Play Practice: Tell Me What to Do

Performance at the Center for Performance Research (Brooklyn, NY), December 2023.

Initiated by Anna Muselmann in August 2023, Play Practice was a weekly meeting of queer and trans artists. Together for three months, the group explored the relationships between play and games, rules and freedom, leading and following, desire and consent, and power and authority.

Tell Me What to Do captured the first three months of Play Practice in a performance edited by Anna Muselmann and made in collaboration with Ify Akiti, Nicolas Baird, Kathryn Camacho, Chip Kimura, Koz, Phoebe Osborne, Vitche-Boul Ra, reed rushes, Jen Steinbeck, Coco Villa, Sam White, Lu Yim, and Angel Zinovieff.

Images by Elyse Mertz.