Premiere of ERASE: November 19

Premiere of ERASE
Lovett/Codagnone & Tom Cole
Participant, Inc., 253 East Houston Street (at Norfolk Street)
November 19, 9 pm, $10

Additional performances:
November 28 at 8pm
November 29, 30 and December 1 & 2 at 10pm

ERASE is created collaboratively by playwright Tom Cole and the artistic team Lovett/Codagnone. Taking formal cues from Germany’s anti-theater of the ‘60s and ‘70s, ERASE will combine Cole’s hyper-verbal texts with Lovett/Codagnone’s austere installations and endurance performances. The gallery exhibition will become the play, and the play will be the gallery exhibition. Based loosely on a true story of a victim whose willing involvement in a violent murder and cannibalization garnered international headlines, ERASE will cross the line into territory where individuals transgress social norms so completely they vanish altogether. By exploiting the physical space of the gallery and multiple yet concurrent narratives, ERASE will draw comparisons to other sorts of transgression: terrorism, art-making, and extreme politics.

http://07.performa-arts.org/venues.php?id=63
http://www.participantinc.org/