1001 Beds, Performances, Essays, and Travels, Performances, Essays, and Travels

Author

Miller, Tim ; Miller, Tim

Year

2006

Publisher

University of Wisconsin Press

Language

English

Pages

Link

Last Update

13-Apr-2026

Keywords

Gender Studies

Description

Tim Miller had an ambiguous place in The American Century, a huge installation of “Art and Culture” that filled New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art during 1999 and 2000. The exhibition’s curators recognized the importance of the solo performance art of the century’s final decades, but they registered ambivalence about how to place Tim Miller, one of the founders and most successful practitioners of this vibrant contemporary form. Tim Miller’s contribution to the American century was represented by a two-minute video loop of the “get hard” litany from My Queer Body (1992), in which a naked Tim exhorts his...