I Feel Your Pain Fri, May 1, 2015, 1:30–4:30 pm

I Feel Your Pain

Fri, May 1, 2015
1:30–4:30 pm

Liz Magic Laser (b. 1981), still from I Feel Your Pain, 2011. Video, color, sound; 180 min., with poster. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo and The Dorothea L. Leonhardt Foundation, Inc. in honor of Ron Clark, Director, Independent Study Program  2013.14 © Liz Magic Laser 2011. Performa Commission. Featuring actors Lynn Berg, Audrey Crabtree, Ray Field, Annie Fox, Kathryn Grody, Rafael Jordan, Liz Micek, and Ryan Shams. Video made with Producer David Guinan of Polemic Media. Photo: Yola Monakhov

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Floor Three, Susan and John Hess Family Gallery and Theater

Liz Magic Laser’s 2011 video I Feel your Pain dramatizes recent political events and speeches, recasting them as a romance narrative. The performance was originally staged, performed, filmed, and edited in real time at a movie theater in front of a live audience. A Performa Commission; featuring actors Lynn Berg, Audrey Crabtree, Ray Field, Annie Fox, Kathryn Grody, Rafael Jordan, Liz Micek, and Ryan Shams. Video made with producer David Guinan of Polemic Media. 

Liz Magic Laser (b. 1981, New York, NY), I Feel Your Pain, 2011. Video, color, sound; 180 min. Purchase with funds from Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo and The Dorothea L. Leonhardt Foundation Inc. in honor of Ron Clark, Director, Independent Study Program  2013.14

This screening is free with Museum admission.


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