Join Karewith Casas, Alex Schmidt, and Michelle Uranowitz for two nights of performance.
Photo by Alex Burholt
Dykette, audio narration performance, 10 hours, 2023
Book by Jenny Fran Davis, produced by Macmillan Audio for Henry Holt Books, New York
Intern Nanny Mommy Boss, performance for video, 4 minutes 11 seconds, 2023
Poem from live performance subtitled over Embodiment Session: Britney Spears Tribute.
Utopian Parasite, live performance, 20 minutes, 2023
Live performance photographed by Andrea Blum.
Sleep Study, live performance, 20 minutes, 2023
Sleep Study was performed as part of Flowers Fest, a performance festival hosted by Essex Flowers.
He Only Understands the World in Black + White, live performance with Dahlia Bloomstone, 15 minutes, 2022.
Embodiment Sessions, socially-engaged performance project at various locations, dimensions variable, 2018-ongoing
Live Embodiment Sessions have taken place at numerous venues: Leslie-Lohman Museum (as part of Lorenza Bottner: Requiem for the Norm and Not Me, Not That, Not Nothing Either; Omniscient: Queer Documentation in an Image Culture, and the LL annual block party), Duplex NYC in response to Body Dissolve, Lindsey Adelman Studio, and others.
ANUS 2018 - the Annual New Unfluencers Summit, MoMA PS1, live performance, 20 minutes, 2018
The performance received coverage from Dazed & Confused Magazine.
Embodiment Sessions, socially-engaged performance project on Zoom, dimensions variable, 2020-ongoing
Selected participant and artist works from Embodiment Sessions, an ongoing project of 100+ performances and 1000+ participants that began during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more about the project in the New Yorker and Vogue.
From left to right: charcoal on paper by Jess Rizzuti after Embodiment Session: Chaps, photograph by Vivian Rubin of Embodiment Session: Improv, photograph by Chantal Anderson of Embodiment Session: Tub Shots Tribute, artist screenshot of Embodiment Session: Cowboigorl, artist screenshot of Embodiment Session: Black + White, mixed media on paper by Lynn Stein after Embodiment Session: Simply Body, artist screenshot of Embodiment Session: Cicciolina Tribute, oil pastel on paper by Abby King after Embodiment Session: Femlin
Dyke Soccer, est. 2018
Dyke Soccer was co-founded by Alex Schmidt and Giovi Signorile in April 2018. Schmidt directed the project with support from many others 2018-2020, and worked to transition the organization to collective leadership with support from Artists’ Coop and Coop Fund in 2020. Dyke Soccer has grown exponentially, with chapters in NYC, LA, Oakland, Seattle, Portland, and soon… your hometown. The project has received press from Office Magazine, Dazed Digital, Queer York City (S2 Ep. 2), and them.
Queer Speed Cruising, socially engaged project, dimensions variable, 2018-ongoing
QSC is a collaborative project between Alex Schmidt and Lily Marotta. The pair have co-hosted interactive speed cruising experiences at Leslie-Lohman Museum, Basilica Hudson, the Windjammer, and more, with results ranging from love to heartbreak. The project has received press from Elite Daily and Queer York City (S1 Ep. 5 + 6).
Power Bottom, performance for video, 5 minutes, 2018
Exhibited by Leslie Lohman Museum (2018), Duplex NYC for The Box (2019), and Visual Aids (2020).
Mad Girls Club [Jan], performance for video, 46 minutes, 2017
Exhibited by American Medium.
Sad Girls: Season 4 [Henna], performance for video, 7 minutes 33 seconds, 2016
Exhibited by American Medium and Anthology Film Archives. For more information, visit here.