Oh, hello there, nice to see you again. Come close, I have some things to tell you, stories both mordant and morbid, and songs of hope and disaster. I will whisper into your trusting ear, or maybe scream in your face.
You know me, that writer of strange performances and performer of mysterious writings. But alas, I must confess, it is all lies. Yet I aspire to lie gracefully, so where you decline me in trust, please indulge me with sympathy. Say to me, "I do not trust you, but I sympathize with you." I will appreciate that, and it will be just enough for me to move on to the next performance. When I speak, it is only about love, death and the future. I have many theories. I have many songs and dances to accompany these theories. I am a monologist, a philosopher, a song and dance man.
I have told these lies and moved these fragile hands in many places including Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, D.C. Art Center, Baltimore Theatre Project, and the Ontological Hysteric Theatre.
I have performed and recorded several music/performance pieces with my long-time sound collaborator G Lucas Crane, and EHSE Records recently released an LP of our scary stories/scary music in April 2008.
I have also had critical and creative work published in many publications including Performance Research Journal, Plantarchy, Lost and Found Times, and Pilot; I am a founding editor of Ferrum Wheel, I am an organizing member of the Baltimore's largest performance event, the Transmodern Festival and artistic director of The Lof/t, a performance venue in Baltimore.
Nice to see you. Take care. Keep in touch. Look at me go.
Upcoming:
the Geodesic Gnome Dinner Theatre Players:
COLLINSPORT
Jan 15, 8pm
2640 Space
John Berndt, Ric Royer and Connor Kizer's COLLINSPORT is an inquiry into the structural anomalies of Dark Shadows (1966-1971), the American gothic-occult soap-opera famous for its unstable cast, momentum-less plot, and unusually over-elaborate dialog. In this multimedia production of COLLINSPORT performed by Geodesic Gnome, all these elements and more are made to spin faster and faster in a test-tube until a precipitate of pure, undiluted reason drops onto the floor and shatters along with the known universe. Add to this the obscure theory of 'paradox paradoxes' which threatens to consume all of semantics and what have you got?
What just happened?:
--- First manifestation of a new piece called Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley shown at The Annex Theatre, dec 12 and 13, baltimore.
Poster by Jackie Milad
--- Performed:
excepts from 50 greatest Ladies and Gentlemen (video!) and more at The Stone in NYC Nov 27.
Inteviewed:
Interviewed by Lexie Mountain
Time Machine:
A book about the lady saints, monks and me too.
Published by Slack Buddha Press.
$8.00
