Goat Island (performance group)
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Goat Island was a collaborative performance group based in Chicago, Illinois and founded in 1987.[1] They toured internationally and made nine performance works before disbanding.[2] In 2006 they announced The Lastmaker (2007) would be the last work that they would create as a company, and the final performances were held at Swain Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in February 2009.
As their final project, they created a film based on The Lastmaker, published under the title A Last, A Quartet a collection of films,[3] which also contained previous films made by Goat Island.
In 2019, the Chicago Cultural Center hosted a cross disciplinary retrospective: goat island archive – we have discovered the performance by making it.[4] The event included an exhibition, archives, a performance series, and symposia.[5]
Goat Island members have included:
- Karen Christopher (1990-2009)
- Joan Dickinson (1988-1990)
- Matthew Goulish (1987-2009)
- Lin Hixson (director, 1997-2009)
- Mark Jeffery (1996-2009)
- Greg McCain (1987-1995)
- Timothy McCain (1987-1995)
- Antonio Poppe (1995-1996)
- Bryan Saner (1995-2009)
- Litó Walkey (2002-2009)
Goat Island associate members have included: Cynthia Ashby, Lucy Cash (2005 - 2009), CJ Mitchell, Judd Morrissey (2005 - 2009), Margaret Nelson, John Rich, Charissa Tolentino (2008), Chantal Zakari
Performances
- Soldier, Child, Tortured Man (1987)
- We Got A Date (1989)
- Can't Take Johnny to the Funeral (1991)
- It's Shifting, Hank (1993)
- How Dear To Me the Hour When Daylight Dies (1996)
- The Sea & Poison (1998)
- It's an Earthquake in My Heart (2001)
- When will the September roses bloom? Last night was only a comedy (2004)
- The Lastmaker (2007)
