Narcissister (US): Narcissister Live(s)

FRI 17.9.2021 / 21:30

@ VR KONEPAJA
address: Pohjolankatu 1
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The work is part of Shortlist LIVE! Programme, and the artist is nominated for the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art award.

The New York based artist and performer Narcissister presents an evening-length set consisting of video and live performance works from her repertoire.

Narcissister’s performances refigure narcissism through radical acts of self love, acts that, in turn, reveal and conceal the racializing and eroticizing effects of our commodity-driven culture. Covered by mask and merkin, Narcissister plays with the limits of burlesque, masquerade, and performance art as she uncovers her body and its potential to animate objecthood.

DURATION approx. 60 min.
LANGUAGE English

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Narcissister (US): Narcissister Live(s)

Narcissister (US)

Narcissister, my performance character, is a Brooklyn-based artist and performer. Wearing mask and merkin, I work at the intersection of contemporary dance, visual art, and activism. I actively integrate my prior experience as a professional dancer and commercial artist with my art practice in a range of media including live performance, collage, sculpture, video, film, and experimental music. I have presented work worldwide at festivals, nightclubs, museums, and galleries.

My art video “Vaseline” won Best Use of a Sex Toy at The Good Vibrations Erotic Film Festival. In 2013 I received a Bessie Award nomination for the theatrical performance of “Organ Player” and in 2015 I received Creative Capital and United States Artists Awards. Interested in troubling the popular entertainment and experimental art divide, I appeared on America’s Got Talent in 2011. My first feature film “Narcissister Organ Player” premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2018; The European premiere was at the Locarno International Film Festival. Also in 2018 I had a solo exhibition at Participant Inc. gallery in New York. I am a Sundance Theatre Lab 2018 Fellow for the development of a new evening length performance commissioned by the Soho Rep in New York. I was nominated for the ArtPace Residency in San Antonio, Texas in Summer 2019 and my activist short art film "Narcissister Breast Work" premiered at Sundance 2020.

Narcissister. Photo: Narcissister.

Narcissister (US): Narcissister Live(s)

How to get there?

There is an accessible entrance and accessible WC at the venue.