TQ Live! with Remy Black, Jesse Factor, SUPA’ NxC, and HUNY
KST Presents
Thursday, June 16
10:30pm
Kelly Strayhorn Theater | 5941 Penn Ave.
Pay What Moves You: $0-20
Following KST’s encore presentation of Lyam B. Gabel’s the dance floor, the hospital room, and the kitchen table for the occasion of the national Theater Communications Group conference, Pittsburgh’s annual queer performance celebration TQ Live! takes over the KST lobby to close out the evening with a satellite event! Organized by Scott Andrew there will be sizzling performances from SUPA’ NxC, Remy Black, and Jesse Factor while the burgh’s favorite DJ HUNY spins the beats. Also check out huny’s photo exhibition PEACHES on view in the KST Lobby throughout the evening.
COME EARLY FOR…
Lyam B. Gabel
the dance floor, the hospital room and the kitchen table
Thursday, June 16
9:00pm
Kelly Strayhorn Theater | 5941 Penn Ave.
Pay What Moves You: $15-30
Three queer researchers slip between the present and the past, becoming, interacting with, and learning from a chorus of voices from a critical moment in the queer liberation movement. the dance floor, the hospital room, and the kitchen table is a performance, immersive media project, and archive of queer care that stitches together stories from the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The script draws from interviews with caretakers, activists, organizers, and long-term survivors, and audiences can access Gable’s installation with Joseph Amodei, An Archive of Queer Care.
Content advisory: the dance floor, the hospital room, and the kitchen table includes references to sex and sexuality, depression and suicide, drinking and drug use, illness, death and dying, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia. The production includes images of full nudity, onstage partial nudity, and the use of haze & strobe effects. There will be no late seating for these performances.
the dance floor, the hospital room, and the kitchen table is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Chatham University, Contemporary Arts Center, and NPN. For more information www.npnweb.org. the dance floor, the hospital room, and the kitchen table by Lyam B. Gabel received developmental support as part of the 2021 Director Residency Program of The Drama League of New York. (Gabriel Stelian-Shanks, Artistic Director; Bevin Ross, Executive Director). A version was workshopped at Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama in November 2019 and received additional support from the Carnegie Mellon University GSA/Provost GuSH Grant.
Photos by Beth Barbis
- ABOUT THE ARTIST
SUPA’ NxC (Naheen/Duane Binion and Xopher/Christoper James) is a musical duo rooted in Ballroom with strong influences from Pop and Folk blended with Hip Hop and Trinidadian culture.
Remy Black is a radical black trans woman whose performance work highlights black excellence as an opportunity to demonstrate the power and beauty of the black trans experience.
HUNY (she/they) is a DJ, nightlife curator and king of all trades soundtracking and producing events via the Mostbeautifullest collective. Bred in NYC and currently residing in Pittsburgh (named Person of the Year in Music 2021 by Pittsburgh City Paper), her work in music and the visual arts is rooted in exalting Black women & QTPOC communities. HUNY sets are genre-defying: vogue beats, house, techno, dancehall…anything with a nasty beat can get it. photo by Fred Rowe
Jesse Factor believes in dance as an intense way of existing and uses the medium to mine hidden queer histories in order to re-imagine possibilities for the future.
Scott Andrew is a multimedia queer-oriented video, installation, and performance artist. He creates speculative fantasies that peer into otherworldly portals and voids. He has exhibited at MoMA’s PopRally Performance Series (NYC), Ballroom Marfa (Marfa, TX), the Hammer Museum (LA), and the J. Paul Getty Museum (LA), among others. Recently, Andrew has worked as a media designer, director, producer for collaborative stage performances with dance artist Jesse Factor, drag performer Veronica Bleaus, the opera, ‘Looking at You’ with the Carnegie Mellon University School of Music, as well as VFX editor for the documentary film, ‘Workhorse Queen’ by Angela Washko, and the interactive music video, ‘Gestures of Devotion’, by Congregation of Drones.
Scott is an educator, advising and teaching animation, video, concept, and performance courses as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University, a Visiting Lecturer in the Studio Arts program at the University of Pittsburgh, and with the CMU Pre-college program. Scott has taught at Youngstown State University, Seaton Hill University, The Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School, and has conducted workshops at the Andy Warhol Museum, Mattress Factory, and Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh.
Scott co-curates TQ Live! a yearly LGBTQ+ variety series that has been presented at the Andy Warhol Museum and the Carnegie Museum of Art. Along with Angela Washko and Jesse Stiles, Scott organizes a National Endowment for the Arts funded performance series called Fail-Safe, which seeks to provide a supportive space for the presentation and potential failure of performative works-in-progress. Other previous curatorial projects include the drift and the Institute for New Feeling’s Felt Book.