Poetry Electric: QUAR HOVEL

Called “a hilarious, finely tuned absurdist” (TheatreJones) and “an East Village relic” (Vogue), Alexandra Tatarsky performs in the unfortunate in-between zone of comedy, dance, and deluded rant. Her work often incorporates absurdist characters and improvised wordplay. It is fueled largely by anxiety. Interests include the performance of identity, humor and the abyss, self-loathing and psychoanalysis, late-capitalist despair and meaninglessness, hybridity and liminal spaces, madness, parades, and acrylic nails. Basically, how worlds and selves come together and fall apart. Tatarsky's one-woman-shows Beast of Festive Skin and Americana Psychobabble have been described as "Brecht... with a buttplug" and "like someone took acid with too much speed in it." She has recently performed at MOMA/PS1, Bronx Art Space, New Museum, The Kitchen, Dixon Place, The Brick, Maccarone, Metro Pictures/83 Pitt, US Blues, Entrance, 47 Canal and many bars. She writes on experimental language practices such as spambot poetry, multi-lingual psalms, and the shanzhai lyric for publications including The New Inquiry, Hypocrite Reader, Weekday, ArtReview Asia and Garlands. She plays "apothecary chick" on cult webseries Zhe Zhe and got famous for two days as Andy Kaufman's daughter. Alexandra Tatarsky is thrilled to be a 2016-17 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence.

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