Pleasure AddictsĀ is a performance landscape, an all woman-carnival, a transmission from another media universe, where an evening of channel flipping is compressed into a single space. Pleasure Addicts explores the love-hate, inherently unstable push-pull nature of mass media conceptions of femininity drawn from celebrity culture, reality television, lifestyle programming, and run of the mill prime-time TV.Ā
PERFORMED BY
Aubrey Reeves
Brenda Goldstein
claude wittmann
Cathy Gordon
Yvonne Bambrick
Heather KeungJennifer Norton
Leila Gajusingh
Jesika Joy
lo bil
Maria Legault
Victoria Moufawad
The Pleasure Addicts performance was conceived by Brenda Goldstein after a year-long collaboration with Jesika Joy, Leila Gajusingh, Heather Keung, Jenn Norton, Aubrey Reeves and claude wittmann. Watch for our upcoming videoĀ Piece of Me.
Set and props: David Frankovich, Stephanie Chris
Video: Cabot McNenly
Make-up: Shawna Renee
Photos: Henry Chan
Pleasure Addicts is indebted to the support and assistance of FADO,Ā Heather Haynes and the Toronto Free Gallery, andĀ the Ontario Arts Council.