stand UP STAND DOWN
Performances, 2016-18
Performed at The High Line, Safe Gallery, The Funny Hole, among others.
Hosting Stand Up Stand Down, an evening I curated for artists doing stand-up on The High Line in 2017.
Stand-up comedy is a medium I started dabbling in in 2016, and my main interest is in bringing groups of artists together and having them perform stand-up as a crash course in how to engage an audience. Artists use and have long used humor (see Dada and Surrealism) as a link to the human, something instinctual and visceral, something that allows for connection and catharsis. Which we all desperately need these days. Images are from my first stand up set at The Funny Hole curated by Jennifer Sullivan, and Stand Up Stand Down- a comedy night I organized of artists performing stand-up on the High Line on 9/18/17, which included Morgan Bassichis, River Ramirez, Jacques Louis Vidal, Melissa Brown, and Seung Min-Lee.
