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If It’s Got Naked People, RuPaul Is In

If It’s Got Naked People, RuPaul Is In

FromA Piece of Work


If It’s Got Naked People, RuPaul Is In

FromA Piece of Work

ratings:
Length:
26 minutes
Released:
Jul 26, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

A dozen dancers rolling around in their underwear, rubbing raw chickens and fish on each other. No, it’s not some weird ‘60s porn, it’s a performance -- Abbi talks with the feminist artist behind the piece, Carolee Schneemann. Performance art like this can be a bit funny, a bit confusing, and definitely weird. Who better to get to the bottom of it than RuPaul? He and Abbi also watch a performance by Yoko Ono, where she sat alone on stage and invited members of the audience to cut her clothes off...
Also featuring: Thomas Lax


Carolee Schneemann. Meat Joy. 1964–2010. 16mm film transferred to video (color, sound), 6 min. The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Gift of Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley, Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro, and Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis. ©2017 Carolee Schneemann. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York


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Released:
Jul 26, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (11)

A Piece of Work is everything you want to know about modern and contemporary art but were afraid to ask. Hosted by Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson, this 10-episode series explores everything from Pop Art to performance in lively conversations with curators, artists and Abbi’s friends, including Hannibal Buress, Tavi Gevinson, RuPaul and Questlove. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, Snap Judgment, Death, Sex & Money, On the Media, Nancy and many others. © WNYC Studios