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Reverend Billy : Reverend Billy preaches.
Talen, William, D., Savitri, Glow, Beatrice, Church of Stop Shopping, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Hemispheric Institute Encuentro (6th : 2007 : Buenos Aires, Argentina)
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Title
Reverend Billy : Reverend Billy preaches.
Other title
Reverend Billy preaches
Author/Creator
Talen, William, D., Savitri, Glow, Beatrice, Church of Stop Shopping, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Hemispheric Institute Encuentro (6th : 2007 : Buenos Aires, Argentina)
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Date
©2007
Filming or performance location
Performed at Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina, on June 10, 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.
Format
1 online resource (1 video file of 1 (digital Betacam) (34 min.)) : sound, color.
Credits
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, producer ; Centro Cultural Recoleta, producer, creator ; William ("Bill") Talen, creator ; Savitri D., director ; Beatrice Glow, videographer.
William Talen ("Reverend Billy").
Notes
Video documentation of a performance by Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping, presented 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 Ámericas / Body Politics in the Americas: Formations of Race, Class and Gender. The Church of Stop Shopping (www.reverendbilly.org) is a radical performance community, using the styles of fundamentalist televangelism as a frame for the performance of socially progressive content. Reverend Billy Preaches is a small preaching performance in which Reverend Billy speaks to people about shopping, sin and salvation. Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics