Uncle Eddie's Guide to Art Appreciation : Dramatic Reading 1

Uncle Eddie's Guide to Art Appreciation is a 50 minute monologue in which an angry Saskatchewan farmer, despite himself, takes up the defense of art. The clips here are from a dramatic script reading recorded live at Cafe Esperanza café during the 2005 Montréal Infringement Festival. It was my first attempt to try and reconcile my peasant roots with the artist and urbanite that I have become.

In this first clip Uncle Eddie his is verbally aggressive; he is the cliché of the red-neck Western-Canadian farmer, drunk and bad-mouthing art. He intentionally echoes the audience's cultural stereotypes. Eddie has been given an electronic artwork by his nephew, who installed it in Eddie's kitchen after graduating from art school. In this scene the electronic screen (simulated for the reading) displays negative statements about art taken from the guest book at the Dunlop Art Gallery in Regina.

Uncle Eddie is played by Norman Nawrocki.

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