Under Our Skin - An Exquisite Copse (w/ Documentation)

THE EXPERIMENTAL LECTURE SERIES AT NYU PRESENTS

Peter Cramer and Jack Waters with DJ Econ
Organized by Lynne Sachs

Friday, November 11th from 7 - 10 PM
Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor

"As a queer interracial couple living with AIDS, our background as filmmakers and dancers transitioned into a media driven interdisciplinary practice largely due to the conditions of living in a viral culture. Our interest in collaboration is a direct result of our desire to create a radically different environment for making art and cinema. The COVID pandemic has also accelerated our drive for an interactive relationship with our audience, both live and virtual. Receiver becomes producer. Lecture becomes lab becomes party!  We use our gender fluidity with its transgressive inclination against racial and nationalistic containment as a catalyst for change -  at the very least exposure to difference both pleasurable and uncomfortable." - Peter Cramer and Jack Waters

DJ Econ has collaborated with Peter and Jack on multiple occasions through the decades at the legendary MIXNYC - The New York Lesbian And Gay Experimental Film Festival, Le Petit Versailles garden, at DJ Econ’s home venues the landmark queer bar nights Hot Fruit at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan and the outrageous queer renegade Psychic Party series with DJ Sokolowski. 

“From the beginning, I imagined this talk to be one in which someone who had immersed him or herself in the world of alternative, experimental film would reveal something about the process of making their work by visiting pieces that were either unfinished, unresolved, bewitching or even untouchable. The intention was to lay bare the challenges rather than the successes, the gnawing, ecstatic reality of the work of making art.” - Lynne Sachs

Photo Credit: Zoom screenshot from the hybrid project "I'm Not Listening (Queers Talking Shit)"