The Exhibition Reception on Friday, August 31, 7 - 9pm has been cancelled.
Performance + Exhibition Reception
Saturday, September 1, 7:30 - 9:30pm
Performance Begins at 8pm
Please contact Emma Fisher at 202 550 2208 and emma@thefridgedc.com with questions.
VESTIBULE is presenting TAINT, Part 1. a mash-up of media by dancer/choreographer Jasmine Heiss and performer Catalina Lavalle, with visual artists Joseph Hale, Joseph Orzal and HKS181. TAINT is inspired by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt’s Neo-Marxist classic, Empire. Running August 30 - September 2. See our CALENDAR.
Catalina Lavalle is an actor/performer based in Washington, DC. She received her BFA (Honors) in Theater Performance at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2007 with a concentration in devised theater. In 2009 she completed a graduate certificate program in Documentary Filmmaking from The George Washington University and is currently co-directing her first feature length documentary. As an actor she has appeared in several plays, independent films, commercials, and on TV working in both DC and LA, and was a company member of DC’s premiere physical theater company, Synetic Theatre, for 2 years before retiring to pursue her independent work. As a theater-creator and performance artist, she is interested in creating devised docu-theater; presenting research through multi-media and movement based performances. (2010 “Boxes”; 2011 “#MYTH”; 2011 “FairFairFair”; 2012 “If or If”).
VESTIBULE is presenting TAINT, Part 1. a mash-up of media by dancer/choreographer Jasmine Heiss and performer Catalina Lavalle, with visual artists Joseph Hale, Joseph Orzal and HKS181. TAINT is the first in a four part performance series inspired by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt’s Neo-Marxist classic, Empire. TAINT is running August 30 - September 2. See our CALENDAR.
Joseph Hale was born 1981 in Colorado Springs, CO and currently works in Washington, DC. His work utilizes “ready-made” objects, images and ideas. Decentralizing the sources of “creativity” in the process of making artwork has been his goal as a member of artist collectives Sparkplug and District Modular, and in his role as the Director of College Exhibitions at the Corcoran College of Art + Design.
