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Detail Record for Peggy Shaw, Lois Weaver
Event Title: Killing Time
Series Title: Franklin Furnace "In Exile"
Location: Judson Memorial Church
Date: 5/25/1991 -
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Type: Performance
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| Bio: Peggy Shaw, 1991 Peggy Shaw began her acting career in 1974 with the gay theatrical company, Hot Peaches. From 1978 through 1981 she worked with Spiderwoman Theatre touring Europe and the U.S. She has been an actor and collaborator with the Split Britches Company since its beginning in 1980 and is a co-founder of WOW, a woman's performance space in New York City. In the Spring of 1988 Peggy won a Village Voice Obie Award for her performance as Deelux in "Dress Suits to Hire." Lois Weaver, 1991 Lois Weaver is an actor, collaborator and the founding director of the Split Britches Company. She began her career in feminist theatre in 1975 as a founding member of Spiderwoman Theatre and toured with that company for 7 years. She made her film debut last year in Sheila McLaughlin's "She Must Be Seeing Things." Lois is the co-founder of WOW in NEw York City where she directs and teaches acting. She has also conducted workshops in Denmark, Italy, Great Britain and throughout the U.S |
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Release: Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 24, 1991 Contact: Roberta Sklar (212) 866-7785 Jessica Hanlon (212) 925-4671 FRANKLIN FURNACE PRESENTS A PERFORMANCE BY PEGGY SHAW AND LOIS WEAVER "Killing Time" Saturday, May 24, 1991 at 8:30 pm In Exile at JUDSON MEMORIAL CHURCH (55 Washington Square South) "Killing Time" is a series of meditations on murder, misogyny, lesbian issues, old relationships. The underlying theme is women's relationships, not only with each other, but with the world, objects, gender (e.g. butch/femme). Shaw and Weaver infuse their work with the idea of "killing time," particularly in terms of the pervasive notion that women do nothing that they exist in empty space. To explore issues around misogyny and murder, the performers use excerpts from Deb Margolin's "Lesbians Who Kill," a play about a lesbian serial murder in Florida. Also incorporated into the performance are songs, visuals projections, movement, and dance. Shaw and Weaver have worked together for a number of years in the Split Britches Theater Group, which they helped found. They've just returned from touring a completely queer version of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Name Desire, which they collaborated with Holly Hughes to produce a full length performance piece entitled "Dress Suits to Hire." Frankly folks, Shaw and Weaver are just a couple of nutty lesbians up to no good trying to destroy the misogynistic male infrastructure which has worked so hard to exclude them. This presentation is one of a series of twenty evenings of Performance Art celebrating Franklin Furnace's 15 Anniversary year. Franklin Furnace, a TriBeCa museum of the avant-garde founded by artist Martha Wilson in 1976, explores "time as the central medium of the 20th-century" through presentation of exhibits of the historical avant-garde and contemporary temporal art. Franklin Furnace has been an innovator in the fields of performance and temporary installation introducing such luminaries as Eric Bogosian, Karen Finley, David Hammons, Barbara Kruger, and Jenny Holzer to the public. It has been recognized for its ground-breaking work in the preservation and documentation of artists books as well. Franklin Furnace gratefully acknowledges funds received for this performance from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; the New York State Council on the Arts; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc,; Jerome Foundation; The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc.; and the friends and members of Franklin Furnace. |
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