Un-Televised Revolutions
A Devised Performance by
Moon Medicin
Directed by Charlotte Brathwaite
Scenic + Lighting by Kent Barrett
Costume Design by Abigail Deville
with Sanford Biggers, keyboard
Martin Luther McCoy, guitar/vocals
Jahi Sundance, turntables
Mark Hines, video/electronics/drums
André Cymone, bass/vocals
Kennedy Center
April 4, 2019
"A rock opera meets fine art installation."
In the tradition of Sidney Lumet’s seminal black comedy Network and Orson Welles legendary radio broadcast of HG Wells’ War of the Worlds, Moon Medicin presents Un-Televised Revolutions, a music driven multimedia state of the union address over breakbeats. Moon Medicin combines original compositions and reinterpretations of contemporary standards that range from Prince’s “Controversy ” to experimental rock with Radiohead’s “Weird Fishes” with charged visual imagery, offering an elixir for societal malaise.
Moon Medicin is a multimedia concept band performing original compositions interspersed with re-imagined covers. The collective performs against a backdrop of curated sound effects and images of sci-fi, punk, sacred geometry, coded symbology, film noir, minstrels, world politics, and ceremonial dance. Renowned visual artist Sanford Biggers is the creative director joined by a rotating cast of musicians, designers, and performance artists.
Press:
"What happens when you combine a renowned multi-disciplinary artist whose work actively resists easy categorization, a rotating band of searingly talented musicians, a visual extravaganza stretching from custom-made costumes to expertly crafted video backdrops brimming with coded symbols, a brew of original songs and imaginative re-interpretations of contemporary classics, and a high-concept theme interrogating history, politics, and the way we live now?
If the artist in question is Sanford Biggers, then the answer is Un-Televised Revolutions, a boundary-detonating performance piece from his shape-shifting multimedia ensemble, Moon Medicin." – ArtNet.com
