Anger/Nation Featuring Radiohole September 24, 2008

Known for their anarchic energy and madcap theatrical mashups, the Brooklyn-based collective Radiohole presents the US premiere of 'Anger/Nation.' The piece explores the contradictory puritanical and hedonistic underpinnings of the American psyche by colliding the psychedelic aesthetic of occult filmmaker Kenneth Anger with the histrionic escapades of self-proclaimed America's Loving Home Defender, Carrie A. Nation, a remarkable 19th-century, hatchet-wielding temperance crusader. Using miniature floating video monitors, Post-it(R) notes, licorice and a healthy dose of fairy dust, Radiohole conjures a pleasuredome populated by an unpredictable melange of questionable characters ranging from random Roman centurions to male cherubs, who force Nation to wield her hatchet against sin and degradation... only to then find herself in the grips of a voluptuous spiritual transformation of her own.