Buffy (Performance Studies MA '19)
Buffy (PS MA '19) is currently an artist-in-residence at New York City’s historic La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, where EXAM will premiere May 8 - May 11, 2025.
Buffy’s EXAM is a performance art pop concert as anatomical theatre, stripping the tendons of America’s transsex-obsessed musculature and exposing its bones for sensory examination under the harsh glow of neon lights.
EXAM is a concert of dance and an opera of unapologetic transsexual gothicism where sound becomes a deviant prayer and performance a profane communion. The production examines relationships between sex work, dance, medicalization, precarity, beauty, and body horror.
Directed by Buffy with frequent collaborator MTHR TRSA, EXAM is performed with an assembly of artists working across media and forms including ARCHANGEL, Aeon Andreas, CASSILS, Kebra-Seyoun Charles, Mars Hobrecker, Maxi Hawkeye Canion, STEFA*, Sterling Tull, troizel xx, and more.
Created as a suite of performances, EXAM includes:
- EXAM: Antemortem with troizel xx on May 8
- EXAM: Perimortem with Aeon Andreas on May 9
- EXAM: Postmortem with CASSILS on May 10
- EXAM: Electroanalysis on May 11
The three evenings and one afternoon of distinct productions can be attended as individual events or in sequence.
EXAM will be performed at 7:00 PM on Thursday, May 8, Friday, May 9, and Saturday, May 10. EXAM: Electroanalysis will take place at 2:00 PM on Sunday, May 11.