the butane group
A collective of theater and media artists committed to the creation and production of aesthetically innovative and emotionally compelling works that address sociopolitical realities in a direct yet artful way, embracing complexity and contradiction.
Artistic Directors: Noel Salzman and Jay Smith
1990 - Present: Production History and Butane Associates
2004: The Loneliness of Noam Chomsky (a performance)
2005: Neglected Experimental Masterpieces of the 1980s (a reading series)
2006: Listen to Me (an audio adaptation of Gertrude Stein's play)
2007: Haiti (live and let die)
2007: Operation Ajax (a game of skill and chance)

HAITI
(live and let die)

will open in 2007

Work-in-progress presentations took place in August 2006 at Downtown Art, NYC and Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn

KRIK? KRAK? (a Hatian installation) was presented in July 2006 at The Deli Formerly Known As Prince, A Chashama Arts Space at 44th Street and 3rd Avenue in NYC

DIRECTION: Noel Salzman
PERFORMANCE: Elizabeth Sugarman
DRAMATURGY: Liz Sharts (with Kate Graham)
An hallucinatory meditation on the violent clash of cultures engendered by
colonialism: Acker's deadpan travelogue "Kathy Goes To Haiti" takes us on a
brutally beautiful journey into the depths of sexual tourism and emotional
anarchy, interrupted by dreams of American films that travesty voodoo . . .


SOURCES

• Kathy Goes To Haiti, a novel by Kathy Acker
• My Life, My Death by Pier Paolo Pasolini, a novel by Kathy Acker
• Devoured by Myths, an interview with Kathy Acker by Sylvere Lotringer
• Live and Let Die, a film by Guy Hamilton
• I Walked With A Zombie, a film by Jacques Tournier
• Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti, a film by Maya Deren and Cherel
& Teiji Ito
• The Serpent and the Rainbow, a film by Wes Craven
• Krik? Krak!, a film by Jac Avila and Vanyoska Gee
• Scream, Blacula, Scream!, a film by Bob Kelljan
• Jungle Jungle, a video piece Rico Gatson
• Walking with a Zombie, a song by Army of Lovers
• Mi Novio es un Zombie, a song by Alaska y Dinarama
• Voodoo Child (Slight Return), a song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
• Haiti, a song by Cabaret Voltaire

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