Rehearsals for "On the Cranial Nerves of Barbarians II: A Carp Sanctuary" at Abrons Arts Center and Gansevoort space, spring/summer 2023. Esther Neff, Noah Ortega, 3dwardgsharp, Irina Varina, Thea Little, Mia Destiny, Jessica Bathurst. Photos by Jess Applebaum.

KGB Bar book launch party performance by Esther Neff, Noah Ortega, 3dwardgsharp

Ugly Duckling Presse has published the operating manual from Embarrassed of the W(H)ole , our 2018-2018 opera-of--operations!

 Launch party 04/12/2023 at KGB Bar/Red Room with Anya Liftig, darLane Litaay, Shawn Escarciga, and PPL. 

Get the book here: https://uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/embarrassed-of-the-whole/

Compendium of contributions (texts, scores, documentation) by those who made work through/at PPL’s lab site at 104 Meserole St, Brooklyn, NY between 2012-2018. Published with The Operating System. Available as a free Open Source PDF and in print here: https://theoperatingsystem.org/product/institution-is-a-verb-a-panoply-performance-lab-compilation/

WATCH HERE: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKHomiSa1mMys7t9XkrVJ4hG1bwTrf5Kx

 Heidegger's Indiana is 12-part digital music-theatre-video-philosophy project, created for release through The Exponential Festival. Videos may be experienced individually as they are released December 1, 2020 - January 20, 2020, as an edited single work on January 28, 2021 at 9pm, and together via a playlist on PPL's YouTube Channel afterwards. Text, music, performance, videography, choreography etc by Esther Neff and Kaia Gilje.

Photos by Angeliki Chaido Tsoli for Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery, Chicago (02/16/2020)

PROTAGONY: I am a Broom That Sweeps (Esther Neff+Kaia Gilje) performance system with score-forms completed by witness-participants, objects remaining from past performances as part of exhibition What Remains curated by Ieke Trinks. https://dfbrl8r.org/event/remains-chapter-two

Screenshots from video by april vendetta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KoTpP3jOhs of one of the performances of PROTAGONY: play version. Performed by PPL (Esther Neff, Kaia Gilje, and invited ensemble of readers and video contributors) as part of the Exponential Festival. Vital Join, Brooklyn, NY, January 2020. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp_Q_VoEpyU

PPL (Esther, Kaia, Brian) performing “Paranormativity” at Center for Performance Research (CPR), story told by audience member Honey Jernquist

Brian McCorkle and Esther Neff perform a score with 2 wired-up homemade stuffed pigs, sound program designed and coded/composed by McCorkle, The Glove, Superbolus Recordings SUPERBOLUS III on Superbowl Sunday, 2018

Muscular Bonding was a life-art and social performance project, Feb. 15-March 6 2018.

Esther Neff, Kaia Gilje, Adriana Disman, 3dwardsharp and Nina Isabelle drove to St. Louis, MO from Brooklyn, NY and spent 2 weeks working (#sweatequity) at MARSH (Materializing & Activating Radical Social Habitus) with Beth Neff in Carondalet, St. Louis. Over the two weeks, the group devised scores from processes of drywall installation, wall-building, communal eating and sleeping, interaction with neighbors, and other hard labor tasks and elements of social habitus. On March 1 the group of 6 drove materials from the building and surrounding area to Tulsa, OK to participate in the New Genre Arts Festival at Living Arts Tulsa. For 2 days, we interviewed attendees to the festival about their relationships with structures and the structures of their relationships, asking them to speak colloquially with us and to select any word-cards (each with a score on the back) that could help us materialize their ways of seeing and feeling via sculptural processes and concrete installation. Photos by Nina Isabelle, Esther Neff, Lorene Bouboushian

interactive operations with/for individuals present and 3 performers (labeled “performer”) at W.O.R.K Gallery in Salisbury, MD (scored as part of EotW by PPL, guest solo vocalist Tara Gladden [also curator, with David Gladden]) Photos courtesy of Tara as well :-) 21 participants and approx. 3-6 observers, blueberry pie, scores, site, karaoke of User desires from Phase II, situational, temporal, and interpersonal entanglements.  

“Embarrassed of the Whole: Hole at Last Movement I” performance at Salisbury University 10/05/2017 PPL (Kaia Gilje, Esther Neff, Brian McCorkle) Photos by Megan for Salisbury University, Tara Gladden (curator) and video stills from video by David Gladden

Exhibition in the Electronics Gallery at Salisbury University “Embarrassed of the Whole” Phase III (interactive sculptures, video, and installation elements) August 28-October 14

Workshop: 3-6 p.m. Wednesday, September 27  Performance: 5:30 p.m. Thursday, October 5

http://www.whatshouldido.art

http://www.salisbury.edu/news/article.html?id=7455

Constant Vigilance/Our Social Eye(s)

12-hour performance, 2017

photos from ppl camera/Brian except the last one, by Rae Goodwin

more pix to come

video documentation by Karl Cooney of quite a few of the “usership-generated” operations of Phase II of Embarrassed of the Whole (EotW) across and throughout February, 2017

PPL (Esther, Kaia, Brian) performing at the Bronx Museum as part of ITINERANT curated and documented by Hector Canonge