"RealBadNow" by John Psathas

A performance of John Psathas' "RealBadNow" (2021) by Dr. Kenyon Williams. Filmed live in performance on Sept. 12, 2024 at Minnesota State University Moorhead Gaede Theatre as a part of "RealBadNow: A Multimedia Percussion Event." Film by Filip Mercep. Theatrical lighting design by David Wilhelmi. This event was made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Lake Region Arts Council thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

I – Part 1. 1. Individualize the Social
II – Parts 2-4. 2. Normalize Catastrophic Imagination
3. Encourage Citizens to Participate in Their Own Oppression
4. Create Zones of Terminal Exclusion
III – Part 5 5. Prepare for Defiant Acts of Radical Imagination
IV – Parts 6-8. 6. Teach appreciation of the Aesthetics of Violence
7. Prevent Solidarity at All Costs
8. Instigate and Perpetuate a War of All-On-All
V – Epilogue RealBadNow

(Movement titles are taken from the book "Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle" by Brad Evans and Henry Giroux)