http://mybarbarian.com My Barbarian Mon, 13 May 2013 07:29:15 +0000 http://mybarbarian.com en http://www.mybarbarian.com/Voyage-of-the-White-Widow http://www.mybarbarian.com/following/mybarbarian.com/Voyage-of-the-White-Widow Mon, 13 May 2013 07:29:15 +0000 My Barbarian 2336011 The Golden Age from My Barbarian. A post-colonial fantasy. 
Drunken, cross-dressing sailors, a Dutch-speaking sea gull puppet, sequined Mer-men, wet underwear contest, and the unresolved trauma of slavery – all in one fun-filled spectacular! <img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336011/Barbarian_Whit_122.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336011/Barbarian_Whit_122_o.JPG" data-mid="11738404" border="0" align="left"/> This piece was originally developed for and performed at de Appel in Amsterdam, NL. Also performed at the Lindhurst Gallery, USC, LA and as part of Performa 07 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. <img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336011/IMG_9734.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1080" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336011/IMG_9734_o.jpg" data-mid="11738406" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336011/Barbarian_Whit_3.JPG" width="670" height="893" width_o="2048" height_o="2730" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336011/Barbarian_Whit_3_o.JPG" data-mid="11738335" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336011/Barbarian_Whit_12.JPG" width="670" height="893" width_o="2048" height_o="2730" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336011/Barbarian_Whit_12_o.JPG" data-mid="11738341" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336011/Barbarian_Whit_20.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336011/Barbarian_Whit_20_o.JPG" data-mid="11738353" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336011/Barbarian_Whit_26.JPG" width="670" height="893" width_o="2048" height_o="2730" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336011/Barbarian_Whit_26_o.JPG" data-mid="11738365" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336011/Barbarian_Whit_33.JPG" width="670" height="893" width_o="2048" height_o="2730" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336011/Barbarian_Whit_33_o.JPG" data-mid="11738376" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336011/Barbarian_Whit_62.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336011/Barbarian_Whit_62_o.JPG" data-mid="11738380" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336011/Barbarian_Whit_81.JPG" width="670" height="893" width_o="2048" height_o="2730" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336011/Barbarian_Whit_81_o.JPG" data-mid="11738389" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336011/Barbarian_Whit_98.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336011/Barbarian_Whit_98_o.JPG" data-mid="11738397" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336011/MB-Golden-Age-1.jpg" width="670" height="522" width_o="1664" height_o="1297" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336011/MB-Golden-Age-1_o.jpg" data-mid="11738407" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336011/My-Barbarian-10.jpg" width="670" height="452" width_o="1818" height_o="1228" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336011/My-Barbarian-10_o.jpg" data-mid="11738409" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336011/my-barbarian-11.jpg" width="670" height="991" width_o="1228" height_o="1818" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336011/my-barbarian-11_o.jpg" data-mid="11738415" border="0" align="left"/> The Golden Age from My Barbarian. A post-colonial fantasy. 
Drunken, cross-dressing sailors, a Dutch-speaking sea gull puppet, sequined Mer-men, wet underwear... http://www.mybarbarian.com/Dance-Witches-Dance http://www.mybarbarian.com/following/mybarbarian.com/Dance-Witches-Dance Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:21:34 +0000 My Barbarian 2336952 The Dance Witches Dance performance was made especially for the show in Het Domein in Sittard and travelled on to the Luckman Gallery in Los Angeles. Lara Schnitger played the artist who sells her soul to the 3 witches (My Barbarian) in exchange for her works to come to life. The performance takes place in the gallery space around three giant sculptures. Each sculpture depicts a woman with all her powers, drawn into a witchy web. Stills from "The Only One" video shoot by Rosalie Knox <img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336952/SNC19628.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336952/SNC19628_o.JPG" data-mid="11739301" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336952/SNC19636.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336952/SNC19636_o.JPG" data-mid="11739322" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336952/SNC19679.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336952/SNC19679_o.JPG" data-mid="11739331" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336952/SNC19686.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336952/SNC19686_o.JPG" data-mid="11739341" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336952/SNC19689.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336952/SNC19689_o.JPG" data-mid="11739356" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336952/SNC19697.JPG" width="670" height="893" width_o="2048" height_o="2730" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336952/SNC19697_o.JPG" data-mid="11739365" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336952/SNC19712.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336952/SNC19712_o.JPG" data-mid="11739371" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336952/SNC19750.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336952/SNC19750_o.JPG" data-mid="11739377" border="0" align="left"/> "The Only One" is the first video collaboration by Lara Schnitger and My Barbarian. The film was shot in the screening room of Liberace's old house in the Hollywood Hills. Patterned couches, a small stage, and the screen became the backdrop of an interaction in which actors become sculptures and sculptures come alive. Inspired by a soft porn Japanese photo novel, Lycra fetish web sites and sculptural actions out of my studio, we started to play and improvise. They merge the fabric from costumes into sculpture and their own skin. "Dance Witches Dance" performed at Museum Het Domein, Sittard, NL, 2008. The Dance Witches Dance performance was made especially for the show in Het Domein in Sittard and travelled on to the Luckman Gallery in Los Angeles. Lara Schnitger... http://www.mybarbarian.com/Ecos-de-los-Ecos-de-los-Ecos http://www.mybarbarian.com/following/mybarbarian.com/Ecos-de-los-Ecos-de-los-Ecos Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:00:04 +0000 My Barbarian 2854637 My Barbarian: Eco #1 from oncentro on Vimeo. E C H O E S O F E C H O E S E C O S D E L O S E C O S Emotional spaces. According to Osvaldo Sanchez, Matthias Goeritz had an “open understanding of the concept of collective authorship,” was “indifferent to ... personal style,” had an “interest in ordinary materials,” and “a commitment to the primacy of the natural environment as the ideal context for all aesthetic experiences.” Our project reflects upon these precepts to realize Goeritz’s stated intention that El Eco would be “a meeting point to experience artistic creation freely and convivially. It would be an open and transformable space: experimental museum, art gallery, theater, dance space...which, under it’s roof, would integrate art, artists, visitors, and work. It would be a museum, a living museum.” Our collective effort’s aim is to echo Goeritz’s “emotional architecture” while exploring the history, and various uses and legacies, of the site since its inauguration September 7, 1953. <img src="http://payload27.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2854637/malik-eleco.JPG" width="670" height="377" width_o="2048" height_o="1154" src_o="http://payload27.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2854637/malik-eleco_o.JPG" data-mid="23630562" border="0" align="left"/> 1. ECO #1 Museo Experimental El Eco / El Espacio Escultorico. Echoing an interest in collective production, My Barbarian will collaborate with the production team at El Eco on a Gesamtkunstwerk composed on site while working on view in the main gallery of El Eco. The composition will then be performed (and taped) in an outdoor performance at El Espacio Escultorico (Date: August 19), and the documentation shown in the gallery. <img src="http://payload27.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2854637/IMG_2478.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload27.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2854637/IMG_2478_o.JPG" data-mid="23630681" border="0" align="left"/> 2. ECO #2 Museo Experimental El Eco Bar. Re-icreating a lesbian bar that was once took place on the premises, My Barbarian will host an event performed by a cast of Mexico Citybased performers and a live all-femal audience; video taped and edited into a cinematic narrative. Featuring Las Reinas Chulas, Isabel, Veronica, My Barbarian., etc. Shoot Dates: August 20-21. <img src="http://payload27.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2854637/reinas-chulas.png" width="670" height="376" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="http://payload27.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2854637/reinas-chulas_o.png" data-mid="23630621" border="0" align="left"/> 3. ECO #3 Live mural / video collage shown in process throughout August. A video camera and green screen are set up in the gallery. As My Barbarian works with other artists and viewers in the space, participants will be asked to hold poses for video taping. The poses will be collaged into a final video projection. The design for the mural will echo O’Gorman’s design for the UNAM library. 4. ECO #4 El Eco, Upstairs Gallery. Looped projection of My Barbarian’s video, Non-Western (Backdrop), 2008, 40 mins. The video serves to accompany the performance Non-Western, parts of which will be occasionally and intermittently performed by My Barbarian while working in the space. Set to music, the video shows Spanish song lyrics across backdrops shot in Los Angeles neighborhoods such as Echo Park, Boyle Heights, Highland Park, and other areas with a strong Mexican influence. 5. ECHO OF ECHOES #1-4 A closing event by My Barbarian and their collaborators at El Eco, in response to the exhibition which has been built over the last month. Date: Sept 4. My Barbarian travel dates to Mexico City: Alexandro Segade: August 9 - September 5 Malik Gaines: August 9-22, September 2-5. Jade Gordon: August 17-22, September 2-5. Technical requirements: 1. Camera (August 9 - September 4). 2. Mini-disc audio recorder (August 9 - September 4). 3. Pro-Tools (provided by MB?) 4. Final-Cut Pro (provided by MB?) 5. Play off DVD players?; Minimacs? Gallery installation (August 10 - September 4). 1. Green screen. 2. 2 Projectors (1 for living mural; 1 for Non-Western video; other videos) 3. 1 Projection Screen (for Non-Western). 4. Speakers for both videos. 5. PA system, 1 keyboard, 2 speakers, 6 microphones, (check Resplendor equipment) for composition and performing in the gallery. 6. lighting kit + colored gels (used for lighting mural and shooting bar scene, August 20 or 21) University Campus shoot: (August 19) 1. Camera + Camera operator 2. Sound recording 3. Generator for guitar & bass amps, amps, keyboard. 4. Helicopter? <img src="http://payload27.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2854637/mb00001.jpg" width="670" height="376" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="http://payload27.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2854637/mb00001_o.jpg" data-mid="14510038" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload27.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2854637/mb00002.jpg" width="670" height="376" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="http://payload27.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2854637/mb00002_o.jpg" data-mid="14510040" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload27.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2854637/IMG_8737.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1536" height_o="1024" src_o="http://payload27.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2854637/IMG_8737_o.jpg" data-mid="14510065" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload27.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2854637/IMG_8741.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1536" height_o="1024" src_o="http://payload27.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2854637/IMG_8741_o.jpg" data-mid="14510069" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload27.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2854637/IMG_3461.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="1600" height_o="1200" src_o="http://payload27.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2854637/IMG_3461_o.jpg" data-mid="14510093" border="0" align="left"/> My Barbarian: Eco #1 from oncentro on Vimeo. E C H O E S O F E C H O E S E C O S D E L O S E C O S Emotional spaces. According to Osvaldo Sanchez, Matthias... http://www.mybarbarian.com/Forest-Bros-Sisters-Myth-Appropriation-Exchange-Pogrom http://www.mybarbarian.com/following/mybarbarian.com/Forest-Bros-Sisters-Myth-Appropriation-Exchange-Pogrom Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:22:15 +0000 My Barbarian 2337010 A collaboration with Liudni Slibinai. Forest Brothers and Sisters, Baltic Triennial, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania 2009 <img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2337010/IMG_2032.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2337010/IMG_2032_o.JPG" data-mid="11857791" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2337010/IMG_2033.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2337010/IMG_2033_o.JPG" data-mid="11857797" border="0" align="left"/> A collaboration with Liudni Slibinai. Forest Brothers and Sisters, Baltic Triennial, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania 2009 http://www.mybarbarian.com/PoLAAT http://www.mybarbarian.com/following/mybarbarian.com/PoLAAT Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:19:57 +0000 My Barbarian 2336998 In 2008, during a residency at the New Museum, My Barbarian developed the Post-Living Ante-Action Theater (PoLAAT). The project was envisioned as a pedagogical model and (self-consciously) codified technique that would become a way to work with a large group of artists in creating a theatrical process of artistic collaboration as about grappling with the history of radical leftist theatrical and artistic production. Using historical models such as the Living Theater, Fassbinder's anti-theater, and Theater of the Oppressed, the PoLAAT workshop facilitates group-building, cultural exchange and political critique through imaginative reenactments. After its initial production at the New Museum, the PoLAAT has been performed with different interdisciplinary groups of participants in Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporaneo, Trento, Italy, Townhouse Gallery / Rawabet Theatre, Cairo, Egypt, 2008; Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida 2009; El Matadero and ARCO, Madrid, Spain, 2010; and American Repertory Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 2010. In 2012, My Barbarian received a Creative Capital grant to make PoLAAT performances in Israel and to re-unite the group in Cairo in a series of workshops. <img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336998/segade.lead.jpg" width="544" height="408" width_o="544" height_o="408" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336998/segade.lead_o.jpg" data-mid="30226673" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336998/polaat-web2.jpg" width="486" height="477" width_o="486" height_o="477" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336998/polaat-web2_o.jpg" data-mid="30226679" border="0" align="left"/> PoLAAT: Mandate to Participate from My Barbarian on Vimeo. PoLAAT: The Life Story of Barack Hussein Obama: Race Speech Improvisation from My Barbarian on Vimeo. Post-Living Ante-Action Theater: Post-Paradise Workshop from My Barbarian on Vimeo. Post-Living Ante-Action Theater: Cairo (Excerpt) from My Barbarian on Vimeo. Post-Living Ante-Action Theater: Levitation Workshop from My Barbarian on Vimeo. PoLAAT Madrid: La Época Dorada / Human Sacrifice from My Barbarian on Vimeo. {image 1caption=PoLAAT Cairo: Eleven Human Senses}<img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336998/_O4W0514.jpg" width="641" height="427" width_o="641" height_o="427" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336998/_O4W0514_o.jpg" data-mid="11813252" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336998/_O4W0531.jpg" width="640" height="427" width_o="640" height_o="427" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336998/_O4W0531_o.jpg" data-mid="11813259" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336998/_O4W0549.jpg" width="640" height="427" width_o="640" height_o="427" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336998/_O4W0549_o.jpg" data-mid="11813266" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336998/_O4W0558.jpg" width="633" height="480" 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data-mid="11813900" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336998/SNC18835.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336998/SNC18835_o.JPG" data-mid="11813948" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336998/SNC18836.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336998/SNC18836_o.JPG" data-mid="11813990" border="0" align="left"/> In 2008, during a residency at the New Museum, My Barbarian developed the Post-Living Ante-Action Theater (PoLAAT). The project was envisioned as a pedagogical... http://www.mybarbarian.com/The-Fourth-Wall http://www.mybarbarian.com/following/mybarbarian.com/The-Fourth-Wall Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:18:13 +0000 My Barbarian 2336984 The culmination of a month long residency during which My Barbarian shot footage of the museum workers installing the 30th Anniversary show. Footage of the installation process was edited together to create a video piece projected on the wall outside the museum's entrance. My Barbarian also interviewed staff members from every echelon of the institution. The series of questions investigated the psychological and emotional impact the museum's recent financial crisis had on the staff. The Fourth Wall (Transparency) from My Barbarian on Vimeo. <img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336984/4346906821_d9b7341125_o.jpg" width="670" height="490" width_o="800" height_o="586" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336984/4346906821_d9b7341125_o_o.jpg" data-mid="11813102" border="0" align="left"/> During the event, chorographer Hana Van Der Kolk and dancers performed progressions based on observations of the party-goers' behavior and acting students enacted an adaptation of Augusto Boal's "Invisible Theatre" in strategic places amongst the crowd. My Barbarian created the scripts by compiling, transcribing, and editing the MOCA employees' interviews. “What is the museum’s responsibility to the public?” “What does this collection say about art history?” “Have you ever cried at work?” The scenes, performed while the actors stood in long drink lines, provoked dialogue and participation. <img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336984/4346907361_021db53fa8_o.jpg" width="670" height="448" width_o="800" height_o="536" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336984/4346907361_021db53fa8_o_o.jpg" data-mid="11813103" border="0" align="left"/> A live feed filmed multiple DJs and dancers in a downstairs auditorium. Their images were projected upstairs in the courtyard. As a culminating action, My Barbarian and the group of 20 actors and dancers performed a final musical spectacule wearing elaborate handmade shimmery, semi-transparent costumes inspired by the 1970s space soul group La Belle. <img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336984/4346907563_8f4ec2726a_o.jpg" width="670" height="496" width_o="800" height_o="593" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336984/4346907563_8f4ec2726a_o_o.jpg" data-mid="11813104" border="0" align="left"/> The culmination of a month long residency during which My Barbarian shot footage of the museum workers installing the 30th Anniversary show. Footage of the... http://www.mybarbarian.com/Broke-People-s-Baroque-Peoples-Theater http://www.mybarbarian.com/following/mybarbarian.com/Broke-People-s-Baroque-Peoples-Theater Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:16:38 +0000 My Barbarian 2336974 Shakuntala DuBois from My Barbarian SF MOMA, August 18, 2012 Installation views from Flat Busted Wig Beauty Window Fatale at Transformer Gallery, Washington DC, September 2012. <img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/580373_343003822455958_783701160_n.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="960" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/580373_343003822455958_783701160_n_o.jpg" data-mid="21773340" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/644651_343003882455952_2142343895_n.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="960" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/644651_343003882455952_2142343895_n_o.jpg" data-mid="21773343" 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src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/384239_343004635789210_379723085_n.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="960" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/384239_343004635789210_379723085_n_o.jpg" data-mid="21773304" border="0" align="left"/> The Broke People's Baroque Peoples' Theater engages questions of economic inequity, artistic patronage, and a culture of excess (or excess of culture). It is: obsessed with classical allusion, doomed to camp, adorned in costume, engaged in masquerade and surrounded by sculpture. With a queer attitude toward cheap materials, the Broke People's Baroque People's Theater decorates itself in a hyper-feminine aestheticism to undermine class(y) distinctions of taste. A wealth of poverty, the chintzy is rich. Broke Barqoue Suite, a performance video shot in My Barbarian's LA studio, 2012. 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src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/SEGADE_29_o.jpg" data-mid="21772303" border="0" align="left"/> "I, Object" - performed by Jade Gordon, Cassandra Wasserstein-Shakespeare's song, excerpted from the video "Shakuntala DuBois." The Broke/Baroque originated as a performance project developed for “Ecstatic Resistance,” curated by Emily Roysdon, at Grand Arts, Kansas City, 2009, with performances at The Kitchen, NY, and San Diego Museum of Art in 2011, and a screening and performance at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2012. The project has since been developed into an exhibition featuring video, sculpture, drawing and masks and a performance series at Human Resources, Los Angeles, 2012. Most recently, the project was presented as a three part performance residency at SF MOMA for the exhibition Stage Presence: Theatricality in Art and Media" and created a new installation for the Transformer Gallery in Washington DC, called Flat Busted Wig Beauty Window Fatale. Stills from "Hairomancy" and "Object Opera," two Broke Baroque video productions. <img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/SEGADE_13.jpg" width="670" height="376" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/SEGADE_13_o.jpg" data-mid="21772161" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/SEGADE_14.jpg" width="670" height="376" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/SEGADE_14_o.jpg" data-mid="21772182" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/SEGADE_15.jpg" width="670" height="376" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/SEGADE_15_o.jpg" data-mid="21772195" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/SEGADE_8.jpg" width="670" height="376" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/SEGADE_8_o.jpg" data-mid="21772127" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/SEGADE_9.jpg" width="670" height="376" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/SEGADE_9_o.jpg" data-mid="21772132" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/SEGADE_11.jpg" width="670" height="376" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/SEGADE_11_o.jpg" data-mid="21772141" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/SEGADE_12.jpg" width="670" height="376" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/SEGADE_12_o.jpg" data-mid="21772151" border="0" align="left"/> Object Opera, a video production of the BPBPT, performs two Baroque operas, two Maoist model dramas, and one Brechtian Lehrstück. First production of Broke Baroque performed at Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO, 2010. <img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/IMG_3770.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/IMG_3770_o.JPG" data-mid="21836706" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/IMG_3743.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/IMG_3743_o.JPG" data-mid="21836742" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/IMG_3698.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/IMG_3698_o.JPG" data-mid="21836812" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/IMG_3735.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/IMG_3735_o.JPG" data-mid="21836962" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/IMG_3774.JPG" width="670" height="893" width_o="2048" height_o="2730" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/IMG_3774_o.JPG" data-mid="21837126" border="0" align="left"/> Lyrics of the Broke People's Baroque Peoples' Theater Gods of Play Artistic innovation Patronized by royal advisors Wasteful spending In a time of distraction and war Gods of Play Artificial dolphins spitting plumes of aqua in fake island fountains Infrastructure crumbles As the pleasure palace rises Admirers encounter all the nobles’ clothes In Rome, Il Castrati sing the great sopranos In Madrid, Las Majas play the tragic heroes A succession of monarchs and economic disasters Taxation of workers but not their masters Violence! The view from above is the best seat in the house Such a different time - I’m just sayin’ From 1580-1680, roughly The Baroque broke out in a rash of golden ages From Italy to France to Austria to Holland to Spain Also, Vilnius, Lithuania Catholicism rebranded In a flurry of curly golden scrambled eggs Which are inedible Such a different time I’m just sayin’ Five Seasons Spring - it doesn't matter if you have money when you are young and healthy and gay Autumn - enough to buy coffee, but you have to wear three sweaters under your blanket in your apartment at night Summer -upward mobility means having a friend who has a swimming pool Fall - it's all over now, they are coming, your debts will be paid, one way or another now your debts will be paid, one way or another now Winter - you almost died but you stayed alive because the envelope arrived just in time Artisan’s Lament The palace that I designed you From dreams that at one time were mine My plans drawn in lines That bind me, entwine me, remind me That buildings are structures which crumble As pencil pressed firmly will break And if you paid me ten thousand pounds a year I could never afford to live here And though I chose all the décor, my dear I will never sit in this chair From this chair You watch the entertainments A royal ballet composed of my dreams Choreography Offers only sad hints Of a life I can never redeem And if you paid me a million coins so rare It would never allay my fear You could replace me by this time next year Why must I make my art To serve you and your class? I should use all my skill To empower the mass But those people from below What the hell do they know About art? All these things that I resent It is the artisan’s lament I, Object i object you incorporate bodies monies i object you don't own me even though you bought me you want to return me but you don't own me you don't own me i object on table or pedestal you want to show me off even though it was you who lost the receipt i object you incorporate bodies monies Lyrics by Alexandro Segade, 2010-12 <img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/IMG_3133.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336974/IMG_3133_o.JPG" data-mid="21837221" border="0" align="left"/> The Three Goddesses, Photo by Gabi Vru, 2011 Shakuntala DuBois from My Barbarian SF MOMA, August 18, 2012 Installation views from Flat Busted Wig Beauty Window Fatale at Transformer Gallery, Washington... http://www.mybarbarian.com/Tourists-from-the-Future http://www.mybarbarian.com/following/mybarbarian.com/Tourists-from-the-Future Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:11:57 +0000 My Barbarian 2336947 LA-based artists Megan Whitmarsh and My Barbarian collaborated to create a performance and objects responding to Robert Wilson’s Watermill's site and collection. Together over the course of their two-week residency, they produced a sci-fi, new wave pop fable of time-travel and eco-tourism. Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY 2011. <img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336947/IMG_0378_2.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336947/IMG_0378_2_o.JPG" data-mid="11738861" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336947/IMG_0462.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336947/IMG_0462_o.JPG" data-mid="11738866" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336947/IMG_1877.JPG" width="670" height="693" width_o="2048" height_o="2119" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336947/IMG_1877_o.JPG" data-mid="11738872" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336947/IMG_1878.JPG" width="670" height="851" width_o="2048" height_o="2603" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336947/IMG_1878_o.JPG" data-mid="11738879" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336947/IMG_1879.JPG" width="670" height="651" width_o="2048" height_o="1992" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336947/IMG_1879_o.JPG" data-mid="11738891" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336947/IMG_1881.JPG" width="670" height="443" width_o="2048" height_o="1357" src_o="http://payload1.cargocollective.com/1/5/172072/2336947/IMG_1881_o.JPG" data-mid="11738897" border="0" align="left"/> LA-based artists Megan Whitmarsh and My Barbarian collaborated to create a performance and objects responding to Robert Wilson’s Watermill's site and collection.... http://www.mybarbarian.com/The-Night-Epi-ode http://www.mybarbarian.com/following/mybarbarian.com/The-Night-Epi-ode Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:11:20 +0000 My Barbarian 2336943 The Night Epi$ode links narratives of supernatural anxiety with tales of middle class collapse. Inspired by episodic TV shows from the 1950s-‘80s, particularly Rod Serling’s Night Gallery, Gaines, Gordon, and Segade perform in six short video episodes. 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Inspired by episodic TV shows from the 1950s-‘80s, particularly...