Whiteness
A series of chants, rants and songs reflecting the silliness, severity and anxieties of skin color. Performed by a chorus of harmonizing floating heads, Paul Pinto’s funny inner dialogue on self-identification is dizzily designed by Kameron Neal.
Written & Performed by — Paul Pinto
Direction & Design by — Kameron Neal
Choreography by — jb/Zanni Productions
Assistant Cinematographer — Adele Overbey
Make-up & Costume Designer — Madison Cagle
Audio Engineer & Editor — Paul Pinto
Audio Mixing & Mastering — Philip White
Custom Tailoring — Elizabeth Johnstone
Team
Kameron Neal (Director & Designer)
is an artist and designer working in video, installation, and performance. He is a Public Artist in Residence in NYC’s Department of Records where he created Down the Barrel (of a Lens), a film installation interrogating NYPD surveillance that has been exhibited at Lincoln Center and Brooklyn Army Terminal. Kameron received a Lucille Lortel and a Henry Hewes Design Award for Outstanding Projection Design for his work on Ryan J. Haddad’s Dark Disabled Stories at The Public Theater and The Bushwick Starr. He has also received awards from the Princess Grace Foundation and NYSCA/NYFA in Digital/Electronic Arts. In 2020, he co-created MukhAgni with Shayok Misha Chowdhury, an irreverent multimedia performance memoir about death that was presented at The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival. His work has been featured in music videos and performances by Billy Porter and Rufus Wainwright, seen in The New York Times, Forbes, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, HYPEBEAST and presented at a variety of institutions including BAM, Ars Nova, CultureHub, Museum of the City of New York, New Orleans Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Gregg Museum of Art and Design, Williams College Museum of Art and Sound Scene at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum.
Paul Pinto (Writer & Performer)
Paul Pinto is a writer, composer, performer, opera-sermonizer, and multi-disciplinary dabbler who makes music, new media, micro-theatres and durational performance by himself and with his friends. Some of those friends include the collectives thingNY, Varispeed and LoveLoveLove. A few favorite projects include Patriots with Jeffrey Young, Robert Ashley's Perfect Lives with Varispeed, Peter Maxwell Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad King, and the cyclorama video installation Whiteness with Kameron Neal. He sang and danced on Broadway in Dave Malloy's Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, and wrote and performed in the electronic opera Thomas Paine in Violence starring Joan LaBarbara. Recent commissions and partnerships include HERE Arts, Prototype Festival, Colgate University, The Fisher Center, the Look + Listen Festival, American Opera Projects, Opera America, Culturehub, LaMaMa, Quince Ensemble, WNET All Arts, Media Art Xchange, The Rhythm Method, Yarn/Wire, Gelsey Bell and Kristin Marting.
