Montgomery Park, or Opulence
An Essay in the Form of a Building
Karinne Keithley Syers
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Montgomery Park, or Opulence is an essay in the form of a building, a performance text in the form of a series of tales out of the archive of a fictional asylum, stories of combination with forms of consciousness beyond the human varieties. Keithley's staging won a 2011 BESSIE Award for Outstanding Production.
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Karinne Keithley is a playwright, audio-video essayist, and scholar. Her work in dance, text, sound and video has been seen around New York since 1995, as well as on the web since 2001. A member of the playwrights posse JOYCE CHO, she is dedicated to experimentation in radical presence of mind. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she studies American poetics as ethical practice.
