Author/Creator
Talen, William, D., Savitri, Lane, Jill, Wetzler, Gray, Church of Stop Shopping, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Hemispheric Institute Encuentro (6th : 2007 : Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Restrictions/Permissions
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Filming or performance location
Interviewed in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on June 11, 2007, as part of the Sixth Annual Hemispheric Institute Seminar entitled Corpolíticas en las Ámericas / Body Politics in the Americas : formations of race, class and gender.
Credits
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, producer ; Centro Cultural Recoleta, producer ; Gray Wetzler, videographer.
William Talen, interviewee ; Savitri Durkee, interviewee ; Jill Lane, interviewer.
Notes
Interview with Reverend Billy (William Talen) and Savitri D. of the Church of Stop Shopping, conducted by Jill Lane as a part of the 6th Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, celebrated in June of 2007 in Buenos Aires, Argentina under the title CORPOLÍTICAS en las Américas: Formaciones de Raza, Clase y Género / Body Politics in the Americas: Formations of Race, Class and Gender (http://hemi.nyu.edu/eng/seminar/2007/index.html). Reverend Billy and Savitri D. are performers based in New York, United States. The couple directs the Church of Stop Shopping (www.reverendbilly.org), a radical performance community that uses the styles of fundamentalist televangelism and works within the tradition of The Civil Rights Movement, The Liberation priesthood of Latin America and ACT-UP. Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
