Performance Space 122 (Venue Partner)
150 1st Ave
Tickets & Passports: 212.352.3101 | Admin: 212.477.5829
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This verbal varieté strategizes the explicitly semiotic spectacle in a multimedia showcase of live art representing an encounter between the academic lecture hall, the poet's theater, and the vaudeville house. Its players cut across the disciplinary boundaries of scholarship, pedagogy, cabaret, poetics, and performance in an investigation of linguistic mechanisms of spectacular identity formation. Linguistic illusionists expose the parlor trick of transparent speech, conjuring floating signifiers that levitate forty-four feet above the floor. Costumes sewn from three million majuscules burst at the semes. The auditorium oscillates between reading room and performatorium. The linguistic turn transmogrifies into a shimmy.
"Fishnet stockings and feather boas aren't usually the subject of a lecture but today students are taken back to the turn of the twentieth century and topless showgirls [by Dr. Lucky]." - Judith Kampfner, NPR
Monday, March 22 at 8PM & 10PM
*Performances will be in the upstairs theatre and pre-show cocktails will be served in the downstairs theatre.
FREE - Reservations Required
PERFORMANCES BY: Vaginal Davis | Lord Whimsy | Dr. Lucky | Jeremy J F Thompson | Paolo Javier | Daniel Scott Snelson | Shonni Enelow
STENO POOL: AN INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE Featuring: Leesa Abahuni | Nicole Abahuni | Jen Zak | Kristen Rhea van Liew | Fyodor Pavlov | Lawrence Gullo | Kyle Hittmeier | Lindsay Comstock
CODEXKAMMER: A FUNCTIONAL LENDING LIBRARY
MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT BY: Grandpa Musselman & His Syncopators
INTERTITULAR TAP BY: The Minsky Sisters
ONE-MINUTE CURATORIAL MICRO-LECTURES BY Mashinka Foxtrot Firunts
Reception to follow.
Co-sponsored by Ugly Duckling Presse
Alcohol provided by Russian Standard Vodka
