A View From Above: The Pre-Game Meal, is a multimedia lecture performance about the statistical and sexual mythology of basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain. On March 2, 1962, Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a single game, a record that still stands. In a 1992 autobiography, he claimed that he had slept with 20,000 women. I read this book when I was 12 years old, a skinny kid growing up in Canada with hoop dreams. I have wondered about those two numbers since then.

In the performance, Chamberlain the myth, and the beautiful game he played are a frame for exploring the enculturation of young men, the formation of identity and the near certainty that childhood heroes will disappoint. The performance unfolds over the course of a pre-game meal, scientifically sound nutrition to bring the everyone to peak athletic performance within a few hours.

This performance lecture is part of the Wicket Leeks exhibition programming at Flux Factory. Wicket Leeks explores histories of shifting cultural, religious, social, gender, and political powers through the lenses of Food and Sports. Wicket Leeks runs from June 22 - July 13, 2019.