Hysteria (Ugly Part 2)
HYSTERIA, a performance, Film, and installation that continues Raja Feather Kelly’s study of pop culture and its displacement of queer Black subjectivity. Picking up where his 2018 performance, UGLY, left off, Kelly resituates himself as a glamourous, extraterrestrial entity—both alien to the world and wholly consuming its pop cultural byproducts. HYSTERIA marks the collapse of fiction into fact, tracking the subsequent inner turmoil, confusion, and mania that Kelly sets out to exorcise.
2019–2020 Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist (RCA) Raja Feather Kelly present Raja Feather Kelly’s HYSTERIA Summer 2021 PINK AMBITION International Tour, kicking off with a socially distanced live remount in Live Arts’ Ford Foundation Live Gallery April 8-10 2021. Commissioned by Live Arts, Kelly’s solo dance, theater, visual performance and installation will reach 7 cities in 7 months with more dates and locations to be announced. Co-presenters and tour locations include: On the Boards in Seattle, WA (Film Screening), Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, OH (Film Screening), Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston, ME (Film Screening), ImPulsTanz - Vienna International Dance Festival in Vienna, Austria (Live), and The Time-Based Art Festival at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art in Portland, OR (Film Screening).
