1(212): The City's Summer Heist presents chase by Liz Magic Laser

2009-06-30

Please join us for 1(212): The City’s Summer Heist curated by Julie Fishkin and Matt Lucas.

 

 

We launch the summer series with chase by Liz Magic Laser

 

Opening Reception: JUNE 30TH, 7-9PM
The program starts with a production by Liz Magic Laser titled chase. Laser’s project consists of three performance-based video and photographic works that utilize bank vestibules as the setting. The daily exchange with ATMs serves as the departure point for this series of works including automatic (2007), deposit(2008) and chase (2009). The most recent work is a production of Bertolt Brecht’s play Man Equals Man. Laser worked individually with nine professional actors to perform their assigned roles in branch locations of their respective banks. The play’s cycle extended over the course of a month as she collaborated on a daily basis with actors Annika Boras, Andra Eggleston, Gary Lai, Liz Micek, Justin Sayre, Doug Walter, Michael Wiener, Max Woertendyke and Cat Yezbak. Their videotaped activities attempt to re-articulate a physical and verbal relationship with these bank spaces and their inhabitants.

Heist Gallery 
27 Essex Street (btwn Grand and Hester) 
212.253.0451