LIVE PERFORMANCE ART NEXT SUNDAY (7/31): We are incredibly fortunate to have, as part of REEMERGE, three inspired video artists, whose work is projected in a loop in our 3D space: DIANA RIUKAS (“What’sReally Going On?”), HEATHER RAQUEL PHILLIPS (“Flowers for a Pandemic”) and CHRISTY E. O’CONNOR (“Tea Time in Turbulence”). Next Sunday, JULY 31, Christy will use her video, a filmed performance, as the leaping-off point for RAISE A DRINK TO DYSTOPIA! Starting at 3 PM — with Heather, her fellow interdisciplinary artist, behind the bar — Christy will act and interact in this impromptu, unscripted performance art piece. “Who knew these dark dystopian days would be so drab and dare I say....ordinary?,” muses Christy. “What else is there to do to pass the time at the end of the world than to raise a drink to dystopia?! Inspired by parallels between conditions leading up to the French Revolution and late-stage American capitalism — from plague and wealth inequality, to the demand for individual rights of citizens, leading to political unrest and general discontent and discord of the masses — I am imagining a modern day Marie Antoinette, out of touch and out of reach, eerily like our present day leaders.” So please join us on Sunday, starting at 3:00, to hang out with the Queen (and probably hear some Queen on the juke during Christy’s piece!). Vive l’arte! Vide ton verre Chez Frank!
CHRISTY E. O’CONNOR
“Raise a Drink to Dystopia!”
Live performance art
Sunday, July 31
3:00 on
Dirty Frank’s/OFF THE WALL
NE Corner, 13th & Pine
