Penny Arcade : Bad Reputation : Performances, Essays, Interviews
Bernard, Ken; Schulman, Sarah; Zehentner, Steve; Arcade, Penny; Bottoms, Stephen
Language: English
Published by Semiotext(e), Los Angeles CA, 2007
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196 pages illustrations throughout 56 in color. [INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST] Inscribed by the artist on the title page, "For Toby, ___ loves you so much! She got you my book! Till we meet, all my best. Penny Arcade. Soho Theatre, November 6, 2015 XXXOOO". Introduction by Ken Bernard. Illustrated boards.
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- Title
- Penny Arcade : Bad Reputation : Performances, Essays, Interviews
- Author
- Bernard, Ken; Schulman, Sarah; Zehentner, Steve; Arcade, Penny; Bottoms, Stephen
- Publisher
- Semiotext(e), Los Angeles CA
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- Fine Condition
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Signed
- Inscribed by the Artist
- Binding
- Cloth
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1584350695
- ISBN 13
- 9781584350699
- Seller catalogs
- Art: Performance Art, Photography
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.
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About the Author
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.
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