Performance: CRYSIS
By Artist Chandrika Metivier
CRYSIS is a one-night, multi-media installation and performance presented by artist and actor Chandrika Metivier. CRYSIS is an adaptation of Miss St’s Hieroglyphic Suffering, Act 2 of the Obie-winning play TELEPHONE (2009) by Ariana Reines, inspired by The Telephone Book by Avital Ronell. For their adaptation, Metivier combines original music and imagery with Reines’s text exploring the consciousness of “Ms. St.”, a patient of Carl Jung who believed she had internalized telephones. Metivier describes the work as “operating like a switchboard: seamlessly connecting history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literature while exploring the interplay of individual will amid distress and peril, unleashing revolutionary consciousness.”
Beginning at 7P on the Jones Center Rooftop with a cocktail reception, at 7:45pm the audience will gather within an audio-visual performance environment, setting the stage for the performance to take place.
This performance is presented in conjunction with our current exhibition, HOST: Katarina Janečková Walshe.
Be advised that this performance contains language that depicts scenes of violence. For accommodation requests, please email [email protected].
The galleries will be open for viewing HOST: Katarina Janečková Walshe and Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses. See below for the schedule of the night.
An overview of the schedule below:
7P – Rooftop opens and refreshments available
7:45-8:45P Performance by Chandrika Metivier
9P – Rooftop Closes
ABOUT CHANDRIKA METIVIER
Chandrika is a non-binary, multidisciplinary artist of Haitian, Native, and Mexican descent whose creative expression spans performance-theatre, soft sculptures, and text-based paintings on public structures. Their installations and performances across the United States tackle daring and provocative themes, often drawing from personal narratives to illuminate pressing global issues. These semi-autobiographical pieces underscore the intersections of discrimination and radicalism. Seamlessly blending art with activism, Chandrika utilizes a myriad of disciplines as powerful instruments for social protest. Their collaborative engagements include projects with esteemed institutions and platforms such as The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, DiverseWorks, The Orange Show, Rice University, Soho House, Puma, The Contemporary Austin, SaveArtSpace, and Art At A Time Like This.