Thirst, 2018
In Thirst, Penelope Penelopinski, a shape-shifting femme queer, works to vivify the necessity of her own body through circuitous and sometimes dangerous paths. If you were a succulent or a tulip-human hybrid species what would your body look and feel like? How would your existence as a plant-human shift your perception and capacity for survival and adaptation? Nodding to popular future visions including machine-modified and synthetic bodies, Penelope explores an alternate future, stretching the possibilities of the body through a playful reverence to the natural world. Thirst grapples with the paradox of emergent isolation and accelerated desires for connection.
In Thirst, Penelope Penelopinski, a shape-shifting femme queer, works to vivify the necessity of her own body through circuitous and sometimes dangerous paths. If you were a succulent or a tulip-human hybrid species what would your body look and feel like? How would your existence as a plant-human shift your perception and capacity for survival and adaptation? Nodding to popular future visions including machine-modified and synthetic bodies, Penelope explores an alternate future, stretching the possibilities of the body through a playful reverence to the natural world. Thirst grapples with the paradox of emergent isolation and accelerated desires for connection.
Thirst at CPR - excerpt from Beth Graczyk on Vimeo.
Thirst Trailer (2018) from Beth Graczyk on Vimeo.
Performance Roster
2019 March 14th & 15th, EstroGenius Festival, NYC
2018 November 13th, CPR’s PSOH series, Brooklyn
2018 October 17th, Judson Art Wednesdays, Curated by PGEC, NYC
2018 June 28th, Vital Joint, Curated by Pioneers Go East Collective, Brooklyn
2019 March 14th & 15th, EstroGenius Festival, NYC
2018 November 13th, CPR’s PSOH series, Brooklyn
2018 October 17th, Judson Art Wednesdays, Curated by PGEC, NYC
2018 June 28th, Vital Joint, Curated by Pioneers Go East Collective, Brooklyn
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Thirst is created with support from the Abrons Arts Center through the AIRspace Studio Residency Program and through presentation by Pioneers Go East Collective, CPR and EstroGenius Festival. Thirst has financial support from patrons Case Van Rij, Trisha and Eric Muller, Alex Milshteyn, Pamm Hanson, Jason Graczyk and Jan Breslow.
Photo Credit: Effyography