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Ms. Understanding is a series of conversations Lital Dotan made in the bathtub at Glasshouse with leading female performance artists. These conversations were part of ‘Wednesdays’ weekly platform for live performance broadcast at Glasshouse 2017-2018.
Each Wednesday at 8pm a live performance was broadcast from Glasshouse’s domestic environment. The performances rotate weekly between the bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and living room spaces, offering refreshed modes of hosting, teaching, learning and practicing performance- while blended with life.

Narcissister is a Brooklyn-based artist and performer. Wearing mask and merkin, she works at the intersection of performance, dance, art, and activism in a range of media including film, video art, and experimental music. She actively integrates her prior experience as a professional dancer and commercial artist with her art practice in a range of media including photography, video art, and experimental music. She has presented work worldwide at festivals, nightclubs, museums, and galleries. Her art video “Vaseline” won “Best Use of a Sex Toy” at The Good Vibrations Erotic Film Festival. She received a Bessie Award nomination for the theatrical performance of “Organ Player” and 2015 Creative Capital and United States Artists Awards. Interested in troubling the popular entertainment and experimental art divide, she appeared on America’s Got Talent. Her first feature film “Narcissister Organ Player” premiered at Sundance and SXSW in 2018. In collaboration with playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, she is a Sundance Theatre Lab 2018 Fellow for the development of a new evening length performance commissioned by the Soho Rep in New York that will premiere in 2019.

Ms. Understanding is a series of conversations Lital Dotan made in the bathtub at Glasshouse with leading female performance artists. These conversations were part of ‘Wednesdays’ weekly platform for live performance broadcast at Glasshouse 2017-2018.
Each Wednesday at 8pm a live performance was broadcast from Glasshouse’s domestic environment. The performances rotate weekly between the bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and living room spaces, offering refreshed modes of hosting, teaching, learning and practicing performance- while blended with life.

Rebecca Patek is a New York-based choreographer and performance artist creating work that synthesizes dance, theater and comedy. Patek is a Greater New York Artist 2015-16 and a 2014 Brooklyn Arts Exchange Space Grant recipient. She is a inaugural recipient of The Award as well as a 2014 Queer Art Mentorship Fellow. Patek has been an Artist in Residence at Movement Research, Atlantic Center for the Arts and at Dance Theater Workshop (New York Live Arts) as part of Fresh Tracks Performance and Residency Program.

Patek’s work has been presented at MoMa PS1, Impulstanz Vienna (winner of the Prix Jardin D’Europe Fan Award 2014), The Kitchen, The Museum of Arts and Design, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Abrons Art Center, Dance Theater Workshop, 92nd Street Y, Movement Research at Judson Church, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, Glasshouse, Chez Bushwick, Triple Canopy, Prelude Festival, The Joyce Soho, Dixon Place, Mulberry Street Theatre, The Tank, Aunts, Triskelion Arts, Studio 303, and The Overture Center, among other venues. She has contributed video and written work to online and print journals: Bomb Magazine, Animal New York, The Performance Club, and Movement Research Journal.

Ms. Understanding is a series of conversations Lital Dotan made in the bathtub at Glasshouse with leading female performance artists. These conversations were part of ‘Wednesdays’ weekly platform for live performance broadcast at Glasshouse 2017-2018.Each Wednesday at 8pm a live performance was broadcast from Glasshouse’s domestic environment. The performances rotate weekly between the bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and living room spaces, offering refreshed modes of hosting, teaching, learning and practicing performance- while blended with life.

Marni Kotak is an NYC artist who makes multimedia works in which she presents everyday life being lived. She is recognized for her “Found Performances”, or works based on daily activities, experiences, or accomplishments. In 2011, she received international attention for her durational performance “The Birth of Baby X”, where she gave birth to her son Ajax in an NYC art gallery. Since then, she has been working on the ongoing “Raising Baby X: Little Brother”, where she outfits Ajax with a small wearable video camera capturing the intricacies of his infancy and toddlerhood from his own perspective. Other recent performances include “Calorie Countdown” (2013), “Postpartum Depression” (2012) and “X-mas Fix” (2012). Kotak has exhibited and performed at Microscope Gallery, Performa, Momenta Art, Radiator Arts, English Kills Art Gallery, The New York Center of Photography and The Moving Image, Grace Exhibition Space, Thomas Robertello Gallery (Chicago), The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (Peekskill), Sama Tower, Abu Dabi, and Open Realization Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, among many others. Her work has been featured in national and international media such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Good Morning America, TIME, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Village Voice, Hyperallergic and the Times of London. She is the winner of a 2012-2013 Franklin Furnace Fund award, a grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council, and a merit award for residency at the Contemporary Artists Center in Troy, NY. She received a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Brooklyn College and is represented by Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn, New York City.

Ms. Understanding is a series of conversations Lital Dotan made in the bathtub at Glasshouse with leading female performance artists. These conversations were part of ‘Wednesdays’ weekly platform for live performance broadcast at Glasshouse 2017-2018.Each Wednesday at 8pm a live performance was broadcast from Glasshouse’s domestic environment. The performances rotate weekly between the bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and living room spaces, offering refreshed modes of hosting, teaching, learning and practicing performance- while blended with life.

Christen Clifford is a feminist performance artist, writer, curator, professor, actor, and mother.  Her work has been shown at The New Museum, AUNTSisdance, The Culture Project, PS 122/SoloNova, Grace Exhibition Space, Glasshouse Project, Panoply Lab, Dixon Place, Postmasters Gallery, Vox Populii, ArtShare LA, Project for Empty Space, EFA Project Space, Art in Odd Places and abroad in Slovenia and Canada and across the U.S.  

Ms. Understanding is a series of conversations Lital Dotan made in the bathtub at Glasshouse with leading female performance artists. These conversations were part of ‘Wednesdays’ weekly platform for live performance broadcast at Glasshouse 2017-2018.
Each Wednesday at 8pm a live performance was broadcast from Glasshouse’s domestic environment. The performances rotate weekly between the bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and living room spaces, offering refreshed modes of hosting, teaching, learning and practicing performance- while blended with life.

Anya Liftig’s work has been featured at TATE Modern, MOMA, CPR, Highways Performance Space, Lapsody4 Finland, Fado Toronto, Performance Art Institute-San Francisco, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, The Kitchen at the Independent Art Fair, Performer Stammtisch Berlin, OVADA, Joyce Soho and many other venues. In “The Anxiety of Influence” she dressed exactly like Marina Abramovic and sat across from her all day during “The Artist is Present” exhibition. Her work has been published and written about in The New York Times Magazine, BOMB, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue Italia, Next Magazine, Now and Then, Stay Thirsty, New York Magazine, Gothamist, Jezebel, Hyperallergic, Bad at Sports, The Other Journal, and many others. She is a graduate of Yale University and Georgia State University and has received grant and residency support from The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Atlantic Center for the Arts, The New Museum, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Flux Projects, University of Antioquia and Casa Tres Patios-Medellin, Colombia. 

Ms. Understanding is a series of conversations Lital Dotan made in the bathtub at Glasshouse with leading female performance artists. These conversations were part of ‘Wednesdays’ weekly platform for live performance broadcast at Glasshouse 2017-2018.Each Wednesday at 8pm a live performance was broadcast from Glasshouse’s domestic environment. The performances rotate weekly between the bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and living room spaces, offering refreshed modes of hosting, teaching, learning and practicing performance- while blended with life.

Laurie Berg makes work in a variety of forms including dance and performance, collage and jewelry. In addition to her choreographic work, Laurie engages with the dance community as a producer, curator and event organizer.

Laurie grew up in St. Louis, MO and received her BFA in Dance from the University of Arizona, Tucson in 2002. Her various projects have appeared at Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, Beach Sessions Dance Series, Astor Alive Festival, The Invisible Dog Art Center as part of The Joyce Theater’s Unleashed Series, The Whitney, The Mattatuck Museum of Art (CT), Dixon Place, Catch, Avant-Garde-Arama: New Moon at Abrons Arts Center, WiM at the TBG Theater, Pieter PASD (CA), Roulette Intermedium, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Food For Thought, Danspace Project as part of PLATFORM: 2011 Body Madness - Rhythm and Humor, FACADE/FASAD, 303 Gallery, ICMC at Stony Brook University, the TANK, draftwork, AUNTS and the Internet Killed the Video Star Screening for the Movement Research Spring Festival 09 among others. Her latest work, The Mineralogy of Objects, was remounted as part of APAP at Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, January 14th-16th, 2016, presented as part of Beach Sessions Dance Series on Rockaway Beach August 20th, 2016, and at the Astor Alive! Festival in September 2016.