Performance
& Art

Odd Coupling (2013)

Odd Coupling, a Discourse on Friendship with Occasional Reference to Michel de Montaigne is a site-specific interactive performance piece written and performed by Jeff Casey. The piece was performed multiple times during the fall of 2013 at Barriques Cafe on Park Street in Madison Wisconsin. It was part of the 2013 Wisconsin Triennial and the Café Allongé performance series organized by Spatula and Barcode.

The performance originates from reflecting on the profoundly intimate (and apparently platonic) friendship between famed Renaissance essayist Michel de Montaigne and his best friend Étienne de la Boétie, as documented in Montaigne's essay "On Friendship." The performance is a conversation about the meaning of friendship and its possibilities—or impossibilities. The piece is performed for a single audience member.

Audiences interact to the degree they feel comfortable. Some respond to the performers questions with one-word replies, while other offer long responses and talk as much as Jeff does.

See The Capital Times write up of the Café Allongé series, including Odd Coupling.

Come on in My Kitchen (2010)

Come on in My Kitchen is a solo performance piece written and developed by Jeff Casey in the Autobiology workshop led by Helen Paris and Leslie Hill at the University of Wisconsin in the spring of 2010. It was performed as part of the Inside Story Festival & Symposium at UW-Madison in 2010.

The piece considers the preparation and consumption of food as social phenomena, how food is part of our culture and family, how sharing food is an act of intimacy. The audience is offered food (soup and peanut brittle) and drink (cider and whiskey) throughout the piece.

Unstable Systems (2012)

Unstable Systems was a national juried exhibition of art works at the Art Lofts Gallery of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Artists from across the US submitted work. Thirty artists were selected. The show ran from April 15-19, 2012. Unstable Systems was jointly curated by Jeff Casey, Jamie Landry, Megan Marsh-McGlone, Sylvie Rosenthal, and Nic Tisdale.

For more information see the exhibition website.

Metro Goldwyn Mayer (2011)

Metro Goldwyn Mayer is a performance project inspired by classics of American popular culture. The only installment to date is Stalemate, a short performance piece inspired by the film noir genre. It was performed on the UW-Madison Campus in the fall of 2011 with Jeff Casey and Erin Briddick performing the two roles. The video on this site is a re-performance of the piece as a rough, DIY video with Andrew Salyer and Erin Hood in the same roles.

In the John (2011)

In the John is a site-specific performance project developed by Jeff Casey. The first performance of this project occurred in the 6th floor men's bathroom of the Humanities Building of the University of Wisconsin-Madison on September 23, 2011 with Jeff Casey performing. The monologue, a poetic and whimsical text, is written from the perspective of a depressed alcoholic who find refuge in the bathroom as a place of solitude.

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