The Death of Character by Fuchs Elinor

Author:Fuchs, Elinor.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1996-12-08T16:00:00+00:00

1984

In January 1984, the Franklin Furnace sponsored the work of a seven-woman artists’ collective called Carnival Knowledge, which put on a month-long exhibit and performance series, “The Second Coming,” exploring the possibility of a “new definition of pornography, one that is not demeaning to women, men, and children.”13 (Franklin Furnace and a constellation of downtown and Chelsea performance spaces such as The Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, and P. S. 122, serve a performance world adjacent to the alternative theater. These venues specialize in performance art, and their performers easily combine fields—theater and dance, dance and art, art and video, etc.) Eight different performance events accompanied the exhibition of art works and sale/display of adult books and sexual aids, culminating in Deep Inside Porn Stars, which promised “live performances by 7 top film stars from the sex industry.” This performance, however, was not in itself pornographic, as it has been described to me (the Franklin Furnace event is the only one included here that I did not attend). Instead the performance became part Chorus Line and part consciousness-raising session about the performers’ personal lives and working experience, inspired by a support group the women had organized the previous year.

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