NYTimes.com – By Karen Rosenberg
A drag queen named Taiwan is working the phone. His male lover has just proposed marriage, and Taiwan doesn’t know what to tell him. He calls his mother, then his grandmother, then a psychic hotline. He weighs church and small-town values against love and commitment. Shrieking and soul searching ensue.
This antic, multigenerational conversation is really an elaborate monologue, written, directed and performed by the video artist Kalup Linzy. It’s one of many riveting and, yes, topical sequences in Mr. Linzy’s current solo show at the Studio Museum in Harlem.