Med-Usa: One

10 minutes


Performed at the UCLA Game Arts Festival
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA.

2017
A parody of a video game console product launch. I played the role of the energetic founder, who created the tech company “Med-Usa” to release a bespoke flagship console.

How To Make Something: With Britt Moseley

15 minutes

Demonstration, with Puppets

Performed at Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY.

Performed with help from Tucker Marder, Christian Schieder, and Isla Hansen
Music created and performed by Sean Petell 
Documentation by Kyna Damewood

2015
Haven’t you always wanted to know how to make things? Well, my friend. Wait no more. Britt Moseley is here to show you how to make.....something. This series of  improvised “demonstrations” are messy, playful, and results in a....thing.  

Along the way puppet versions of clocks, flowers, viruses, and Britt’s own inspiration antagonize and distract him from his duities.



Things,  Things,  And... More Things

Durational Performance

Cardboard, paint, sticks, fog machine, topiary stage, PA system

Performed during the opening of Bad Jokes
Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY.

Set Design By Tucker Marder

2012

It is efficient to name and categorize everyday things in order to communicate what those things are. When I say “shoe” you know exactly what I mean. If I point to that same thing and say “horizon”, you might imagine a narrative involving a lot of walking. If I remake it in ceramic it will be completely non-functioning and is now a heavy symbol for what we call a “shoe.” In this playful and irreverent body of work, I am interested in creating objects and media that confront and disrupt our ordinary patterns of classification in order to see the world in new ways.

Behind the topiary hedge wall is a collection of cardboard representations of water, poop, traffic cones, and many other random things. Every few seconds one of these signs are held above the hedge wall accompanied by a booming voice announcing a new title for each sign. Sometimes, fog bursts out. The performance is improvised and durational, allowing for new words to be associated with different cardboard signs.



Sewage in the Aquifer

Durational Performance

Performance commissioned for the Beaches and Bays Gala
Long Island Nature Conservancy, Bridgehampton, NY.

Topiary stage design by Tucker Marder

2013


Like the “Things” performance, this is a durational, improvised puppet performance where an unseen puppeteer raises and lowers signs on sticks over the topiary wall. Each time a shape appears, they call out a name for the thing in a booming voice. Over the course of the evening, each sign is assigned a new name. This show was inspired by the local issue of waste in the groundwater.

The Big Stink

15 minutes

Commissioned by Marders, Bridgehampton, NY.

Made in collaboration with Tucker Marder and Nick Fusaro
With help from Christian Scheider

Documentation by Philip Lehans

2013

A children’s puppet show featuring three oversized native creatures and one mean-ol beach bum.

Irreplaceable

5 minutes

Masked theater performance
Commissioned by Sinking Ship Productions
Triskelon Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY.

Score by Zoe Aqua

2017
A Bauhaus-Dada inspired performance of  the titular Beyonce tune. 
The Murderer

60 minutes

Directed By Christian Scheider and Tucker Marder
Old Whalers Church, Sag Harbor, NY.

2013
In this theatrical adaptation of the Ray Bradbury short story “The Murderer” I played the role of the “silver man”, a mysterious embodiment of technology.