After several months of painstaking assembly, audio repairs, media conversions, and general detective work, editor Isaiah Singer has brought the opening sequence of "Gentrified Minds: The NY Horror Vol.2" to the web, enabling viewers to witness a generous fragment of this raw and hearfelt protest-play about the awful corporate-friendly suburbanization of NYC and the creeping "spatial deconcentration" being implemented. Part poem, monologue, play, and punk rock -- it is unlike anything you have seen. The second installation of a two-part series that began with the satirical sketch-audio recording, What Happened to the Brother on the Block? (NY Horror Vol.1) -- now you can experience an added dimension to the Nomad Junkie's urgent and theatrical writng: live performance footage!
For more on the history and concept behind the project visit www.gentrifiedminds.com
Gentrified Minds premiered April 22, 2011 at the Manhattan Movement & Art Center as part of the DUTF/The 9th Annual Downtown Urban Theater Festival.
Directed & Designed by Nina Fleck
Video by Isaiah Singer
Words & Vocals by Dennis Leroy Kangalee
Music Composed by Bob Kuchinov
Performed by The Children of Warhol
- Wet Metal Town & Gentrified Minds (title song) from "GENTRIFIED MINDS"
The haunting opening poem and punk-song about the strangeness, sameness, and sickness of gentrification...our generation's "gentrified mind." Staged with Nina Fleck's trademark minimalism and backed by theatrical band, The Children of Warhol. 9th Annual Downtown Urban Theater Festival. April 22, 2011. NYC.
