Pleasure Addicts 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.
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 video Piece of Me.
Pleasure Addicts is indebted to the support and assistance of FADO, Heather Haynes, the Toronto Free Gallery and the Ontario Arts Council.
CREDITS
Performed by Aubrey Reeves, Brenda Goldstein, claude wittmann, Cathy Gordon, Yvonne Bambrick
Heather Keung, Jennifer Norton, Leila Gajusingh, Jesika Joy, lo bil, Maria Legault, Victoria Moufawad
Set and props by David Frankovich, Stephanie Chris
Video by Cabot McNenly
Make-up by Shawna Renee
Photo by Henry Chan