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This complete video documentation of a live performance of the vocal work, “tongue” by Lynn Book took place at the Blue Rider Theater, Chicago, 1991. Book was invited to perform 2 of her original performance projects as part of an international…

This short edited video documentation is from a live performance of the vocal work, “tongue” by Lynn Book at the Blue Rider Theater, Chicago. It was the second time Book performed an expanded version of it in an evening that also included her…

“tongue” began as a vocal improvisation in the studio, a kind of freewriting that Lynn Book referred to as ‘audio journaling’, a practice she began in 1986. Ultimately, it became a critically received solo vocal performance concerned with extended…

Lynn Book collaborated with vocal artist Theo Bleckmann on Mercuria, a multimedia performance work developed and performed over the course of almost 3 years with iterations occurring in Chicago and New York at several venues including the Museum of…

Lynn Book’s original multimedia performance work, “Standing In”, was informed by feminist and film theories to question and disrupt cultural constructions of the feminine. In particular, Book highlighted themes of presence and absence by way of…

Lynn Book’s original multimedia performance work, “Standing In”, was informed by feminist and film theories to question and disrupt cultural constructions of the feminine. In particular, Book highlighted themes of presence and absence by way of…

This edited video from a live performance (running time: 9:20, format: Betacam SP) is of Lynn Book performing her original multimedia performance project, "Gorgeous Fever" during The Kitchen curated series, New York City, 1997. Anney Bonney shot and…

Lynn Book’s original multimedia performance project, Gorgeous Fever, was commissioned in 1994 by the Governor’s School for the State of Illinois, and it previewed at the Allen Theatre at Illinois State University in Normal. This complex work was…

The "Gorgeous Fever" film (running time 6:57, 16mm) was a projected element within the multimedia performance project, "Gorgeous Fever”. Experimental filmmaker Sharon Couzin collaborated with Lynn Book, who also performed in it.

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Lynn Book’s original multimedia performance project, Gorgeous Fever, was a delirious meditation on themes of illness, sexuality, power and transformation. It launched at Randolph Street Gallery in Chicago in 1994. Book was writer, artistic…