PS122 Presents Premiere Of ANGER AT THE MOVIES, 1/10-11

Performance Space 122 is pleased to present the world premiere of Anger At The Movies, from Berlin- and New York-based artist David Levine. In his latest performance seminar, Levine asks "Why is it so annoying to see your profession represented on film." These performances are part of COIL, PS122's annual performance festival.

Performances of Anger At The Movies will take place Jan 10, 6pm and Jan 11, 8pm at Mabou Mines. Tickets are $20 ($15 for students, seniors) and can be purchased online at ps122.org or by phone at 212.352.3101. Mabou Mines is located at 150 First Avenue in New York City.

A seminar masquerading as theatre masquerading as a film screening, ANGER AT THE MOVIES is the follow-up to David Levine's acclaimed Venice Saved: A Seminar, which premiered at Performance Space 122 in 2010. Returning to the format of a performance seminar, Levine invites audience members to present a YouTube clip in which their own professions are misrepresented. These clips will then be discussed as part of the evening. Participants will include journalist Gideon Lewis-Kraus, film director Alison MacLean, playwright Kyoung H. Park, photographer Cate Schappert, architect Jo Walker, and ACLU Lawyer Ben Wizner.

David Levine's work encompasses performance, theater, photography, installation, and video. Dividing his time between New York City and Berlin, where he is Director of the Studio Program at the European College of Liberal Arts, Levine has presented performance projects and other work at such international art spaces and surveys as MoMA, Documenta XII, Mass MoCA, Town House Gallery (Cairo), HAU2 (Berlin), PS122, the Luminato Festival and the Watermill Center. He has directed at the Atlantic Theater Company, the Vineyard Theater, and Primary Stages. Levine has received funding from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Kulturstiftung Des Bundes, and Etants Donnés/French Fund for Performance. He is currently working with composer Joe Diebes, poet Christian Hawkey, and the Watermill Center/NYTW on an opera about Milli Vanilli.

Anger At The Movies was created in part at the Arts Collaboration Lab, a partnership between Columbia University School of the Arts and Performance Space 122 in July 2011.