Literary Nonfiction. Drama. Performance Studies. Art. Winner of the 2016 Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers. THE TRIUMPH OF CROWDS is a lecture as performance, or performance as lecture, distributed between the voices and gestures of ten performers. A layered work, weaving art history, film, and the contemporary politics and poetics of community, THE TRIUMPH OF CROWDS opens up the space of performance into a time that is both meditative and urgent. Written in response to Nicholas Poussin's painting The Triumph of David (1631), it explores the politics of public assembly, protest, and becoming "us."
"THE TRIUMPH OF CROWDS is a layered work, weaving art history, film and the contemporary politics and poetics of community. It opens up the space of performance into a time that is both meditative and urgent."--Fiona Templeton