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1001 Beds: Performances, Essays, and Travels

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Tim Miller; Edited by Glen Johnson
2006
Program: Big Ten Open Books
Collection: Gender and Sexuality Studies
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    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

Cover

Copyright, Title Page, Copyright

Contents

pp. vii-ix

Editor’s Introduction

pp. xi-xxxi

Prologue

pp. 1-2

Memory and Facing the Future

pp. 3-8

Part 1. New York Years

Performance N.Y.C.

pp. 11-14

Floor It!

pp. 15-17

Stories from Democracy in America

pp. 18-26

Live Boys

pp. 27-37

Buddy Systems: Two Excerpts

pp. 38-52

Coda: John in the dream realm

pp. 53-55

Part 2. Activism

Professional Autobiography,1990

pp. 59-71

ACT UP

pp. 72-78

Civil Disobedience Weekend

pp. 79-84

“The artist becomes really woven into the community as a worker”: Interview with Linda Frye Burnham

pp. 85-88

AIDS Test

pp. 89-93

Coda: A circle headed towards the future

pp. 94-95

Part 3. Culture War

The NEA Four Case

pp. 99-115

An Anarchic, Subversive, Erotic Soul: Interview with Steven Durland

pp. 116-125

The Battle of Chattanooga

pp. 126-136

Coda: Notorious me

pp. 137

Part 4. The Teacher

Embodied Pedagogy

pp. 141-150

Suck, Spit, Chew, Swallow: A Performative Exploration ofMen’s Bodies

pp. 151-171

Jesus and the Queer Performance Artist

pp. 172-186

Coda: The maw of Hollywood

pp. 187-188

Part 5. Us

Oklahomo!

pp. 191-195

Carnal Garage

pp. 196-214

Tokyo Tim

pp. 215-219

Us

pp. 220-249

Making Us

pp. 250-261

Epilogue

pp. 263-264

1001 Beds

pp. 265-269

Acknowledgments

pp. 271-272

Bibliography

pp. 273-277

Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies

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