(PPL)**********is a flexible collective, thinktank, and organizational entity. PPL has operated across disciplines and forms, performing research, making “operas of operations,” as well as performance art, dance, installation, social and relational projects, a “natural history museum,” a touring diner (etc), orienting each individual projects around concept-specific modes of inquiry. From 2012-2018, PPL was also a lab site in Brooklyn, NY. Most generally, PPL is dedicated to experimental philosophy and practical phenomenology regarding “the social” across scales and spheres; we humans are social mammals and are perhaps response-able to ourselves and others, not least of all, obligated to hosting commensal and mutual organisms and clean up our own messes? whatshouldido.art (Deontological Auto-Researcher®: WHAT SHOULD I DO?® FIND OUT IN 5 QUESTIONS)
Portfolio blog “PPL index”
PERFORMANCY FORUM (see “organizing”)
DOCUMENTATION/PROJECTS (list and links to all “operas of operations” at the bottom of this page)
On the Cranial Nerves of Barbarians II: A CARP SANCTUARY
Trailer
excerpts
Heidegger’s Indiana
FULL OPERA (ONLINE OPERA IN A SET OF VIDEOS produced for the Exponential Festival)
Embarrassed of the Whole (EotW) Phase III
(image by Megan Raymond for SU Art Galleries of Phase III “Whole at Last” at Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD)
Embarrassed of the Whole (EotW) Phase II
(image by Karl Cooney of month of 64+ “user-defined” individual operations at PPL lab site, NYC…image from User “daver”)
Embarrassed of the Whole (EotW) Phase I
(image from performance during Pittsburgh Performance Art Festival as part of arrays of performances across EotW matrix locations)
Any Size Mirror is a Dictator
(Photo by Robert Zott of 7-week culminating performances/evolving installation at Momenta Art, NYC)
NATURE FETISH
(image of performances at University Settlement, NYC)
You’re a Big Boy Now, or Rauschenberg Ist Todlich
(image by Teena Lange of iteration at Gruentaler9 in Berlin, DE)
The Last Dreams of Helene Weigel OR How to Get Rid of The Feminism Once and For All(
(image from performances at Surreal Estate, NYC)
The Transformational Grammar of the Institutional Glorybowl III (Institut_Institute)
(performances at the cell, NYC)
The Transformational Grammar of the Institutional Glorybowl II (Workforce_Forcedwork)
(image from chashama residency performances on 42nd St.)
The Transformational Grammar of the Institutional Glorybowl I (Schooled and Unschooled)
(image from performances at Dixon Place)
On the Cranial Nerves of Barbarians
(image from performances at Dixon Place)
Operas of Operations(PPL)
On the Cranial Nerves of Barbarians II: A Carp Sanctuary (2023)Heidegger’s Indiana (2021)
PROTAGONY (2020)
Embarrassed of the Whole (EotW) (2017-2019)
Any Size Mirror is a Dictator (2014-2015)
NATURE FETISH (2012)
You’re a Big Boy Now, or Rauschenberg Ist Todlich (2012)
The Last Dreams of Helene Weigel OR How to Get Rid of The Feminism Once and For All (2011)
The Transformational Grammar of the Institutional Glorybowl I (Schooled and Unschooled) II (2011) (Workforce_Forcedwork) and III (Institut_Institute) (2009-2010)
On the Cranial Nerves of Barbarians (2008)
Esther Marveta Neff 