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Alex Da Corte : chicken
- Title
- Alex Da Corte : chicken / edited by Karen Kelly and Barbara Schroeder.
- Author
- Da Corte, Alex, 1980-
- Publication
- Brooklyn, NY : Dancing Foxes Press, 2022.
- New York, NY : ARTBOOK/D.A.P.
- Ghent, Belgium : Graphius
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- Additional Authors
- University of the Arts (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Description
- 138 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- In early March 2020, on the cusp of the COVID-19 shutdown, an audience gathered to witness a reinvention of Allan Kaprow's happening, Chicken, by Philadelphia-based artist Alex Da Corte (born 1980). Performed at the site of Kaprow's original - the Gershman Y at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia - Da Corte's first live performance reimagined Kaprow's chaotic event, which had been orchestrated in 1962 under the auspices of the first Pop art exhibition on the East Coast. While the focus of activity for the performers of Kaprow's Chicken involved the hawking of live and boiled chickens and their eggs, Da Corte's performers frantically peddled exquisite yellow orbs made from a variety of materials that represented the moon. Including sketches and reproductions of the objects and costumes constructed for Da Corte's revision, as well as performance images, scripts, essays and personal accounts reflecting on the event's impact and significance over the ensuing year, this publication becomes a living document of a moment in time.
- Alternative Title
- Chicken
- Subject
- Note
- Includes text by Kim Nguyen, Sid Sachs, Alex Da Corte, William Pym, Erica F. Battle and Amanda Sroka, and David Breslin
- "This book documents Alex Da Corte's Chicken, which took place on March 5, 2020, in Philadelphia." -- Colophon
- "Alex Da Corte's Chicken took place on March 5, 2020, in the Levitt Auditorium of Gershman Hall, University of the Arts, 401 South Broad Street, Philadelphia. It was performed in conjunction wtih the exhibition Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-Garde, organized by the University of the Arts and curated by Sid Sachs with Jennie Hirsh. Performers: Kristel Baldoz, Melanie Cotton, Danielle Currica, Julia Eichten, Jessica Emmanuel, Ya-Ya Fairley, Ann-Marie Gover, Imma, Andrew Smith, Kim Thompson, and Wilmer Wilson, along with Kate Watson-Wallace and Alex Da Corte. Music: composed by Marco Buccelli and Xenia Rubinos, performed by Sunny Ali and Karna Ray." -- Page 142
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references
- Contents
- The moon in revolt / Kim Nguyen -- The frugal repast : Allan Kaprow's Chicken / Sid Sachs -- Allan Kaprow, script for Chicken, reinvented / Alex Da Corte -- Chicken, Gershman Hall, Philadelphia's University of the Arts, March 5, 2020 -- Do it, and that's what it will feel like / William Pym -- The two faces of the moon / Erica F. Battle and Amanda Sroka -- Tracing lunacy : Alex Da Corte's Chicken / David Breslin.
- Call Number
- MWED (Philadelphia) 23-4371
- ISBN
- 1733688994
- 9781733688994
- OCLC
- 1256542115
- Author
- Da Corte, Alex, 1980-
- Title
- Alex Da Corte : chicken / edited by Karen Kelly and Barbara Schroeder.
- Publisher
- Brooklyn, NY : Dancing Foxes Press, 2022.
- Distributor
- New York, NY : ARTBOOK/D.A.P.
- Manufacturer
- Ghent, Belgium : Graphius
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references
- Added Author
- University of the Arts (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Research Call Number
- MWED (Philadelphia) 23-4371