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THE MUTATION SHOW A Film Screening

MUTATION SHOW

A film screening of the 1973 Open Theater production, directed by Joe Chaikin

Performance by The Open Theater, directed by Joseph Chaikin, a fluid montage of scenes, ideas and personalities, mostly created by the actors themselves in rehearsal, called “the mutation show.” With Joseph Chaikin, Raymond Barry, Shami Chaikin, Tina Shepard, Paul Zimet, Ellen Maddow, Tom Lillard, Jo Ann Schidman, presenting such characters as the tinker, the petrified man, the bird lady, the man who smiles, and the man who hits himself, a boy in a box, the animal girl, the ringmaster. Often the “language” is sound without dialogue. Often the “plot” refers to primal processes like learning to walk, learning civilization. At the conclusion each actor introduces himself/herself and gives background, biography, description of family, hair, eyes, etc. Each actor holds an early picture of himself. 1973.”

BI LINES VII AND THE BISEXUAL BOOK AWARDS on Saturday May 31, 6:30pm – 10pm

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The Bi Writers Association presents:

Bi Lines VII & The Bisexual Book Awards: A Multi-Arts Celebration of Bisexual Writing

Location: Westbeth Community Room.

Westbeth Artists Housing – Home to the Arts is located in the West Village at 55 Bethune Street at the corner of Washington Street. It is a few blocks from the LGBT Center. See directions below.

Date/Time: Saturday May 31-6:30-10pm. Doors open 6:30pm for book signings, the stage program is from 7-9:30, with more book signings until 10:00pm.

Afterparty: 10pm-1am
Tickets: $12 at the door

Program: Includes diverse author readings, live music, projected art from a bisexual comic anthology, capped off with the Bisexual Book Awards Ceremony and an afterparty.

AUTHORS/READINGS:

Manil Suri/novel The City of Devi
Cecilia Tan & J.R. Yussuf/fiction anthology Best Bi Short Stories
Mary Anne Mohanraj, author of Sci-Fi novel The Stars Change
Bushra Rehman/novel Corona
Marina Peralta/memoir Barriers to Love: Embracing a Bisexual Identity
Jean Roberta/erotic novel The Flight of the Black Swan
Lena Chandhok/comic anthology Anything That Loves: Comics Beyond Gay and Straight

COMIC BOOK ART: Charles “Zan” Christensen/presentation of projected art from Anything That Loves: Comics Beyond Gay and Straight

LIVE MUSIC: Michael David Gordon & Howell Mooney

HOST: Sheela Lambert, Director, Bi Writers Assoc.; Editor, Best Bi Short Stories

AWARDS PRESENTED: Bisexual Book Awards Ceremony

AFTERPARTY: Cafe Gitane at the Jane Hotel no entrance fee-cash bar/food. A couple blks from Westbeth-we’ll all walk over together.

DIRECTIONS: Option1-Take A train to 14 St. Walk west to Washington Street. Turn L on Washington and walk down to Bethune. Make R on Bethune.
Option2-Take #1 train to Christopher St./Sheridan Sq. Walk west on Christopher to Washington St. Make R on Washington and walk up to Bethune. Turn L on Bethune.

Find this event on Facebook or Bi Meetup. More performer details on Bisexual Examiner or Bi Writers Assoc. blog.

Performer info: Blog at www.biwriters.org
Contact: Sheela Lambert, Director, Bi Writers Association
fuscialadybug (at) netzero (dot) com
@TweetsBiSheela
917-583-1797

CHRISTINA MAILE, PENNY JONES, NANCY GABOR, PAUL BINNERTS AND STEPHEN HALL featured in May 16 interactive performance tour at the Metropolitan Museum

Organized with the Metaverses Team artists Justine Williams, Vanessa Gilbert and others, and the Metropolitan Museum’s Media Center, the interactive tour featured prints, paintings, and voices of Westbeth artists.
Tour participants were given interactive Ipads which when placed in front of selected artwork, would show videos or sound collaborations with Westbeth and Metaverses artists.

The tour began in the Great Hall and travelled from Ancient Greek and Roman through Oceania, and African, to the Medieval galleries.

At each stop which was indicated on a map, the participants either heard the voices of Westbeth artists describing their involvement in art , or held up IPads and watched as the pieces in the museum were transformed into pieces by Westbeth artists.

Tour participants given Ipads and earphones

Interactive IPads responding to selected images in the Museum

Interactive IPad showing linking images and soundscape

IPad with interactive image held in front of Museum statue

Video of Christina Maile print as it dresses the statue - a reference to the original painted condition of ancient Greek and Roman statues

Continuation of video

Nancy Gabor and Paul Binnerts voices performing a Medieval story while video of images rotate inside of Madonna statue

Stephen Hall's images of guns surround the armour of Henry VIII

In an area similar to this, the voice of Penny Jones described the contents of her apartment, and her puppets

Image of Dayak Shield from Borneo

Video of Christina Maile's shield prints. Soundscape described ethnographical elements of shield in a very academic voice, which was then contrasted with Maile's family personal recollections of shield