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

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 disenf...

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Place / Publishing House:Madison : : University of Wisconsin Press,, 2006.
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxxi, 277 pages)
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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.