(Prelude): Blackbird
The Prelude to “Just Another Shadie Bitch” assembles photographic stills from a five-minute pitch performance alongside textual materials, including a list of names, a last will, and an extract from Rebecca Schneider’s book The Explicit Body in Performance. These elements form a layered visual and textual field that negotiates performance, writing, and life, situating the work as a point of entry into the multimedia opera’s narrative and conceptual concerns.
