Spiderman 2015

Overview

Mark Bradford’s Spiderman conjures the setting of a stand-up comedy act inspired, in part, by the era of Eddie Murphy’s Delirious, 1983, and Raw, 1987, comedy routines. Bradford, who is gay and black, recalls his anger when he attended one of Murphy’s live shows, notorious for their homophobia and jokes about AIDS. Spiderman puts the visitor in the highly charged sound space of a performance where the audience’s spontaneous (or nervous) laughter, silence, or outbursts reveal their values — share