Summertime, 2016
Emilio Santisteban
Durational performance artist
Summertime,
and the living is easy .
Business is jumping,
and success is high .
Your daddy is wise,
and your ma is hot looking.
So hush little baby ,
Don't you cry.
One of these mornings,
you are gonna rise up spinning.
Then take your wheels,
and take to the sky.
But until that morning,
There is nothing can harm you,
with daddy and mommy
standing by.
Occasional performance on request
Anywhere in the city, I wash a car while singing Summertime (lyrics modified). The cars washed are privately owned; high-end brands, the best-equipped line of cars, or mid-size models of the current year. This is intended as a long-term performance, occasionally performed at the request of the car owners.
If you (or a friend) "love" your car, this performance is for it (the car).
REQUEST SUMMERTIME
First performance*, Lima, February 3, 2016, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Production: Lizet Díaz Machuca. Q'asapi Cultural Association .
Consulting: Jerry B Martin.
Collaboration: Javier Sunico Raborg.
Photography © Frido Martin (background) © Lizet Díaz Machuca.
© 1934. George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin, after a poem by DuBose Heyward. Opera Porgy and Bess, 1935.
© 2016. Lyrics modified for this performance by Emilio Santisteban & Jerry B Martin.
© 1959. Sam Cooke (audio on this page).
