." Essay. Hearsight (2008).
Arthur Sabatini (AJ Sabatini) as The Chronicler. Say the Music!. (2008).
Sabatini, Arthur J. "An Introduction to the Music, Theater and Ideas of Fred Ho". (2008).
Arthur Sabatini. Uncurating at The Slought Foundation: Art Today in Practice, Theory. Locus Suspectus (2007).
. . Review of: Players at Work: The Early Years of Mabou Mines (2007).
. . Review of: Restaging the Sixties: Radical Theaters and Their Legacy (2007).
Sabatini (as AJ Sabatini), Arthur J. iOrpheus: Landscape Performance in Brisbane, Australia. (2007).
Sabatini, Arthur. Orpheus: The Myth Retold - An iPod Opera. (2007).
Sabatini, Arthur J. Chris Danowski's "XO_tic" at The Phoenix Fringe Festival. Hearsight (2006).
Author. Certain Explanation/Magical Walking. (2006).
Arthu Sbatini, (writing as AJ Sabatini). REVIEWS AND SHORT ESSAYS ON ARTS, PERFORMANCE AND CULTURE Lee Breuer’s ‘La Divina Caricatura’ A dog’s search for meaning (12/21/2013 The Met’s ‘The Nose’ in HD Live The exuberant heyday of Russia’s avant-garde (10/28/2014 Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Gravity’ (1st review) Exploring outer space? 10/22/2013 "Europa Report': The trouble with outer space films How do you reason with a humanoid? (And other outer space movie challenges) 8/11/2013 A jury of whose peers? George Zimmerman's trial, and mine AJ Sabatini 7/30/2013 Banality as an art form The most interesting man on the block (5/11/2013 Art Museum's "Dancing Around the Bride' (2nd review) Before you dance with Duchamp, walk with him (1/12/2013 Andrei Codrescu's "Bibliodeath' Requiem for the printed word (1/26/2013 Richard Foreman's Old Fashioned Prostitutes 5/27/2013. Broad Street Review; The listed reviews and essays from 2013 at: http://www.broadstreetreview.com/authors/aj-sabatini (0).
Sabatini, Arthur J. "Hidden Cities: If these walls could talk.". Broad Street Review (0).
Sabatini, Arthur J. Testing Performance: on Avital Ronell's "The Test Drive". MOFA: Journal of Performing Arts (0).

Courses

2019 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
IAP 304	Trads/Avant-Garde Expermtl Art
IAP 480	Senior Project
IAP 471	Language, Culture/Performance
MAS 598	Special Topics

Presentations

Arthur J. Sabatini. "Without trauma, and yet…or, the resonance of memory and effects of indirect reception". Memory-Counter-Memory Conference (Nov 2012).
Arthur J. Sabatini. "Questions on, for, about and by Robert Ashley; or, time for some answers?. Series on American Composers in the Sonic Arts Union, Philadelphia, PA (May 2012).
Sabatini, Arthur J. "John Cage's "How To Get Started" at Symphony Space". Live Performances with PEN Writers: NYC (May 2012).
Arthur J. Sabatini. "Remarks on John Cage's Songbooks". fidget Performance Space John Cage Series (Mar 2012).
Arthur J. Sabatini. "Jewish Figures, Thought and Themes in 20 thCentury American Experimental Theater and Performance". Invited Lecture (Mar 2012).
Sabatini, Arthur J. "Orpheus and Eurydice in Performance in the 21st Century". 2nd Annual International Aksit Gorturk Conference: "Myths Revisited" (istanbul, Turkey) (Nov 2011).
Sabatini, Arthur J. "Contemporary American Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Performances". Invited Lecturer, Roberts College. istanbul, Turkey (Nov 2011).
Sabatini, Arthur J. "Reflections on It’s Not Just Black and White"". Conference: Public Art and Social Change (Nov 2011).
Sabatini, Arthur J. "The Complicating Performances and Productions of Silence in Orhan' Pamuk's, The Museum of Innocence". Rocky Mountain Modern Langauage Association (Sep 2011).
Sabatini, Arthur J. "It’s Not Just Black and White" Incarceration and Community on Arizona. Public Evetn, ASU Art Museum (Apr 2011).
Arthur Sabatini and Iris Smith Fischer. Staying Power: Mabou Mines After Forty Years (Plenary Session) and paper, "Mabou Mines Stages of Mind". ASTR Annual Conference (American Society for Theater Research) (Nov 2010).
Arthur Sabatini. Invited Talkback Panelist – Charles Mee's, "Big Love". Panel/Theater Production (Apr 2010).
Sabatini, Arthur J. "Sound, Frequencies, Sonic Resonance in Philadelphia". MLA - Modern Language Association Annual Conference (Dec 2009).
Sabatini, Arthur J. "The Transhistorical Journeys of Fred Ho" MLA Annual Conference. MLA, Modern Language Association Annual Conference (Dec 2009).
Sabatini, Arthur J. Current projects in Arts/Aesthetic Research. Fourth International Conference on the Arts in Society (Jul 2009).
Sabatini, Arthur. "On Performing Myth". Lecture and Blog (Aug 2007).
Sabatini, Arthur. "On the IAP Program at ASU". CLEA Annual Meeting (Consortium for Liberal Education of Artists
Sabatini, Arthur. On Marek Choloniewski's Sonic Explorations. Marek Choloniewski: From Poland, In Performance
Sabatini, Arthur. Respondant to Performance as Research Papers. ASTR - American Society for Theatre Research

Service

Experiments and Intensities, Editorial Advisory Board (2011 - Present)
New College of Interdisciplinary Arts, Member (2007 - Present)
Personnel Committee, Chair (2007 - Present)
Interdisicplinary Arts and Performance - Assessment, Member (2006 - Present)
Interenational Conference on the Arts in Society, International Advisory Board (2006 - Present)
Theatro Caliente, Artistic/Academic Adisory Board (2006 - Present)
Interdisicplinary Arts and Performance - Guest Artist, Solo Member (2005 - Present)
Interdisicplinary Arts and Performance Curriculum, Member (2004 - Present)
Phoenix Arts Institutions, Liason (2000 - Present)
International Conference for Arts and Society, Advisory Board (2005 - 2016)
TIMB - Theater in My basement, Phoenix, AZ, Board/Advisor (2005 - 2016)
2015 Balance-Unbalance ArtScienceTech=Environment Intern Conference., Faculty Representative for Event (2014 - 2015)
Center for Critical Studies, ASU, Co-ordinator (2013 - 2013)
Pew Foundation, Site Reviewer (2012 - 2012)
SHARCS, Organizer, War and Peace Series Speaker (2012 - 2012)
John Cage at 100 at ASU, Planning Committee/Host/ (2011 - 2012)
MacArthur Fellow Nominator and Heinz Fellow Nominator, Nominator (2012 - 2012)
IAP/HARCS Curriculum, IAP Chair/Member (2005 - 2012)
SHARCS, Organizer, Artists Speaker Series, ASU West (2012 - 2012)
ASU Religious Studies: Memory Counter-Memory Conference (ASU), Planning Committee/Host/Panel Moderator (2011 - 2011)
ASU Art Museum, Social Studies Initiative Project" "It's Not Just Black and White", Advisory Board (2010 - 2011)
International Conference on the Arts in Society, International Advisory Board (2006 - 2011)
ASTR - AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THEATER RESEARCH, C0CHAIR OF PLENARY SESSION, ANNUAL CONFERENCE, SEATTLE, WA (2011 - 2011)
Arizona State University/HARCS, 2010 MAIS Graduate Admissions Committee 2009/2010 Chair, Performance Search Committee (2010 - 2011)
ASU Art Museum, Gregory Sale (ASU) Project Director, Advisory Board (2010 - 2011)
ASU Herberger School of Theater, 2010 Sabbatical Review Committee: Jeff McMahon, Associate Professor, Theater, ASU (2010 - 2010)
ASU/HARCS Sabbatical - Rob Taylor, Reviewer (2010 - 2010)
Valley Fever Festival, 2009, Advisor, ASU liason (2008 - 2010)
Personnel Hiring Review, NCIAS (2007 - 2010)
Personnel/Probation Review, Member (2007 - 2010)
Tenure and Promotion, Member (2007 - 2010)
HARCS, Performance Studies Seach Committee Chair (2009 - 2010)
IAP, IAP Department Activities (1998 - 2010)
Phoenix Experimental Arts Festival/Paradise Valley Community College, Advisor/Contributor (2006 - 2006)
Western States Communication Association/Conference Performance Studies, Referee of Annual Conference Papers - Performance Studies Division (2006 - 2006)
City of Glendale, Expert Commentator (2006 - 2006)

Expertise Areas

Media and Performance