Karen Michel: Live? Die? Kill? Three Questions in Two Geographies

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"Live? Die? Kill? Three Questions in Two Geographies"

An Audio Performance Piece featuring Karen Michel
Lehman Brady Visiting Joint Chair Professor in Documentary Studies and American Studies at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Followed by an evening of music with John Dee Holman, Cool John Ferguson, and Captain Luke

Friday, April 20
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University

Reception and BBQ – 6:30 p.m.
Audio performance piece – 7:30 p.m.

Karen Michel asks strangers in New York and North Carolina three probing questions: What do you live for? What would you die for? What would you kill for?

She invites you to share your answers to these questions in advance of this event—e-mail her at livediekill@gmail.com.

Karen Michel interviewed about "Live? Die? Kill? Three Questions in Two Geographies" on WUNC's "The State of Things" radio broadcast (February 22, 2007)

KAREN MICHEL
Lehman Brady Joint Visiting Professor of Documentary Studies and American Studies at Duke and UNC, 2006–07

Based in upstate New York, Karen Michel is an independent radio producer who got her start in media as a guest on Art Linkletter's Kids Say the Darndest Things. She has lived and worked in Alaska, Mexico, Japan, Greenland, India, Canada, Kenya, Nepal, Madagascar, and other geographies real and imagined. Her academic training is in visual arts and cross-cultural education; she's been an exhibiting artist (jewelry, photography, drawing, and holography) and a teacher. Since falling into a job in public radio in Fairbanks, Alaska, long ago, she has been committed to sound, as an audio artist and as a journalist. She's received many awards and fellowships -Peabody, Robert Wood Johnson, National Endowment for the Arts, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Federation of Community Broadcasters, the Japan Foundation, and the Fulbright/Indo-U.S. Subcommission, among them.

More About John Dee Holeman, Cool John Ferguson, and Captain Luke: http://www.musicmaker.org/artists/

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Photograph by Christopher Sims

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