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Current Work
WATER BOARD: a play about torture
Through live action performance, integrated video, original music and dialogue with the audience, this breathtaking show explores the contemporary politics and history of simulated drowning. The play engages audience members in a conversation that struggles with what it means to live under a government that practices and condones torture.
Performers Stephanie Skier and Nadeem Mazen waterboard each other during the course of the show. In preparation for this show, Skier researched and trained in simulated drowning with members of the USMC.
Exploring the eerily whimsical linguistic connotations of the recently coined term “waterboarding”, performers play on slip’n’slides and toss beach balls while singing about “enhanced interrogation techniques.” |
Short Bio
Stephanie Skier is a performance artist, writer, activist, and historian. She graduated from Harvard in 2005 with an A.B. degree with honors in Social Studies and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in History and has received a Fulbright Fellowship. She has been a member of the Institute for Intermediate Studies since January 2009. Her performance pieces include "Fluxkonzert," "Manifest!: after the Communist Manifesto," "Love Me Tender," and "Water Board: a play about torture."
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Honors
Fulbright Fellowship, Pforzheimer Fellowship, Signet Society |
Artist Location
Somerville, MA
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Type of artist
Performer, Writer, Director
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General Themes
Feminism/Gender Issues, Sexuality, Activism/Social Justice, International/Global, Religion/Spirituality |
Keywords
history, archives, traces, Fluxus, conceptual art, torture, the body, gender, queer, Islam, high-tech/low-tech, microfilm |
| Last updated on July 7th, 2009 |
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