Tim Cusack & Patrice Miller
This performance reimagines Walt Whitman’s iconic ode to human anatomy from the perspective of a 50-something, HIV-positive gay man. The work foregrounds Cusack’s queer, aging, “diseased” bodily presence as the focus of the performance, in the process disrupting and challenging normative valuations concerning “masculinity,” “youth,” and “health.” Cusack’s living presence—amplified by his dancing alone and speaking aloud in public on a busy New York City street—will be juxtaposed with manipulated audio and video simulations of his voice and body by artist Daniel McKleinfeld projected onto surrounding surfaces and live-streamed via social media.
pingthebodyelectric.comDATE & TIME
Friday May 14, Saturday May 15, Sunday May 16
1pm, 4pm, and 7pm
LOCATION
432 West 14th Street (in front of the former site of the legendary 1990s queer nightclub Mother/Jackie 60)
Tim Cusack (text, performer, co-choreographer) is the co-founder and artistic director of Theatre Askew, a company dedicated to queer representations onstage. For his work with Askew Next magazine named him a “Future Legend” and he was inducted to the Indy Theater Hall of Fame. He currently adjuncts at Hunter College’s Theatre department.
Patrice Miller (director, co-choreographer) Credits: This Joint is Jumpin, The Other Palace, London; James Judd’s Funny Stories; In the Pines, AUSTRAL, Buenos Aires; Mad Jenny’s Love und Greed; Paul Auster’s City of Glass; Vaclav Havel’s The Pig … Work for The Brooklyn Museum, Prelude/CUNY GRAD, COIL festival, NYC Fashion Week.
patricemillerperformance.comDaniel McKleinfeld (video installation) creates video art that merges the medium’s classical function as documentation of reality and its contemporary aesthetics as planes of pixilated data. In addition to creating video for theater, he has made many video paintings, projections for musical performances, and performs live video collage under the name VJ Fuzzy Bastard.
