Blacklips: Her Life, and Her Many, Many Deaths (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781944860530)

From June 1992 to March 1995, in the midst of the AIDS crisis in NYC, an extraordinary theatrical collective emerged from the queer underground. Blacklips Performance Cult, initiated by ANOHNI and joined by a cabal of fellow artists, drag queens, punks, nightlife veterans and students, performed a new play every Monday night at 1:00 a.m. at the Pyramid Club on 101 Avenue A. Blacklips never courted mainstream attention. However, the group left a sustaining impression within New York's late night subculture by melding hysterical drag, surreal horror, and disconcerting tenderness. In Blacklips: Her Life and Her Many, Many Deaths, ANOHNI and coeditor Marti Wilkerson lay bare the collective's archives in photographs, scripts, and the assembled ephemera from more than one hundred and twenty original "plays." Featuring images from newly digitized film and video recordings, texts from participants and audience members, and an introduction by Lia Gangitano, this expansive collection introduces to the twenty-first century the short-lived and ruthlessly creative phenomenon that was Blacklips.

Author: Anohni, Marti Wilkerson
ISBN-10: 1944860533
ISBN-13: 9781944860530
Publisher: Anthology Editions
Language: English
Published: 03/14/2023
Pages: 472
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 6.45lbs
Size: 11.50h x 11.60w x 1.50d