PERFORMANCE
ANN HIRSCH: JASON'S CRAZY NIGHT
Performance — 25, Oct 26, 2019
The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is pleased to present Jason’s Crazy Night, a newly commissioned performance by Ann Hirsch. Born in the Baltimore, Maryland, and currently residing in Los Angeles, California, Hirsch is among the most celebrated artists working with themes relating to sexuality and feminism today. Jason’s Crazy Night follows recent performance commissions by the New York-based collective CFGNY and artist Alicia Frankovich.
- Price
- Museum ticket + € 3
- Location
- Teijin Auditorium
- Time
- Oct 25, 2019, 8 pm until 9.30 pm
Oct 26, 2019, 1 pm until 2.15 pm
Oct 26, 2019, 4 pm until 5.15 pm - Main language
- Engels
- Admission
- We advise you to arrive at least 10 minutes before the start of the program. Visitors cannot be admitted after the start of the performance. Visitors are expected to be present for the entire performance.
Using humor as a tool to disarm, the play Jason’s Crazy Night takes the structure of the Charles Dickens tale A Christmas Carol to tell the story of a pornography-addicted, self-proclaimed “bro” named Jason Biddies. In the play, Biddies (played by Hirsch) encounters apparitions representing his past, present, and future, as did Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. These apparitions are embodied by three porn stars who take various forms and who help him understand his relationships to pornography, women, and his sometimes-toxic masculinity.
Hirsch’s work often centers on uncomfortable but relatable subjects such as pornography, shame, sexual development, and gender roles. Even though online pornography is consumed by a staggeringly high number of people worldwide, its effects on sexual development are rarely spoken about openly. As pornography often narrativizes racial stereotypes and gender roles, and frequently depicts violence against women and people of color, its existence in popular media is overdue for public debate.
Ann Hirsch is a video and performance artist who examines the influence of technology on popular culture and gender. Her work frequently uses the internet as a subject and/or medium, including Cuts.video (2018), an examination of themes and stereotypes found in pornography; hornylilfeminist.com (2014-15), an online video compilation; and Scandalishious (2008-2009), her online YouTube performance in which she created a YouTube "cewebrity" channel that garnered over two million video views. In 2013, Rhizome commissioned Playground, Hirsch’s play about coming of age via an online relationship, which debuted at the New Museum in New York and was premiered by South London Gallery. Hirsch has presented solo exhibitions at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center, Arcadia Missa in London, and the New Museum’s online project space First Look.
CREDITS
Jason’s Crazy Night is the 2019 performance commission of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Previous commissions include CFGNY: Fake Fashion 3 (2018), and Alicia Frankovich: Atlas of the Living World (2017). The videos Jason's Past, Jason's Present, and Jason's Future were commissioned by KRIEG, Hasselt as part of Ann Hirsch's solo exhibition Jason’s Room, on view until November 16, 2019.
Please note that this play contains visual material and other content that is pornographic in nature. As such, only adults 18 and above will be admitted unless present with a responsible adult.
Please note that by attending the program you could potentially be filmed and photographed for archival, commercial and/or journalistic purposes. If you do not wish to be filmed or photographed, please contact our staff prior to the program. If you would like us to delete your images, please send an e-mail to info@stedelijk.nl.