The New York premiere of Let us think of these things always. Let us speak of them never. marks the New York debut of the performance collective Every House Has a Door, which features Lin Hixson and Matthew Goulish, co-founders of the performance group Goat Island; fellow Chicagoan Stephen Fiehn (of Cupola Bobber); and Croatian artists Selma Banich and Mislav Cavadjda. In a densely layered, high-energy weaving of text and movement, the artists, influenced by Yugoslavian filmmaker Dušan Makavejev and the work of American philosopher Stanley Cavell, respond to the work of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. Alternately visceral, poetic, grotesque and humorous, this multi-disciplinary work engages the histories of utopianism and revolt in an unjust world.
Let us think of these things always. Let us speak of them never. performs Upstairs at PS122, as part of the COIL 2012 Festival.