THE WILD AMERICAN DOGS ARE GREG SCOTT AND BEVERLY FRESH. THE WILD AMERICAN DOGS WERE ESTABLISHED IN 2013. THE WILD AMERICAN DOGS ARE A INTERDISCIPLINARY ART DUO FOCUSED ON PRODUCING EXPERIMENTAL FILMS AND PERFORMANCE.
MAJOR RECENT PROJECTS INCLUDE:
*BATHTUB SONGS
Feature Film (2015)
BATHTUB SONGS: and Other Extracurricular Activities follows song-and-dance man Beverly Fresh to the annual Turkey Trot festival in the southern Indiana town of Montgomery. The film examines the rural cultural rituals and events of small Midwestern towns and investigates the sense of restlessness that hangs in the region. Beverly meets with Dare-L and the Pork Chop Boys and sets out to ease their desperation. He comes across a demolition derby driver, traveling salesmen, banjo player and other kindred spirits wandering nervous and lookin' for something else.
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*WILD AMERICAN DOGS REAL BIG TENT REVIVAL SHOW
The “Real Big Tent Revival Show,” is a collaborative enterprise that employs mobile vernacular architecture to activate a secularized adaptation of the once familiar “traveling tent revival show” to small rural Midwestern communities.
Until the mid-20th Century, traveling tent revivals functioned throughout rural America as opportunities for local public assembly and interaction with fellow residents and “familiar outsiders,” thereby enhancing community solidarity. We’ve revived, adapted and secularized the tent revival concept as a framework for preserving and studying the production of contemporary public culture within the under-examined rural Midwest.
Recent events include: Black Oak (IN), Colon (MI), Grinnell (IA), Montgomery (IN)
Special Events:
5.30.2018
WILD AMERICAN DOGS REAL BIG TENT REVIVAL (CHICAGO) DePaul Art Museum
October 6-7, 2017
INSTRUMENTAL Performance Festival, Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit (MI)
October 8, 2017
VFW #3901, Alagonac, Michigan
9.28.2017
INVERSE PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL
HJ Miossi Gallery at Cuesta College
San Luis Obispo, CA 93403
*ARCHIVE OF MIDWESTERN CULTURE
The Archive of Midwestern Culture (AMC) is an institutionally recognized scholarly organization whose mission is to document creative life and artistic practice among people living in economically impoverished areas of the rural American Midwest. AMC operates under the auspices of the Social Science Research Center (SSRC) at DePaul University. Our particular interest lies in how the performing and visual arts can help to define and sustain culture and community in towns across the routinely overlooked Midwest. underrepresented Midwestern towns. AMC emphasizes the creative methods and outcomes of nonprofessional, folk, and generally underrepresented artists. Through documenting and facilitating individual and community-based performance, the AMC offers a voice and artistic outlet to rural communities whose cultural significance is too often minimized, dismissed and/or marginalized. The creative processes and artforms that we help to create and document will be preserved and further developed through AMC’s dynamic online digital community platform.
AMC OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Recent Grants and Awards:
Provost’s Collaborative Research Fellowship, DePaul University
Humanities Center Fellowship
University Research Council Collaborative Research Grant, DePaul University
University Research Council Grant, DePaul University
Faculty Summer Research Stipend, DePaul University
Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Individual Artists Program, City of Chicago
Recent Publications:
Emergency Index: An Annual Document of Performance Practice Volume 4, WILD AMERICAN DOGS - ODE 2 MONTGOMERY, Published by: the Bros. Lumiere for Ugly Duckling Press - Brooklyn, New York
Peer-Reviewed by Editors: Yelena Gluzman and Sophia Cleary, Emergency Index