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Reverend Billy (USA)
In collaboration with the University of Guelph Central Student Association and the Ontario
College of Art Student Union, 7a*11d welcomes Reverend Billy to Canada for the first time.
Watch out all ye sinners and chain store shoppers, the collar is fake but the calling is real.
“The performances often involve collaborations not just with his own crew of activistactors,
who hand out fact sheets after their performances, but also with unwitting customers who
do not realize that the people yelling into cell phones about how Starbucks screws its coffee
growers or how Snow White is a bad role model are not shoppers like them. Talen may
have learned preaching what Laurie Anderson described as "the landscape between
talking and singing" largely from latenight radio shows, but by now he is much more a
man of God than a parody of one. He is a great musical talker, and he sees himself as a
sort of prophetic social critic, like Jesus before he was "franchised." He is out to save
souls.” (The American Prospect, 2002)
Reverend Billy, a.k.a. Bill Talen, is an actor/performance artist and a leading figure in the
antiglobalization movement. His work combines the forces of social and political change
with the means of theater arts to counteract our media culture. His artistic and political
work is influenced by various concepts of "street theater." His disruptions or "shopping
interventions" in public spaces are in the tradition of the Living Theater, José Bové, Lenny
Bruce, The Yippies. Reverend Billy has appeared regularly on National Public Radio and has
been featured in The New York Times and The Observer. He lives and preaches in New York
City.
www.revbilly.com
The Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art
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