In the Shadow of the American Dream
Work
In the Shadow of the American Dream: Where Skin Hits Bone
The first section for the performance of "Four American Writers on Stage". The first will be a two page piece by Stokes Howell, an East Village writer. The short story Memphis is about two heterosexual men, who befriend each other at the bust stop in Memphis. The day they spent together ends mysteriously and sudden, when on of them drowns for no apparent reason.
The second section exists of two texts by David Wojnarowicz, encapsulating the dare to live, the drive, the edge: "Memories that smell like gasoline" and "Into the Drift and Sway".
The last section will be a piece by Patricia Fieldsteel, which involves a woman, her parakeet, her child, her twisted, manipulative, desperate sexuality. The perfection of the woman belies an underlying sickness which she puts directly on her child. This will reinforce the previous pieces of In The Shadow: we all once were children, and what happened there.
The possibility of gender transformation exists, but somehow, gender is secondary. The three different pieces will be linked together by the smooth and intensifying moving light.
project description
The second section exists of two texts by David Wojnarowicz, encapsulating the dare to live, the drive, the edge: "Memories that smell like gasoline" and "Into the Drift and Sway".
The last section will be a piece by Patricia Fieldsteel, which involves a woman, her parakeet, her child, her twisted, manipulative, desperate sexuality. The perfection of the woman belies an underlying sickness which she puts directly on her child. This will reinforce the previous pieces of In The Shadow: we all once were children, and what happened there.
The possibility of gender transformation exists, but somehow, gender is secondary. The three different pieces will be linked together by the smooth and intensifying moving light.
project description
circa 1995
English
WORK.1995.0059
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