Final NATURE FETISH performances (and a few photos from last weekend)

This weekend be sure to come out to Grace Exhibition Space  for the FINAL EDITIONS of  NATURE FETISH: A Public Opera and Exhibition of Performance!

Thursday July 19th: 8pm-11pm
Friday July 20th: 8pm-11pm
Saturday July 21st: 4pm opera only, 8pm-11pm opera and exhibition

NATURE FETISH is a project conceived across social and disciplinary spheres. In its final state, it is a Public Opera, a hybrid, documentary, participatory, musical, situational performance of approximately 90 minutes. The opera will be presented by New York City’s first and only dedicated gallery for performance art, Grace Exhibition Space (840 Broadway Brooklyn, NY J/M/Z to Myrtle/Broadway).  As part of each performance, PPL-curated artists working in time-based performance will deal directly with the “nature” of performance, operation of “nature” in performance, and conceptions of “nature” as such.

The 70-minute opera starts at 8pm each night (+ a 4pm performance on Saturday), the exhibition takes over at 9:30ish each night.

Thursday July 19: The Natural Spirit: field recordings, indeterminacy, fluxus, improvisation and the influence of performance art’s  “nature” on music and dance. FEATURING: The Panoply Performance Laboratory (8pm opera) + Jason Anastasoff, Lindsey Drury (pictured below left) and Kyli Klevan

Friday July 20: Rituals and Totems: cultural semiology, feminism, naturalism, post-humanism, and the problematics of performance and anthropology. FEATURING: The Panoply Performance Laboratory (8pm opera) + Lillie D’Armon, Anya Liftig, Quinn Dukes (pictured at top right) and Kikuko Tanaka.

Saturday, July 21: Video and the Nature of the Self: Featuring: The Panoply Performance Laboratory (4pm and 8pm opera) + Alessandra Eramo with David Grollman,  Heather Warren Crow, Valerie Kuehne/ (pictured below right) Tuba?NoTuba,  and Joseph Keckler.

Photos by Ryan Hawk