Performed by virtuosic artist and composer, Jasmine Orpilla, written and directed by Asher Hartman, Blessed with Switch is a dark unnerving, hacking and synching of languages that poison the roiling Feminine Unconscious, eliciting a visceral tongue inexplicable and inaccessible to the Masculine gods. 

Written in a patois of mangled contemporary speech, Blessed with Switch points to the naked reemergence of violence and control over the female-feminine body, the Judeo-Christian death drive toward the unfamiliar, to the foreign, to the not-Man, to the Thing in the Garden that can never be killed.  The film Blessed with Switch has never been shown in the US or Europe.

From our current production at ICA/LA:

“Blessed with Switch, a category-defying work written and directed by Asher Hartman with sound composition and performance by Jasmine Orpilla, embodies the incredible power of the artists’ synergistic gifts. Though structured as a 25-minute theatrical monologue, Blessed with Switch unfolds as an intimate and multifaceted spectacle of selves, featuring a torrent of vocalized emotions, linguistic ruptures, and hackings performed by Orpilla with incantatory force, as if possessed. For audiences, this maelstrom of linguistic and psychic transformation is an affirmation of the knowledge held in the body and the spirit.”