Performance
Pleasure Addicts by Brenda Goldstein

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

Performance Yellow

This fragrance opens us to the question, has the show started? It's winter, the theatre is colder than the street and the room is filled with people and all their winter smells: wet faux leather, down, too much shampoo, and beer breath. The atmosphere is a trickster. Am I late, am I early?

Top Notes

yellow mandarin, mimosa

Middle Notes

honey, chamomile, salt

Base Notes

narcissus, guaiac wood, piss, beer