PARTICIPANT INC is proud to present THE PERILS OF OBEDIENCE, the next iteration of a multi-year, multi-venue project conceived by Itziar Barrio. Inspired by social psychologist Stanley Milgram's controversial 1961 experiments on obedience, PERILS confronts established rules and constructed situations. An analysis of seduction of power, the work cultivates conditions for unscripted consequences to probe codes and limits of film, performance, sculpture, and installation. Beginning in Bilbao in 2010 as THE PERILS OF OBEDIENCE (-1), then consequently staged as Casting and Rehearsal — THE PERILS OF OBEDIENCE (Abrons Arts Center, NYC, 2013 and 2014), and Casting TPO (Espacio ODEÓN, Bogota, Colombia, 2015), the project so far has been carried out in the guise of a film set within the structure of a theater. Now, after casting and rehearsing in a black box, the project occupies a new container, its “final scene,” cited in a gallery space. Following three videotaped “open rehearsals” at PARTICIPANT INC on May 25, 28, and 29, the scripted environment of the set will become the site for an exhibition of multiple sculptural elements that reveal underlying structures of display — sculptures as bodies, hooks, pedestals, and ubiquitous manufactured objects.

OPEN REHEARSAL / PERFORMANCES: 

Wednesday, May 25, 8pm 
Saturday, May 28, 8pm
Sunday, May 29, 8pm

 

OPENING RECEPTION: 

Wednesday, June 1, 7-9pm