Recent Performances
Star Choir
Park Avenue Armory, NY, 2019. Star Choir is a 45-minute musical performance tracking a group of humans who attempt to colonize a hostile planet after the Earth’s decline. Following some wonder and violence, a hybrid species is formed. Star Choir is performed by six singers and musicians playing synthesizer, cello, harp, horn, bass and percussion, and with animated projections. Developed while Gaines and Segade served as Armory artists-in-residence. Directed by Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade / Score: Malik Gaines / Text: Alexandro Segade / Conductor: Ethan Philbrick / Video Animation: Daniel Leyva. Park Avenue Armory, NYC, 2019.
Future St.
Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Bard College, Anandale-on-Hudson, NY, and The Broad Museum, LA, 2017. A sci-fi saga set in a dystopian Southern California city, where a homosexual police state enforces strict marriage codes among the monitored populace, and an intersectional resistance— made up of queer mutant dissidents and a feminist underground—plots its overthrow. Future St. is a speculative, multimedia theater epic exploring desire, surveillance, and the sinister forces of normalization. Written, directed and performed by Segade, with videos by artists Amy Ruhl, Daniel Leyva, and Robert Hickerson and a cast of NY-based performers including Brian McQueen, Jamel Mack, Nicholas Gorham, Lisa Corinne Davis, and C. Bain. Music by Mateo Segade and Scott Martin, with a live DJ set by Mateo Segade.
Read about Future St. in Bomb, LA Weekly, Artnews.
View Excerpt Here.
Blood Fountain
The High Line, NY, 2019. A feverish arrangement of amplified voices emanates from a sculpture not of marble, but of flowing red water. In A.R.M.’s anti-monument, non-memorial performance, bodies connected by fetish gear, sports equipment, and medical supplies harmonize club hits to make us remember the ongoing HIV/AIDS crisis. Blood Fountain depicts the endless consequences of HIV/AIDS within individual queer bodies and on queer communities. Directed and conceived by A.R.M. a collaboration between artists Alexandro Segade, Robert Acklen, and Malik Gaines. Performed by Robbie Acklen, C. Bain, Malik Gaines, John Gutierrez, Jordan Ho, Richard Kennedy, Stuart Meyers, Alexandro Segade, Justin Wong
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