Week 3: History/Narrative: Mark Tribe
“The Port Huron Project is a series of reenactments of protest speeches from the New Left movements of the Vietnam era. Each speech took place at the site of the original event, and was delivered by an actor or performance artist to an audience of invited guests and passers-by. Videos of these performances have been screened on campuses, exhibited in art spaces, and distributed online as open-source media.
from Mark Tribe’s Port Huron Project webpage
“More than just recovering the past, these re-speaking projects use archival speeches to ask questions about the current place of stridency and forceful dissent, and the possibilities of effective, galvanizing political discourse.
- Julia Bryan-Wilson, Artforum, January 2008
Watch an overview of the Port Huron Project on Vimeo:
