Joseph Herring

Infernal Cakes/Adjacent Manias

 

Infernal Cakes/Adjacent Manias is a performative event that integrates frantic bakery themed video games, the live-telecast sporting event, and the transformation of movement and ceremony across class, including the square dance and its relationship to parlor dances like the Quadrille, and the evolution of the cakewalk from a lampooning of plantation society dances into a county fair ritual game of chance. Formed is an entirely new multimedia folk-ritual-sport-dance-game that explores gender and power relationships in various forms of competitive media through its various constructions and configurations.

“Infernal Cake Mania”, the central movement from the performance, was first performed for Low Lives 4, International Festival of Networked Performance Art in March of 2012. The piece in its current entirety was first performed at Zeitgeist Multi Disciplinary Arts Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, in November of 2012; and then at the Essex House in Miami Beach for Light-Assembly / Verge Art Miami Beach in December of 2012. See above menu for press releases, statements, and CV.

 
 

 

 

Infernal Cakes/Adjacent Manias

Joseph Herring, Production Still from Infernal Cake Mania, 2012; Central Movement from Infernal Cakes/Adjacent Manias, 2012, as performed for Low Lives IV. Photograph by Noel Nichols. See side link for video...
 
Infernal Cakes/Adjacent Manias

Joseph Herring, Production Still from Infernal Cake Mania, 2012; Central Movement from Infernal Cakes/Adjacent Manias, 2012, as performed for Low Lives IV. Photograph by Felecia Gayle.
 
Infernal Cakes/Adjacent Manias

Joseph Herring, Performance Still from Infernal Cake Mania, 2012; Central Movement from Infernal Cakes/Adjacent Manias, 2012, as performed for Low Lives IV. Photograph by Matt Pham.
 

Joseph Herring, Production Still from Infernal Cake Mania, 2012; Central Movement from Infernal Cakes/Adjacent Manias, 2012, as performed for Low Lives IV. Photograph by Felecia Gayle.
 
Infernal Cakes/Adjacent Manias

Joseph Herring, Performance Still from Infernal Cake Mania, 2012; Central Movement from Infernal Cakes/Adjacent Manias, 2012, as performed for Low Lives IV. Photograph by Noel Nichols.