Stef Allespach
I Feel As If I Have Two Wolves Fighting In My Heart
Public Spirit/Live Art LA: Spirit Resurrected
A performance festival at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
April 29, 2012
Part of Pacific Standard Time and Los Angeles Goes Live Performance in Art in L.A. 1945-1980 - The Getty Museum
I Feel As If I Have Two Wolves Fighting In My Heart is a dark comedy performance that employs song, dance and nonfiction narratives. This collaborative mash-up is inspired by Nancy Buchanan’s 1980 performance If Only I Could Tell You How Much I Really Love You. I Feel As If.. examines our current cultural anxieties within a western historical context. In particular art as spectacle, police states and the inflated notion of the artist’s role as purveyor of value.
PERFORMERS
Christopher Russell - Balloon Man
Crysteena Douglas - Runner in video
Craig Havens - Paparazzo
Deirdre Moncy - The Singing Corpse
Dino Dinco - C.I.A. Agent/Tap Dancer
Erich Wise - C.I.A. Agent/Stabbed
Jock Doubleday - Runner in video
Jovan Rameau - Michael Jackson
Kelly Thompson - Balloon Girl
Matias Viegener - Tap Dancing Agent
Nancy Buchanan - Closing Statement Audio Voice
Nancy Popp - C.I.A. Agent/Drag
Peter Alberts - C.I.A Agent/Stripper
Reza Monahan - C.I.A Agen/Lookout
Stef Allespach- Director and Closing Statement
Sydney Croskery - The Egg
Tricia Lawless Murray - The Women & The Little Girl
PRODUCED & DIRECTED BY
Stef Allespach
SCRIPT
Stef Allespach
A recontextualisation of Nancy Buchanan's original script If Only I Could Tell You How Much I Really Love You.
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
Chelle Barbour - Still Photographer
Craig Havens - Still Photographer
Daniel Royale - Assistant Director
Geneva Skeen - Program Coordinator
Jacqueline Bell - Production Assistant
Jorge Espinosa - Still Photographer
Krista Chael - Videographer
Many thanks to Nancy Buchanan, Liz Glynn, Carol Stakenas, David Matsu, Renate and Ziggy Allespach, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and the Getty Foundation. Thank you to all the performers as well as Daniel Royale, Jacqueline Bell, L.A.C.E. staff Geneva Skeen, Jorge Espinosa documentarians Chelle Barbour and Krista Chael.
Online References:
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/bazooka-joe-comics-from-around-the-world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d'état
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1
https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/how-big-deal-hr-347-criminalizing-protest-bill
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/27/patriot-act-extension-signed-obama-autopen_n_867851.html