“The Banquet of Hunter Reynolds and Chrysanne Stathacos, a multi-media performance staged at Thread Waxing Space on May 1, 1992, reminds us that the 1990s introduced some of the most significantly mythopoetic art produced since the Surrealists.” – Roger Denson, The Banquet

Participant celebrates the 25^th anniversary of The Banquet (1992-2017) with a continuous screening of video documentation, filmed and edited by David Leslie. A concurrent exhibition of The Banquet archive, including photographs by Maxine Henryson and Michael Wakefield, costumes, and ephemera will be on view as part of Ephemera Office Enterprise. Denson further describes the collaborative forces of Reynolds and Stathacos combining in The Banquet: “Their common need to overstep conventional time, identity, and social constrictions, plus their shared interest in conjoining the human body to the medium of art [...] drew the pair together to plot a performance that would distinguish their work from previous mythopoetic productions in poetically marrying the historic myths they exhumed to a very contemporary, if anguished, political dissent.”