New York-based experimental performance duo, FlucT, will perform at the Athenaeum on Friday, November 12th at 7pm. The group consisting of Sigrid Lauren and Monica Mirabile, blur the boundary between art experiences and reality. Their compositions of violently intimate choreography, sculpture, video, and pop-media samples oscillate uncomfortably between the familiar and grotesque.

Throughout their performances, expectations and social structures built into the spectacle, and, ultimately, into the reality we all live in, become conspicuous. Often, relief from interpretation comes at last when an apparent glitch causes that reality to relinquish its grip on Lauren and Mirabile. By rendering themselves illegible in these chaotic, “freak-out” moments they subvert the viewer’s gaze and pause the barrage of meaning directed toward their bodies. If the agency effective in passive looking and spectatorship previously went unrecognized, it is finally felt through its loss. By extension, this experience suggests the multivalence of power across interrelations. When discomfort leads to an experience and examination of how power is given, received, and taken, FlucT has succeeded.

Established in 2010, FlucT have performed and exhibited at the Guggenheim, New York, NY; The Broad Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Miami Art Basel, Miami, FL; SIGNAL, New York, NY; Queens Museum, New York, NY; and Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY. While the core of their practice are duets by Lauren and Mirabile, their large-scale choreographed productions have included a multiplicity of performing artists, dancers, non-dancers and technicians (is it god or am i dog, UpwardFacingControlTableTop, and Bigger Than You), they frequently collaborate with musicians including SOPHIE and PicturePlane, and they are the founders of Otion Front Studio, a performance and dance space in Brooklyn, NY. Their work has been reviewed by Art in America, The New York Times, The Fader, and Cura Magazine, among others.

FlucT will perform in-person, November 12th, 7pm, at the Athenaeum, located at 287 West Broad Street. The Athenaeum is open regular hours Wednesday-Saturday, 12pm-6pm, and until 9pm every 3rd Thursday. We are closed on UGA home game days and during university holidays and winter and summer breaks. The gallery and events at the Athenaeum are always FREE and open to the public.

Read more about this and other upcoming programs at the Athenaeum at https://athenaeum.uga.edu.