TERRAULT CONTEMPORARY + BADTHOTS PRESENTS: CIRCUS ACTS 0: ON THE HORIZON
Circus Acts 0: On The Horizon... is a two part, fully immersive exhibition of recent works made by Marcelle Mandeng (b. 1993). Part I of the exhibition is a still life presented at Terrault Contemporary, on view October 31 - November 6, with a closing reception at 6pm on November 6. Part II is a one night only event to take place on Friday, November 7 at Annex 2E. Please join us as the circus will be leaving town after this evening of collaborative performances where the props and costumes will be activated by moving bodies. Doors open at 8:30, show starts promptly at 9.
Featuring Performances By:
Marcelle Mandeng as The Ringleader and Brown Clown
Maggie Fitz as A Staarrr Trapped
Khadija Adell as BAD BITCH
Nikki Lee & Luisa Rodriguez as Gauguin’s Acrobats
Isa Gonzalez as The Red Bearded Lady
Ale Nunez as Secret Shadow
***Musical score provided by Sexoesthetic
This one week exhibition will function both as a site-specific installation of redolent costumes and props and also a restaging of the artist’s personal history. The artist has sought a cast of peers and previous collaborators in
order to fully activate this body of work. This event signifies the conclusion of The Circus Acts Series, which was realized during the artist’s recent transition into adulthood. As a newly naturalized citizen, this exhibition also marks and celebrates the artist’s tenth year living in America after being uprooted from Cameroon, Africa at the age of 11.
In order to construct a material logic for The Circus Acts Series, the artist was first informed by conventional leitmotifs and tropes of circus culture, sometimes witnessed as a liminal site of queered spectacles. This language has been camouflaged into self-referential sets of objects that are neither full appropriations or functional readymades. It is a social commentary that attempts to bridge together formative accounts of adulthood including a traumatic loss of innocence, lustful sexual awakening, introduction to Future Feminism, the death of a homonym, transcyborgian bodies, and violent desires of objects of fetish.
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Terrault Contemporary: 1515 Guildford Ave. & Annex 2E: 419 E. Oliver St. Apt 2E
