Bread & Puppet: Peter Schumann - Bedsheet Mitigations & Insurrection Obligations Virtual Tour @ VSC
Channel: Jerome Lipani
Date: 2020-12-18

Part 1 documents a selection from Peter Schumann's 2020  Bedsheet Mitigations series on view in Gallery II at the Vermont Studio Center December 2020 through January 2021.   Curatrix Alexis Smith introduces the recent Fomite Press publication of Bedsheet Mitigations & then brings us into the exhibit orchestrated by readings from the paintings themselves by Smith and Jerome Lipani.  
Part 2 tours Schumann's new Insurrection Obligations series currently housed in the Red Mill Gallery @ VSC.  
Part 3 brings us to Schumann's studio at the Bread and Puppet Farm where he performs a Fiddle Rant that was originally composed to inspire the Insurrection + Resurrection Services series of "Lamentations" staged in the Pine Forest at the Farm. Several of the 9’ X 9’ painted king-size bedsheets seen in this VSC exhibit were used as Cantastoria paintings in B&P performance/exhibitions produced from Spring through December of 2020 in continued evolution throughout the 2020  Insurrection + Resurrection Services Circus season.  This video documents just a part of Schumann's ongoing response to the politics of the pandemic in the USA in a revolutionary series of integrated paintings, music and performance by Bread & Puppet.

Peter and Elka Schumann dedicate this video to Genevieve and Remi!

These exhibitions can be seen live and in person in Johnson at the Vermont Studio Center until January 28th by appointment at https://vermontstudiocenter.org or by phone at (802) 635-2727.

Additional work of Peter Schumann can be seen in exhibition outside at the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro, VT on their new free nature ski & snowshoe hiking  trail and at the Plainfield Community Center Gallery above the Co-op as well as on site at Bread and Puppet Farm in Glover in the Museum and in the Memorial Pine Forest and Papier-Mache Cathedral.  

To view documentations of  full-length B&P performances since 2013, go to YouTube Jerome Lipani  and ORCA Media YouTube Bread & Puppet Playlists.
 
Filmed on December 8 & 10, 2020
Bedsheet Mitigation by fomitepress.com / photos by Gary Patrick Harvey 2020
Videography by Jerome Lipani - ad hoc films ORCA Media

My Sincere Thanks to Jerome and Alexis for this Big Loving Work! - Peter Schumann