EEEE part 2: eurydice vs. radio babyhead
Saturday May 30 | doors at 7:30pm | performance at 8:00pm
$15 ADVANCE tickets | $20 DAY OF SHOW | $10 STUDENT tickets with ID | always pay what you can
Katy Pinke develops a transdisciplinary performance about a revived Eurydice’s encounter with shortwave radio* (known as the "internet before the Internet") together with Corey Fogel
Combining traditions of clown, Fitzmaurice voice technique, and noise improvisation, the piece explores the embodiment of disembodied voice; the translation of invisible, feminine, and slipperily gendered dimensions; and the collision of a jester with the fraught world of media broadcasting.
This piece is an exploration of the body/human being as a divine channel, in an encounter with the fracturing of political and consensus reality, as it takes place over media channels. Pinke has previously explored themes of patriarchal collapse, heartbreak, and quantum physics through the mythical proxy of Eurydice (from the Greek myth, Orpheus and Eurydice). During this residency Pinke will revive her experiment of embodying Eurydice and explore the development of an improvisational language in live interaction with shortwave radio signals. Playing with pre-written, collaged, and improvised text, the embodied voice, and feedback and radio signals, live with her collaborator Corey Fogel she will let the audience into the development of that language.
*Shortwave radio is both a historical relic of media broadcasting in the USA and a living proxy for the story of its past and present evolution. Located between 1700 kHz and 30 MHz (30 000 kHz), it can reach longer distances than any other range of frequencies, and is known as the "internet before the Internet." In the USA it was initially hailed as a revolutionary tool for instantaneous, international communication. It was later utilized for war propaganda. Then it became a home for fringe, far-right, and extremist groups after the Cold War. It is now being privatized by Wall Street. It also still serves as a tool for news and information in areas without reliable internet access. Shortwave listening, or SWLing, is the hobby of listening to shortwave radio broadcasts.
Katy Pinke
Katy Pinke's group exhibitions include Meet Me in the Forest, Pablo’s Birthday, New York (2020); GNAW, Heroes Gallery, New York (2022); The Patriot, O’Flaherty’s, New York (2022); and The Bridge, Van Der Plas Gallery, New York (2023). Works in performance, theater, and film include Ur-Medëa, Bruford at Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, United Kingdom (2018); Organs’ Song, Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London (2019); and Album, Release Me!, Center for Performance Research, New York (2024). She has appeared in plays at the Royal Academy of Arts, London; ARCO Madrid; and Segal Center, New York; and in films screened at Anthology Film Archives, New York; and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Albums include Strange Behavior and (with Will Grafe) Patterns (both Glamour Gowns, 2025). Pinke hosts the nomadic New York community art event Foolishly Use the Force and Ride the Chariot.
Corey Fogel
Corey Fogel has performed solo at The Getty Center, LACMA, Fylkingen (Stockholm), Billedhoggerforening (Oslo), Bergen Kunsthall, Yarn/Wire International Festival (New York), Audio Foundation (New Zealand), and Mengi (Reykjavik); and presented original compositions at the New Music for Strings Festival / (Reykjavik), Café OTO (London), and Zebulon (Los Angeles). He is an instrumental collaborator with musicians such as Julia Holter, Patty Waters, Simone Forti, Tashi Wada, Judith Berkson, and Todd Barton, at Meakusma Festival (Belgium), Rewire Festival (Netherlands), Roskilde Festival (Copenhagen), Redcat (Los Angeles), MoCA Geffen (Los Angeles), Knockdown Center (New York), and many others.