Before he started making chair-like sculptures, Scott Burton made theater-like performance art that centered the public and private physical experience of queerness in the dominant heteronormative culture. His Behavior Tableaux were sets of precisely choreographed movements based on the body language, power dynamics, and covert communication of street cruising.
David Getsy has spent twenty years researching and interviewing to produce the first monograph of Burton's work, which he discussed at Artists Space in Dec. 2023 after the book won an award from the Dedalus Foundation.
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Scott Burton, Marble Armchair, 1987-88/1989, ed. 2 of 3, at Rago 15 Mar 2023
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