MAXlive 2023 Festival - Where is My Body?
MAXlive 2023 Festival - Where is My Body?
MAQUETTE by Lisa Jamhoury + BAG OF WORMS by Matt Romein (double bill):
Friday, November 10 @ 7:30PM & Saturday, November 11 @ 2PMMERCEDES by Modesto “Flako” Jimenez:
Saturday, November 11 @ 5-10PM (15 minute appointments)WHITENESS (excerpts) by Kameron Neal and Paul Pinto:
Tuesday, November 7 @ 2PM
Media Art Xploration (MAX) presents MAXlive 2023: Where Is My Body?, a festival of world premiere and new performances grappling with some of the most pressing questions opened up by scientific and technological advancements, and how they’ve reshaped our relationship to our bodies and minds. MAXlive 2023 includes works developed by artists in the MAXmachina laboratory program, the organization’s incubator for new work at the intersection of performance, science, and technology. The festival productions will be presented at Onassis ONX (645 5th Avenue, Manhattan) and National Sawdust (80 N 6th Street, Brooklyn), two sites of bold artistic experimentation, November 8-11.
More about the Performances:
MAQUETTE by Lisa Jamhoury
An exploration of the parallel histories of averaging and idealism in art and society. As an audience watches the live performance, the performers’ movements drive avatars in a projected virtual world creating a genre-bending story that unfolds in space.
MERCEDES by Modesto Flako Jimenez
Community connection, the relationships between matriarchy and ancestors, familial bonds and inherited trauma, and how our own identity can impact our mental health.
BAG OF WORMS by Matt Romein
A devised theater performance composed of vignettes, monologues, and games inspired by topics as far ranging as body horror, creative violence, the WarioWare video game series, and more.
WHITENESS (EXCERPTS) By Paul Pinto & Kameron Neal
A humorous self-interrogation of Paul’s maddening inner thoughts as a mixed-race American, visibly brown, and invisibly trying not to be so white.