Penny Arcade, M. Lamar, Jameson Fitzpatrick at Enclave/Club Cumm
Our line-up of readers on Feb. 24 is simply bombastic. Theater and performance art legend PENNY ARCADE, “negro-gothic” composer and performer M. LAMAR, and one of our favorite poets JAMESON FITZPATRICK all on the same bill. Yes…all on the same bill…and admission is free. (21 + i.d.)
ABOUT THE READERS…
PENNY ARCADE (aka Susana Ventura) is an internationally respected writer, poet, actress and theatre maker,. She debuted with John Vaccaro’s explosive Playhouse of the Ridiculous at age 17, and was a Warhol Factory Superstar at 19, featured in the Warhol film Women in Revolt. With an artistic career spanning almost 50 years, Arcade occupies a unique position in the American avant-garde. Penny has written over ten full-length shows including La Miseria, Sisi Sings the Blues, Bad Reputation and New York Values as well as and hundreds of solos. Her world famous sex and censorship show, Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore!, has been performed in over 30 cities around the world and was successfully revived as a ‘landmark production’ (London Times) for its 20th anniversary in 2012. Her most recent show, Longing Lasts Longer, debuted at Joe’s Public in 2014 and has since toured all over the world. In 2010, Semiotexte/MIT Press published a hardcover book on Arcade called “Bad Reputation: performances, essays, interviews.” Her award winning documentary The Lower East Side Biography Project, Stemming The Tide of Cultural Amnesia which she co-creates with long-time collaborator Steve Zehentner. http://pennyarcade.tv/
M. LAMAR is a composer who works across opera, metal, performance, video, sculpture and installation to craft sprawling narratives of radical longing loss and becoming. Lamar holds a BFA from The San Francisco Art Institute and attended the Yale School of Art, sculpture program, before dropping out to pursue music. Lamar’s work has been presented internationally, most recently at The Meet Factory Prague, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Participant Inc, National Sawdust New York, The Kitchen New York, MoMa PS1’s Greater New York, Merkin Hall, New York, Issue Project Room New York, The Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco; Human resources, Los Angeles. Mr. Lamar is a recipient of a 2016 Jerome Fund Grant for New Music (JFund), a 2016 NYFA Fellowship in Music and Sound, The Rema Hort Mann Foundation (2015), Harpo Foundation (2014-2015), and Franklin Furnace Fund (2013–14). http://www.mlamar.com/
JAMESON FITZPATRICK’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Best New Poets 2017, The New Yorker, Poetry, and elsewhere. A 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Poetry, he is the author of the chapbooks Morrisroe: Erasures (89plus/LUMA Publications) and Mr. &, forthcoming from Indolent Books. He teaches writing at NYU. http://
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