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SWEET LAND — A NEW OPERA BY THE INDUSTRY

The Industry’s acclaimed, suspended production of the opera SWEET LAND—composed by Raven Chacon and Du Yun, with a libretto by Aja Couchois Duncan and Douglas Kearney—is available now to stream anytime.

Co-directed by Yuval Sharon and costume designer Cannupa Hanska Luger, SWEET LAND is a “grotesque historical pageant that disrupts the dominant narrative of American identity. Starting as a procession through Los Angeles State Historic ParkSWEET LAND becomes an opera that erases itself.”*

See link below for streaming details.

SWEET LAND—A NEW OPERA BY THE INDUSTRY*

Raven Chacon, Du Yun, Aja Couchois Duncan, and Douglas Kearney, Sweet Land, production photos by Casey Kringlen, Los Angeles State Historical Park, February, 2020. Images courtesy and © the artists, the actors, the photographer, and The Industry.

DOUGLAS KEARNEY READING

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In conjunction with the installation LAUREN HALSEYWE STILL HERE, THERE, poet, performer, and librettist Douglas Kearney will read from his work.

Kearney is the author of Fear, Some (2006), Black Automaton (2009).

 

DOUGLAS KEARNEY, Sunday, March 25, at 3 pm.

MOCA GRAND AVENUE, 250 South Grand Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.

moca.org/douglas-kearney

Kearney reading “No Homo” at the 2012 Split This Rock poetry festival:

splitthisrock.org/poem/no-homo

Above: Douglas Kearney.

Below: An example of Kearney’s “performative typography.”

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