PERFORMANCE
WEDNESDAY - SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6 - 10, 2019
7:00 PM WEDNESDAY - FRIDAY
5:00 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY

Nairi Baghramian / Maria Hassabi / Janette Laverrière / Carlo Mollino: Entre Deux Actes (Ménage à Quatre)
Performa 19
1014
1014 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan

Free (with R.S.V.P.)
http://performa19.org/tickets/entre-deux-actes-menage-a-quatre

When the great Swiss-French Modernist designer/activist Janette Laverrière was still alive, artist Nairi Bagrhamian worked with her to create an installation piece exploring the gender-political implications of a greenroom for female performers Laverrière had once designed, criticized at the time for being too "feminine". That was the ménage a deux. Then Bagrhamian decided to directly reference the female body (the inhabitants of the greenroom) by adding to the installation items from her collection of erotic photographs taken by the late Italian architecht Carlo Mollino. That was the ménage à trois. Now the artist/choreographer Maria Hassabi has added live movement elements to the piece. That's the ménage à quatre. It all takes place on two floors of a grand Fifth Avenue mansion. All available spaces are currently taken, so look sharp if you want to go.

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