April 11, 2014
Great little write-up and mention in The New Yorker this week. Lydia Lunch and I are premiering our new performance piece together at Incubator Arts Project as part of the Wsb100 Festival celebrating William S. Burroughs’ 100th birthday. Our piece surrounds the power and possibility inside sexual transgression, vigilante justice, gender violence, and the suicides, traumas, and secret causalities of global warfare.
CLICK HERE to read the New Yorker piece.
And visit the Incubator Arts website for tickets to the 4/22 8pm performance.
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THE WAR IS NEVER OVER: OUT HERE DEATH IS NO BIG DEAL is a premiere performance by Lydia Lunch and Quintan Ana Wikswo, which serves as tribute and challenge to William S. Burrough’s provocative, troublemaking legacy.
THE WAR IS NEVER OVER: OUT HERE DEATH IS NO BIG DEAL blows open the power and possibility inside sexual transgression, vigilante justice, gender violence, and the suicides, traumas, and secret causalities of global warfare.
The multimedia project includes Lunch and Wikswo’s original film projections and performance texts, created at sites of human rights atrocities in Europe and along the US-Mexico border. Within global geopolitics, their own war stories of sex, psychiatry, deviance, and defiance explode the boundaries between the personal and the political.
THE WAR IS NEVER OVER: OUT HERE DEATH IS NO BIG DEAL is a trenchant, incisive conversation with Burroughs’ explicit provocations: an antagonist adventure in literature and film, an unrelenting confrontation of control society and a championing of the abnormal outsider who insists upon freedom from restriction.
WHO:
LYDIA LUNCH — No Wave musician, writer, actress, performer, curator- is an electrifying catalyst of the New York Downtown scene. Like Burroughs, her work extends beyond its original description, unlimited by aesthetic confines, imposed by dominant society. Her influence extends to musicians, artists, philosophers and sexologists.
QUINTAN ANA WIKSWO – writer, performer, filmmaker and visual artist – uses salvaged military cameras and typewriters to subvert the secrecy, censorship, silencing and suppression surrounding clandestine sites of government atrocities. Her 21st century gender-bending, queer, feminist manifestos questions how society defines normalcy, and the institutions it uses to control, contain and eliminate those whom it deems abnormal.