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 equate it with beauty.
Arne Gjelten
Born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, Gjelten moved to Hollywood to become a star! Best known for freaking out in Fitz the The Tantrum’s video “The Walker” and Pharrell Williams’ “Happy”, he has also worked with Peaches and Margaret Cho. In Asher Hartman’s Purple Electric Play, he puppeteered an anxious bag of popcorn, a curious beaver, and played a pair of beautiful legs. Sure didn’t need any puppets for those!
Productions (as Cast):
“The Mommy Leaks the Floor”, “The Lost Privilege Company”, “Purple Electric Play”
→ "The Lost Privilege Company", Asher Hartman, Brian Getnick, Tim Reid
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. Nourbese Philip, literary historian Caleb Smith and poet and scholar Daniel Tiffany. Video by Ian Byers-Gamber. This work has been recreated and filmed in the artist’s studio.
→ "The Lost Privilege Company", Asher Hartman, Brian Getnick, Tim Reid
