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

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. 

HKS181 was born during the height of civil war in Central America, and through trials and tribulations he found himself in the DC metropolitan area. An artist from the early age of 5, he’s always pushed himself to evolve continuously as an artist, doing both national and international shows and events. He keeps pushing himself both with a pen and paper as well as with a spray can to create not only works of art, but his own fingerprint in the world.

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.