Research Catalog

Title

Liquor Store Theatre / Maya Stovall ; with a foreword by Christopher Y. Lew.

Author

Stovall, Maya, 1982-

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, [2020]

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Details

Additional Authors

Lew, Christopher Y.

Description

xiv, 311 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm.

Summary

• "For six years, Maya Stovall staged Liquor Store Theatre, a conceptual art and anthropology video project in the streets and sidewalks surrounding the liquor stores in her Detroit neighborhood. In LST, staged and video-recorded performances are the start of conversations with neighbors. On the streets and sidewalks next, neighbors discuss everything from economics, to politics, to aesthetics, to affect, to drugs, sex, work, and daily life. Following a screenplay structure, Stovall moves, one-by-one, through her Liquor Store Theatre (2014-) video series seen in the Whitney Biennial. In the scenes of her LST video reflections, Detroit's McDougall Hunt neighborhood comes alive"--
• "For six years Maya Stovall staged Liquor Store Theatre, a conceptual art and anthropology video project--included in the Whitney Biennial in 2017--in which she danced near the liquor stores in her Detroit neighborhood as a way to start conversations with her neighbors. In this book of the same name, Stovall uses the project as a point of departure fro understanding everyday life in Detroit and the possibilities for ethnographic research, art, and knowledge creation. Her conversations with her neighbors--which touch on everything from economics, aesthetics, and sex to the political and economic racism that undergirds Detroit's history--bring to light rarely acknowledged experiences of longtime Detroiters. In these exchanges, Stovall enacts an innovation form of ethnographic engagement that offers new modes of integrating the social sciences with the arts in ways that exceed what either approach can achieve alone."--back cover.

Series Statement

Black outdoors : innovations in the poetics of study

Uniform Title

Black outdoors.

Subject

• Liquor Store Theatre
• Experimental theater > Michigan > Detroit
• Performance art > Michigan > Detroit
• Conceptual art > Michigan > Detroit
• Political art > Michigan > Detroit
• Conceptual art
• Experimental theater
• Performance art
• Political art
• Michigan > Detroit

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2014) -- Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 1, No. 2 (2014) -- Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 1, No. 3 (2014) -- Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2015) -- Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2015) -- Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 2, No. 3 (2015) -- Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 3, No. 3 (2016) -- Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 3, No. 4 (2016) -- Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 3, No. 5 (2016) -- Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 3, No. 6 (2016) -- Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 3, No. 7 (2016) -- Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 4, No. 1 (2017) -- Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2017) -- Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 4, No. 3 (2017) -- Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 4, No. 4 (2017) -- Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 4, No. 5 (2017) -- Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 4, No. 6 (2017) -- Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 4, No. 7 (2017) -- v -- Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2018)

Call Number

Sc E 21-566

ISBN

• 9781478010098
• 1478010096

LCCN

2020014216

OCLC

1141510611

Author

Stovall, Maya, 1982- author.

Title

Liquor Store Theatre / Maya Stovall ; with a foreword by Christopher Y. Lew.

Publisher

Durham : Duke University Press, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Black outdoors : innovations in the poetics of study

Black outdoors.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Lew, Christopher Y., writer of the foreword.

Research Call Number

Sc E 21-566