

A narrated walk through the East Village follows Raqs Media Collective’s runaway rhinoceros through a stitched-together city of sitcom reruns, novels, gossip, and fragments. From Bette Gordon’s Variety and Chloe Sevigny’s cool as projected to Audre Lorde’s erotic survival, from Milton Glaser’s performative “I ❤ NY” to Chris Kraus’s shameless I Love Dick, the walk follows how desire and stories make the speculative city and remake the self. Carlos Amorales’s Spider Galaxy and Gwen Stacy remind us that absence breeds ruptures and possibility.
Co-produced by Performa and Extra Extra. Curated by Defne Ayas, Senior Curator-at-Large, Performa, and Director, Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, and Samira Benlaloua, Artistic Director, Extra Extra.
A Performa and Extra Extra Project. Produced by Performa and Extra Extra.
Supported by Creative Industries Fund, Consulate General of the Netherlands, Lithuanian Cultural Institute, Mondriaan Fund, the Municipality of Rotterdam, and the Netherland-America Foundation.


