Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/04/2018 - 10/07/2018
12:00 am
Location
August Wilson Center For African-American Culture
Categories
Performance artist Mia Barron leads this the audience in this participatory, multimedia show inspired by the groundbreaking essays of Joan Didion.
Born in 1934, author Joan Didion is best known for her memoirs and literary journalism. Her works explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos. Didion’s seminal work is the 1979 book of essays titled The White Album. A mixture of literary genres, The White Album traverses the tectonically shifting landscape of the late 1960s in California.
Our current era carries eerie shades of the late 60s: racial injustice, generations of inequities, economic oppression and the brutality of institutional and individual violence. Mia Barron delivers the The White Album’s title essay in its entirety, while behind her a parallel performance of choreographed participating audience members unfolds, visually demonstrating stark similarities in cultural dynamics between 1968 and now, challenging us to look critically at the past and to define new paths forward in our times.
Presented as part of the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts, a program of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust that features exhibits and performances making their North American, United States or even World debut.
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