Part of the Wounded Galaxies Festival: 1968 – Beneath the Paving Stones, the Beach festival + symposium
Final Festival Performance
Full festival + symposium schedule at:
http://mediaschool.indiana.edu/woundedgalaxies/

THIS SHOW: $5

This site-specific response to Chicago 1968 and its connection to the Beat legacy will include a live reading/sound/image intertextual exploration of the reportage of William S. Burroughs, Terry Southern, and Jean Genet for Esquire magazine on the Democratic National Convention riots, footage of the 1968 events, and the direct overlap with the current fraught political climate. TMS will interrogate these themes further through Burroughs-inflected strategies of cut and interference. “The Whole World Is Watching” deals with an historical event (the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago) in a unique and creative manner by taking the firsthand accounts of Terry Southern, Jean Genet, and William S. Burroughs and presenting them as a performance. This show will engage the audience with provocative subject matter and confrontational aesthetics, and they will come away with increased understanding of those events in Chicago.

LOCAL OPENERS TBA

Made possible in part by the Bloomington Arts Commission

Cost: $5

For more information contact:

Tony Brewer
(812) 325-4768
[email protected]