Treatise on Gorgeousness

Dec 12, 1974
Field:

Reading, Performance

Location:

Grand Luxe Hall, Western Front

Description:

John Baylin (Count Fanzini) read from his Treatise on Gorgeousness—a collection written over eight-months in Hollywood that explores beauty, sex, cinema, and desire. Baylin also presented a “short statement on the apparent decline of bum fucking.” 

Audio documentation is available upon request.

Western Front is a non-profit artist-run centre in Vancouver.

We acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations as traditional owners of the land upon which Western Front stands.