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.
PERFORMERS
Yvonne Bambrick
lo bil
Leila Gajusingh
Brenda Goldstein
Cathy Gordon
Jesika Joy
Heather Keung
Maria Legault
Victoria Moufawad
Jennifer Norton
Aubrey Reeves
claudie wittmann
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.
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, Heather Haynes and the Toronto Free Gallery, and the Ontario Arts Council.