1001 Beds: Performances, Essays, and Travels (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)
by Tim Miller
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Author: Tim MillerEditor: Glen Johnson
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-02-09
ISBN: 0299216942
Number of pages: 312
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
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Book Review: Body Language
Summary: 4 Stars
Miller, Tim. "1001 Beds: Performances, Essays, and Travels", University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.
Body Language
Amos Lassen and Literary Pride
Just announces as a Lambda Book Award winner is Tim Miller's "1001 Beds". Miller is an internationally acclaimed performer as well as a gay rights activist and his artistry is based upon a combination of performance, politics and identity. He entertains with material based upon his own personal experiences to relay to others about gay American life. Nothing is beyond his touch. He tackles gay sex, relationships, political disenfranchisement and artistic censorship. This book is a look at his professional and personal life and we see the real Tim Miller. The volume includes scripts of his performances, essays, interviews, entries from his journal, and photographs. Also included is the test of his most recent stage piece, "Us".
The book has been edited by Glen Johnson and what the editor has dome is to bring us the Tim Miller experience, something that seems almost impossible to do. It is the most difficult of tasks to put charisma on paper but Johnson has managed to do just that. Miller uses his body in his performances and this book is rooted in body.
Miller began his career in performance art with skits about growing up gay. When the AIDS epidemic became a part of our lives, Miller became attracted to the militant Act Up and his focus became much more pointed politically. Merging performance and politics, Miller found his place.
Summary of 1001 Beds: Performances, Essays, and Travels (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)
????For a quarter century, Tim Miller has worked at the intersection of performance, politics, and identity, using his personal experiences to create entertaining but pointed explorations of life as a gay American man-from the perils and joys of sex and relationships to the struggles of political disenfranchisement and artistic censorship. This intimate autobiographical collage of Miller's professional and personal life reveals one of the celebrated creators of a crucial contemporary art form and a tireless advocate for the American dream of political equality for all citizens.????Here we have the most complete Miller yet-a raucous collection of his performance scripts, essays, interviews, journal entries, and photographs, as well as his most recent stage piece Us. This volume brings together the personal, communal, and national political strands that interweave through his work from its beginnings and ultimately define Miller's place as a contemporary artist, activist, and gay man.
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