Ideal Viewer

Einat Amir

• Scaramouche
• 53 Stanton Street
• Saturday, November 7 - Sunday, November 8, times vary

Scaramouche presents Einat Amir, “Ideal Viewer.” Opening a voyeuristic lens onto conflicting authorship, “Ideal Viewer” is a two-phased series of performances, beginning with actors hired on Craigslist to improvise three biographical archetypes in the “neutral” gallery space—a Crying Woman, an Ex-Boyfriend, and an Interpreter.  Amir then gives the reins to select viewers, enabling them to interact with an archetype in their own apartments. Provoking sexual sport, “author function” dysfunction, and technological disorientation, “Ideal Viewer” explores sexual and artistic identity, blurring the very notion of what is “real.”

Einat Amir (born in Jerusalem, 1979) currently lives in New York where she received her MFA in visual arts from Columbia University in 2009. Her video installations and live performances engage gender, sexuality, representation, communication, and other contemporary sociopolitical issues. Amir’s work has been exhibited at Volta, Basel; Scaramouche c/o Fruit and Flower Deli, New York; Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel; Haifa Museum of Art, Israel; Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv; CareOf gallery, Milan; Städtische Galerie, Bremen; and Digital Art Center, Hulon, among other venues.

Curated by David Everitt Howe. Presented by Scaramouche. Part of Lust Weekend.

Nov. 7 12-2pm and 4-6pm
Nov. 8 12-2pm and 4-6pm

FREE