A Fair Fight

This piece tells my family story of boxers, bootleggers and speak-easy operators on the Lower East Side of New York in the 1920s and 30s, and their armed confrontation with the KKK in upstate New York.  It operates like a personal nostalgic narrative, then attempts to leverage that feeling to reflect on current issues of immigrant rights, racism/white supremacy, and the relationship between violence and troubling, evolving ideas of "manhood."  The piece draws on newspaper clippings and hundreds of pages of handwritten “Bogad Family Circle” meeting notes from the time period. The paintings and drawings projected during the show are original works of art by my 86-year old father.