Sexism and Other Stories, 11/06/10 Lake Villa feature

On November 6^th 2010, Janet Kuypers performed a show of pieces focusing on sexism. Since she worked as an acquaintance rape workshop facilitator and ad designed for years in the past, Kuypers heard may stories about rape, and learned about the many ways women are treated differently in society. This is the first time (and possibly only time) Kuypers will collect women’s issues poems together in one large show like this...

video clips from the 11/06/10 show

Janet Kuypers was asked in September by Moira Phippen (the “Visual Nonsense” Co-ordinator) to create a show performance for this Swing State event. The show “Visual Nonsense” is an art festival focusing on anything and everything with a visual edge. They can focus on films, but this collective also welcome live music acts, comedy, dance, poetry - as long as something visual is going on too, be it live painting, props, playing some footage on the projector, slide shows, etc. during the show.

C Ra McGuirt reading Kuypers' poem Most Accurate Metaphors

Although her live music was unable to be performed in this show, previous recordings of both electric guitars and keyboards were used with her poetry about sexism and women’s issues. Kuypers also had video with a male actor (C Ra McGuirt of Penny Dreadful Press) as well in this live show.

Original plans were for the show to end with an original blues song from Janet Kuypers and John Yotko (“Tight Rope Affiar”), but because of music constraints, Kuypers added additional poems to her show (adding to the theme of the title as “Sexism and other stories”) pertaining to work and employment, to the 2010 Census, and to the concepts of both death and love/attraction.

video clips from the 11/06/10 show

    This poetry show had music from assorted instruments (and even live harmonica with a metronome playing in one of her pieces). Because it was performed in “Visual Nonsense”, not only did videos accompanied the entire performance on the main screen, but there were also two small screens of randomly generated images being displayed throughout the show, but Kuypers awa also filmed and shown on a larger television. Check out this vast assortment of thought-provoking pieces performed live at Swing State 11/06/10 in Lake Villa!

in an added post-show note from Janet Kuypers:
    “After I performed this show, a gentleman told me he really enjoyed the show, and that it made him think. I told him I was a little worried how men would perceive all of these poems, and if they would easily be turned off. He told me that initially he was, but them he asked himself why these poems made him react this way. Then he considered how he called women nicknames (as one of the poems mentions), and wondered if subconsciously people were raised to think certain ways toward women. Then he reiterated that this show really made him think.
    I thanked him profusely, and told him that my goal is to make people think.
    Others came to thank me and tell me this was a very moving show, and that it really made people think. It’s good to hear, because that means I’m doing my job well.”

	Sexism and Other Stories (amazon dot com affiliates CD) Sexism and Other Stories is a CD release of the live performance art show at “Swing State” in Lake Villa IL 11/05/10, plus the full show track, and a bonus of her performing “My Attempted Death” with blues musician Cousin Bones at Swing State.				Sexism and Other Stories You can also order this 2011 poetry book today (based on the 11/06/10 show).

This full show is also available in the
Sexisn and other stories chapbook
(as an e-book / PDF file)!

Since this is such a video-intensive show, we are including all of the videos as LINKS; we are not embedding the videos into this web page. Following the links for all of the videos will take you to a display page (youtube or archive.org) to show al videos on another screen.

enjoy the full video
of the entire show

See the full show of Kuypers reading from the TV monitor in the “Sexism and other stories” show, live in Lake Villa 11/06/10 at Swing State

See the full show of Kuypers reading in the “Sexism and other stories” show, live in Lake Villa 11/06/10 with this writing at Swing State

Download the full 11/06/10 chapbook

below are show videos and mp3s
(including projected videos
during the show)

Check out the projected intro video
before her show started...

Watch the video playing in the background:
from Elizabeth’s Crazy Little Thing music muted performance of Janet Kuypers and John Yotko:

Kurt Irons

11/06/10 mp3 available for download from amazon.com 1:10

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11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories

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11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Sexism and other stories

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Or watch the video playing in the background: a mirrored semi going down the highway, with instrumental from John Yotko

the Men at the Construction Site

11/06/10 mp3 available for download from amazon.com 1:06

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11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories

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11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Sexism and other stories

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Or watch the video playing in the background: the visual video from the song “What We Need in Life”, with instrumental from John Yotko

with muusician Cousin Bones playing
background harmonica:
a Man Calls a Woman

11/06/10 mp3 available for download from amazon.com 1:52

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11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories

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11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Sexism and other stories

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Or watch the video playing in the background: Kuypers reading the prose “Top of the Mountain” in Golden Colorado (with no audio)

a Socially Accepted Target

11/06/10 mp3 available for download from amazon.com 1:15

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11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories

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11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Sexism and other stories

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Or watch the video playing in the background: C Ra McGuirt (of Penny Dreadful Press) reading the poem, with instrumental from John Yotko

In Their Homes or In The Streets

11/06/10 mp3 available for download from amazon.com 1:44

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11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Sexism and other stories

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11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories

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Or watch the video playing in the background: The visuals form the “Too Far” video, with instrumental from John Yotko

the Burning

11/06/10 mp3 available for download from amazon.com 1:17

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11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories

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11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Sexism and other stories

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Or watch the video playing in the background: the original “the Burning” video (with no vocals), but with the repeated phrase “think of how these were the hands that should have pushed you away from me”

Most Accurate Metaphors

11/06/10 mp3 available for download from amazon.com 1:37

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11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories

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11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Sexism and other stories

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Or watch the video playing in the background: C Ra McGuirt (of Penny Dreadful Press) reading the oem, with instrumental from John Yotko

the Measuring Scale

11/06/10 mp3 available for download from amazon.com 1:59

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11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Sexism and other stories

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11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories

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Or watch the video playing in the background: the Healing Works CBS news interview with Janet Kuypers, with instrumental from John Yotko

Scratch the Surface

11/06/10 mp3 available for download from amazon.com 2:35

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11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Sexism and other stories

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11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories

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Or watch the video playing in the background: video from the “Living in a Big World” show, with instrumental from Andy Dertyberry of the DMJ Art Connection

My Future Job Options

11/06/10 mp3 available for download from amazon.com 1:31

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11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Sexism and other stories

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11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories

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Or watch the video playing in the background: the visuals form the “the Muse, the Messiah” video, John Yotko instrumental

Counting Bodies

11/06/10 mp3 available for download from amazon.com 2:44

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11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Sexism and other stories

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11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories

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Or watch the video playing in the background: visuals from the “Seeing a Psychiatrist” show, John Yotko instrumental

“So”

11/06/10 mp3 available for download from amazon.com 2:22

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11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Sexism and other stories

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11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories

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Or watch the video playing in the background: visuals from the “Poetry Bomb” readings, with instrumental from John Yotko

Death is a Dog

11/06/10 mp3 available for download from amazon.com 1:54

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11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Sexism and other stories

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11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories

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Or watch the video playing in the background: Silenced skydiving video, with instrumental from John Yotko

And I’m Wondering

11/06/10 mp3 available for download from amazon.com 1:58

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11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Sexism and other stories

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11/06/10 in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her “Visual Nonsense” show Sexism and other stories

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Or watch the video playing in the background: visuals from the 08/095/07 Beach Poets feature, with instrumental from John Yotko

and as an added bonus...

The next live performer in the evening, Cousin Bones
(who played harmonica live in Kuypers’ “a Man Calls a Woman”) closed his hour set with a song that ended with Janet Kuypers reading an original poem:

performed at the end of the Cousin Bones finalé song:
My Attempted Death

mp3 available for download from amazon.com 2:16, of just the poem

mp3 available for download from amazon.com 4:12, of the song and the poem

Watch this YouTube video
11/06/10 from the TV camera in Lake Villa at Swing State, live in her show Sexism and other stories

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Thanks to Moira Phippen of Visual Nonsense for the snapshots!

Swing State (19041 W. Grand Ave, Lake Villa, IL, 60046, find directions and a map on line at madtownlounge) is a hookah lounge - there is no alcohol, and the entrance fee can be waived if you order a hookah. Swing State is an all ages hookah lounge/art venue/ tea house. They are open every night except Monday from 5pm til 1am or later.