frags

No, not hand grenades, but (portmanteaued) fag frats, sexually specialized college fraternities. A topic that sprung out of my Sundance interview posting, in a comment by Gijs Doorenbos: F.A.G. fraternity -> ΦAΓ ? (Should be available as a T shirt somewhere) And then we strolled down fraternity row. My response: — AZ: Lovely. No t-shirt currently exists; I’d have to have one custom-made. (Which I might do; my BIG FAG and FAGGOT shirts are too incendiary for me to wear where I live now.) But the fraternity has been created at least twice … Phi Alpha Gamma 1: the performance work. From Dan Bernitt’s website, in his own words: Dan Bernitt makes performance work that puts audiences inside systems of belief and asks how ordinary people, inside ordinary institutions, arrive at complicity, crisis, or collapse. His shows don’t explain these systems from the outside. They inhabit them, finding the internal logic that makes violence and self-destruction feel, for a moment, completely…