FD13 residency for the arts welcomes Asher Hartman, an interdisciplinary artist, writer, director and intuitive practitioner whose work at the junction of visual art and theater centers on the exploration of the self in relation to Western histories and ideologies.
Artist Talk with Asher Hartman
Purple Iridescent Bone: Gawdafful National Theater and the Bitter Art of Psychic Theater
Friday, March 15, 2019 at 7pm
The White Page, 3400 Cedar Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55407
Asher Hartman is the Director of the Gawdafful National Theater, a Los Angeles based art and theater company which he describes as a loose cabal of highly trained and strongly gifted actor-artists-insects committed to making complex, poetic, crass and finely crafted theater. Drawing on his practice as an intuitive, Asher Hartman will open the talk with a non-acting theatrical exercise to strip the body to its imaginary skeletal form.
To learn more about Asher’s work read Asher Hartman’s Ritualistic Marathons, published in 2015 by Minneapolis’ own arts writer Alicia Eler or view excerpts from “Purple Electric Play!” originally presented Machine Project, LA in 2014.
Upcoming works include “The Dope Elf” at Yale Union, Portland, Oregon and The Lab, San Francisco. Recent works include “Lost Privilege Company” in “Archive Fever: Lost Words, Buried Voices” as part of USC’s Visions and Voices series and Pieter Performance Space (2018); “Sorry, Atlantis, Or Eden’s Achin’ Organ Seeks Revenge” at Machine Project, LA (2017); “Mr. Akita,” Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, (2017) and at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA, 2017); the Tang Museum, New York (2015) “The Silver, the Black, the Wicked Dance,” LACMA (2016). Other recent works include “Purple Electric Play!” at Machine Project, (2014); “Glass Bang” at the MAK Center for Art & Architecture’s RM Schindler’s Fitzpatrick-Leland House as part of Machine Project’s engagement in the Getty Museum’s “Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.” (2013) and with Cannonball in Miami as “The Florida Room” and Southern Exposure in San Francisco (2013); “Annie Okay” at the Hammer Museum (2010), among other performances.
Image credit: Purple Electric Play! Machine Project, 2014. Written and directed by Asher Hartman. Left to right: Jasmine Orpilla and Philip Littell. Puppets by Patrick Ballard. Puppeteers Drew Thataussie and Chelsea Rector. Photo: Marianne Williams.