The Upstate New York Olympics

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The Upstate New York Olympics is written by Brian Wallace and published by SUNY Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0615401821 (ISBN 10) and 9780615401829 (ISBN 13).

Offers an ironic, upstate New York take on the Olympics, performance, and the risks and rewards of the creative life. This exhibition catalog documents the series of video and installation works by Tim Davis entitled The Upstate New York Olympics. Combining the artist’s ongoing interests in performance, photography, sculpture, and poetry, and by turns uncanny, bold, ridiculous, illegal, and downright dangerous, Davis’s “events” (including “Flag Pole Grapple,” “Lawn Jockey Leapfrog,” and “Stream Luge”) both document and at the same time powerfully comment on the artist’s concerns with the fundamentals of performance art, personal expression, regionalism, and the risks and rewards of the creative life.