October 13th-21st, 2017, Julie Brown’s Homecoming Queen’s Got a Gun – The Musical, in which I designed a puppet opened at the Cavern Club Theater in Los Angeles for fourth run.
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The Feeder, Portland Oregon
The weekend of October 15th and 16th, 2016, I performed The Feeder at Beady Little Eyes puppet slam
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On June 12th and 13th, 2015, I performed The Feeder, a short solo tabletop puppetry piece that explores the unintended consequences of a complicated relationship.
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In 2015, Object of Her Affection was the recipient of a Project Grant from the Jim Henson Foundation.
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January 24th, 2015, I performed in and designed puppets for Julie Brown’s Homecoming Queen’s Got a Musical at the Brava Theater in San Francisco for its third run.
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A review by Malcolm Jack in the Scotsman, characterized Growing Up Linda’s run at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe as “colorful, elaborate, nightmarish”.
Continue reading “The Scotsman (review)”Kate Bornstein, Feast of Fun (podcast)
On September 18th, 2006, Kate Bornstein appeared on the Chicago-based LGBTQ comedy podcast, Feast of Fun Podcast #390 – A Fate Better Than Death, to discuss their book, Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws. In talking with Fausto Ferños and Marc Felion, they briefly discussed my performance work.
“Marsian hails back to a long tradition of artistic fools, who twist the culture around well beyond the regular artistic way of twisting culture around to a point of impossibility and absurdity that makes you rethink all of reality”
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Sound Mind / Sound Body, Chicago (performance)
March 31st, 1996, I performed in Sound Mind – Sound Body, a sound performance that explored the technology of the body, the machine and the spaces in between at N.A.M.E. Gallery with support from the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago.
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Ann Hamilton’s volumen, Chicago (performer)
In the Spring of 1995, I was one of the performers who activated Ann Hamilton‘s installation, volumen. volumen was part of the exhibition About Place – Recent Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago. The contemporary art in “About Place” focused on the work of sixteen artists from Canada, Latin America, and the United States for whom the concept of “place” (cultural, social, geographic, or political) was of paramount importance.
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What is Your Gender? (video art)
On Saturday, December 10, 1994, I screened What is your Gender? a single channel video piece at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as part of the 4-D Extravaganza. What is Your Gender? deconstructed gender as an arbitrary, non-consensual means of identification inflicted upon individuals starting before birth. Continue reading “What is Your Gender? (video art)”