Big American Trip: Empire State

[close] Performed by Kristen Nelson and Noah Saterstrom, photographed and edited by Adam Cooper-Terán, based on BIG AMERICAN TRIP, by Christian Peet. Manifesting the vision of BIG AMERICAN TRIP, a diverse group of activists, actors, artists, musicians, writers, and concerned individuals from all over the US have collaborated with the author to create a polyvocal series of video readings / interpretations based on the book. Assuming the form of postcards authored by an "alien" of unknown nationality, ethnicity, and gender, addressing a variety of people and organizations (political figures, multinational corporations, people in public toilets, et al), BIG AMERICAN TRIP is a startling document of fear and loneliness in the 21st century U.S. Whether deconstructing road signs, a failed relationship, or the state of contemporary poetry, the voice(s) behind these texts is/are at once familiar and strange, determined to be free, and desperate to communicate with anyone who has ever felt at odds with the Languag