I Feel Your Pain, Liz Magic Laser,
A Performa Commission, Produced by Performa.
Performances at The SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street:
Sunday, November 13th, 8pm
Monday, November 14th, 8pm
LINK TO PERFORMA 11 FOR INFO & TICKETS

For Performa 11, Liz Magic Laser will present a new mixed-media performance, I Feel Your Pain, that will restage America’s recent political contests as a romantic drama. Drawing on a variety of agitprop theater tactics, particularly the Russian Constructivist idea of a “living newspaper,” the performance will examine how emotion is used to establish authenticity on America’s political stage. Staged in a movie theater, the performance will take place in the midst of the audience and on the cinema’s screen. Eight actors will perform a sequence of scenes that will trace the progression of a romantic relationship in adapted dialogues from political interviews and press conferences. Borrowing elements from historic “living newspaper” productions, the performance will feature live voice-overs, pantomime fight scenes, and mute commentaries by a clown. As the actors perform, footage from two cinematographers will be projected onto the screen as a continuous live-feed, and Laser will act as a real time editor, choosing which camera angles the audience will see.

I Feel Your Painfeatures actors Lynn Berg, Audrey Crabtree, Ray Field, Annie Fox, Kathryn Grody, Rafael Jordan, Liz Micek, and Ryan Shams. The video will be made with producer David Guinan and cinematographers Alex Hadjiloukas, Matthew Nauser and Collin Kornfeind of Polemic Media; costume stylist Felicia Garcia-Rivera; production assistants Lucia Hinojosa and Jamie Kelly. The script includes editorial contributions from Scott Indrisek, Wendy Osserman, Jess Wilcox and Tom Williams.

Co-presented by the School of Visual Art’s Visual and Critical Studies and BFA Fine Arts Departments. Supported by Performa Curators Circle member Joanne Cassullo/Dorothea Leonhardt Fund, Esther Kim Varet and Joseph Varet, Communities Foundation of Texas, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and The Dedalus Foundation.

as Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck
Annie Fox and Rafael Jordan: as Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck