Gnome Core: Experimental Art Performance

Spend some quality time with our Gnome in Residence. This year’s Performing Artist in Residence is our own Professional Hermit, Alex Tatarsky. Alex’s performances will take place on the grounds of Glen Foerd and will inhabit a space somewhere in between eco-lecture, object dance, and foraged dinner theater.

Although the concept of the professional hermit faded away at the end of the 18th century, it has not left us entirely. It has evolved from the antiquarian druid to its current reincarnation in the person of Alex Tatarsky: Garden Gnome.

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Called “a hilarious, finely tuned absurdist” (Theatre Jones) and “one of the most exciting and hilarious performance artists around,” (Artspace) Tatarsky makes work in the unfortunate in-between zone of comedy, performance art, dance, theater, and deluded rant – sometimes with songs. Playing with perceptions of language and narrative structure, their live performances are highly responsive to venue and audience, often breaking the fourth wall to reveal vulnerability and humanity.

Venues include La Mama, MoMA PS1, The Kitchen, Judson Church, Abrons Arts Center, Skirball, Gibney, New Museum, and many bars and basements. As curatorial fellow at the Poetry Project, they organized a series on the poetics of rot. Tatarsky experienced fleeting fame as Andy Kaufman’s daughter and used to perform as a mound of dirt. @tartar.biz