Kathy Acker: Who Wants to Be Human All the Time

Kathy Acker, Ser Brandon-Castro Serpas, Celia Hempton, I.U.D., Beatrice Marchi, Bjarne Melgaard, Alan Sondheim, Diamond Stingily, Women’s History Museum

Kathy Acker: Who Wants to Be Human All the Time kicks off a month-long focus on avant-garde writer, punk poet, and fashion icon, Kathy Acker, who embodies the radical and uncompromising attitude of the artistic era Performance Space New York emerged from. For the group show eight contemporary artists present work in dialogue with Blue Tape, an hour-long, highly charged and confrontational truth-and-sex tape the 26-year-old Kathy Acker made with the artist Alan Sondheim in 1974. Co-organized with Bjarne Melgaard.

The opening night of the exhibit includes performances by Marchi and by Melgaard featuring handmade puppets of his family members and Acker.