Performance: Nobody Wade Never Too Much
by Geo Wyex at JOAN Los Angeles
Date: Saturday, October 26
Doors Open: 7:30PM
Performance: 8:00PM
Location: JOAN Los Angeles, 1206 Maple Avenue, Suite 715, Los Angeles, CA 90015
During a university staff meeting / at the bottom of a river / at the site of the big bang, an esteemed professor, chair of Muck Studies Dept, collapses through and with a constellation of objects, processes, and material in a murky and gaseous scene of communion with that which is yet to arrive.
A relative of Samuel Beckett’s classic absurdist play Waiting for Godot and Luther Vandross’ 1981 hit single “Never Too Much”, the performance is an extension of Wyex’s ongoing project Muck Study. Muck Study is a leaky method of approach to black and trans life that uses the sensorial as an investigative tool to allow for a certain squelch of history and meaning. Muck Studies Dept, an investigative personality inspired by so-called “muck-raker” Ida B. Wells and the cartoon character Inspector Gadget, conducts this research by “touching the bottom” of shallow, murky water, “looking for stars, outta what stinks.”
This performance is co-produced by ICA LA and JOAN on the occasion of their concurrent Fall presentations of work by Geo Wyex. Click here for more information about Geo Wyex’s exhibition at JOAN.
Written and performed by Geo Wyex
Movement consultation and dramaturgy by Will Rawls
