WaxFactory's 2010 Lineup Includes BLIND.NESS, QUARTET v4.0 and DELIRIUM 27

New York's WaxFactory has announced that its 2010 lineup will include BLIND.NESS, QUARTET v4.0, and DELIRIUM 27. BLIND.NESS features an all-female cast and will begin the season in January, running the 6th through 12th. QUARTET v4.0 will follow, running February 24th through 28th. DELIRIUM 27 will run March 24th through 28th. Each of the performances will take place at Abrons Art Center.

BLIND.NESS last played PS 122 this October. BLIND.NESS aims to reveal the deeply personal, intuitive, and emotional nature of its subject matter against some severely analytical views taken from the works of contemporary intellectuals, artists, and philosophers (in particular Roland Barthes, Marguerite Duras, and Sophie Calle,) who address love as a form of deficiency, or define it primarily by observing and studying emotional states engendered by its absence. Rather than quoting, BLIND.NESS will develop in reaction to such literary/philosophical references, by exploring a range of textual, visual and sonic material mined from the extensive vault of 20th century pop culture (such as "Crush #1" by Garbage from Baz Luhrmann's Romeo+Juliet soundtrack, P.J. Harvey's "Rid of me", GG Allin's "I wanna f*** your brains out", etc.), and will play with juxtaposition: placing intellectual vs. emotional, high-brow vs. low-brow, presence vs. absence, while maintaining an unnerving edge of dynamic tension between the opposites.

QUARTET v4.0 is a science fiction work by author Heiner Müller and is a controversial text in a sterile, post-apocalyptic world that serves as the arena for the vicious endgames of its protagonists... The actors' live performance is simultaneously broadcast with video images - captured from multiple angles by surveillance cameras - that are edited, processed and projected in real time.

DELIRIUM 27 will receive its world premiere at WaxFactory. In an unknown amount of time, under the hum of the electric lights, a fever takes hold of Ode Black, who is being held under investigation for a crime. On the border of a breakdown, remnants of his former life blur the lines of memory, imagination and forgotten thoughts, while humor becomes his only compass out of the darkness.

Each of the performances will take place at the Abrons Arts Center on the Lower East Side. Tickets may be purchased through the Abrons Arts Center website at www.abronsartscenter.org.

Since its formation in 1998, WaxFactory has established itself as one of the most internationally active multidisciplinary groups to emerge from the New York downtown scene, creating new performance, installation, film and video works featuring a highly innovative blend of physical performance, audio visual, architectural and fashion design, and an integrated use of the new media and technology. In addition to site-specific works created for a variety of unconventional locations in New York and abroad, they have recently presented their work at such renowned international venues and festivals such as the ICA/Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, UK), the Gulbenkian Museum (Lisbon, Portugal), SommerSzene (Salzburg, Austria), OLTRE90 (Milan, Italy), FIT/Festival Internacional de Teatro (Caracas, Venezuela), MESS (Sarajevo, Bosnia), Cankarjev Dom center for the performing (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Adelaide Festival (Australia), Zürcher Theaterspektakel and La Bâtie - festival de Genève (Switzerland), among others. WaxFactory's current artistic directors are Ivan Talijancic and Erika Latta.

For more information, visit WaxFactory at www.WaxFactory.org.