The Marsh San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
Internationally renowned performance artist Penny Arcade presents her show New York Values at the Marsh. A former member of Andy Warhol's Factory and innovator of performance art in the '80s, Arcade takes on bourgeois bohemians and explores the relationships between art, individuality, crime and rebellion in this freewheeling mixture of storytelling, monologues, music and dance.
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The last date listed for Penny Arcade's New York Values was Sunday November 22, 2009 / 3:00pm. (view all dates)
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High energy in-your-face performance art, great fun. Don't miss Penny Arcade !!
The Marsh books an eclectic mix of alternative and avant-garde theater, performance art, comedy, and the occasional musical act, with an emphasis on solo performances and seldom-staged plays. The room is homey and dimly lighted, and you can purchase freshly baked treats and excellent coffee at intermission.
“Traditionally people who live on the Lower East Side, we don't work, because we need a lot of sex. It's hard to have a lot of sex if you have a job! If you can work, if you can hack it, God bless you! Someone has to have the money to buy the weed!”
In “New York Values,” international performance star Penny Arcade engages individuality and rebellion against the Bourgeois Bohemian. “Bourgeois and Bohemia are two entirely different value systems,” she says. ”You can no more be a bourgeois bohemian than you can be an atheist catholic.” The show is about the art, rebellion and iconoclasm " … where Bohemia intersects with the demimonde, the criminal world. If you do not have a functioning criminal class in your art scene, you have academia! And while academia is a reflection of the art world, it is not, and never will be, the art world.” The show uses the fragmented, disjointed vocabulary of today's culture, with storytelling, monologues, music, rants and frequent dance breaks. The aim is to elicit a sense of freedom & individualism in the audience itself.
A runaway at thirteen, a reform-school graduate at sixteen, a performer in the legendary New York City Play-House of the Ridiculous at seventeen and an escapee from Andy Warhol’s Factory at nineteen, Penny Arcade emerged in the 1980s as a primal force on the New York art scene and an originator of what came to be called performance art. Miss Arcade’s brand of high camp and street-smart, punk-rock cabaret showmanship has been winning over international audiences ever since.
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