WORKS-IN-PROGRESS
LITTLE LAMB
Little Lamb is a new kind of church service—one where the Songbird Supreme, global superstar, and gay icon Mariah Carey is our Lord and Savior.
The performance takes inspiration from the artist’s experience: a Catholic upbringing in Boston, Massachusetts that led into a secular search for faith in gay iconography. The artist—drag performer Melissabeth—assumes the role of the Priest, dahlings, leading the audience through selections from Mariah’s music catalogue, an autobiographical sermon, and an offering of Mimi’s festive spirit through symbolic food and drink. Little Lamb asks the artist and the audience: can the stale structures of a Catholic mass lay the foundation for something new and beautiful?
Photos by Nour Annan and Eugenie H-W
MARKET PRICE
Bruce the American Lobster leads the audience through a lecture-performance that traces the changing cultural perception of lobsters throughout time—from overabundant marine protein to pauper’s food, and from luxury commodity to sentient being.
Market Price explores the politics of seafood, class, immigration, geography, technology, and animal perception.
Photos by Nour Annan, Tania El Khoury, and Elio Alexander
