November 12th at 7:30 PM
xalvador: i’m going to marry your dad & shawn escarciga: MISS LADY SALAD
Queer performance artists/notable online trolls I’m Going To Marry Your Dad and Miss Lady Salad take you on two intimate journeys to the essence from within–which is inevitably cringe. The artists bring together two one acts that highlight internet culture on an IRL stage through music, dance, alt comedy and video. Together they unpack the deeper psyche of today’s current emotional climate.
About the artists
xalvador:
I’m Going To Marry Your Dad (Xalvador) is a performance artist/satirist/meme step-parent based in Brooklyn, NY. Their previous work includes Bernie Sanders Wants To Take Away My Fire Island Time Share - a gay fantasia on national themes (Exponential Festival), a presentation of memes and mental health at Taffe Gallery (where they displayed every single meme they ever made), A Night Inside with Claywoman and Christeene, and host/curator/co-creator of Seize The Memes of Production, the original meme making game show. Their performance work has been presented at The Glove, LifeWorld and the Brick Theatre in Brooklyn as well as No Nation Arts Lab in Chicago. Xalvador is also a founding member of the experimental performance collective I Don’t Wanna See That. Upcoming; Gay Hour of Boundless-wonders as part of the 2023 Exponential Festival. Instagram: @ImGoingToMarryYourDad
Shawn Escarciga:
Miss Lady Salad (Shawn Escarciga) is an artist, organizer and administrator whose works intersect performance, memes, community-building, and push-back against gatekeeping. Shawn’s work has been seen throughout galleries, museums, sex parties, and DIY spaces throughout New York City (Exponential Festival, Panoply Performance Lab, The Ear, Glasshouse ArtLifeLab, Queens Museum,MIX NYC, Triskelion, Grace Exhibition Space, Chinatown Soup, The Clemente, Real Estate Fine Art, Inferno, etc.), domestically (Boston, Chicago, Lexington, New Orleans, Miami, Fayetteville), and abroad (Berlin and London). Upcoming: Gay Hour of Boundless-wonders at Exponential Festival, 2023. More at @missladysalad