JEFF STARK
Subway Theater
© Photo by Tod Seelie
Date: Friday 9.18
Start Time: 12:00pm
Location: Rm. 403, Barney building
Earlier this year, IRT: A Tragedy in Three Stations ran for six sold-out performances across two weekends. The show was like any other, with sets, props, lights, and actors in elaborate period costumes. Reviews were strong in newspapers from Japan to Israel. The only thing missing from the theatrical production was a theater. Instead of using any old black box, a cast and crew of 30 people transformed the New York City subway into a rolling stage for audiences and commuters alike. No one bothered to ask the Metropolitan Transit Authority for permission. In this workshop, director Jeff Stark accompanies a slide show and video presentation about the technical and logistical aspects of complex public performances and working without permission. Conversation and discussion about getting away with your own guerrilla actions — on the subway or anywhere else — follows.
© Photo by Tod Seelie
Jeff Stark is the editor of Nonsense NYC, a weekly email list and discriminating resource for independent art and senseless culture in New York City. His street events have been covered by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time Out New York, and National Public Radio, as well as by international media organizations like ARD Germany and Nikkan Gendai in Japan. He has collaborated with the Madagascar Institute, Dark Passage, and three ridiculous raft projects dreamt up by the artist Swoon over the last 10 years in New York.
