I Feel Your
Pain
Liz Magic
Laser's PERFORMA 11 Commission
Sunday,
November 13, 8 pm 9 pm
Monday,
November 14, 8 pm 9 pm
@ SVA
Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street (bet 8th & 9th)
Co-presented by
the School of Visual Arts Visual and Critical Studies and BFA
Fine Arts Departments
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More info below and
on Performa's site (disregard ticket price):
I Feel Your Pain features actors Lynn Berg, Audrey Crabtree, Ray Field, Annie Fox, Kathryn Grody, Rafael Jordan, Liz Micek, and Ryan Shams. The video will be made with producer David Guinan and cinematographers Matthew Nauser and Collin Kornfeind of Polemic Media; costume stylist Felicia Garcia-Rivera; production assistants Lucia Hinojosa, Jamie Kelly, Boman Modine and Rose Swan. The script includes editorial contributions from Scott Indrisek, Wendy Osserman, Jess Wilcox and Tom Williams.
For Performa 11,
the 4th Edition of the New Visual Art Performance
Biennial, Liz Magic Laser will present a new mixed-media
performance, I Feel Your Pain, that will restage
Americas recent political contests as a romantic drama. Drawing
on a variety of agitprop theater tactics, particularly the
Russian Constructivist idea of a living newspaper, the
performance will examine how emotion is used to establish
authenticity on Americas political stage.
Staged in a movie
theater, I Feel Your Pain will take place simultaneously
in the midst of the audience and on the cinemas screen. Eight
actors will perform a sequence of scenes that will trace the
progression of a romantic relationship in adapted dialogues
taken from political interviews and press conferences with Sarah
Palin and Glenn Beck, amongst others. Borrowing elements from
historic living newspaper productions, the performance will
feature live voice-overs, pantomime fight scenes, and mute
commentaries by a clown. As the actors perform, live film from
two cinematographers in the audience will be projected onto the
screen as a continuous feed, with Laser acting as a real-time
editor,
choosing which camera angles the audience
will see.
Funding
Co-presented by the
School of Visual Arts Visual and Critical Studies and BFA Fine
Arts Departments. Supported by Performa Curators Circle member
Joanne Cassullo/Dorothea Leonhardt Fund, Esther Kim Varet and
Joseph Varet, Communities Foundation of Texas, The Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts, National Endowment for the Arts,
and The Dedalus Foundation.