The Films of Mark Morrisroe, featuring The Laziest Girl in Town, Hello from Bertha and Nymph-o-maniac. To accompany his new solo show thirtynothing, performance artist Dan Fishback curates a month-long series of events about the legacy of AIDS on queer art and culture.
Sunday, October 16 at 5pm
Dixon Place, 161A Christie Street, NYC
Tickets: $5 suggested donation
The events will take place in The Lounge at Dixon Place, where Fishback will also create an art installation made of ephemera from the lives and careers of gay artists, writers, and performers who died of AIDS
The events will take place in The Lounge at Dixon Place, where Fishback will also create an art installation made of ephemera from the lives and careers of gay artists, writers, and performers who died of AIDS
Dan Fishback's new performance, thirtynothing, juxtaposes tales from the terrifying dawn of the AIDS epidemic with stories from his own more innocent childhood in those same years. As he unearths forgotten work by gay artists who died in the 80s and 90s, Fishback weaves stories from his own life through stories from theirs. Searching for role models and father figures amongst artists like Mark Morrisroe, David Wojnarowicz, David B. Feinberg, Essex Hemphill and many more, Fishback interacts with their work, dramatizing the generation gap between older and younger gay men. With insight, wit, and his characteristic dark, neurotic humor, Fishback tears open issues of sexual intimacy, mass death and cultural memory, creating an abstract theatrical landscape where the living and the dead can co-mingle and collaborate.
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