Felix Bernstein and Gabe Rubin: “Vomitorium”
This Video Viewing Room features a 3D rendering of the installation Vomitorium (2020) alongside a single-channel excerpt from the video.
Vomitorium is a tragicomic reflection on the history of metatheatre from religious ritual to livestreaming. Part of Felix Bernstein and Gabe Rubin’s ongoing analysis of madness and mimesis in drag and trans performance, this video installation is their largest-scale project to date.
The four-channel, three-hour video installation Vomitorium premiered in an exhibition of the same name, presented by The Kitchen at Queenslab from February 22–March 14, 2020. Additional information about this work is available on the exhibition press release and in an interview with the artists.
Excerpt from Vomitorium 360, 3D rendering of the exhibition Vomitorium, presented by The Kitchen at Queenslab from February 22–March 14, 2020 (For mobile users, please click here to view on YouTube)
Single-channel excerpt (3:35 minutes) from Vomitorium, 2020, four-channel video, 3 hours
Felix Bernstein and Gabe Rubin are New York-based artists working across theater, film, poetry, and digital media. Vomitorium is part of their ongoing analysis of madness and mimesis in drag and trans performance. They began developing these personae for Bieber Bathos Elegy at the Whitney Museum in 2016 and in Folie à Deux at David Lewis Gallery in 2018. Their work together has also been presented at MOCA Los Angeles, Issue Project Room, Anthology Film Archives, the Drawing Center, Reena Spaulings Fine Arts, and Pilar Corrias Gallery.
Image: 1) Felix Bernstein and Gabe Rubin, Vomitorium, 2020. Installation view, The Kitchen at Queenslab. Photo by Phoebe d’Heurle.