A social gathering of surreal performance art, drinks, warm song, and a symposium on the mysteries of love. The exhibition is inspired by Aristophanes’ speech on love’s creation and the eternal search for your other half. Come and bring your friends for performances that will enchant you with the sublime!
Curated by Augustus Depenbrock, Marshall James Kavanaugh, and Jon Shapiro
Plato’s Porno Cave
SATURDAY January 21st from 8PM – 1AM
little berlin gallery
2430 Coral Street, Philadelphia 19125
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Plato’s Porno Cave
The inspiration for the exhibition is derived from the speech of Aristophanes in Plato’s Symposium. Aristophanes talks of the Greek myth of the creation of love. The myth suggests that when humans were first formed there were three genders, each having eight limbs, two heads and two sets of genitalia. There bodies were large, powerful and round like the sun,earth and moon. When the humans challenged the gods by climbing Olympus they were split into two weaker halves. The halves exist as we do today and are on a constant search for each other. This exhibition explores the sublime emotions of finding and losing your other half
and the surreal images conjured up by exploring this myth.
Performances
Keys of Lightning
This performance is inspired by Zeus’ punishment to split the human race for challenging the gods. While a piano is being played it will be dismantled until the only music coming from it are the electric whirl of power tools cutting through its sound board.
Heads of the Table
This exhibit contemplates the complications of a two headed human. The heads of the performers will be isolated to the top of the table looking either way trying to convince visitors to help work objects around them. It is up to the visitor who they will listen to, or what side of the relationship they will take.
Wandering Half Gaints
The performers will meander around in extremely oversized clothes with twelve foot long empty limbs. These emotionally lost giants physically evoke the state of emptiness that occurs from losing your other half. They will impart this state upon visitors through a series of Aristotelian questions.
