ABC NO RIO: Art Effects - Decadent Performance Era
Item
half-size zine
Identifier:
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Description
Vikki Law writes:"This zine talks about the ways that ABC was alienating to its neighbors and neighborhood and that the art and expression presented there talked more to issues affecting the bourgeois rather than the working class people of the neighborhood. The rest of the stories discuss successes and failures of incorporating different kinds of performance art into ABC's schedule as well as dogs puking, people walking onstage with guns, chicken suits, and a woman pissing in a vase. Not to be missed."
Author Alan Moore responds:
"This description is a little reductionist -- the "decadent performance era" was when the space was home to a lot of queer and transgender artists... THAT was more the issue in terms of relations with the conservative neighbors, not class. The rest of the description is pretty true..."
Related people
ABC No Rio (artist)Alan Moore (artist)
Marc Miller (artist)