GEO WYETH, composer, Brooklyn, New York, will travel to Lancaster County, South Carolina & surrounding areas, investigating the controversial life of J. Marion Sims, the father of modern gynecology (and his great-great-great-great grandfather). Wyeth plans to keep an audio journal of short sensory clips, engage with the citizens of the surrounding area on the topic of Sims life, and research collections of his diaries and letter at area Universities as material for new work. This distant relative was lauded by the medical establishment, but exposed more recently for his inhumane and racist experimental operations on black slave women.
