Alex Tatarsky
Performance Studies Alum Alex Tatarsky (M.A. '19) will present the New York premiere of their show "Dirt Trip' at MoMA PS1 this June.
“A hilarious, finely tuned absurdist” (Theatre Jones), Alex Tatarsky makes performances in the uncomfortable in-between zone of comedy, dance-theater, performance art, and deluded rant--sometimes with songs. Tatarsky experienced fleeting fame as Andy Kaufman’s daughter and used to perform as a mound of dirt. Venues include La MaMa, MoMA PS1, Gibney, Judson Church, The Kitchen and many bars and basements. Their writings on counterfeit poetics and grotesque politics have appeared in publications including The New Inquiry, Hypocrite Reader, ArtReview Asia, Folder, Viscose, and Vulture. They teach workshops on masks, rot, and mistranslation and are honored to have been a Movement Research Artist in Residence, Abrons Artist in Residence, Poetry Project Curatorial Fellow, Independence Fellow, and Pew Fellow. Together with Ming Lin they form one half of Shanzhai Lyric, and recently founded the fictional entity Canal Street Research Association which was featured in Greater NY. Research interests include bootlegs, hellscapes, and compost. @tartar.biz
A trained clown and obsessive compost-lover, Tatarsky shares revelations from ongoing research into the territory between humor and humus. Linking American pop-cultural angst over the evil clown to efforts to banish garbage, Tatarsky examines our fears of figures and substances which suggest transitional, ambiguous, and disordered states. Contents include: the ballad of an unemployed court jester who desires to be a rotting vegetable; a lecture that decays into a heap of dirt.
DIRT TRIP will be at MoMA PS1 June 3 @ 7PM, June 4 @ 7 PM, June 5 @ 4PM.