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Crotch

Crotch (all the Joseph Beuys references in the world cannot heal
the pain, confusion, regret, cruelty, betrayal or traumaŠ) (2008)

Crotch references the images and actions of artist Joseph Beuys. On the
surface the work is about art, its histories and heroes. Deeper, a sadness
grows, a queer divorce melancholy. A song, a dance, a lecture, talking to
the dead. Chaos through Play becomes Form.

Performance & installation by Keith Hennessy
Music: Emmy Lou Harris, Craig Armstrong, Teddy Thompson, Down River,
Nirvana
Crotch was developed at Ponderosa (Stolzenhagen Germany) in 2007 and was
commissioned/presented at L'Arsenic (Lausanne Switz) in 2008.

Read the reviews of Crotch at DTW (New York), April 2009.
New York Times
Village Voice

Crotch has been presented in Zagreb (Queer Zagreb), Minneapolis (Southern Theater), New York (DTW) and San Francisco (Dance Mission). Upcoming: Crotch at Impulstanz/Vienna, July 26 2010.