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Record Nr.

UNINA9910661676203321

Autore

Miller Tim <1958->

Titolo

1001 beds : performances, essays, and travels / / Tim Miller ; edited by Glen Johnson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006

Madison : , : University of Wisconsin Press, , 2006

ISBN

9786612270123

9780299216993

0299216993

9781282270121

1282270125

9780299216931

0299216934

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxi, 277 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Living out

Altri autori (Persone)

JohnsonGlen

Disciplina

700.92

B

Soggetti

Gay men - United States

Performance artists - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-277).

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Editor's Introduction -- Prologue: Memory and Facing the Future -- Part I. New York Years -- Performance N.Y.C. -- Floor It! -- Stories from Democracy in America -- Live Boys -- Buddy Systems: Two Excerpts -- Liebestod on Hollywood Boulevard -- Dogfight -- Coda: John in the dream realm -- Part II. Activism -- Professional Autobiography, 1990 -- ACT UP -- Civil Disobedience Weekend -- 'The artist becomes really woven into the community as a worker": Interview with Linda Frye Burnham -- AIDS Test -- Coda: A circle headed towards the future -- Part III. Culture War -- The NEA Four Case -- Artist's Statement, 1989 -- An Artist's Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1990 -- Excerpts from Tim Miller's Deposition in Finley et al, vs. the National Endowment for the Arts et al., 1992 -- Two Supreme Court Reports, 1998 -- Oral argument: Tim Miller's Supreme



Court report -- The decision: A Supreme drag -- An Anarchic, Subversive, Erotic Soul: Interview with Steven Durland -- The Battle of Chattanooga -- Coda: Notorious me -- Part IV. The Teacher -- Embodied Pedagogy -- Suck, Spit, Chew, Swallow: A Performative Exploration of Men's Bodies -- Jesus and the Queer Performance Artist -- Coda: The maw of Hollywood -- Part V. Us -- Oklahoma! -- Carnal Garage -- Tokyo Tim -- Us -- Making Us: An Interview with John S. Gentile -- Epilogue -- 1001 Beds -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

This intimate autobiographical collage of Miller's professional and personal life reveals one of the celebrated creators of a crucial contemporary art form and a tireless advocate for the American dream of political equality for all citizens.