OUFF

12 years of age and older White privilege, late-capitalism, perimenopause, oh my! OUFF OUFF is the heaviest of sighs, an overwhelmed expiration, the forced eviction of obsolete molecules in an audible manner. An interdisciplinary work of words and sounds, strange body shapes and a set that upstages the diva, OUFF is an spectacle of confrontation by a solitary but fragmented femme negotiating her own role, as victim and victor, pawn and princess in a commodity-crazed-brink-of-collapse world propped up by the violent dominance of whiteness. This is the first scripted solo performance by interdisciplinary sound and cabaret artist Alexis O’Hara, working in close collaboration with artist and designer Atom Cianfarani whose sets and costumes belie the false equivalency of what is named white, in reality a mish-mash of entitled blonde, dirty bandage beige, bloated bleu-blanc, saggy fake-tan or tipsy old rosé. The project embraces the awkward trappings of wokeness, the urgency to adapt and evolve and a self-aware clumsiness that still yearns for grace.