Waiting for Godot in New Orleans: A Field Guide

'The final installment of Creative Time's multi-part Waiting for Godot in New Orleans by Paul Chan, A Field Guide brings together a rich collection of primary ephemera, photographs, articles, and essays that explore the project's unique community-centric process from conception to completion. Divided into eight sections—Remember, Picture, Relate, Organize, Appear, Play, Film, Reflect—the book centers around Creative Time's production of Samuel Beckett's classic play over two weekends in two New Orleans neighborhoods—the middle of an intersection in the Lower Ninth Ward, and the front yard of an abandoned house in Gentilly. The production re-imagines the post-Katrina landscape of New Orleans as the setting for the 20th century's most emblematic story of waiting, and in doing so, illuminates the personal and political conditions facing the people of New Orleans and the evacuees in surrounding cities.' (Creative Time website)

Access level

Onsite

artist

Paul CHAN, 陳佩之

publisher

Creative Time (New York, United States)

editor

Paul CHAN, 陳佩之

Location code

MON.CHP4

Language

English

Keyword

community art, public art, activist art

Publication/Creation date

2010

No of pages

338

ISBN / ISSN

9781928570059

No of copies

Content type

artist monograph

Chapter headings

Remember

What Happened?

What to Do with the Negroes? - Kalamu Ya SALAAM

Picture

Waiting for Godot in New Orleans - Paul CHAN, 陳佩之

Destroyer of Worlds - Nato THOMPSON

Directing a Post-Katrina Godot - Christopher MCELROEN

Relate

Political Beckett? - Terry EAGLETON

What Happens - Alain BADIOU

Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo - Susan SONTAG

Organise

Producing Waiting for Godot in New Orleans - Gavin KROEBER

Appear

Bringing the Corner Back to Life - Lolis Eric ELIE

Play

Godot is Great - David CUTHBERT

That Tree, That Levee - Anne GISLESON

Puking My Puke of a Life - Andrea BOLL

Is New Orleans Waiting for Godot? - Jed HORNE

Film

Constellations around the Making of The Fullness of Life - Cauleen SMITH

Excerpts from Pre-Production Notes for The Fullness of Life - Cauleen SMITH

Conversation with Cauleen Smith - Ashley JONES

Reflect

It Took a Life of Its Own: Interview with Robert Lynn Green, Sr.

The Space Really Echoed: Interview with Natalie Sciortino

I Saw Chris: Interview with Greta Gladney

Undoing: A Conversation between Kathy Halbreich and Paul Chan

Waiting for Godot in New Orleans: A Field Guide

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