tongue, 1991, Chicago, Blue Rider Theater, edited video documentation

tongue, 1991, Chicago, Blue Rider Theater, edited video documentation

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 multimedia performance work, “Physical Vision” (1989-91). This text and extended voice work was a deconstruction of language, meaning and power through a poetics of feminist thought in rant form, was developed in a club context during the early 90s culture wars. Here you’ll find 13 minutes of excerpts from by this time about a 37 minute expanded version. The Blue Rider Theater, founded by Donna Blue Lachmann was a significant ‘outpost’ in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago the 1980s.

http://youtu.be/RApR25N2cOQ

Lynn Book Projects
published via YouTube.com

2020-12-03T20:03:14Z

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