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bad thing: a dark performance play
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 ASHER HARTMAN, BAD THING: A DARK PERFORMANCE PLAYA Performance play and installation
Painter-director Asher Hartman mixes elements of theater, installation, and painting to explore the guilt and pleasure inherent in American violence.
To attend the performance:
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Los Angeles, CA - Nasty, poetic, and surprisingly funny, BAD THING is a unique amalgamation of theater, installation, performance and painting. BAD THING circles around the body of American violence, exploring ideas of Western guilt and pleasure in a series of shifting scenarios that are often grotesquely humorous, sometimes tender, always distressingly familiar. This dark performance features six characters (a hallucinating conquistador, a brutally sadistic monk, a paranoid hidalgo, a grotesquely obsequious servant, and Jesus Christ in the guise of a fox) and six paintings that explore and complicate archetypal themes of dominance, submission, boredom, paranoia, and transcendence. BAD THING takes inspiration from17th century Spanish playwright Lope de Vega’s story of a repentant sadistic noble La Fianza Satisfecha, the diaries of Spanish conquistador-turned-healer Cabeza de Vaca, and Eduardo Galeano’s classic Open Veins of Latin America.
Audiences sit close to the action in an installation of Hartman’s crypto-religious paintings ensconced in a lumpy architecture of bloated Spanish colonial facades. What unfolds is a poetic narrative of sound, dialogue, silence, and image deftly articulated by performance, sound and visual artists. BAD THING features performance artists Franc Baliton, Rochelle Fabb, Simone Gad, Michael Morrissey, visual artist Candice Lin, and artist-musician Claire Cronin. The sound is scored by artist Adam Overton.
BAD THING runs two nights only, Friday January 22 and Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 at Sea and Space Explorations at 4755 York Blvd in Highland Park. Admission is FREE. Reservations are recommended, as space is limited. Performance begins at 8pm sharp and will last just under an hour. No late admittance. For more info visit www.seaandspace.org or call (323) 982-0854.
Note: BAD THING contains very graphic language and is not suitable for children.
WHAT: BAD THING - A Performance play and installation
Admission is FREE.
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