THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO FALL 2020 DUE TO THE COVID-19 CRISIS. MORE DETAILS TO COME.
A presentation of works in progress.
Artist Danielle Durchslag and playwright Dan Fishback both make work that spirals around the neuroses and dysfunctions at the heart of contemporary white Jewish life in the United States. In this afternoon of works in progress, Durchslag will share video works from BOUNTY, her interdisciplinary series exploring the political and psychological complexities of American Jewish wealth. Fishback will present moments from his contemporary adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof, in which Golde is an upper-middle-class white Jewish woman who fears her daughters' anti-Zionism while ignoring the threat of white nationalist violence in her community. The presentations will be followed by a Q&A with the artists.
About Danielle Durchslag
Danielle Durchslag is an artist and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. She has exhibited throughout the United States, including solo exhibitions at Denny Gallery and Yale University. Her work has shown at venues including The Jewish Museum, the Toronto Shorts International Film Festival, the Invisible Dog Art Center, The Queens Museum, Winkleman Gallery, The Bronx Museum, Foley Gallery, The Ackland Art Museum, Davidson Gallery, The New York Jewish Film Festival, and the Wassaic Project. Danielle’s work has been discussed in Photograph Magazine, Clarion Content, The Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, The Independent, and The New York Observer, among others. Her short film, Eleanor of Illinois, received a grant from the inaugural cycle of the NYFA Made In NY Women's Film, TV, and Theatre fund. Danielle is a selected fellow for the 2019-2020 cycle of the New Jewish Culture Fellowship. She studied at Wellesley, The Museum School of Fine Arts Boston, and New York University.
Website: www.danielledurchslag.com
Instagram: @ddurch
Twitter: @durcharts
About Dan Fishback
Dan Fishback is a playwright, musician, and founding director of the Helix Queer Performance Network. His musical The Material World was called one of the Top Ten Plays of 2012 by Time Out New York. His play You Will Experience Silence was called “sassier and more fun than Angels in America” by the Village Voice. Also a performing songwriter, Fishback has released several albums and toured Europe and North America, both solo and with his band Cheese On Bread, which released their album The One Who Wanted More in 2018, along with a music video for their song “Bad Friend,” directed by Stephen Winter and featuring Justin Vivian Bond. Other theater works include Waiting for Barbara (New Museum, 2013), thirtynothing (Dixon Place, 2011) and No Direction Homo (P.S. 122, 2006). Fishback has received grants for his theater work from the New Jewish Culture Fellowship (2019-20), the Franklin Furnace Fund (2010) and the Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists (2007-2009), and was a member of the 2018 Joe's Pub Working Group at The Public Theater. He has been a resident artist at Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania, the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at NYU, the KimmelHarding Nelson Center, Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange, where he was in various forms of residence from 2010-2018. Fishback created and oversees La MaMa Experimental Theater's annual series La MaMa's Squirts: Generations of Queer Performance. He sits on Gibney's Curatorial Advisor Team and is a proud member of the Jewish Voice for Peace Artist Council.
Instagram: @dangerfishback
Twitter: @dangerfishback
Date + Time
Sunday, June 14
4pm
Admission
Free
Location
51 Bergen St.