- Collection:
- Big Joy Digital Collection
- Title:
- Keith Hennessy interview, 2009-07
- Creator:
- Hennessy, Keith
- Contributor to Resource:
- Adams, Art (Cinematographer)
Slade, Eric
Silha, Stephen - Publisher:
- Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2009-07
- Subject:
- Performance artists
Performance poetry
Gay men's writings, American - People:
- Broughton, James, 1913-1999
Halprin, Anna - Location:
- United States, California, City and County of San Francisco, San Francisco, 37.77493, -122.41942
- Medium:
- interviews
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Topics discussed: How I pirated James Broughton into my own performance poems; How Broughton helped create my consciousness, create the conditions I live in; Broughton's magical "child's eye view" of innocence and curiosity; James in a lineage of experimental artists, including Hennessy; Broughton's messages of positive gay sexuality; Broughton's poetry as liturgical, embedded with ritual; James and Joel as early models for gay marriage; Reads his own poem, in the lineage of ecstatic gay poetry of Whitman, Ginsburg, etc; Context in poetry and sexuality, including Whitman, Rumi, Broughton, Baldwin, Hamphill; Connection between Broughton's art, poetry, film, life; Anna Halprin in Broughton's films: comedy, emotion, gravity, California silliness; Broughton's politics embedded in pagan spirituality, hippie sensibility, queer ritual; see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA4KSI761A4&t=9s
Keith Hennessy dances in and around performance. Born in northern Ontario, he lives in San Francisco since 1982 and tours internationally. His performances engage improvisation, ritual, collaboration, and protest as tools for investigating political realities. Practices inspired by anarchism, critical whiteness, contemporary dance, activist art, the Bay Area, wicca, punk, contact improvisation, decolonial indigeneity, and queer-feminist performance motivate and mobilize Hennessy's work. Awards include the Guggenheim Fellowship, United States Artist Fellowship, a NY Bessie, Sui Generis, multiple Isadora Duncan Awards, and a Bay Area Goldie. Hennessy directs Circo Zero and was a member of Contraband with Sara Shelton Mann. He is a co-founder of CounterPULSE, a thriving performance space in San Francisco. He earned an MFA and PhD from UC Davis. His website is www.circozero.org. - Local Identifier:
- W146_HennessyK_200907
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/bigjoy/id/22
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Keith Hennessy, interviewed by Stephen Silha and Eric Slade, July 2009, Big Joy Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 00:23:12
- Original Collection:
- Big Joy Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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