This Saturday May 22nd I will be performing at PS122 as a guest in the Vaginal Davis show. Other performers that night include Kate Bornstein, Nao Bustamante and Julie Atlas Muz. You can purchase tickets here:
https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/7889925;jsessionid=F25D1FBEEC76AEBBA2609B4F0824D1DA
Last Saturday Gage Boone III and I participated in a dinner party performance event in a beautifully deteriorating house in the Lower East Side. The event featured Yozmit and the re-performers of Marina Abramovic’s current exhibition at MOMA. See more photos here.


The latest incarnation of The Key took place as part of the MIX festival. Performers were Gage Boone, Stephen Boyer and I. All images courtesy Ava Hassinger.








Recently Peter Cramer, Jack Waters and I were invited to collaborate and present new work at FRISE in Hamburg. In addition to the exhibition, we did a performance and screened new videos. Here are some images of various elements from the project titled “Triple Threat”.





I’ve been developing a new project called “The Key” at David Cunningham Projects. Performance dates are: 4/31, 5/1, 5/10 and 5/30
Every performance is the expression of a single thought whose tentacles extend to enwrap gallery, performer and spectator in the necessity of its expression. This thought is not simple but extends through ontology, phenomenology, aesthetics and metaphysics. It does not beg forgiveness for its complexity. My process began with research on the Polish visual artist and theater practitioner Tadeusz Kantor. Kantor believes that expression and speculation, not elucidation or understanding, are at the center of the artistic effort- both physically and ephemerally.
REVIEWS:
SFMOMA
Shotgun Review
Here are some photos from the opening.






All photo’s © 2009 Franz Schnaas (http://franzschnaas.com)