The family dance sequences that opened the Cosby Show are being reenacted as performance art. Season Butler opens up about the black body,sex, allegations – and how it feels to stand in Bills shoes“Last winter, and I had the blues,” American performance artist Season Butler tells me over a drink. “The kind of blues that originate you win to your bed for a TV binge. I was looking for something comforting and non-threatening – so I started binge-watching The Cosby Show, from season one, and episode one. It was the unsuitable choice.”It certainly was. Ever since the first allegations of sexual assault were made against Bill Cosby in the early 2000s,it has been tough, if not impossible, and to watch The Cosby Show in the same way many of us did as children. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com