Blacklips Performance Cult: 13 Ways to Die
an installation by ANOHNI drawing from the Blacklips Archive
Nov 6 – Dec 18, 2022
Opening Sunday, November 6, 5-9pm

29 DAYS, 29 PLAYS

From November 6 through December 18, Participant presents an exhibition addressing the work of Blacklips Performance Cult, a late night theatrical collective that staged a new play each Monday night at Pyramid club between October 1992 and March 1995. For this exhibition, video documentation of 29 of those plays will be featured in the gallery, with a single play as the central focus each day.

Nov 9: Revenge of Blacklips (by ANOHNI, 10/26/1992)
Nov 10: The Blue Angel (by ANOHNI, 11/9/1992)
Nov 11: The Descent into Hell/The Ascent into Heaven (by Anohni, 11/16 and 30/1992)
Nov 12: Spectra (by Johanna Constantine, 11/23/1992)
Nov 13: The Palomar Ballroom (by Hattie Hathaway, 12/14/1992)
Nov 16: It Came Upon a Midnight Clear (by Psychotic Eve, 12/21/1992)
Nov 17: Swiss Family Donner Party (by Psychotic Eve, 1/11/1993)
Nov 18: Frankenstein (by Lost Forever, 1/18/1993)
Nov 19: Jack The Ripper (by Lost Forever, 2/15/1993)
Nov 20: Hunch! (by Lost Forever and Hattie Hathaway, 3/1/1993)
Nov 23: Revelations (by Lily of the Valley, 3/8/1993)
Nov 25: The Funeral of Fiona Blue (by ANOHNI, 3/15/1993)
Nov 26: Charlies Angels (by Psychotic Eve, 3/22/1993)
Nov 27: Class Nine Nuclear Mishap (by Dr. Clark Render, 3/29/1993)
Nov 30: Starvation (by ANOHNI, 4/12/1993)
Dec 1: Sodom (by Anonymous, 5/10/1993)
Dec 2: Clayworld (by Lily of the Valley, 5/24/1993)
Dec 3: The Socialite (by James F. Murphy, 6/12/1993)
Dec 4: Your Cigarette (by Lost Forever, 6/19/1993)
Dec 7: The Wings of Honnimies (by Johanna Constantine, 7/2/1993)
Dec 8: Seven (by Lily of the Valley, 11/29/1993)
Dec 9: World of Monsters (by Johanna Constantine, 2/7/1994)
Dec 10: Aunt Klunch’s Lonely Waxworks (by Herr Klunch, 3/14/1994)
Dec 11: The Birth of Anne Frank (by ANOHNI, 5/2/1994)
Dec 14: Rushes (by Sissy Fitt, 5/9/1994)
Dec 15: The Shysters/Earthquake (by Dr. Clark Render, 5/30/1994)
Dec 16: Death (by Flloyd, 9/19/1994)
Dec 17: 3 Weeks/Waiting (by James F. Murphy, 10/10/1994)
Dec 18: Chop! (by Jennifer Honkytits, 10/24/1994)

Blacklips Performance Cult: 13 Ways to Die is the third in a series of exhibitions curated by ANOHNI exploring work related to Blacklips Performance Cult. Blacklips was started by ANOHNI in New York City's East Village in the summer of 1992 with founding members Johanna Constantine and Psychotic Eve. At times, Blacklips enacted an art of death as described by artist and queer theorist Jill H. Casid, anticipating the Necrocene with the production of allegorical plays that addressed the intertwined issues of AIDS and the Anthropocene, weekly and with great effort, through scenes of post-apocalyptic horizons populated by dead and undead, non-human and human characters.

Blacklips: Her Life and Her Many, Many Deaths from Anthology Editions release on March 14, 2023

Blacklips Bar: Androgyns and Deviants — Industrial Romance for Bruised and Battered Angels, 1992–1995 double vinyl lp from Anthology Recordings release on March 10, 2023