Performance
D-L Alvarez and Kevin Killian: The Visitor Owl
Thursday, Aug 23, 2012
7:30 p.m.
This collaboration between writer Killian, visual artist Alvarez, and the San Francisco Poets Theater features hyperbolic reenactments of two seminal Sidney Poitier films about high school: Blackboard Jungle (1955) and To Sir with Love (1967). Incorporating film and live performance, this production examines a dialogue between Cold War culture, student riots, and Hollywood depictions of pedagogy, racism, and adolescence.
Participants
D-L Alvarez, artist
Kevin Killian, writer
Image: Kevin Killian, D-L Alvarez, and San Francisco Poets Theater, The Visitor Owl, 2012; image courtesy D-L Alvarez