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A Time to Be Born Taylor A TIME TO BE BORN TAYLOR MAC IN CONVERSATION WITH BARLO PERRY On the night of the Los Angeles debut of per- In The Feminization of American Culture, her formance artist-singer-songwriter-actor-play- book about the scourge of nineteenth-century wright Taylor Mac, a catwalk was set up on the sentimentalism and its influence on contem- lounge terrace of UCLA’s Royce Hall for a pre- porary mass culture, Ann Douglas offered a show reception. Under the gimlet-eyed purview nuanced redefinition of self-love: and irrepressible judgment of a local MC—in Narcissism is best defined not as exagger- drag, sipping vodka, and throwing shade—a ated self-esteem but as a refusal to judge the self by number of girls, boys, queens, butches, and one alien, objective means, a willed inability to allow Sister of Perpetual Indulgence picked up the the world to play its customary role in the business gauntlet and displayed their fashion choices of self-evaluation. for the evening. The first walker, bespangled Douglas’ comment referred specifically head to toe, drew a sidelong glance and the to subcultures demanding societal inclusion and crack, “That’s what a glue gun can do, folks.” A narrative self-authorship, and in the 40 years duo in cardigans and pencil skirts were mildly since its publication, generations of queer per- praised: “Sensible realness! Sensible realness!” formance artist-singers have traced a zigzag After one unsteady reveler in a safari hat at- continuum of subversion and reclamation: tempted and failed to navigate the runway, our Klaus Nomi, Joey Arias, Ethyl Eichelberger, MC issued a warning: Leigh Bowery, Jimmy Skafish, Vaginal Davis, Glen Meadmore, Justin Vivian Bond, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Jibz Cameron, François THIS ONE’S TROUBLE, Chaignaud, Mykki Blanco, Daniel Hellmann, Felix Bernstein, Gabe Rubin, and many others. PEOPLE! WATCH YOUR Taylor Mac’s provocative and highly entertain- ing 24-Decade project greatly enriches this tra- PURSES! dition, and, to borrow a phrase from its creator, WHEN THESE GIRLS GET “dreams the culture forward.” TOO FAR WEST OF BARLO “Adherence to legend at the expense of facts SILVER LAKE, THEY DON’T will ruin America—the work is well under- KNOW HOW TO BEHAVE. way.” That’s David Thomson on John Ford, but it’s also something you’ve recognized in your 24-Decade project, in the way you explode some of our national mythologies. Taylor Mac’s visit to the city in March 2016 precipitated the gathering of several tribes, and once the Eastside club kids joined an older, TAYLOR soberer contingent inside Royce’s cavernous One of the complicated things about communi- auditorium, it was a very mixed crowd that had ties—nations, friends, families, neighborhoods, come together for what the headliner called organizations—is that they’re often built with “a shared experience—not homogeneous, but things from the past that aren’t serving us in shared.” the present moment. We feel like if we let go Taylor’s current project—A 24-Decade of things from the past that helped build the History of Popular Music—is a radical recontex- community, it will all fall apart. So we’re afraid tualization of some 240 songs heard on stages, to move on, without learning how the commu- screens, and audio devices in the United States nity has changed or what it needs now. What between 1776 and 2016. From the American are those changes, how are our communities Revolution to Stonewall, from Stephen Foster being built, what are their narratives, and was to Sleater-Kinney, this 24-hour work is a perfor- something more interesting being built at the mance art landmark. The 3-hour preview pre- same time? This is what the show is about, and sented at UCLA—The 20th Century Abridged— it grapples with this in all kinds of ways in was structured around 16 musical numbers, every decade. performed by Taylor in strong voice and unre- When we’re onstage dealing with the strained drag, backed by a 10-piece band, and Civil War—“Songs Popular During Polariza- dedicated to Nina Simone, Patti Smith, and tion”—we’re talking about our constant need Tiny Tim. Between songs there was plenty of to forgive the South, and to be easy on them sociopolitical discourse, both onstage and off, because they lost [LAUGHS]. What has that as Taylor made frequent trips into the crowd—a need created in our culture, when we stopped stalking Firebird exploring the outer limits of making them accountable, because they’re our audience participation. “brothers”? In America we have this history 80 where we forgive the oppressor and vilify the TAYLOR BARLO TAYLOR outsider. In order to forgive the South, who did Those women are so extraordinary. You’re asking audience members to sign an [LAUGHS] I’m not going to watch that. we have to vilify? Even a straight white man agreement obliging them to stay? can be an outsider if he has a particular point of view outside supporting the status quo. So it’s BARLO BARLO not about identity politics as much as a specific They sang “Volver, Volver” to you onstage. TAYLOR It’s actually not that bad. It could be an authen- kind of oppression. Oh yeah. [LAUGHS] tic failure. TAYLOR BARLO I sang the chorus with them. We kind of threw BARLO TAYLOR Gloria Steinem has said that the distinctions that together at the last second. My dream is You’ve written that “authentic failure on stage Well, there you go. It’s like Mommie Dearest— we make—racial, gender, etc.—are all made up, that we get to bring them to New York this is one of the great art forms.” When I read that, these camp classics where everyone tried but and we could unmake them if we wanted to. fall [2016], and work with them in L.A. again the first person I thought of was Elaine Stritch. didn’t quite succeed, and came up with some- But most of us can’t. after that. Now that we know each other, we thing better than success would have ever been. can take a little more time to work out a more intricate collaboration. TAYLOR TAYLOR [LAUGHS] She’s a great example of that, actually. BARLO Well, as much criticism as the millennials get, One of the funniest videos in the history of what’s so interesting about them is that they BARLO YouTube is you and Justin Vivian Bond singing are a generation moving toward nobody gets left You performed a 12-hour show at Vassar in July BARLO [a deeply satirical version of] “Were You There behind. And that means recognizing that some 2016, and a complete 24-hour show in Brooklyn How do you define an authentic failure? When They Crucified My Lord.” of these categories need to go away. in October 2016. TAYLOR TAYLOR BARLO TAYLOR Authentic failure involves risk. And it’s not a [LAUGHS] We’ve done that a few times. We What was the impetus behind the 24-Decade And we’ve done some 6-hour shows. We’re in performance of failure. You’re not getting up never rehearse it, we don’t even know who’s project? marathon training. [Musical director / pianist] there and saying, “I plan on forgetting my lyric going to sing what. I didn’t even know the song. Matt Ray and I have been doing these long at this point, the way I’ve rehearsed forgetting She just said, “Get up there and do it.” Justin shows to find out what happens to our bodies my lyric. And now I’m recovering, the way I Vivian Bond is a major inspiration to me. In TAYLOR when we’re onstage for every one of those hours. rehearsed recovering.” That’s the kind of thing some ways, she’s my performance art sister. It was an AIDS walk. I had never seen an out It’s also a chance to work on the material again. someone like Liza Minnelli would do [LAUGHS]. We’ve shared a lot of bills, performed a num- homosexual before, and so many at the same Every time we perform, our performances are In order to get the laugh, in order to ingratiate ber of times together. I’m a total fan, and I’ve time. I discovered queer history, queer agency, rehearsals, and our rehearsals performances. So herself, she will perform failing. I’m not knock- learned so much from Justin and Kenny Mell- A TIME TO BEA TIME BORN TO queer pride while the community was being every time we do it, we understand the show ing that. It’s a wonderful technique that people man [Kiki and Herb], independently from one torn apart because of the epidemic and institu- more. use all the time. And using it doesn’t mean another, and now together again. tionalized homophobia. To see that community you’re inauthentic. But there’s something about building itself and surviving as it was weak- getting up there, risking, falling flat on your ening and disintegrating was an interesting BARLO ass, and then picking yourself up, that—when BARLO dichotomy. And years later, I thought, I want to The producers of Einstein on the Beach [a 5-hour you’re watching it on a stage—is profound. At Royce Hall you sang “The Surrey with the make a show that’s a metaphor, a representation work] encouraged the audience to come and go There’s something about risking your humanity Fringe on Top,” and the distance between the of that.
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