What a great night of art starting with Andrew Dickson’s “Sell Out” followed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph giving the audience a pre-premier of his forthcoming performance. Both were excellent and highly recommended.
Dickson’s PowerPoint monologue is more or less a how-to guide for slackers to achieve the trilogy of “a house, kids and healthcare”
Ten years ago Andrew Dickson was an independent filmmaker whose typical day involved riding his bike around Portland eating cheap burritos, going to basement punk rock shows and maybe doing a 4-hour temp job. Today, he writes ads for Fortune 500 companies, lives in a brand-new loft apartment, and hasn’t been on a bike in years. The Andrew of ten years ago would definitely consider the Andrew of today a sellout.
Long fascinated with street cred, artistic self-identification, personal economy, and the relationship between corporate America and culture, Dickson is publicly mining the evolution of his lifestyle from DIY to 2.0. Sell Out, his latest PowerPoint monologue, or PowerLogue, documents this journey. The show will also address how and why to sell out, penny-pinching ideas for getting by in the meantime, and what the ramifications can be once the sale has been made. And with any luck, it will be insightful and funny.
Marc Bamuthi Joseph took the audience through a range of thoughts, ideas and emotions packed into personal stories, movements and beats. Definitely one of those artists the make me think “oh yeah, raw talent, I like that”
A multimedia excursion across planet hip-hop, the break/s is presented in verse, dance and film, which dramatically realizes the living history of the hip-hop generation through the performed personal narrative of poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph. The break/s brings together thematic ideas that Bamuthi has been exploring for many years with Jeff Chang’s landmark hip-hop history Can’t Stop Won’t Stop to chronicle a generation’s political and social longing to make culture that impacts the world.
The quotes are from the PICA website.
