IN THE LOUNGE New Narrative Movie Night Makeout Taylor Clayton-Brooks & D. Byron
About This Show
Twin New Narratives. Two boys. Montage. Fragments of monologue. Camera obscura. Painted ladies. The Russian River meets the Pines. Stoned at the farmer’s market. Making out ‘‘high on a hill.’’ Recalling nights of gay desire and avant-garde cinema at the Anthology Film Archives, the show might recall what it’s like to have Robert Glück read to you naked before bed every night. With dialogue revolving around the contemporary gay culture of New York and video footage of San Francisco shot in homage to filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky, the performance conjures up a private geography of gay imagining.
About the Artists
Taylor Clayton-Brooks is a Queens-based performance artist and sculptor. He received a B.F.A. in Sculpture from Pratt Institute and has exhibited and performed internationally, most recently at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space. His work explores themes of gender, identity, body commodification, fashion, and the politics of homoeroticism. As a designer and fabricator, he has contributed to projects for Broadway, network television, and Vogue International. He served as scenic artist for Theodora Skipitares in connection with her recent production, Six Characters (La Mama/Skysaver Productions).
D. Byron is a writer who was born in New York and still lives there. He used to think about what it would be like to live in San Francisco but then it got too expensive.
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