PEP!

Excerpts from Asher Hartman’s Purple Electric Play! Video by Ian Byers-Gamber and David Fenster. Edited by Asher Hartman and Ian Byers-Gamber

Los Privilege Company

Lost Privilege Company rehearsing for a new work inspired by John Cassavetes’ film Husbands, thinking about love, the permeability of bodies, masculinity, whiteness, loss and inexpressible desire. This film, once so important to me as a barometer of freedom and masculinity, now registers as an inability to register violence, to admire it, normalize it and… Continue reading Los Privilege Company

The Lost Privilege Company (2018)

Brian Getnick, Arne Gjelten, Tim Reid, and Asher Hartman (director) came together as The Lost Privilege Company in 2018 to interpret four poems from Blunt Research Group’s “The Work-Shy.” The Lost Privilege Company presented its performance at USC’s Brain and Creativity Institute in an evening of performances by scholar and historian Miroslava Chávez-García, writer M.… Continue reading The Lost Privilege Company (2018)

Sue Bell Yank KCET

“Hartman offers no answers because none exist, but he succeeds in rearranging what we think we know for sure into a far more critical state of ambiguity.”