Montgomery Park, or Opulence: An Essay in the Form of a Building
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Montgomery Park, or Opulence: An Essay in the Form of a Building
By (Author) Karinne Keithley Syers
53rd State Press
53rd State Press
25th June 2013
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
813.6
Physical Properties
Paperback
92
Width 107mm, Height 152mm
70g
Description
Montgomery Park, or Opulence is an essay in the form of a building, a performance text in the form of a series of tales out of the archive of a fictional asylum, stories of combination with forms of consciousness beyond the human varieties. Keithley's staging won a 2011 BESSIE Award for Outstanding Production.
Author Bio
Karinne Keithley is a playwright, audio-video essayist, and scholar. Her work in dance, text, sound and video has been seen around New York since 1995, as well as on the web since 2001. A member of the playwrights posse JOYCE CHO, she is dedicated to experimentation in radical presence of mind. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she studies American poetics as ethical practice.
