Carnival of the Animals (2024) Poems from the Performance Work by Marc Bamuthi Joseph
28 page PDF Book
PDF Book Price: $15
Carnival of the Animals is an intentional response to the January 6 insurrection, a re-framing of Camille Saint-Saëns’ classic work (of the same title) as an intricate, interwoven series of contemplations, navigating the reality of the political jungle by embodying shifting societal values and our relationship to democracy. Carnival aims to “hack” the classical, to probe the questions: What happens after democracy? What is a new future we must collectively imagine?
PARABLE:
a parable about structure, structured in parallels about animals…an accounting of covid winter fear…a memory of the day, before memory is illegal, and political movement is erased…all these animals on this here ark, and the dumb ones are gonna ruin it for everybody…
-Marc Bamuthi Jopseph
28 page PDF Book
PDF Book Price: $15
Carnival of the Animals is an intentional response to the January 6 insurrection, a re-framing of Camille Saint-Saëns’ classic work (of the same title) as an intricate, interwoven series of contemplations, navigating the reality of the political jungle by embodying shifting societal values and our relationship to democracy. Carnival aims to “hack” the classical, to probe the questions: What happens after democracy? What is a new future we must collectively imagine?
PARABLE:
a parable about structure, structured in parallels about animals…an accounting of covid winter fear…a memory of the day, before memory is illegal, and political movement is erased…all these animals on this here ark, and the dumb ones are gonna ruin it for everybody…
-Marc Bamuthi Jopseph
28 page PDF Book
PDF Book Price: $15
Carnival of the Animals is an intentional response to the January 6 insurrection, a re-framing of Camille Saint-Saëns’ classic work (of the same title) as an intricate, interwoven series of contemplations, navigating the reality of the political jungle by embodying shifting societal values and our relationship to democracy. Carnival aims to “hack” the classical, to probe the questions: What happens after democracy? What is a new future we must collectively imagine?
PARABLE:
a parable about structure, structured in parallels about animals…an accounting of covid winter fear…a memory of the day, before memory is illegal, and political movement is erased…all these animals on this here ark, and the dumb ones are gonna ruin it for everybody…
-Marc Bamuthi Jopseph