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.
The Lost Privilege Company (2018)
The Lost Privilege Company (Brian Getnick, Arne Gjelten, Tim Reid, and Asher Hartman) came together to interpret four poems from Blunt Research Group’s The Work-Shy presented at Archive Fever: Lost Words, Buried Voices, February 21, 2018 at USC’s Brain and Creativity Institute’s Joyce J. Cammilleri Hall (BCI) in an evening of vivid performances by scholar and historian Miroslava Chávez-García, writer M. NourbeSe Philip, literary historian Caleb Smith, and poet and scholar Daniel Tiffany.
The Work-Shy’s poetic assemblages of direct testimony from the first youth prison in California formed the basis of this piece. Brian Getnick, Arne Gjelten, and Tim Reid performed four poems composed of fragments of texts from both wardens and wards.
Since this performance, we have worked on pieces for 18th Street’s We Are the Artists (2018) and Raspberry Plunk for C’Baret: What Not Speak Easy, curated by Marie de Brugerolle, LAX/Art, 2019.
The Lost Privilege Company
Brian Getnick, Arne Gjelten, and Tim Reid, Asher Hartman, director
Four Poems from The Work-Shy by the Blunt Research Group, 2018
Video: Ian Byers-Gamber
Performances:
Cbaret: What Not Speak Easy, LAXArt, West Hollywood, April 23, 2019
We Are the Artists, 18th Streets Arts Center, Santa Monica, November 10, 2018
Archive Fever: Lost Words, Buried Voices, Joyce J. Cammilleri Hall, USC Brain and Creativity Institute (BCI), Los Angeles, February 21, 2018
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Creatives:
→ Arne Gjelten, 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.
