Hunting the Nigs in Philadelphia: Or An Alternate Chronology of Events Leading Up to and One Year Beyond the Columbia Avenue Uprisings, August 28-30 1964
is an interdisciplinary work created for The Institute of Contemporary Art at University of Pennsylvania group exhibition Traces in the Dark curated by Whitney-Lauder Curatorial Fellow Liz Park.
Special Thanks to: The Institute of Contemporary Art at University of Pennsylvania, Liz Park, Nick Okrent – Librarian, Research & Instructional Services, U.S. History, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center and students Martyna Majewska, Kimberly Schreiber, Madeline Smoot, Austin Spence, and Ciara Stein. University of Pennsylvania, Harold Mendez, Gregory Sholette, Queens College Art Department, Christopher Allen and Union Docs, and Regan Good
Installation View: Hunting the Nigs in Philadelphia:
Or An Alternate Chronology of Events Leading Up to and One Year Beyond the Columbia Avenue Uprisings, August 28-30 1964
Paul Good/Robert Shelton Character Study, April 5-21, 2012.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities. “Committee Exhibit No.7,” Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities House of Representatives, 89th Cong., 1st sess. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968. Print.,
2014, Archival Inkjet print on photo paper, 24” x 30”.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities. “Committee Exhibit No. 61,” Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities House of Representatives, 89th Cong., 1st sess. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968. Print.,
2014, Archival Inkjet print on photo paper, 24” x 30”
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities. “February 10, 1966: Testimony of Roy Everett Frankhouser, Jr.,” Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities House of Representatives, 89th Cong., 2nd sess. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968. Print. 3342-3363,
2015, Archival Inkjet print on photo paper, 12” x 18”.A Reference Volume of Counterintelligence, Book One and Book Two. 2015, Hard Cover book, 560 and 672 pages, 8 ½” x 11”Detail: A Reference Volume of Counterintelligence, Book One.Daily Performance Documentation: Paul Good/Robert Shelton Character Study, April 5-21, 2012 (performed in 2015).
Performers – Paul Good: Martyna Majewska, Robert Shelton: Deanna Bowen.Detail: Hunting the Nigs in Philadelphia:
Or An Alternate Chronology of Events Leading Up to and One Year Beyond the Columbia Avenue Uprisings, August 28-30 1964.
11 Artist Pages, as part of Traces in the Dark exhibition catalogue.