Malik Gaines on Sylvester
Drinks 6pm, Program 7pm Malik Gaines discusses Sylvester, who was a member of San Francisco’s Cockettes troupe before becoming a disco star of the 1970s. Sylvester combined a queer performance of gender with signs and sounds of musical virtuosity, making a unique contribution to his era. Gaines considers Sylvester among other radical performers in his forthcoming book “Excesses of the Sixties: Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left.” Malik Gaines is an artist and writer based in New York. He is a member of the performance group My Barbarian and assistant professor of Performance Studies at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. This program is made possible in part by Headlands Center for the Arts , where Gaines is currently artist in residence.