The Life of the Party
November 29, 2025
LAX Micro Fest 2025 at Pieter Performance Space
Los Angeles, California
The messy friction of a good party was achieved, even if questions remain.
Advancing the visibility, legacy, and scholarship of artists working in performance.
The messy friction of a good party was achieved, even if questions remain.
She stutters and spits, wrestling with each syllable. A linguistic motor is erupting inside of her, driving continuous speech. Text and signifiers appear as a dualistic avalanche, an unnatural fit in this body.
Within a black lace–slipped theatrical space—itself a historical body—a staggering quasi-human enters stage left, fronting enormous, buoyant, transparent mammary glands, groaning and slowly sloshing toward the balcony stairs before collapsing with a guttural groan in seeming exhaustion, leaking her juices and fluids.