We received this very cryptic email in our box a couple days ago. It was from one of our besties who has been secretly working on some kind of project,show,performance art thing. The invitation conflicted with other stuff on our calender and because of the short notice we contemplated just sticking to our original plan and sending our best regards...That was until we saw the flyer.
We still don't know exactly what we're going to see our brilliant friewin (friend+twin) do, but we're going!
(Sorry Raphael, but I couldn't miss this!)
RUSH ARTS GALLERY
526 West 26th Street, suite 311
New York, New York
526 West 26th Street, suite 311
New York, New York
:::IN AN ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN WHAT THIS PIECE IS, THE FOLLOWING HAS BEN SNAGGED FROM THE PLAYWRIGHTS(?) BLOG, WE PROMISE A PROPER SYNOPSIS WHEN WE FIGURE IT OUT:::IN PROGRESS:
Michael Paul Britto
This Little Word of Mine
August 1 - September 6, 2008
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Thursday, August 21, 2008 6-8 PM
Thursday, August 28, 2008 6-8 PM
Thursday, September 4, 2008 6-8 PM
Closing Reception: Saturday September 6, 2008: 6 – 8
Church revival is the theme of Michael Paul Britto’s This Little Word of Mine, the second installment of Rush Arts Gallery’s In Progress Series. During his month-long residency, Britto will stage this revival, complete with choir members and a preacher who will perform a live set consisting of video and music mixing. The Preacher will conduct the choir and the choir will respond to comments made in the video clips, prompting the audience to join in and participate as if in church.
“In his latest piece, Michael Paul Britto contributes to a new ethics of pop cultural consumption by imaginatively restaging debates surrounding African American vernacular cultures and their popular representation. Britto extends his longstanding critique of popular representations of “blackness” and unveils the continued inscriptions of America’s history of racial hierarchy on those representations in a multimedia performance piece that mimics the call-and-response form
of African American religious traditions and focuses on, as he puts it, “the use and misuse of the ‘N’ word.”“
- Evans Richardson, Guest Writer
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P.S. The red wig is what got me. Love you Blank!
::UPDATE:: 9/5/08
I'm still not sure what I saw. But I came to this profound, mighty conclusion."Nigger" is a word concept, that never fails to offend, shock, provoke and motivate people to do interesting things. Sometimes the 'thing' is art.
Imagine going down home to visit your 'Grandmother-Dears' First AME Zion Methodist Church of the Lord Nigger Christ . On revival Sunday.
Nuff said.
1 comment:
wow! I don't know what to say. Tell me the outcome of this joint, whoa!!
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