Daata x David Lewis

2022-06-10 00:00:00

Daata collaborates with gallery David Lewis to produce the first NFT collection by acclaimed artist duo Felix & Gabe.Felix & Gabe’s film installation Vomitorium is reimagined for Daata in four holographic playing cards, sold as NFTs, featuring characters from ancient Greek mythology. Vomitorium consists of four holographic playing cards featuring characters from ancient Greek mythology. These shining charms are collectable elements from the duo's acclaimed 4-hour, three-channel film of the same name, which debuted in 2020 at The Kitchen, New York and was later presented at LUMA, Westbau. A tragicomic reenactment of the history of meta-theater from religious ritual to live-streaming, Zoom, and Twitch. The artists transition between multiple genres, genders, ages, tropes, eras, and personae, with Felix Bernstein playing Onkos, the Greek mask of tragedy, and Gabe Rubin playing multiple versions of Eros. They play-through arcane and new modes of performance documentation from Classical diagrams to Victorian photo journals, as well as the parallel domestication of Eros into Cupid. The vomitorium is traced from its origin as a passageway in amphitheaters to the current socially reflexive architecture built for Instagram selfie-stories—comparing the way audiences watch each other watching each other binging and purging media. The impossible wish for a 360-degree perspective is shown to mark both panoptic social media and counter-surveillance tactics; normative and queer gazes. ABOUT FELIX BERNSTEIN & GABE RUBIN Bernstein and Rubin’s multifaceted approach to composition encompasses theater, film, poetry, and digital media. Taking apart the formal parameters of essay and installation, they highlight structural impasses inherent in multimedia hybridity. Often performing as fictional, anachronous personae, they employ the elasticity of theatricality in moments of tenuous changeover. Their ongoing work analyzes of madness and mimesis in queer performance, challenging staid discourses and affective assumptions. many forms, Bernstein and Rubin explore the implications of both fashionable and occluded tropes of queer and trans* life including dysphoria, suicide, and depersonalization. Their work has been presented at MOCA Los Angeles, Issue Project Room, Anthology Film Archives, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Reena Spaulings Fine Arts (Los Angeles), and Pilar Corrias Gallery (London). At the Whitney, they staged and performed Bernstein’s libretto Bieber Bathos Elegy in 2016 and Mayo Thompson’s Victorine (with Art & Language) for the 2012 Whitney Biennial. Bernstein is the author of the poetry collection, Burn Book (Nightboat), and a book of essays, Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry (Insert Blanc Press), which the New York Times noted for its “blistering cultural criticism.” Notes was also selected as a Best of 2015 by Artforum. His writing has been featured in Art in America, Poetry Magazine, Spike Arts Magazine, Bomb, Mousse, May Revue, Bookforum and Texte Zur Kunst. Rubin is a composer and filmmaker. His work explores mythopoeic histories of gender play in theater, art, and literature from Leonor Fini to Caravaggio and Darger. Experimenting with the psychoacoustic and hormonal nature of vocal production, he deconstructs the use of voice as a marker of age, sex, and authenticity. His films have screened at the Brooklyn Film Festival and the MIX Queer Experimental Film Festival. He performed in Shelley Hirsch’s Book-Bark-Tree-Line for Blank Forms and Jill Kroesen’s Collecting Injustices at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2017. He was recently featured in Soraya Zaman’s trans-masculine photo series, American Boys (Daylight Books) and in the talk series “Backgrounds” at Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany. Vomitorium Felix + Gabe Four holographic playing cards Preview: 16 June Drop: 21 June <a href="https://nft.daata.art/drops/vomitorium">nft.daata.art</a>