New Performing arts book released by Vaudevisuals Press. "DON T MISS THIS! A DECADE OF ECCENTRIC PERFORMING ARTS." Photography by Jim R. Moore.
September 30 marks International Blasphemy Rights Day (IBRD), which the Center for Inquiry has observed since its beginning.1 IBRD celebrates the right of authors, artists, and dissidents to treat religious matters as they see fit, even to the point of offending believers.
Pat Oleszko is an accomplished performance artist whose work often trespasses on “forbidden" religious ground. Her sensibility is absurdist; her methods encompass raucous costuming, rowdy street theater, and puppetry of sometimes breathtaking complexity.
Pat Oleszko is an accomplished performance artist whose work often trespasses on “forbidden” religious ground. Her sensibility is absurdist, her methods encompass raucous costuming, rowdy street theater, and puppetry of sometimes breathtaking complexity. Her prose reflects the same sensibility, a stream-of-consciousness torrent punctuated by audacious puns. Below, in her own inimitable words, Pat Oleszko reflects on some of the most blasphemous creations from her storied career.