1001 beds : : performances, essays, and travels / / Tim Miller ; edited by Glen Johnson.

• VerfasserIn: Miller, Tim,
• TeilnehmendeR: Johnson, Glen.
• Place / Publishing House: Madison : : University of Wisconsin Press,, 2006.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxxi, 277 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

Contents -- Editor's Introduction, Glen Johnson -- Prologue -- Memory and Facing the Future -- Part 1: New York Years -- Performance N.Y.C. -- Floor It! -- Stories from Democracy in America -- Live Boys, Tim Miller and John Bernd -- Buddy Systems: Two Excerpts, Tim Miller with Douglas Sadownick -- Liebestod on Hollywood Boulevard -- Dogfight -- Coda: John in the dream realm -- Part 2: Activism -- Professional Autobiography, 1990 -- Act Up -- Civil Disobedience Weekend -- "The artist becomes really woven into the community as a worker": Interview with Linda Frye Burnham -- AIDS Test -- Coda: A circle headed towards the future -- Part 3: Culture War -- The NEA Four Case -- Artist's Statement -- An Artist's Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1990 -- Excerpts from Tim Miller's Deposition in the NEA Four Lawsuit -- Two Supreme Court Reports, 1998 -- Oral argument: Tim Miller's Supreme Court report -- The decision: A Supreme drag -- An Anarchic, Subversive, Erotic Soul: Interview with Steven Durland -- The Battle of Chattanooga -- Coda: Notorious me -- Part 4: The Teacher -- Embodied Pedagogy -- Suck, Spit, Chew, Swallow: A Performative Exploration of Men's Bodies -- Jesus and the Queer Performance Artist -- Coda: The maw of Hollywood -- Part 5: Us -- Oklahomo! -- Carnal Garage, Tim Miller and Alistair McCartney -- Tokyo Tim -- Us -- Making Us: An Interview with John S. Gentile -- Epilogue -- 1001 Beds -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography.