Artists Space

Pride Goes Before a Fall / Beware of a Holy Whore / Mise en Abyme

July 7 – July 26, 2016

Protagonists that will appear over the course of five evenings in July include:

Raúl de Nieves
Werner Schroeter
Eve Fowler
Eve Essex
Topical Cream with Black Quantum Futurism,
DOSS, LAFAWNDAH, MSHR, Quay Dash
Stewart Uoo with Shelley Hirsch, Ian Isiah,
La'Fem Ladosha, Bailey Stiles, Nick Weiss
Morgan Ritter
Joey de Jesus
Dawn Lundy Martin

A man and a woman sit in two low wooden chairs. The man wears a brown hat and striped suit, while the woman wears a white top with a low v-neck. Her hair is blonde and stylishly curled. She stares ahead, her left hand gently resting on her chin. The man stares sideways at her.
Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte (Beware of a Holy Whore). Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder. 1971. [A man and a woman sit in two low wooden chairs. The man wears a brown hat and striped suit, while the woman wears a white top with a low v-neck. Her hair is blonde and stylishly curled. She stares ahead, her left hand gently resting on her chin. The man stares sideways at her.]

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1971 film Beware of a Holy Whore charts a cast of characters as they gather on set at a coastal hotel on the Mediterranean and spiral variously into social and psychological disintegration whilst awaiting the imminent arrival of the director, the star and the production money of the film's meta-film Patria O Muerto ("Motherland or Death"). Grounded in Fassbinder's experience of working on his previous film Whity (1971), Beware of a Holy Whore provides a tempting analogy for the experience of living and working collaboratively in an era of permanent post-production and increasingly volatile economic constraints.

Relocating from 38 Greene Street to a new building in 2017, Artists Space will embark over the coming six months on a period of self-reflection, bringing into critical focus some of the social, spatial and economic factors underpinning art production today. First held at Artists Space in the summer of 2013, Pride Goes Before a Fall / Beware of a Holy Whore / An exhibition in two acts presented a series of artworks and performances around a facsimile of the film's hotel bar at Artists Space Books & Talks. Mise en Abyme is a further redux of this format—a mise en abyme recurring, like a Russian doll in drag—presenting a new cast of protagonists. Some characters have returned, others won't come back. Again, Cuba Libres will be served.

July 7, 2016

Raúl de Nieves & Werner Schroeter
Performance & Screenings
7 p.m.

July 13, 2016

NEON

Eve Essex
Eve Fowler
Presentation & Performance
7 p.m.

July 14, 2016

Topical Cream Presents

Black Quantum Futurism
DOSS
LAFAWNDAH with Amy Zimmer
MSHR
Quay Dash
Performances
7 p.m.

July 20, 2016

Stewart Uoo presents: It's Get Better IV

Shelley Hirsch
Ian Isiah
La'Fem Ladosha
Bailey Stiles
Nick Weiss
Performances & Screenings
7pm

July 26, 2016

Joey De Jesus, Dawn Lundy Martin, Morgan Ritter
Readings
7pm

Mise en Abyme Exhibition Booklet

    Two men sit at a bar discreetly discussing an event that occurs off-screen. Two other men appear in the background, focused on a separate activity.
    Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte (Beware of a Holy Whore). Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder. 1971. [Two men sit at a bar discreetly discussing an event that occurs off-screen. Two other men appear in the background, focused on a separate activity.]