Derek Spencer: Field of Flesh | Sep 6-28

[Leisure.]

Dear friends,

We're so grateful for your support in making Day of Leisure possible. Your generous donations allowed us to pay each artist an equitable honorarium, provide video and photo documentation, and host so many exciting ideas and connections throughout the evening. Truly, thank you! 

We're excited to announce the next project at Leisure: director and artist Derek Spencer's Field of Flesh, a new immersive performance running September 6-28. To attend, please visit fieldofflesh.eventbrite.com. This will be our last event until next Spring, and we are thrilled to expand our commitment to bold, multidisciplinary art through Spencer's ambitious work. 

FIELD OF FLESH

A small audience sits at an overflowing dinner table with a cast of loosely-connected family members. Dinner is about to be served, but between the cognitive decline and Tik Tok brainrot, no one seems to remember why we’re together, who’s cooking, or how we’re all related. Through parodic exchanges with the audience, the performers perforate the boundaries between flesh and food, other and self, care and codependency. Meanwhile old age and death loom large in the corner. Ultimately, Field of Flesh asks whether our culinary culture supports us in moments of crisis, and how we might rid ourselves of an anxious attachment to tradition and nostalgia.

DEREK SPENCER

Derek Spencer (derekaspencer.com / @abstract_sentimentalism) is a Chicago- and LA-based director and artist. He makes ensemble works across performance, film, and installation. He is the founding artistic director of Ceaseless Fun, an LA immersive theater ensemble known for They Who Saw the Deep (2018), Everyone Agrees it’s About to Explode (2020), and Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Regan (2017), among other productions. His first film, Personally I Find it Rude to Be Boring, will premiere this September at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.

Looking forward,

Alice & Estlin

Co-Directors, Leisure

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