"The Wired for War Show" is one of the many lecture-performances that is not included in Being and Showtime (but might find its way into a future volume).
Performed live at Lebanon Valley College in April 2010 "The Wired for War Show" explored the relationship between technology and violence. The show began with the band, Yeti Sandwich, taking to the stage to play The Decemberists' song "16 Military Wives." Yeti Sandwich is: Bob Valgenti, drums; Amy Dedrick, trumpet; Jaime Harashak, saxophone; Jeff Thompson, baritone saxophone; Eric Deatrick, guitar; Anthony Wurzburger, bass; Dan Anderson, keyboard; Keith Novak, percussion; Brad O'Connell, backing vocals; and H. Peter Steeves, vocals.
Performed live at Lebanon Valley College in April 2010 "The Wired for War Show" explored the relationship between technology and violence.
At the end of the show—after having destroyed cell phones, guns, and an iPad live on stage, and after having lectured on the inherent (and destructive) values of much modern technology—Steeves and the band, Yeti Sandwich, take to the stage to play The Decemberists' "Sons & Daughters" with accompaniment by the audience and their cell phones set to feedback. Yeti Sandwich is: Bob Valgenti, drums; Amy Dedrick, trumpet; Jaime Harashak, saxophone; Jeff Thompson, baritone saxophone; Eric Deatrick, guitar; Anthony Wurzburger, bass; Dan Anderson, keyboard; Keith Novak, percussion; Brad O'Connell, backing vocals; and H. Peter Steeves, vocals.
On November 12, 2008 the Chicago Cultural Center hosted the annual SITE UNSEEN performance and installation art exhibit. I was lucky enough to be invited to be a part of it. My exhibit as a whole was entitled "You Are Here," and was on the theme of maps and occupation. Included in this clip are shots of the ten installation pieces I prepared. While visitors could browse the installations, there was also a continuous lecture-peformance taking place in the Claudia Cassidy Theater: a combination of dance, theatre, and lecture that encouraged thinking about the nature of maps and boundaries. I was joined on stage by a cast of dancers and performers as a scholarly address on the philosophy and the ideology of maps devolved into a performative narrative that explores both celebrations and reservations having to do with the way in which mapping of all sorts is a precursor to occupation (of the body and the body-politic). Videos of the performances can be found on YouTube as well.