PERFORMANCE PRACTICES

“performance art” “dance” “theatre” “performance philosophy.” 

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2025:
ONGOING: ARC (Affection Research Center): pay-what-you-can tattoos, haircuts, and tarot readings (all donations/tips to Gaza)

Saturday, September 20, 2025: Everything Must Go, with PAL (Public Action League)
April: ABC No Rio 45 Years, Emily Harvey Foundation and on the street at the ABC No Rio building site on the LES (with Noah Ortega and 3dwardsharp) 

January-June: OUR STUDIES SHOW
Project supported by SPCUNY Fellowship

January: PerforcraZe International Artist Residency (PiAR) at crazinisartist studios, Kumasi, Ghana 

2024:

Nov-Dec
OUR STUDIES SHOW, sign up HERE
Project supported by SPCUNY Fellowship

June 19-23
Temporary Autonomous Theory (TAT) 
PSi (Performance Studies International), University of London, London, UK

May 16-20
Experimental Agencies and the Tragic Model
Performance Philosophy Conference, University of Texas, Austin, TX (with Noah Ortega)

ONGOING/PAST 

(2023-ONGOING): Temporary Autonomous Theory (TAT) involves auto-research through which i pervert academia and situate autonomous collective philosophy. A series of experiments, hybrid between experimental philosophy, theatre, and social sciences studies, often with paid participating “layperson” auto-researchers, and/or with “academic” scholars. Hypotheses in the forms of diagrams, toys, games, surveys, and other manipulable conceptual materialisms. Video report of the first one (100% OF PHILOSOPHERS AGREE) here, and documentation of the SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION STUDY HERE.


SELECTED PAST WORK & PROJECTS

ARC (shifting acronym: Affect Research Center, Appropriate Response Concerns, Affective Relations Caucus, etc) 2016-2019. Including:

We Don’t Just Smoke, We Have Values, PiAR Open Studios, Kumasi, Ghana (photos below by Nii Clottey)
The Good Life/The Right Life Pittsburgh Performance Art Festival
Appearing in PublicLincoln PoPS: Global Frequencie, Lincoln, NE
Affaction Substantiation: Transactive Social Intimacy + the Intentional Transmission of Affect(ion) (2019) Para//el Performance Space, NYC
Appropriate Response Concerns (2019) Experimental Action, Houston, TX (Photo below by Kylie Arianna)
Affaction Processes (2018) at Gruentaler9 in Berlin (Photo below by Teena Lange)
AFFACTION RESEARCH CENTER (2016) Rapid Pulse in Chicago, IL.)
AUTOMATIC RELATIONAL CHOREOGRAPHY (AUNTS at Supercheif Gallery, Grace Exhibition Space, elsewhere…)
Schnittstellen-Portraitzeichnungen (2018) Sonntagsbureau, public library in Berlin, DE. Photos by Teena Lange (photos below)

A tree is also a mind (I want to go back where i came from) performance during PRESENT CONTINUOUS at Glasshouse in New Paltz, July 2023 (above)

Ark/ARC (2022) durational interactive epistemological performance and culmination as part of Barque of Desertion, Kerr Foundation, St. Louis, MO (below)

APOTEKA: The Shape of the Inconstruable Question (Berlin, 2022)

Praxis Pathways ([ONLINE] Performance Art Istanbul, 2021)

INVERSE LAB: STATUS REPORT September 15, 2020 (The Momentary, 2020) 

PROTAGONY: $100 for Truth as part of “Home As Situation” at U of Kentucky (2020)

Workshop/Performance (auto-epistemology) as part of INVERSE Summer Residency, Harold J. Miossi Gallery at Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo  (below)

BODY OF INSTITUTION: Public Grant TBA (2018) Art in Odd Places, 14th Street and Westbeth Gallery, NYC. Photos by Brian McCorkle. (below)

START (nut) HALT (2018) ‘Im Zentrum der eigenen Peripherie‘ series, curated by Anja Ibsch and Teena Lange at HOCHHAUS in Berlin, DE. Photo by Teena Lange (below)


Augury of Anxieties (2017) WAKE Performance Festival, [performance s p a c e] Folkstone, UK. Photo by Andrea Abbatangelo (below)

Pathway (in)Dependence (2017) INVERSE, Fayetteville AK. Photos by Brian McCorkle. (below)

The Scraping Shape of the Socially Cyclomythic Womb (2016) Tempting Failure, London, UK. Photo courtesy of the festival (below)

MUSCULAR BONDING

Relational March: (MI)rage
Relational March: Talk of the Town/NotHappenings
Center for Marooned Citizens
A Philosophy of Significant Patterns

with Kaia Gilje: What Remains, Dfbrl8r (Chicag0) Feb. 7-11

PROTAGONY (Expontential Festival 2020, other performances) video here of “a piece of theatre”

(In)Stated Apparitions (2018) with Anja Ibsch, German Consulate General, Goethe Foundation, NYC. Photos by Brian McCorkle. (below)

Feet on the Ground: Decolonizing Toolkit (2018) series of performances (MAW, EFA project Space in NYC, Vancouver, etc traveling exhibition) Collaboration with Maria Hupfield (call) and IV Castellanos (fellow responder) (below)
F(act)orial Governance Activity (FGA) (2018) at The Ear. 

Oniono (COMMUNITY) 2008-2018. Grace Exhibition Space, NYC. Photo by Polina Riabova.

Instigating 9 PROPOSITIONS (2018) 9 thintanks throughout 2018. The Kitchen, NYC. Photo by Anya Liftig.

Gratitude is the Antidote to Despair (2018) The Ear, NYC

3 Intentional Failures, with Kaia Gilje and Brian McCorkle, SPACE in Pittsburgh during the Pittsburgh Performance Art Festival. Photo by Valerie Kuehne.

Queer Mother Courage, Abrons Arts Center during the Queer NY Festival, evening with Social Health Performance Club

Feminist Art Group actions at Rosekill (in image with Kledia Spiro)

Critical Eye Contact, during AUNTS Dance for Camera at the New Museum, chain curated by Anya Liftig, photo by Travis Chamberlain

“I am Disparate/Desperate to Please You” performance at Grace Exhibition Space

Performance at the Bronx Museum

untitled performance at Palanzano’s in Pittsburgh, PA as part of “Vehicle Relocation Program” (2017)

Actions as/with No Wave Performance Task Force (pictured with IV Castellanos and Christen Clifford)

Abstraction is Mimetics (duo with Brian McCorkle, as PPL) English Kills Gallery, NYC

“Abstraction is Mimetics (alone)” as part of CONTEMPORARY SPACE-TIME (MPA-B), Berlin

“Brush your teeth more gently and for longer, not more violently and momentarily” at The Brick Theater, 2016

untitled actions at Public School 69 in Jackson Heights as part of ITINERANT

at Ohio State (performing w/ Valerie Kuehne, Brian McCorkle, Kaia Gilje, Joern J Burmester on our third annul “Relational March”  http://relationalmarchmirage.tumblr.com/

A Philosophy of Significant Patterns (2016) with Brian McCorkle (as PPL) SPACE TIME BODY OBJECTS, photo by Vela Phelan

(de)liberation action at Moynihan Station as PPL with Kaia Gilje and Brian mCas part of COPY/PASTE Spring Break Art Fair, photo by Ventiko (2016)

Performance with Brian McCorkle at University of Kentucky, photo by Rae Goodwin

Performance at the Cinci public library (with Brian McCorkle and Valerie Kuehne)

ideophone diagram during PULSAR at Catland event space with Brian McCorkle

(De)liberation durational performance at Gowanus Ballroom with Brian McCorkle

“Monolith” (Joseph Pastor) performance with Brian McCorkle at IV Soldiers Gallery