Exhuming Exhuming Johnny - a delegated reunion

Abstract

In 2019, Robert Walton was commissioned by The City of Chicago and the Goat Island Archive to respond to Goat Island’s 1991 work ‘Can’t Take Johnny To The Funeral’. In 2019 Robert worked with performers from Australia, UK and USA to explore the grainy footage of the original production and source materials in the Goat Island Archive to create a new performance for The Chicago Cultural Center. With the help of percussionist Tom Benko and live video specialist Mark Cominskey, a new performance was ‘discovered’ by recreating parts of the original and returning to its themes of ‘bliss and terror in the modern world’ from a perspective almost 30 years later. This event, Exhuming Exhuming Johnn..