L.M. Bogad
Author, Performer, Activist
Economusic: Keeping Score
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Bogad […] allows us to rethink effective strategies for engaging with the powerful. What makes Bogad’s contribution to this lineage distinctive is his first-hand experience with the issues he raises.
— Mobilization
About Lawrence Michael Bogad
L.M. Bogad is a performance artist and scholar specializing in humor, imagination, and theatrics in progressive movement activism. Professor of political performance at U.C. Davis, he has authored the books Tactical Performance: The Theory and Practice of Serious Play, Electoral Guerrilla Theatre: Radical Ridicule and Social Movements, and Performing Truth: Works of Radical Memory for Times of Social Amnesia, and the plays ECONOMUSIC, HAYMARKET, SANTIAGO 9/11/1973, COINTELSHOW, and TAHRIR.
Shotgun Players asked folks to submit a two-minute video that had to include "ten seconds of movement, the passage of time, three lines or more from a play, and a mask or toilet paper." This is what I came up with. Folks have commented that they liked what I did with the "ten seconds of movement." As you can see, sheltering in place has had a little effect on my psyche. Watch now.