barrish

By Sarah A.O. Rosner/A.O. Movement Collective

May 27 – May 28, 2011 at 10pm

“barrish” is a research of tenderness and brutality, of nakedness and fortification, and of what physical and emotional extremism is possible when located on a mattress. The piece follows five women, hard with desire and nostalgic to feel human, as they thread themselves through a shifting (collapsing?) world. Latent images shift jarringly into focus, and the women become characters, actors, selves, and desire-filled anatomies. “barrish” brings a critical consciousness and destructive grit to the table that already holds the (dangerous, engaging) high-gloss seduction of virtuosic and/or sexual bodies. Not quite a story (or maybe too many of them), the work is a love song. That, and the tearing out of it.