Live-streamed self-reflection on joy in the body, Enya as catharsis, and lighter dancing.
As part of Performance is Alive x Satellite Art Show during Art Hole x Brooklyn Open Studios 2018
9.28.18
Curated: Quinn Dukes of Performance is Alive
Images courtesy of Performance is Alive
Video here
As part of Tempting Failure Biennial of Performance Art and Noise 2018, London, UK.
All documentation courtesy of Julia Bauer, Tempting Failure 2018
Whatever You Want is an exploration of authority and how it manifests in the body when it is willingly stripped from an individual.
Through a series of pre-generated commands along with those elicited by a live and digital audience, Escarciga will experiment with modes of giving and taking power as the performance plays out in real time, manipulating his body in response to lived circumstances. Informed by a background in Butoh and survival mechanisms as a queer person living with mental illness, Whatever You Want is a glimpse into the daily life of those living on the fringe.
Self-reflection on morality live streamed on Instagram with dance and shave to bad music as part of Moral (En)Compassings at Center for Performance Research; June 3, 2018
Curated by Brooklyn International Performance Art Foundation
Solo performance with 55 self portraits and silent lip-sync with movement; May 18, 2018; The Clemente. As part of a Prelude to The Embodied Self, a larger exhibition to be held fall 2018. Curated by Ventiko
at University of Arkansas Art District as part of Inverse Performance Art Festival, Fayetteville, AR
recorded text x planting of dead seasonal garden x destruction of said garden with the help of Gwen Stefani x clean-up
Photos courtesy of Kristoffer Johnson
Performance Art Summit/ Grace Exhibition Space Brooklyn, NY/ Organized by Panoply Performance Lab/ 3.20.18
Examination x planted pansies x silent lip-sync x destruction/clean-up
Documentation and video by Karl Cooney
Second iteration of Safety Plans project in collaboration with Human Trash Dump (Elizabeth Lamb and David Ian Bellows/Griess).
Safety Plans is a visual catalogue of images and videos abstracted from Escarciga’s personal experiences with mental health and survival as a queer person. Drawing from a background in movement and performance art, Safety Plans is a voyeuristic glimpse into the inner workings and realities of living with mental illness, seeking intimacy, and the dichotomies of personal and private space. This is the second iteration of a larger project which began in Winter 2017 at the Satellite Art Show in Miami, Florida.
Film and editing support by Human Trash Dump. Original film and photography by Shawn Escarciga
Real Estate Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY/ Curated: Nia Nottage/ 1.26.18
endurance x florals x Instagram x cacophony of Spice Girls
Documentation and video by Karl Cooney
