JOHN STURGEON

Ghost Stories from the 1960's

3 part video performance, work-in-progress

#3. Ghost Story - Moon Walk

Ghost Stories refers to just that, a series of performance skits drawn from personal experiences with either ghosts, past lives or the astral plane. These narratives are told in the context of real world events, which are augmented by appropriated television imagery. Conceived in three parts, the mixing of personal experience with the saga of America in the 1960's, will be a recurring theme in all three sections.

The third section, Ghost Story - Moon Walk, details an encounter with a ghost, while on a camping trip, deep in the woods of Cape Cod. As it happened during the first Moon landing in July 1969, the story weaves a relationship between the sighting and those gray, ghosting figures of television astronauts skittering across the surface of the moon. The performance is illuminated by video projection from the original telecast.

Moon Walk has been performed as a w.i.p. for the No Show, at The Brew House, Pittsburgh, PA.