'Shout Art': An Introduction
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"The Beaches Are Flesh,"  A 'Shout'
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Some thoughts about 'Shouts'
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The 'Self' and 'Shouts'
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Inspiration
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The 'Original Shout'
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POETRY -- PERFORMANCES

Borborygmous * 1983
*"bor-be-'rig-mes : a rumbling sound made by gas 
in the intestines - A performance poem accompanied 
by an oscillating electric fan, dangling microphone 
and triangle.

Paper Effacer, 1983
A performance poem accompanied  by an oscillating 
electric fan, dangling microphone and triangle.
 

PERFORMANCES -- PHOTOS

A.  Ghost Dance, University of Maine, Farmington, 
Maine -- "The bundle of multicolored sticks were 
thrown into the audience, one stick at a time."

B.  "Dew Laps Night Into Day," Patten Free Library, 
Bath, Maine -- "Background: Hanging sheets blown by
oscillating electic fan with slide projection" 
Photograph, Copyright Mark Melnicove

C.  Preparation for "Dew Laps Night Into Day" Site 
Specific installation, prior to performing 'Mount Battie 
Shout,' Camden Hills State Park, Camden,  Maine 
Photograph, Copyright Pat and Tony Owen

D.   Dew Laps Night Into Day, Performance and 
Video, Maine Festival, Bowdoin College, Brunswick,
Maine -- Performance poetry and video of an
animated dancer. Shot at Pemaquid Point, Pemaquid
State Park, Maine 
Photograph, Copyright Stephen Nichols
 

OBSERVATION

“My recent work, 2003-2006, returned to figurative 
subjects and  lyrical dualists themes, subjects which I had  explored in the early-nineteen eighties. 

I was doing some performance art/poetry in and around 
Brunswick, Maine and the Maine Festival at that time 
and originated the performance/poetry form ‘Shout Art.’ 
Typically, ‘Shouts’ consisted of three to four lines of 
double-entendre punctuated by a loud shout at the end. 

My new work is not too dissimilar.” HN
 

Copyright 2006 R. Henry Nigl