Paul McCarthy

Join us for the launch of Paul McCarthy's, C.S.S.C. Coach Stage Stage Coach VR experiment Mary and Eve, 2017 the latest work in the Zabludowicz Collection 360 series.

Commissioned and produced by Khora Contemporary and first presented at the Venice Biennale in 2017, C.S.C.C. Coach Stage Stage Coach VR experiment Mary and Eve revisits McCarthy's ongoing series "Coach Stage Stage Coach" and led to 11 variations of the piece in virtual reality. Each week will present a different version of the work.

The artist used motion capture technology to record the movement of actors Rachel Alig and Jennifer Daley. Viewers are propelled into a dream like environment in which a group of female figures endlessly appear in different stages of a seemingly looping narrative in which they taunt each other physically and emotionally. Characters interact with viewers and invade their physical and psychological boundaries. In this claustrophobic overload, VR users are caught up between their own terrible fascination with such confrontation and their helplessness in front of it.

Paul McCarthy Born Salt Lake City UT, 1945, University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA, 1973 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA, 1969 University of Utah, Salt Lake City UT, 1966 – 1968 Resides Lives and works in Los Angeles CA