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Artist incorporates Gaga's deposition into new performance
http://hyperallergic.com/239016/a-da...and-lady-gaga/
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Choreographer and writer Jack Ferver’s new collaboration with artist Marc Swanson, Chambre, begins with Ferver, scantily clad in a gold, chained bodysuit and dark sunglasses, ranting about a former employee who had the audacity to use “my YSL discount without my permission.” He delivers these words — entitled, clueless, and even cruel — deadpan, from a sculptural assemblage of walls, doors, and mirrors that form a white interior. Ferver is known for his funny, provocative, often self-effacing performances, which are a combination of dance, theater, and social critique.
Using the self-proclaimed Fame Monster’s words as an introduction to the world of the 1%, Chambre (in which Ferver performs alongside Michelle Mola, and Jacob Slominski) continues as a performance inspired by Jean Genet’s The Maids, exploring gender and fantasy as a means of escape, particularly from income inequality.
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KGG: Lady Gaga most certainly was not a part of Genet’s work, but your use of her deposition is a wonderful contemporary example of this overworked servant pitted against an entitled employer scenario. Where did you get the idea for this?
JF: Her deposition is down at the courthouse so anyone can read it, and a fair amount of it was also printed in the Post. Upon reading it I felt it was so much about what [Chambre] is about — [a] fantasy of wanting to be somewhere else. [Gaga’s] whole thing is wanting to be famous, the Fame Monster that she really wanted to become. And she became it, but it came with these hallmarks of the 1%, [like] being incredibly entitled. The way she speaks to and about this woman who was her friend is chilling. It feels incredibly void of humanity. She said she felt this woman was paid by being on a yacht and hanging out with Terry Richardson. But at the same time she’s having to be a maid, a servant. She’s having to deal with the luggage, and, as Stefani [Gaga’s real name] says in her testimony, “she didn’t lay my things out enough for me.” So she wasn’t along for the ride as a friend. She was along as the help. And then the way she is talked to is brutal and speaks to the sense of change.
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Wow queen of art strikes again
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