Nicolas Dumit Estevez presents CAVUM GLORIOSUM, at Dixon Place, Dec. 2001

CAVUM GLORIOSUM is an openly sensuous examination of a bodily organ
Created & performed by NICOLAS DUMIT ESTEVEZ
Fridays and Saturdays, Dec. 7- 22, 2001
December 15th with Sign Language Interpreting by Rick Rubin
@ Dixon Place at Vineyard 26
309 E. 26th Street, just east of 2nd Ave.
$15 (at the door); $12 (in advance); $10 students/seniors; TDF accepted
reservations: 212.532.1546 www.dixonplace.org

This quasi-clinical presentation uses props and costumes to isolate the cavum oris [the mouth] and all the parts it encompasses, spontaneously transforming the performance space into an oral cavity. A digestive audio-visual process leads the audience to examine the range of experiences open to this organ; sampling an elaborate repast, exchanging functions with a less socially accepted counterpart, finding its way to your seat in its hunger to kiss you, or lying through its teeth. In this piece the cavum oris stages a solo performance of an oneiric nature. This Mondo Cane Commission is made possible by generous funding from the Jerome Foundation.

Nicolas Dumit Estevez is an interdisciplinary artist, originally from the Dominican Republic, based in New York City whose current body of work consists of a group of performances that encourage the audience to examine in stage-like settings subjects such as gender, immigration and cultural hybridization. He is currently part of National Studio Program at P.S.1 and the recipient of a 2001 Special Editions Fellowship. He recently developed USA Paradisica, a piece for the "Crossing the Line" Exhibition which was shown at the Queens Museum of Art in June 2001. He performed, "Recuerdos de mis Quince" in April, 2001 at the Clocktower Gallery as part of the P.S.1 National/International Studio Program Exhibition and in September he exhibited new work at Exit Art.

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