Social Health Performance Club will explore the framing of work as queer at the fourth annual Queer New York International Arts Festival (photo by Laura Bleür)
Abrons Arts Center (unless otherwise noted)
466 Grand St. at Pitt St.
September 16-26, $15-$25
212-598-0400
www.queerny.org
Curated and produced by Queer Zagreb founder Zvonimir Dobrović, the fourth annual Queer New York International Arts Festival consists of more than a dozen performances in multiple venues over eleven days. The program, which expands the idea of just what queer art is and can be, begins on September 16 with the legendary Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens leading an EcoSex Walking Tour of Central Park ($25, 3:00), focusing on SexEcology and including a water toast, Ecosexercises, a search for the E-spot, and other sex and environmental issues. Sprinkle and Stephens will then head over to festival hub Abrons Arts Center to present the New York City premiere of their 2014 film, Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story ($25, 8:00). Bulgarian artist Ivo Dimchev returns to QNYIAF with two shows, the interactive Facebook Theater (9/17, suggested donation $25, 8:00), in which the audience creates the text, and the concert 15 songs from my shows (9/18, suggested donation $25, 8:00). On September 19, John Moletress pays tribute to Derek Jarman with the multimedia one-man piece Jarman (all this maddening beauty) ($15, 8:00), while on September 20, Max Steele explores power and gender in the solo cabaret show The Good Daughter ($20, 8:00). One of the festival highlights should be the world premiere of Bruno Isaković’s Disclosures (9/22-26, suggested donation $20), in which people are invited to expose themselves both through words and the removal of clothing. Also on the bill are the Social Health Performance Club, Joshua Monten’s Doggy Style, Mmakgosi Kgabi’s Shades of a Queen, Kaia Gilje and Lorene Bouboushian’s Know What Smokes, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou’s Stupidité contrôleé or jump jump baby jump jump at the Merton D. Simpson Gallery, and Michael Breslin’s Kiss me just once more at Dixon Place.