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1001 Beds: Performances, Essays, and Travels (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)
Tim Miller
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Description for 1001 Beds: Performances, Essays, and Travels (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)
Hardcover. Brings together the personal, communal, and national political strands that interweave through the author's work from its beginnings and defines his place as a contemporary artist, activist, and gay man. He explores life as a gay American man - from the perils and joys of sex and relationships to the struggles of political disenfranchisement. Editor(s): Johnson, Glen. Series: Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies. Num Pages: 328 pages, 30 b/w photos. BIC Classification: AN; BGFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 535.
If I continue to tour for another twenty years, as I have for the last twenty-one, I will end up sleeping in at least 1000 hotel beds in my lifetime. For maximum poetic oomph, let's say 1001 beds...They symbolize a life and art dedicated to reaching out toward folks from Bozeman to Tampa. A life and art that has traveled widely and, I believe, reached a couple hundred thousand people with my stories of queer life and love. For a quarter century, Tim Miller has worked at the intersection of performance, politics, and identity, using his personal experiences to create ... Read more
If I continue to tour for another twenty years, as I have for the last twenty-one, I will end up sleeping in at least 1000 hotel beds in my lifetime. For maximum poetic oomph, let's say 1001 beds...They symbolize a life and art dedicated to reaching out toward folks from Bozeman to Tampa. A life and art that has traveled widely and, I believe, reached a couple hundred thousand people with my stories of queer life and love. For a quarter century, Tim Miller has worked at the intersection of performance, politics, and identity, using his personal experiences to create ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Series
Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299216900
SKU
V9780299216900
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About Tim Miller
Tim Miller is an internationally acclaimed performance artist and gay rights activist. He is the author of the books Body Blows and Shirts & Skin and his performance texts have appeared in the play collections O Solo Homo and Sharing the Delirium. He teaches performance at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Theater and is cofounder of Performance ... Read more
Reviews for 1001 Beds: Performances, Essays, and Travels (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)
Performance artist Tim Miller has been a pioneering and inspiring figure for twenty-five years.... 1001 Beds shows Miller as an engaged and effective storyteller and provocateur. It will attract readers from a variety of constituencies and be wonderful for classes. - Lynn C. Miller, editor of Voices Made Flesh