A Marriage: 1 (Suburbia): Honeymooners

Nick Vaughn and Jake Margolin’s A Marriage has modest ambitions. The two conceptual/performance artists, married in 2008, want viewers to contemplate gay marriage, queer assimilation, and fetishization of the suburbs. In contrast to their humble aims, though, they’ve turned HERE into a humongous, two-floor, 25-ring circus, incorporating at least five elaborate video and multimedia projections, video light boxes, sitting areas, and an extensive list of nightly performances. They’ve painted nearly the entire interior gallery white. Props from the performances—garden hoses, picket fences, spray paint cans, 448 packets of Bubblicious gum—double as conceptual sculptures when not in use.

If there’s part of this giant spectacle you dislike, it’s easy to move on to something you do. Of the more compelling components, there’s an elegant black-and-white video interview in which downtown luminaries, including Lisa Kron and Penny Arcade, express their confusion about and dissent from gay-marriage fever.

Ayumi Sakamoto

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Here Arts Center

145 Ave. Of The Americas
New York, NY 10013-1548

Category: Performing Arts Venues

Region: Soho

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A Marriage: 1 (Suburbia)
By Nick Vaughn and Jake Margolin
HERE Arts Center
145 Sixth Avenue
212 647 0202, here.org