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Reverend Billy [videorecording] : Reverend Billy preaches.

William Talen, Savitri D., Beatrice Glow, Church of Stop Shopping., Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics., Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Hemispheric Institute Encuentro (6th : 2007 : Buenos Aires, Argentina).
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Title
Reverend Billy [videorecording] : Reverend Billy preaches.
Author/Creator
William Talen, Savitri D., Beatrice Glow, Church of Stop Shopping., Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics., Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Hemispheric Institute Encuentro (6th : 2007 : Buenos Aires, Argentina).
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Copyright holder:Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Contact information:20 Cooper Square, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10003, U.S.A., +1-212-998-1631 (business), +1-212-995-4423 (fax), hemi@nyu.edu, http://www.hemisphericinstitute.org
Language
English
Date
2007 June 10
Description
1 videocassette of 1 (Digital Betacam) (34 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.; 1 videodisc of 1 (DVD) (34 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Summary: 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.

Credits: Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, producer ; Centro Cultural Recoleta, producer, creator ; William ("Bill") Talen, creator ; Savitri D., director ; Beatrice Glow, videographer.

Credits: William Talen ("Reverend Billy").