Hot Mess, 2023

Group Performance 90mins, 2 sets, at Elastic Arts

Featured Artists: MzMr, Mallory Yanhan Qiu, Va-Bene Elikem K. Fiatsi, Riin Peisert, Hiroko Tamano

Hot Mess! Cruise Director: Sara Zalek

HOT MESS! Making hot art performance hybrids. Like a mini-conference or fair, In real life art making in real time. simultaneously in person and streaming online, Two sets, all ages. 

The years of physical distancing has revealed and amplified both the potency and challenges of creating in physical space, and we transition curiously into more of hybrid virtual reality.

For each set we invite a live in person audience and an online audience for about an hour. The first set is like a dress rehearsal, exposing the in-process moments of all of us showing up, and listening in to each other, as each artist brings their own material to share. The second set is our do-over, our next iteration, using experience gained from the first set, we change, transition, re-imagine. We make art together.


Proud to be integral to the exhibition in Lucerne, Switzerland, «Video Hybrid» May 12 through June 2.B74 Raum für Kunst is a non-profit contemporary art space located a fifteen-minute walk from Lucerne train station. The space is managed by ten artists, who also practice their work in the field of curating and exhibiting. The different backgrounds, networks and years of the member team enable a diverse program without media preferences: from young, experimental exhibition formats to more established positions and a wide range of events with discursive questions about art and society, readings, concerts and performances. In the foreground is the effort to show artistic works that are characterized by high quality and substance. The active members work on their projects with great personal commitment and thus create a program that carries on the idea of an independent art space.

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