2017-2019 / Workshop, Performance, & Video
Bad Acting mines B-movies, acting class exercises, and Andy Warhol films in order to dive deep into the shallowest waters. A performance of the insincere, the overdone, the inauthentic, and the unconvincing, Bad Acting exists as a short solo performance for video, a semi-improvised group performance, a set of choreographic scores, a workshop, and a way of life.
performers Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Eartha Kunt, God’s Little Princess, Juancy Matos, Anya Mother’s Grave, Brittany Newell, Matia Emsellem, Oscar Tidd (Palo Alto and SF)
performers Kevin Le Grand, Anna Pye, Jack Powers Morrissey, Thomas Doherty, Jenkin van Zyl (London)
dramaturgy Mica Sigourney
funding from the Cantor Scholars Program
research assistance from the Warhol Museum
photos by Gabriel Gamboa
Maria Silk 