2024 / Solo Performance
Viewing Pleasure is a solo performance about chicken, television, sex changes, digestion, consumption, and transformation. How does looking—and being looked at—change who we are? Why did the chicken cross the road? Can subjectivity be reduced to a recipe? When the dumpster of your brain gets too full, who will help you take out the trash?
At once humorous and sinister, the piece pairs Butoh- and drag-inspired choreography by Maria Silk with sound design by Jules Litman-Cleper.
photos by Robbie Sweeny
Viewing Pleasure
choreographed and performed by Maria Silk
sound design by Jules Litman-Cleper
lighting design by grisel torres/gg
styling by Alfredo Romero
dramaturgy by Hannah Ayasse
Supported by the Zellerbach Family Foundation Community Arts Program, a FACT/SF Production Support Grant, Jess Curtis/Gravity, a Theatre Bay Area CA$H Creates Grant, and the CounterPulse Co-Production Program
performances: work-in-progress versions in November 2022 at CounterPulse (San Francisco) and November 2023 at Southern Exposure (San Francisco); official premiere in March 2024 at CounterPulse (San Francisco); and on tour in September 2024 at Muzej suvremene umjetnosti (Zagreb, Croatia) within the Improspekcije Festival
