Bad reputation : performances, essays, interviews / Penny Arcade.

By:

Arcade, Penny

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Semiotext(e) native agents seriesPublication details: Los Angeles : Semiotext(e) ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, c2009.Description: 196 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cmISBN:

1584350695
9781584350699

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

702.812 ARC

Contents:

Some observations on the theatre of Penny Arcade / by Ken Bernard -- The drag factor : Penny Arcade and Chris Kraus live, June 28th, 2008 -- Introduction : La miseria / by Sarah Schulman -- La miseria / by Penny Arcade -- In the trenches with Penny Arcade / by Steve Zehentner -- Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! / by Penny Arcade -- Bad reputation / by Penny Arcade -- Critical exposure : politics, erotics, and Penny Arcade / by Stephen Bottoms.

Scope and content: Transcriptions of the scripts of Penny Arcade\'s (Susana Ventura\'s) performance art and experimental theater works, accompanied by essays and an interview with the artist.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	702.812 ARC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100397026

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An autobiographical trilogy by a cultural icon of Downtown New York.

A reform-school runaway at thirteen, a performer in the legendary New York City Playhouse of the Ridiculous at seventeen, and an escapee from Andy Warhol's Factory scene at nineteen, Penny Arcade (born Susanna Ventura) emerged in the 1980s as a primal force on the New York art scene and an originator of what came to be called performance art. Arcade's brand of high camp and street-smart, punk-rock cabaret showmanship has been winning over international audiences ever since. This autobiographical trilogy of plays represents her at her best. Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! is Penny Arcade's raucous, cutting-edge sex and censorship show, (which continues to be a commercial hit around the world), featuring the daily life of a receptionist in a brothel, the upbringing and rearing of a "faghag," the evolution of the New York gay scene in the 1990s, and a participatory "audience dance break." The funny and heart-rending title work, Bad Reputation , portrays a young teen runaway's coming of age in a Catholic reform school (run by nuns who are former fashion models) and her subsequent life on the streets of 1960s New York. La Miseria, a rare depiction of working-class Italian-Americans from a woman's point of view that portrays the clash between working-class morals and compassion during the 1980s AIDS epidemic, rounds out the trilogy. Bad Reputation is the first book by and on Penny Arcade. The complete scripts are accompanied by a new interview with Penny Arcade by Chris Kraus, a range of archival photographs of the East Village scene and Arcade's performances, an introduction by playwright Ken Bernard, and contributions by Sarah Schulman, Steve Zehentner, and Stephen Bottoms.

Script transcription and editing, La miseria: Sarah Schulman ; script transcription and editing, Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! and Bad reputation: Sarah Wang ; additional editing, La miseria: Sarah Burghauser--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195).

Transcriptions of the scripts of Penny Arcade\'s (Susana Ventura\'s) performance art and experimental theater works, accompanied by essays and an interview with the artist.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Penny Arcade (Susana Ventura) is a cultural icon of the New York Underground. She is an international performance artist and a writer of essays, poetry, and theater.

Chris Kraus is the author of four novels, including I Love Dick and Summer of Hate ; two books of art and cultural criticism; and most recently, After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography . She received the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism in 2008, and a Warhol Foundation Art Writing grant in 2011. She lives in Los Angeles.